Jasmine Crockett Slams MAGA for Blaming Kirk Killing on Dems
The congresswoman called the right’s theory that someone on the left committed the killing “wild.”
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett sharply criticized Republicans for assuming that conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk was killed by “someone in our party.”
“I hate that some of my colleagues in the other party immediately said, ‘You know, it’s the Democrats’ fault.’ It’s like we don’t even know who did what,” Crockett said on “The Breakfast Club” Friday. “It’s bizarre that Republicans would assume it was someone in our party.”
She added, “Obviously the first thing anyone would say—and no Democrat has said otherwise—is, ‘We condemn political violence.'”
She said the killing could not only be “personal” but also be perpetrated by a right-wing supporter: “The vast majority of these shootings, whether they’re considered political or not, if you look at the numbers, are by white supremacists.” But we don’t want to do anything.”
“We’ve reviewed writings and statements, and we found that the two individuals who attacked the president, before he became president, appeared to be connected to the Republican Party,” Crockett added. The motive for the shooting remains unclear, but authorities arrested 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson on Thursday.
“Once” Kirk is killed, “the transgender community is under attack again,” Crockett said, referring to comments by far-right figures like Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump Jr. She added that another group should be considered to prevent this type of violence. “When you look at these mass shootings, most of them are linked to neo-Nazism, or, you know, the Proud Boys or something like that… Whenever we bring up ‘white supremacy,’ we think, ‘Oh my God, you’re inciting racial hatred.’ No, I’m basing this on facts.” »
Crockett said the rhetoric that “radicalized” Kirk’s killer had created a climate in which she herself felt the need to increase security. “I have to fund my own security. I have to raise money to keep myself safe,” she said Friday.
She added, “I hope we can have serious discussions about what that means in terms of real safeguards, but we also need to have discussions about free speech and ‘what truly crosses the line.'” Host Charlamagne Tha God expressed similar sentiments about free speech in response to Kirk’s killing on Thursday.
“We can’t define the consequences of our free speech,” she said, referring to Kirk’s comments that “it’s important that we have, unfortunately, gun deaths every year so that we can apply the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”
Crockett also said Friday: “We have freedom of speech in this country, but are you free to say anything and everything? Our constitutional protections have limits, and what standards are we going to hold ourselves to when you sit, for example, in the Oval Office?”
She concluded her remarks by referring to Trump: “When you literally demand of people at rallies, ‘Yes, hit them,’ and so on, you are encouraging a culture of violence.”
