Epstein actively texted with House member during Cohen hearing, influencing questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/14/epstein-text-messages-cohen-house-hearing/

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  1. They should also be investigated and potentially prosecuted. How could he have this much control over our entire government.

  2. hoollllly shit. it just keeps getting *worse*. no wonder the cover up is so hard. it really is a fucking conspiracy. i hate saying that out loud. but that is crazy the amount of influence he had within our government and beyond.

  3. The scandal that’s going to come out of this is that the pedophile pimp stuff was just something he did on the side for fun.

    Clearly this guy was an asset (Israeli? Someone else?) who insinuated himself into the highest levels of power. He pulled a LOT of strings and I think if we ever find out the extent of it all it’s going to be a massive shock.

  4. I remember that hearing, and I remember being impressed by Rep Stacey Plaskett’s questions. Seems pretty clear she was coached now.

  6. And this is why Trump is sending troops to Venezuela. He wants to use war to call his critics traitors.

  7. Sheesh. No way we can trust the republicans with this whole thing. You know the FBI and that weasel running it are scrubbing documents and whatnot. God knows what videos and shit they have from Epstein estate. That’s the golden goose in this whole thing.

  9. She was a repub before switching parties. Should be primaried.

  12. The entirety of the article below.

    >The newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that the convicted sex offender appeared to be texting with a member of Congress during a congressional hearing with Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, and that those text messages may have influenced the lawmaker’s questions of Cohen.

  15. Trump to immediately ask the DoJ to investigate Arby’s sandwich shop based on this new discovery

  16. The Virgin Islands makes sense – they are one of the weakest members of the House of Representatives.

  17. This is turning into an Agatha Christie plot. By the end it will turn out that everyone wanted to kill him.

  18. So is this how Trump inadvertently drains the swamp?

  19. Its beginning to look like the largest coverup in US political history, and that Epstein didn’t kill himself.

  20. It’s going to be pretty crazy when some Joe Blow from Congress becomes President because the entire line of succession gets impeached

  25. Bunch of rich fucking assholes ruining a country to keep the lid on one thing and one thing only. To protect themselves by making sure the Epstein files stay buried.

    Villainous monsters through and through, the lot of them.

  27. “, time-stamps on the text messages matched up with video from the hearing, as well as the messages’ contents, appear to indicate that Epstein was texting with Del. Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat who represents the **U.S. Virgin Islands** as its nonvoting delegate in the House of Representatives.”

    The US Virgin Islands are where Epstein Island was, of course

  30. Before we get the pitchforks:

    Stacey Plaskett was one of the most effective prosecutors at Trump’s second impeachment. (If you’ll recall, a bunch of Republicans said they were convinced he was guilty but decided to acquit anyway.)

    Epstein was a donor and constituent. His messages appear to have helped Plaskett identify a lead to ask Michael Cohen about. It’s probably not that often that constituents in the Virgin Islands have direct connections to issues of national interest before Congress in the public view or otherwise.

    Should she have cut off all ties with Epstein after 2014? Sure, there’s a good case for that. But she wasn’t making policy, and as someone investigating the president, it was her duty to follow up on leads from informed parties.

  31. I’m surprised that anyone could read the text messages. If they’re like his emails, they’re filled with typos, strange punctuation, and random capitalization. Of course, that’s what Trump’s posts look like as well so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  32. It’s so amazing bondi said there was nothing in the report lol

  35. Yo where the fuck is Q-Anon when this actual shit is going down?

  36. This is the very thing QAnon screamed about. Where are they again?

  37. We are so bought and sold. We need a complete overhaul of how we fund campaigns and how we elect candidates because the influence these people have is completely unacceptable. One man, one vote. Not one man, one vote, unless you are a billionaire and then you can choose the electoral candidates and influence representatives in real time to your own ends. Everything else is window dressing.

  38. [https://viconsortium.com/caribbean-top_stories/virgin-islands-epstein-related-lawsuit-against-delegate-stacey-plaskett-dismissed-with-prejudice](https://viconsortium.com/caribbean-top_stories/virgin-islands-epstein-related-lawsuit-against-delegate-stacey-plaskett-dismissed-with-prejudice)

    August 28, 2025 A notice filed Thursday in the Southern District of New York confirmed that the civil case naming Congressional Delegate Stacey Plaskett as a defendant has been dismissed with prejudice. The stipulation, signed by attorneys for both sides, brings an end to nearly two years of litigation that alleged current and former Virgin Islands officials enabled deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

    A dismissal with prejudice is final, meaning the case cannot be refiled. 

    The dismissal comes after weeks of [signals that a resolution](https://viconsortium.com/mobile/vi-legal/virgin-islands-settlement-talks-signal-possible-resolution-in-stacey-plaskett-lawsuit-tied-to-epstein-allegations) was near. On August 22, attorneys for Plaskett and the anonymous plaintiffs had told Judge Arun Subramanian that they believed the case “may be resolved shortly.” They were ordered to inform the court by August 28 whether a settlement could be reached, or else submit trial dates. Today’s filing ends the matter without trial.

    The case was first filed in November 2023 by six women identified as Jane Does 1 through 6. Their complaint claimed that Epstein’s criminal enterprise in the Virgin Islands was facilitated by a broad network of high-ranking government officials and staff.

    **Initially, the defendants included the Government of the Virgin Islands, former Governors John de Jongh and Kenneth Mapp, former Attorney General Vincent Frazer, former Senators Celestino White and Carlton Dowe, and former First Lady Cecile de Jongh. But** [**in March 2025**](https://viconsortium.com/vi-community_center/virgin-islands-judge-orders-stacey-plaskett-to-stand-trial-in-epstein-case–tosses-claims-against-vi-government)**, Judge Subramanian dismissed claims against all of them, citing jurisdictional barriers and, in Cecile de Jongh’s case, an earlier legal release tied to Epstein’s estate.**

    **That left Delegate Plaskett as the sole remaining defendant. The court allowed claims of negligence and alleged violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) against her to move forward, while dismissing RICO claims.**

    **Plaskett consistently denied the allegations, arguing that the plaintiffs had failed to state a claim and that the court lacked personal jurisdiction over her. In her** [**April response**](https://viconsortium.com/vi-legal/virgin-islands-plaskett-urges-full-dismissal-of-epstein-linked-lawsuit–citing-immunity-and-jurisdiction) **to the amended complaint, she invoked multiple defenses, including sovereign immunity, qualified immunity, statute of limitations, laches, and res judicata.**

    **She also argued that her alleged connections to Epstein were insufficient to link her to the criminal conduct outlined in the lawsuit. Plaintiffs alleged she received financial and political support from Epstein, including a $30,000 loan and campaign contributions, in exchange for favorable political actions. Judge Subramanian, however, ruled that certain allegations were plausible enough to warrant further proceedings, leading to months of litigation leading up to this week’s resolution.**

  39. Sounds an awful lot like that Deep State that MAGA hates so much. No wonder Trump had Epstein killed.

  40. That list has to include names of a lot of people far more powerful than US politicians or CEOs. People whose names don’t appear on the media much, if ever. The kind of people that can make Trump shit his pants. He has to believe deeply that his life depends on keeping it away from the public.

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