Bangladesh, Feb. 5 -- The legacy of Jeffrey Epstein continues to reverberate through American politics, long after his death in a New York jail cell in 2019. Each new disclosure involving public officials underscores an uncomfortable truth: Epsteins influence was not confined to finance, academia, or celebrity culture-it also touched the political establishment. The latest episode centers on Democratic Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, the non-voting delegate representing the US Virgin Islands, who has publicly defended her past interactions with the disgraced financier while forcefully rejecting any suggestion of wrongdoing.

Plasketts response, delivered through a video statement posted to Facebook, was unapologetic in tone but carefully c...