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Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas confronted Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin during a debate over a resolution to censure Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett, accusing him of accepting money from Jeffrey Epstein.

Crockett referenced the convicted billionaire sex offender.

Records show the donor was a different individual with the same name.

According to Federal Election Commission reports, Zeldin received a campaign contribution from Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, a physician in New York. Zeldin responded publicly after Crockett’s claim.

“Yes Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein (who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein) donated to a prior campaign of mine,” Zeldin wrote on X.

He added, “NO FREAKIN RELATION, YOU GENIUS!”

Crockett thought she had a gotcha moment against the GOP by pointing out that multiple Republicans had also taken money from the convicted sex offender. The only problem? She was completely wrong.

"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,” she said during a debate over the resolution to censure Plaskett, certain that she had a devastating exposé. “I just wanna be clear. If this is the standard that we gonna make, just know we gonna expose it all, and just know that the FEC filings, they are available for everybody to review. This is absolutely ridiculous.”

But her attempt at a gotcha moment backfired spectacularly. The Jeffrey Epstein who donated to these Republican campaigns was Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, a New York physician who happens to share a name with the infamous billionaire sex offender. Not exactly the smoking gun Crockett imagined.
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A search of Federal Elections Commission reports yields more than 800 results for donations from individuals named Jeffrey Epstein, most of whom are clearly not the late sex trafficker. A solid clue for Crockett and her crack team of researchers would have been that some of the donations she mentioned came after Epstein’s death.

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Crockett cited Federal Election Commission filings, which actually show two different men named Jeffrey Epstein donated to Zeldin, now President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency administrator, while he represented New York in the House.

Both Jeffrey Epsteins donated to Zeldin months after the notorious man of the same name allegedly hanged himself.

Dr. Jeffrey Epstein of Manhasset, NY, donated a total of $1,000 to Zeldin in April and August 2020, according to FEC records.

The other Jeffrey Epstein, the owner of a beverage distribution company from New Brunswick, NJ, donated $600 in February 2020 — six months after the infamous Epstein died.

But that wasn't Crockett's only mistake.

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Similar files show other Republicans that Crockett mentioned, including Lazio, Romney, and McCain, also received donations from a physician named Epstein.

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In any case, if you really want to talk about which politicians Epstein (the creepy perv) donated to that's a conversation I'm all for having.

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While the late convicted sex offender did make a series of significant political campaign donations over the years for as much as $20,000 at a time, they appear to be to Democratic candidates and campaign committees. Many of the bigger donations were made in the 1990s.

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But there's one final mystery to consider here. Is she really this dumb and careless with the facts or is she just a shameless liar? Notice how she phrased this revelation. She didn't say it was Jeffrey Epstein, she said it was "somebody named" Jeffrey Epstein, almost as if she knew it wasn't the Jeffrey Epstein everyone had in mind. So you have to at least consider shameless liar as a strong possibility here.

Can we think this through for a minute?

Lefty says one of the problems with Righty is that Righty is homophobic.

But now Lefty wants to stir-up homophobia in the hopes Righty will abandon Trump.

Why does Lefty want Righty to abandon Trump?

So Lefty can go back to crusading against Righty's so-called homophobia.

https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/15/politics/obama-interrupted

https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/trump-press-war-obama-administration-reporters-1202782264/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/20/135569715/obama-outburst-aggressive-reporter-see-complete-interview-and-decide

https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/1905170/joe-biden-philadelpha-electoral-campaign-trip

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-cusses-out-reporters-during-white-house-event/ar-AA1x0ws4

Not quite apples to apples admittedly, but I think there's enough there to give us a pretty good idea.

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