"Well, look, we've been demanding a complete release of the file, and now they wanted to discipline her, censure her because she'd engaged in that text exchange with a convicted criminal. Of course, our Republican colleagues engage in text exchanges all the time with Donald Trump, who has 34 felony criminal offenses to his name. So I don't know exactly what she's being charged with there,"
"My point was simply she had not violated the Constitution, she had not violated federal law, and she had violate, to my knowledge, any rule of the House of Representatives. So, you know, look, we're not afraid of anything that's in the Epstein files, and we want to see justice done for the survivors. That's what this is about. We want to see the truth come out, and it's the Republicans who are running around trying to figure out who's in there"
Rep. Jamie Raskin defended Rep. Stacey Plaskett's interactions with Jeffrey Epstein, arguing she had not violated the Constitution, federal law, or any House rules and urging release of the files to pursue justice for survivors. Evidence indicated Plaskett initiated a text exchange with Epstein on the cited day. A question was raised whether Democrats were losing the moral high ground by defending Plaskett. Raskin compared Republican lawmakers' frequent exchanges with Donald Trump, emphasized the absence of alleged legal or rule violations by Plaskett, and reiterated the priority of uncovering the truth and supporting survivors.
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