Democrat Stacey Plaskett Threatens Matt Taibbi With Prison

Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat, and the delegate from the Virgin Islands to the United States Congress, recently sent a letter to journalist Matt Taibbi accusing him of perjury and suggesting that he could face up to five years in prison.

In March, independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified to the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about their roles in the release of the “Twitter Files.”

During the hearing, Plaskett had described Taibbi and Shellenberger as “so-called journalists” and was determined to undermine their testimony and reliability at the hearing, while demanding that the journalists reveal their sources. Taibbi had replied with the accolades and awards that he has garnered throughout his career, which solidify him as a reputable journalist, and refused to name his source to the Democrat.

However, the Democrat has now gone further in her determination to discredit the Taibbi. On April 13th, she sent a letter to the journalist accusing him of perjury which is “punishable by up to five years in prison.” The letter was obtained by Lee Fang, a writer who works with Taibbi.

Plaskett accused Taibbi of contradicting his testimony about Twitter in an interview with MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan. When Taibbi appeared on the show with Hasan, he was accused of conflating CISA with the private nonprofit organization, the Center for Internal Security (CIS). Taibbi had admitted that he had made a mistake with the acronyms in his tweet.