The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee was called out by the Trump White House Tuesday for shrugging off a colleague’s texts with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein as merely “taking a phone call from her constituent.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) made the jaw-dropping comment during a debate on censuring Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI) over her coordination with Epstein during a Feb. 27, 2019, House Oversight Committee hearing at which Trump’s then-fixer Michael Cohen, appeared.

“They’ve arraigned a Democratic member for taking a phone call from her constituent, Jeffrey Epstein, in the middle of a hearing,” Raskin said during floor debate on the resolution. “And of course, I don’t think there’s any rule here against taking phone calls in a hearing.”

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