‘Sorry!' Dem lawmaker laughs off Trump-Epstein 'Freudian slip'

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), an active leader in the House Oversight Committee’s ongoing probe into Jeffrey Epstein and his potential co-conspirators, laughed off a seemingly unintentional “Freudian slip” Saturday after mistakenly referring to the disgraced financier as Donald Trump.

Stansbury spoke with the progressive media company MediasTouch in a video published Saturday about the importance of her committee reaching out to individuals previously associated with Epstein to obtain depositions. The interview was briefly derailed, however, after Stansbury appeared to refer to Epstein as Trump before quickly correcting herself.

“It’s clear that even in the lead up to Epstein’s trial in 2019, they had prepared a list of co-conspirators, and there were only two men that were listed as co-conspirators,” Stansbury said, speaking with MediasTouch’s Katie Phang.

“But all of the other men around Donald – sorry, a Freudian slip there! Around Jeffrey Epstein who were perpetrators were not being investigated.”

President Donald Trump has continued to be plagued by his past ties to Epstein during his second term in office, and to such an extent that a majority of Americans believe that he authorized the U.S. attack on Iran, at least in part, to “distract” from the “Epstein scandal,” a recent Data for Progress poll found.

Trump’s past ties with Epstein have also been the subject of ridicule among many of his critics, some of whom have recently erected a statue in Washington, D.C. to memorialize Trump and Epstein’s past friendship, and in the style of the 1997 hit film “Titanic.”