Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is going after House Republicans after many of them blamed Democrats for this week's murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk.
As the Daily Beast reported Friday, Crockett went on "The Breakfast Club" to share her thoughts on the national climate in the wake of this week's fatal shooting of the Trump ally and MAGA movement leader on a Utah college campus. Crockett had a lot to say about the rhetoric of her colleagues in the House of Representatives, and suggested they should clean their own house before pointing fingers at the other side.
"The vast majority of these shootings, whether they are seen as political or not, if we look at the numbers — white supremacy ideology. But we don’t want to do anything about that," the Texas Democrat said.
"When we look at these mass shootings, most of them are linked to ... Proud Boys or whatever," she continued. "Every time you say white supremacy, they want to yell, ‘Oh, you’re race-baiting.’ No, I am going on facts."
The congresswoman also said President Donald Trump had contributed to making the current political environment more fractious and confrontational, and blasted his remarks blaming the "radical left" after Kirk died. Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne Tha God made the point that free speech can often lead to unintended consequences, and referenced a 2023 quote from Kirk that he delivered roughly a week after a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee in which he argued some gun deaths every year were "a price worth paying" to protect the Second Amendment.
"We don’t get to determine the consequences of our free speech," Charlamagne said.
“We do have free speech in this country, but are you free to say just any and everything?" Crockett said in reference to Trump. "There are limits to all of our constitutional protections, as well as what kind of standard are we going to hold ourselves to, when you are sitting, say, in the Oval Office?”