Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett called President Donald Trump supporters mentally ill — just moments before calling for bipartisanship to oppose him.
During an episode of “Next Question with Katie Couric,” the journalist asked Crockett to weigh in on the Los Angeles riots opposing immigration raids and Trump’s decisions to deploy the National Guard and U.S. Marines in response. Crockett responded that she was rendered speechless by the developments before launching into an anti-Trump diatribe. (RELATED: Dem Rep Thinks Potential Gov’t Shutdown Could Save Bureaucrats From Getting Booted By Trump Admin)
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“I truly have no words … you grow up as a little girl in this country … and you think, ‘Man, this is a great place to live and it’s only going to get better.’ And then you become the adult version of me and you have a president that is openly just a criminal,” Crockett said. “Like, not just the convictions he’s got — consistently breaking laws, ignoring court orders, violating the Constitution and doing it all because he really is seeking this retribution. This retribution that he campaigned on — he said, ‘I will be your retribution.’”
“And so this idea that we don’t care how many people get hurt, we don’t care how we prostitute our service members — you know, thinking that you have your own special little army that’s for you … it is sick,” she continued. “It is really sick. And anybody that supports it is also sick.”
She then suggested support for Trump indicates a national “mental health crisis” and insisted her opposition to the president was not due to partisanship.
“And so, you know, we’ve got a mental health crisis in this country because everyone — no matter how you affiliate yourself — should be against Trump. Period. This is not partisan for me. Like, I would give anything to have — sad to say — [former President] George Bush,” she said. “Like, give me any regular Republican nowadays, and I would be happy. But right now, we have someone who does not care and he is being enabled by the fact that there are, you know, people that follow him and they pump him up, as well as the people that are surrounding him.”
“And so, you know, my heart breaks for service members — people that signed up to protect democracy and freedom, not only here but abroad, and were willing to risk their lives,” she added. “And now, literally, the very thing that they signed up to fight against is now their commander-in-chief. It really breaks my heart. And I don’t know how far he has to go before we can come together and just say, ‘Enough is enough.’ Like, this should not be partisanship.”
Trump maintains an 89% approval rating within the Republican Party, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll conducted with SurveyMonkey.
Crockett also admitted in a March interview with “Lone Star Politics” that she was prioritizing resisting Trump over passing legislation in Congress. She has repeatedly engaged in incendiary anti-Republican attacks, such as calling wheelchair-bound Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “Governor Hot Wheels.”
The representative is currently campaigning to become the next ranking member on the House Oversight Committee and has pledged to conduct an impeachment inquiry into Trump if she becomes chair. She said in a June 1 interview on “Inside Texas Politics” that she has no intention of running for president of the United States.
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