“The View” co-hosts criticized Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Thursday for playing partisan politics by falsely accusing Republicans of taking money from sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Crockett accused Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, former Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) of taking donations from Epstein, though it turned out the money came from a self-employed physician with the same name. The co-hosts said that Crockett should have owned up to her mistake and criticized her for making the Epstein case about politics rather than the sex trafficking victims.
” Okay, it is also false that Mitt Romney and the NRCC took money … so it’s not true that they took money from Jeffrey Epstein?” co-host Joy Behar asked. “Okay, yes, a different [Jeffrey Epstein]. It’s so confusing and annoying!”
“But Joy, This is why people get so frustrated with politicians. Something horrible was done. We all agree on that. Epstein engaged in horrific crimes, but people care more about, well, my team didn’t do it, your team did,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said.
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Co-host Sara Haines then said that Crockett should just “own it” since the Epstein case is so severe.
“When she said, my team looked into this quickly, when you’re going to throw out an accusation that big, which we all know this case is that big, just own it, say it was a mistake, and move on,” Haines said. “Because to then try to say, well, they lie and we don’t lie, again, it’s the distrust in Congress and our politicians.”
Crockett attempted to defend her accusations against Zeldin, Romney and the NRCC by saying she did not have enough time to fact-check her team’s findings. She denied that she told a lie about Zeldin taking donations from Epstein.
“[Zeldin] admitted that the did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein, so at least I wasn’t trying to mislead people,” Crockett said on “The Source with Kaitlan Collins.”
A physician who shares the same name as the sex offender made a $750 donation to Zeldin’s congressional campaign on April 24, 2020, and gave $250 on Aug. 31, 2020, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. Both of the donations were made a year after the disgraced sex offender died in his Manhattan jail cell.
The same individual also appeared to make two $250 donations to Romney’s campaign in 2012 when he ran for president, according to FEC records.
Crockett’s team also fell for obvious troll donations listing Epstein’s occupation as “child molester.” WinRed, which Crockett accused of taking donations from Epstein, received several micro-donations from someone using the name “JEFFREY EPSTEIN” while listing their occupation as “CHILD MOLESTOR” and their employer as “JEFFREY EPSTEIN.”
While both parties attacked one another over the files, documents found that Democratic Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett exchanged text messages with Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing with President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Epstein gave her the name of a Trump Organization aide right before her questioning. Epstein also donated to Plaskett, according to a Business Insider investigation.
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This is so obvious! If you bring up Epstein’s name, no matter who it is, it is being used as a derogatory statement.
Crockett is so full of $hit! She also knew an “a” in front of his name would not do anything to affect her true intentions, and that was to smear someone.
This woman does nothing of importance. Everytime she opens her yap, nothing but smears flow out! She knows what she’s doing. She’s an attack dog, ( my apologies to dogs)! That, is why the left loves this disgusting human being!
People call her stupid, but she is not. She’s smart. She plays the ghetto queen character to underplay her smarts, so that people will disregard her as insignificant. She knows how to demean others, and do it in a way that most on the right simply shrug off as stupidity, but in the meantime, she’s ramping up her low knowledged base into a violent attack mob.
This woman is dangerous. She should be attacked right back on her ludicrous assertions! We on the right have let much from the commie left go unanswered, and it’s time to change that. We need to attack, instead of being defensive.
The Republicans party is always on the defensive and never on the offense! They suck!