Del. Stacey Plaskett defended her relationship with “constituent” Jeffrey Epstein by describing it as a prosecutorial tool she used to grill Michael Cohen.

“I‘ve been a prosecutor for many years, and there are a lot of people who have information that are not your friends that you use to get information from to get at the truth,” said Plaskett, 59, on CNN’s The Situation Room Wednesday.

Plaskett, a non-voting delegate representing the Virgin Islands in Congress, faced severe scrutiny after last week’s Epstein emails release revealed that she received texts from the disgraced sex offender.

The controversy stems from a Nov. 14 Washington Post report that Epstein texted Plaskett about Rhona Graff, Trump’s assistant, while ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was testifying before the House Jud

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