House Democrat Claims ‘Twitter Files’ Journalist Matt Taibbi Gave ’False‘ Testimony’ to Congress, Threatens Jail Time

Ranking member Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) delivers opening remarks during the first hearing of the Weaponization of the Federal Government subcommittee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 9, 2023. (ChiDel. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) in Washington on Feb. 9, 2023. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)p Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) has threatened “Twitter Files” journalist Matt Taibbi with up to five years in prison for allegedly providing “false and misleading” testimony before Congress last month.

In an April 13 letter (pdf) to Taibbi, the lawmaker accused him of lying under oath, stating that he contradicted his congressional testimony in March about Twitter in a subsequent interview with MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan.