Staff Reports
Watching Jasmine Crockett squirm on national television was a reminder that the left’s favorite playbook is still smoke-and-mirrors, and this time the gaslighting was exposed in real time. What should have been a sober discussion about serious allegations turned into a sloppy, partisan smear as Crockett tried to tie prominent Republicans to Jeffrey Epstein. The CNN hosts didn’t let her dodge the facts, and the spectacle was humiliating for a Congresswoman who ought to know better.
On the House floor Crockett rattled off names — from Lee Zeldin to Mitt Romney — claiming she had “dug in” and found donations from “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.” It was a dramatic moment engineered to score cheap political points, and she doubled down on TV, insisting her quick online search was sufficient vetting. That rush-to-judgment approach is exactly what Americans are fed up with: accusation before verification.
But the public records tell a very different story. FEC filings show the donations Crockett cited came from other men who happen to share the same name — a New York physician, for example — and the donations even occurred after the convicted financier was already dead. Nobody with a shred of honesty can call that anything other than a catastrophic misfire of basic fact-checking.
When pressed on CNN, Crockett flailed and tried to recast her remarks, but the network interviewer calmly pointed out that Democrats, not Republicans, were responsible for certain redactions in the released documents. The live fact-check was brutal and instructive: when you peddle half-truths and innuendo on the floor of the House, the cameras are going to catch you. For a party that preaches integrity, the double standard here is glaring.
Republicans — and conservative media — rightly pounced, with Lee Zeldin publicly blasting the congresswoman for falsely linking him to the notorious Epstein. The outrage isn’t just partisan sputtering; it’s a legitimate pushback against a pattern of Democrats weaponizing anything they can find (or misfind) to destroy reputations. If Democrats want to play hardball, they should expect pushback, and the American people should expect their representatives to stop spreading garbage.
Here’s the bottom line for patriotic Americans: this wasn’t an honest mistake, it was sloppy politics that trampled on basic fairness and common decency. Crockett should apologize, correct the record, and explain how she could so carelessly circulate such toxic claims without proper verification. If she refuses, ethics complaints and even defamation threats are the natural next steps in a country that still believes in accountability.
Conservatives shouldn’t be smug about this — we should be vigilant. The lesson is simple: demand truth, expose the lies, and hold career politicians of any party to account. Hardworking Americans deserve leaders who investigate responsibly and speak honestly, not performative stunts that erode trust in our institutions.
