Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) railed against the state of the union in her response to Ghislaine Maxwell‘s closed-door hearing before the House on Monday.
Maxwell, convicted co-conspirator of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer questions from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. She pleaded the Fifth Amendment as she demanded clemency from President Donald Trump. Crockett voiced her own frustrations with the way the deposition and the Epstein files rollout are playing out, focusing her comments on the president while saying, “For the Democrats, this isn’t about partisanship.”
“The United States is falling apart right now, partially because he’s going out and randomly allowing for the killings of people in the middle of the street, but the other part of it is we have a 34-count convicted felon and there are people that are still shielding him from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring,” Crockett said.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson blasted Crockett’s statements to reporters as lies.
“This is as incoherent as the rest of the lies Jasmine Crockett spews. She doesn’t have a shred of credibility on this issue after she falsely attacked Republicans because she couldn’t properly read an FEC report – all while failing to explain why Democrats like Stacey Plaskett and Hakeem Jeffries continued to solicit money and meetings from Epstein after he was a convicted as a sex offender,” Jackson said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
Crockett, vice ranking member of the House oversight committee, said she doesn’t “understand why we are pretending like any of this is normal.” She brought up the committee’s threatened contempt resolutions against Bill and Hillary Clinton, which were dropped once the former president and first lady agreed to testify before the committee.
“When we went through the hearing as it relates to the Clintons, I said, ‘Listen, we know that Donald Trump’s name is mentioned more. Bring him in, too.’ Like, I’m not saying that this should be partisan. This should be whoever. I want to be clear about that. For the Democrats, this isn’t partisanship,” Crockett said.
Jackson told the Washington Examiner that Crockett “lives in an alternate reality where the truth doesn’t exist.”
“President Trump’s policies have led crime rates to drop to historic lows. The President’s policies are making America safe again; it’s unfortunate Crockett lives in an alternate reality where the truth doesn’t exist,” Jackson said.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL PLEADS FIFTH AND DEMANDS CLEMENCY IN JEFFREY EPSTEIN INVESTIGATION
During her virtual hearing before the House Oversight Committee, Maxwell dodged questions about the Epstein investigation.
“Her attorney said that she would answer questions if she were granted clemency by the president,” committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) said.