U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, the Texas Democrat who is fighting to keep her seat amid a redistricting war in her state, has delivered some apparently unintentional laugh lines in Congress, and to Congress.
She claimed while the House was voting on a censure move against Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, who was revealed to have been texting with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing, that a long list of Republicans and GOP groups took money from Epstein.
They did, only the records show the donations were from Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, not the convicted sex criminal who died in a New York jail awaiting further charges.
Crockett: Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, as I had my team dig in very quickly, Mitt Romney. The NRCC. Lee Zeldin. George Bush. McCain-Palin. pic.twitter.com/CdwuSacQpb
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 18, 2025
Oof. @JasmineForUS is disastrously wrong here. None of these donors are *the* Jeffrey Epstein. Several are from the same Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, and the donations to Lee Zeldin are from after *the* Epstein killed himself. https://t.co/RES7GyTQMy pic.twitter.com/OSuTywr3D7
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) November 19, 2025
Crockett’s comments were described as “disastrously wrong” and social media comments pointed out, “And I once had my house painted by a guy named John Kennedy. What’s her point?”
And there was immediate discussion about “censure” for her.
The Gateway Pundit pointed to Crockett’s “unintentional comic relief” right before the House gave Plaskett a pass for apparently taking direction from and guiding her congressional questioning based on the convicted sex offender Epstein’s texts with her.
Crockett, on the House floor, charged the GOP was exhibiting a double standard.
She claimed, “Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, as I had my team dig in very quickly: Mitt Romney. The NRCC. Lee Zeldin. George Bush, WinRed, McCain-Palin, Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear: if this is standard we’re going to make, then we’re just going to expose it all! And the FEC filings are available for everybody to review.”
In fact, it was the Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross who took advantage of those records “available to everybody” and confirmed that the Epstein donations to Republicans were from a different Epstein.
Can’t speak for the others but Lee Zelden has already responded to this. His donor was Dr. Jeffrey Epstein. NOT the same person.
— BornInTheUSA (@BornInTheU43614) November 19, 2025