Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is facing blowback after falsely suggesting a Trump administration official held nefarious ties to the late New York financier Jeffrey Epstein.

During a speech on the House floor earlier this week, Crockett said newly disclosed Federal Election Commission filings showed that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, a former congressman, had taken campaign donations from “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.” However, the Epstein in question is a different person.

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