{"id":15996,"date":"2025-11-24T08:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/plaskett-remains-defiant-over-epstein-communications-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:20:32","slug":"plaskett-remains-defiant-over-epstein-communications-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/plaskett-remains-defiant-over-epstein-communications-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaskett remains defiant over Epstein communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett on Wednesday expressed no regret for her prior contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 House Oversight Committee hearing. In an interview with BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Situation Room,&rdquo; the Democrat acknowledged that she initiated contact with the disgraced financier on the day she was set to question President Donald Trump&rsquo;s former fixer Michael Cohen but refused to say if she regretted the communication&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/19\/congress\/plaskett-remains-defiant-00659210\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett on Wednesday expressed no regret for her prior contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 House Oversight Committee hearing. In an interview with BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Situation Room,&rdquo; the Democrat acknowledged that she initiated contact with the disgraced financier on the day she was set to question President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}