'He's a crook!' Jasmine Crockett hits back after Pam Bondi's attack on Fox News

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) hit back at Pam Bondi on Wednesday over the attorney general's recent attacks on Fox News, which Crockett derided at a House hearing as "Faux News."

In recent appearances on Fox News, Bondi criticized Crockett for her remarks about Elon Musk and Tesla, accusing Crockett of using dangerous rhetoric that could incite violence. She took particular issue with Crockett expressing a desire for Musk to be "taken down" during a livestream event. Bondi also tied Crockett’s comments to broader protests against Tesla, some of which have turned violent, including incidents involving Molotov cocktails.

Bondi told host Sean Hannity Crockett ought to apologize to Tesla shareholders and the nation, and said her statements put lives and safety at risk.

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"To have the sitting attorney general go on 'Faux News' — I know some of y'all love it, but it's fake to me — to have her go on Fox News and to then decide that she wanted to send a threat to me — it was wrong," said Crockett.

Crockett asserted she had a Constitutional right to free speech and wanted to exercise that right. She slammed the nation's highest law enforcement agent for deciding to then "politicize something that should not be politicized."

"I don't like Elon Musk. I'm going to say it 50,000 times. I don't like him. I don't like that he's going out there and he's firing people. I think that he's a crook because somehow, the rest of us can't sit around and get whatever federal contracts that we want. The rest of us can't sit around and get law enforcement and get them somehow ordained as federal law enforcement to protect him. The rest of us can't get our dealerships protected by the federal government. That is somebody that is operating above the law. For whatever reason. Just because he has a lot of money, more money than everybody else."

Crockett continued laying into Musk, saying she was "happy" to see that on her birthday, there were "peaceful protests around this world against him."

"Because he is a problem! And so you should never have somebody that is sitting that high and is going to sit up here and threaten a sitting member of Congress when she knew good and well, if she watched the entire thing, that I specifically told protesters to make sure you consult with lawyers. Just like I've told protesters over and over and over in the history of me advising people to go out and exercise their constitutional right. The fact that there are sitting members that have received letters of threat from this DOJ tells me that they are about retribution and they are not about following the law."

Watch the fiery speech below or at this link.