Rep. Stacey Plaskett from the Virgin Islands of the United States mesmerized many on Wednesday as the second impeachment Proceedings of former US President Donald Trump continued.
Wearing a beautiful BGL blue belted caped dress, Plaskett showed members of the Senate how Trump cultivated, groomed and commanded the rioters to carry out the violence that took place at the US Capitol on January 6.
Plaskett who is the elected delegate from the Virgin Islands, used previously unseen security camera footage of the mob invasion, along with her own outrage and confidence, to make the argument that the former president was directly responsible for the attack on the Capitol and should convicted by the senate.
Interestingly, she Plaskett made her firm argument in the presence of her former law school professor, Jamie Raskin, the Maryland Representative, who taught constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law when Plaskett was a student there in the early 1990s. Introducing Plaskett in the Senate chamber on Wednesday, Raskin mentioned that connection and then said, “I hope I’m not violating any federal education records laws when I say she was an ‘A’ student then and she is an ‘A+’ student now.”
Throughout her presentation, Plaskett argued that Trump’s speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6, just hours before his supporters stormed the Capitol, was not a one-off event; that the former president had been stirring up his followers for months, setting the stage for that deadly insurrection.
“When the violence erupted as a response to his calls to fight against the stolen election, he did not walk it back,” Plaskett said. “He did not tell them no. He did the opposite. He praised and encouraged the violence so it would continue. He fanned the flame of violence and it worked.”
Aside being a politician, Stacey Plaskett is an attorney, commentator, mother of three and married to Jonathan Buckney-Small. She is currently the 5th Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands and a member of the Democratic Party.
