'Tone matters': Fox News host suggests Jasmine Crockett is  'fomenting quasi-violence'

A Fox News host interviewed a Republican congressman about a Democratic colleague's "tone" but didn't ask a single question about Donald Trump's tariffs that are roiling the stock market.

Attorney general Pam Bondi has warned Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) to "tread very carefully" in her public statements about Donald Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk, whose Tesla dealerships have been the site of large protests against his DOGE cuts, and Fox News host Kevin Corke asked Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) where her remarks amounted to "quasi-violence."

"Jasmine Crockett, obviously a real lightning rod on Capitol Hill for her outlandish accusations and speech that, at least that's what critics have asserted, I want to get your reaction to when she is pressed by Fox News Digital about her tone," Corke said, "and about some of the things that she's been seeing and some people frankly feel like the Democrats are fomenting this sort of quasi violence."

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Corke's producers rolled a video clip of a Fox Digital correspondent attempting to ask Crockett for her response to the attorney general and whether eh was promoting violence against Musk, but a male staffer stays right in front of the camera and the congresswoman walks behind with her head down.

"It's been argued that tone matters," Corke said, "and especially matters when it's coming from the mouth of leaders and and she's a colleague, your reaction to her non-answer there and whether or not it's the tone that's fomenting this sort of violence."

Lawler agreed that he was troubled by Crockett's comments about the nationwide "Tesla Takedown" movement protesting Musk's role in the Trump administration and pushing the electric vehicle company's board of directors to push him out as CEO.

"Well, look, Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said how he's organizing protests against the seven New York Republicans and sending them up to their districts," Lawler said. :Obviously, you have people like Jasmine Crockett, calling for folks to protest. It just, it doesn't help matters and, in fact, what they're doing is creating an environment that you know, frankly, has the potential to turn violent because people get incensed and they and they can't control themselves or their conduct at times, and it's really unfortunate because we have, we need to have robust debate and that's a good thing that's part of our democracy, but the moment these protests get violent is where it crosses the line."

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