It was one of the more stunning moments of the recent political hysteria over dead sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Thousands of pages of Epstein documents released by House Republicans revealed, among many other things, that a Democratic member of the House, Del. Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands, had an extended text conversation with Epstein during a February 2019 hearing of the House Oversight Committee.

in Washington because the witness was Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer, who had turned on Trump and was accusing him of all sorts of wrongdoing. Democrats like Plaskett hoped that Cohen’s appearance would do some major damage to Trump.

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