Jasmine Crockett Rejects Calling Trump, Republicans ‘Wannabe Hitler’ Feeds Political Violence: ‘Not Saying Go Out and Hurt Somebody’
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) rejected being responsible for promoting political violence with her rhetoric, insisting it is President Donald Trump and MAGA pushing a “culture of violence” following the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Crockett joined The Breakfast Club radio show on Friday where she rejected accusations from the right and MAGA that Democrats’ rhetoric promoted violence against Kirk.
“I’ve literally never said anything to invoke violence,” Crockett said at one point during the interview.
Host Charlamagne Tha God took a slightly different view of things, admitting that he’s seen language from both sides that could potentially incite violence, including referring to Trump as “fascist” and comparing him to Hitler.
“I think we all incite — whether we think we do or not. And what I mean by that is I’ve definitely called that regime fascist,” he said.
Crockett argued that calling Trump and others “wannabe Hitler” does not promote violence while accusing Trump of using more specifically violent language.
Check out the exchange below:
JASMINE CROCKETT: We’ve got to talk about what it means when you’re running for president or you’re running for one of these higher offices and you go out there and you talk about beating people out, you go out there and you say things like, I could shoot somebody in the middle of the street in New York and still win — we’ve got to talk about, like, that is next level. Me disagreeing with you, me calling you, you know, wannabe Hitler, all of those things are not necessarily saying, go out and hurt somebody. But when you’re literally telling people at rallies, yeah, beat him up and that kind of stuff, you are promoting a culture of violence so we need to talk about what it looks like when you don’t promote a culture of violence.
CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: I think, I mean, the funny part is, it’s not funny, but both sides of the aisle do it. So it’s like, you know, they’ll get on y’all for, you know saying that, hey, we called them wannabe Hitler, blah, blah blah. But they called Democrats fascists.
CROCKETT: They call us socialists, they call us all things, but I don’t think that that actually evokes an environment of violence. I think literally saying things about like, oh, these people don’t deserve to live or the images of what we’re seeing right now as ICE is going into communities and dragging people and kicking them and taking them down to the ground and busting windows out, like that is the, we have never seen these types of images of ICE.
Watch above via The Breakfast Club.
