Victor Davis Hanson Breaks Out Jasmine Crockett Impression While Roasting Her

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson took aim at Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Tuesday, using his podcast “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” to highlight what he called yet another example of the congresswoman’s habit of making confident claims that collapse under basic scrutiny.

The moment Hanson seized on came after House Democrats released a cache of Jeffrey Epstein–related emails — including one suggesting President Donald Trump was aware of Epstein’s behavior and crossed paths with Virginia Giuffre, whose name appeared redacted in the document. Crockett went on CNN’s “The Situation Room” and pointed a finger at Republicans, insisting they were responsible for the blackout.

CNN host Pamela Brown, however, quickly corrected her: the redactions were done by Democrats themselves.

Hanson mocked the exchange on his podcast, saying:

“Did you see the CNN host say, when she said, ‘And you know, when they have this victim and her name is, you know, it’s excised, blacked out, we don’t know if that’s the right person, that they did that, the [Republicans].’ And the CNN person goes, ‘Actually, that was the Democrats that put the black marking on the name and hid it while it was in their custody.’”

He continued: “‘Well, that’s what, that’s what I said!’ … they’re, they’re fact-checking her now. And when you get to that point, the next point will be she won’t be on TV anymore.”

Brown showed the redacted email on-air and noted that Giuffre had testified in 2016 that Trump never engaged in any sexual acts with Epstein’s victims during the period she encountered him. Brown then pressed Crockett on whether she could confirm the redacted name was, in fact, Giuffre.

“Yeah, I don’t know. Obviously, it’s redacted who the victim is, so I won’t necessarily take the Republicans’ word on who it is that’s redacted,” Crockett said. “And I don’t know why they would necessarily redact someone’s name who is deceased at this point.”

Brown reminded her: “The Democrats did that though.” Crockett responded, “No, no, no. I understand.”

Trump himself previously told reporters on July 29 that he cut off Epstein after the disgraced financier “stole” female employees from Mar-a-Lago — a group he believed included Giuffre.

And the claim that Trump behaved improperly around Epstein’s victims has repeatedly collapsed. In a Sept. 3 NBC News report, multiple Epstein victims stated they never witnessed or heard of Trump engaging in wrongdoing.

Crockett’s troubles didn’t end there. On Wednesday, she implied that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin accepted political donations from Epstein — a claim that was immediately debunked. Zeldin had received funds from a different man named Jeffrey Epstein, not the deceased sex offender. Crockett later insisted on CNN’s “The Source” that she was not trying to “mislead people.”

The repeated missteps have given conservatives new ammunition in their argument that Democrats, desperate to tie President Donald J. Trump to Epstein despite multiple refutations, keep tripping over their own narrative.