Hello, everybody. I'm Martha McCallum, along with Charlie Hurt, Jessica Tarlov, Jesse Waters, and Greg Gutfeld.

It is 5 o'clock in New York, and this is the 5.

So our Democrats walking into a Trump trap on Epstein after the president signed the release of the Epstein files 30 days for it all to come out.

The party's rising star, Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, is facing fierce backlash after she wrongfully accused former GOP congressman and current EPA administrator Lee Zeldon

of taking campaign donations from the dead sex trafficking pedophile.

Take a look at the comments that got her in hot water on the House floor.

Watch this.

Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein as I had my team dig in very quickly.

Mitt Romney, the NRC, Lee Zeldon, George Bush, Wynne, Red, McCain-Payland.

So it turns out that it was a different Jeffrey Epstein.

Apparently there are hundreds of them in America

for whom the FCC had records of donation to Zelda. Zeldon himself explaining on X, writing,

Yes, Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, who is totally different person than the other

Jeffrey Epstein donated to a prior campaign of mine. No freaking relation.

You genius, he writes, in large letters. Crockett on cleanup duty, and this was tough,

somehow made things worse. Watch. I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. So my team,

what they did is they Googled. And that is

specifically why I said, A, Jeffrey Epstein, unlike Republicans, I at least don't go out and just tell

lies. Because it was not the same one, that's fine. But he admitted that he did receive donations

from a Jeffrey Epstein. So at least I wasn't trying to mislead people. Now, have I dug in to find out who

this doctor is? I have not. So I will trust and take what he says. I literally had maybe 20 minutes

before I had to do that debate. So if you only had 20 minutes and you couldn't vet the list

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