Democrats must have thought that having their non-voting delegate from the Virgin Islands attempt to explain her consultation with a convicted sex offender during congressional testimony would be a good idea. Guess again.
First off, Stacey Plaskett’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein go waaay beyond a text exchange. But even in the limited focus of this spin, Plaskett can’t even win the argument on CNN. The timing doesn’t work, for one thing, as the CNN reporter points out:
BREAKING: In a BRUTAL moment, Stacey Plaskett (D) digs her hole EVEN DEEPER on her ties to Epstein!
PLASKETT: I believed Epstein had information. I was gonna get that information to seek truth
CNN: At the time, he was a KNOWN s*x offender…
PLASKETT: A lot of people have done… pic.twitter.com/0ItWqlwMdv
— Erica ❤️🇺🇸 (@eric_hz143) November 19, 2025
Allow me to fully transcribe this clip, because Plaskett’s spin is transparently a lie.
PLASKETT: I believed Jeffrey Epstein had information. I was gonna get information to get at the truth.
CNN: So no regrets?
PLASKETT: Having a friendship with him is not something I would deem to have. And so, I’m just looking forward, I’m moving forward. And I think that’s what we as American people should do, is move forward. If individuals are not involved in illegal activity, extending his criminal enterprise or his financial enterprise or all those things, I think we need to look at what people are doing moving forward.
CNN: Wait, let me just better understand that. Is that – because at the time, he was a known sex offender, and it had been detailed, all the sexual abuse –
PLASKETT: There are a lot of people who have done a lot of crimes. And as a prosecutor, you get information from people where you can.
This is an absurd statement. First off, Plaskett wasn’t a prosecutor. Had she been a prosecutor, she would have had to reveal where she was getting her information to the ‘defense.’ Furthermore, Plaskett could have found other sources for her brief interrogation of Cohen in this hearing other than Epstein. She chose a convicted sex offender for that purpose, and then kept ot a secret for more than six years until Democrats demanded a full release of all files on Epstein.
It’s funny, though, that Plaskett tells CNN that anyone helping Epstein’s empire should face accountability. Plaskett’s connections to Epstein go waay beyond the February 2019 hearing. Matt Taibbi covered this early in the week, and I have excerpted it before, but here’s a brief refresher:
Plaskett was a listed recipient of campaign contributions from Epstein, and briefly also a defendant in a lawsuit filed by five alleged Jane Doe victims of Epstein. The action against Plaskett was voluntarily dismissed after her lawyers filed a motion to be removed from the suit, but the original complaint remains ugly public record. It accuses Plaskett and a long list of other figures of having “facilitated Epstein in his ongoing sex trafficking operation” by ensuring he “received preferential treatment and unfettered, unmonitored freedom” while in U.S. Virgin Islands. …
Plaskett was the general counsel for the aforementioned Virgin Islands Economic Development Commission for five years between 2007 and 2012, listed as leaving just before the deal outlined above. She was an attorney at Kellerhals Ferguson Kroblin PLLC, the firm that handled Epstein’s taxes and helped him purchase Little St. James Island. It appears that’s where she worked during an unaccounted-for LinkedIn gap of a few years between 2012 and her election in 2015. In a 2023 deposition she was asked if she did any work for Epstein or “Epstein-related businesses” while at the firm. She answered, “I don’t recall.”
When asked what she did during a visit to Epstein’s home, she said she was raising money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at that time, and that the possibility that she asked for $250,000 “does not sound unreasonable.”
Read it all. Even a few days later, Taibbi appears to be the only reporter exposing Plaskett’s significant entanglement with Epstein, all of which came after his conviction as a sex offender. Plaskett falls into the very same category that she supposedly insists are legitimate targets for accountability in the Epstein scandal.
Finally, Plaskett also insists that anything else is in the past and that the American people should “look forward” instead. If that’s what Democrats want, they wouldn’t have picked up the Epstein Light Grenade in the first place. Epstein has been dead for six years; Ghislaine Maxwell is doing a 20-year stretch in Club Fed. The criminal enterprise ceased operations with Epstein’s death and Maxwell’s arrest. This entire exercise is a backward-looking effort to hold people accountable for their roles in keeping Epstein from facing the true consequences of his depravity, and Plaskett has more exposure here than most of the people whose names will pop up in these released files.
Editor’s Note: Help us continue to report the truth about corrupt politicians like Stacey Plaskett, Larry Summers, Hakeem Jeffries, and all of the others attempting to grab the Epstein Light Grenade.
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