U.S. Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) went on MSNBC and made a stunning slip of the tongue Sunday when she suggested former President Donald Trump should be “shot” before quickly changing her answer to “stopped.”
Plaskett was on The Sunday Show to talk about the ongoing classified documents case against the former president when she said the latest developments “should be terrifying to all Americans, and [Trump] needs to be shot, stopped.”
Plaskett is a non-voting member of Congress who has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. She was previously a Republican and civil servant under former President George W. Bush but joined the Democratic Party in 2008.
Earlier she threatened Twitter files journalist Matt Taibbi with 5 years in jail for allegedly lying to Congress. But Taibbi didn’t lie, she was wrong.
Journalist Lee Fang broke down why the letter is so absurd: “Mehdi Hasan claimed Taibbi “deliberately & under oath misrepresented” the facts about the DHS/CISA’s work w/content moderation org EIP. That’s a serious charge, one that I debunk with new Twitter Files emails & other docs.
“Mehdi claimed Taibbi lied under oath to Congress – a felony that can be prosecuted with prison – by claiming CISA worked with EIP on content moderation. Mehdi says the truth is that only a private sector org w/ a similar acronym, CIS, worked w/EIP. Mehdi is wrong and here’s how.
“EIP had an internal ticketing system to flag content for censorship to Twitter, and an internal messaging system to alert CIS *AND* CISA. DHS/CISA elevate EIP-flagged tweets for Twitter. Here is a newly unearthed Twitter email in Oct 2020 showing the process.”
Plaskett wrote:
“This mistake is important because, by adding an ‘A,’ you weren’t making a harmless spelling error. Rather, you were alleging that CISA- a government entity- was working with the EIP [Election Integrity Partnership] to have posts removed from social media.
“When presented with this misinformation, you acknowledged you had made ‘an error’ by intentionally altering the acronym CIS and you subsequently deleted your erroneous tweet.
“Prior to your appearance before the subcommittee on March 9, you signed the Judiciary Committee’s Truth in Testimony form, certifying that you understand that ‘knowingly providing material false information to this committee/subcommittee or knowingly concealing material information from this committee/subcommittee, is a crime (18 U.S.C. 1001).
“In addition, at the beginning of the March 9 hearing, you swore ‘under penalty of perjury that the testimony you [were] about to give [was] true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief.’
“Under the federal perjury statue, 18 U.S.C. 1621, proving false information is punishable by up to five years imprisonment.”
Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands): “[Trump] needs to be shot— stopped.” pic.twitter.com/E2nIzVJuwY
— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) June 18, 2023
This isn’t new or about Elon Musk. Eight years ago, as the legislation authorizing CISA was gaining steam in Congress, I wrote about how the new DHS subagency represented a vast expansion of surveillance powers, fusing big government and big business. https://t.co/4QENxdXNTD
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) April 11, 2023
🚨So-called Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett: Donald Trump “needs to be shot— stopped.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 18, 2023
