Report: Epstein Texted Stacey Plaskett Questions During Hearing on Trump

Newly-released text messages contained in documents from deceased sex offender and Wall Street tycoon Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that the globe-trotting fiend texted far-left Democrat Stacey Plaskett, the congressional delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, during a committee hearing.

As The Washington Post revealed in yesterday’s report, Plaskett dutifully asked a witness the questions that Epstein proposed.

That means that Epstein, for all intents and purposes, asked questions of the witness, Michael Cohen, formerly President Donald Trump’s attorney, who appeared before the Democrat-controlled House Oversight Committee. Plaskett, who received campaign donations from Epstein, was the dummy to his ventriloquist.

Texts Matched Video

The text messages suggest that Epstein was watching the hearing, held in February 2019, in “real time,” the Post reported. “At one point [he] informed Plaskett — whose name is redacted from the documents — that Cohen had brought up former Trump executive assistant Rhona Graff in his testimony.”

Cohen told the committee that “Trump was racist, manipulated financial records and directed hush money payments to cover up his extramarital affairs — allegations Trump denied,” the Post reported:

“Cohen brought up RONA – keeper of the secrets,” Epstein texted, misspelling Graff’s first name.

“RONA??” Plaskett responded. “Quick I’m up next is that an acronym,” she added, suggesting she would question Cohen soon.

“Thats his assistant,” Epstein replied.

The Post also divulged that the time-stamps on the messages and their content coincided with video of the hearing. There followed a detailed rendition of the back-and-forth between the two. “The messages show that Plaskett texted Epstein before the hearing started that day, at 7:55 a.m. Eastern time, to tell him: ‘He’ll talk about his grades,’” the Post continued:

Epstein replied a minute later: “what privilege stands behind the none release of college transcripts?”

At 10:02 a.m., Epstein texted Plaskett: “Great outfit”

“You look great,” he added at 10:22 a.m. “Thanks!” she replied shortly afterward.

At around 10:40 a.m., a broadcast feed cut to Plaskett, showing her moving her mouth as if she were chewing something.

At 10:41 a.m., Epstein sent this message to Plaskett: “Are you chewing”

“Not any more,” she replied. “Chewing interior of my mouth. Bad habit from middle school”

At 12:50 p.m., Epstein asks: “How much longer for you”

“Hours. Go to other mtgs,” she replied.

The “Quick I’m up next” text to Epstein was sent at 2:25 p.m., minutes before Plaskett began questioning Cohen at 2:28 p.m. …

“Hes opened the door to questions re who are the other henchmen at trump org,” Epstein texted Plaskett at 12:25 p.m.

“Yup. Very aware and waiting my turn,” she responded.

After Plaskett finished questioning Cohen, whom she asked about Trump’s aide Rhona Graff, Epstein congratulated her. “Good work,” he wrote.

When the newspaper contacted Plaskett, the normally highly voluble congresswoman clammed up and referred questions to her chief of staff, Angeline Jabbar. Jabbar told the Post that “she was ‘not in a position to confirm or not’ whether the congresswoman was texting with Epstein at the hearing.”

Jabbar’s answer to the Post is Capitol Hill code for “of course, she was texting with Epstein, but she’ll never admit it.”

Plaskett only confessed an explanation after the story was published:

During the hearing, Congresswoman Plaskett received texts from staff, constituents and the public at large offering advice, support and in some cases partisan vitriol, including from Epstein. As a former prosecutor she welcomes information that helps her get at the truth and took on the GOP that was trying to bury the truth. The congresswoman has previously made clear her long record combating sexual assault and human trafficking, her disgust over Epstein’s deviant behavior and her support for his victims.

Donations

As the Post noted, Epstein owned two islands in the Virgin Islands, Little Saint James and Great Saint James. The U.S. attorney there sued Epstein’s estate because the islands were a center of his criminal sexual activity. The government settled for $105 million.

Epstein’s donations “helped elect” Plaskett, Business Insider reported. Plaskett “initially said she was unlikely to return her campaign donations from the disgraced financier,” the Post reported, “but reversed course after public backlash.”

The megawealthy Epstein, who deployed jet-setting party girl Ghislaine Maxwell and other staff members and associates to procure victims, died in a supposed suicide on August 10, 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. He was under federal indictment for sex-trafficking girls as young as 14.

Ghislaine Maxwell & Jamie Raskin

In 2022, Maxwell landed 20 years in federal prison after a jury found her guilty of five sex crimes after a one-month trial.

She landed in the news again last week when Maryland’s far-left Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin, Maxwell’s attorney alleged, leaked emails supposedly obtained from a whistleblower who works at the prison camp in Texas where she is imprisoned. The emails describe the nice life Maxwell has at the facility.

The lawyer, Leah Saffian, attacked Rankin about the released emails.

“Congressman Rankin is a Ranking Member of the House Oversight [actually Judiciary] Committee, an attorney and law professor. He must be aware that his conduct undermines the whole legal process,” Saffian said. “His action should be a matter for professional disciplinary action.”

While Raskin’s Judiciary Committee claimed that Maxwell is seeking a “commutation application” from President Trump, Saffian said that claim is false. Instead, Saffian wrote, Maxwell is seeking a habeas corpus petition.