Fox News Says She’s ‘Too Street’ for Congress—Rep. Jasmine Crockett Fires Back with Zero Apologies

Outspoken Texas congresswoman Jasmine Crockett’s feud with assorted members of the Trump White Home and the right-wing media continues to escalate, with two Fox Information personalities utilizing racially tinged and dismissive language Thursday evening in opposition to the Democratic firebrand.

Showing on “The Ingraham Angle,” commentator Raymond Arroyo, channeling Elon Musk’s want that he might hearth members of Congress, singled out Crockett, a favourite goal of conservative media.

“She has turn into the Madea of Capitol Hill with half the allure,” mentioned Arroyo, evaluating the 44-year-old legislator to a wisecracking man in drag. “She doesn’t make an argument. Saying you don’t like a man as a result of he’s firing folks, that’s a grievance, not an argument.”

Truly, it’s simply constructed as an argument. Musk says the furloughed federal staff had been expendable; Crockett disagrees.

After all, it wouldn’t be Fox Information with out some thinly veiled racism added to the critique.

Host Laura Ingraham famous that she feels Crockett appears to have modified throughout her tenure in Congress.

“She sounds very totally different, and now she’s going very…you already know…’ road…you already know ‘I’mma do that.’ … All of it looks like a TikTok problem or one thing,” Ingraham mentioned. “It’s very odd.”

Added Arroyo, “You’re a member of Congress, not a determined housewife. Clear up the act and cease threatening folks.” 

It’s turn into a Fox speaking level that Crockett threatened MAGA golden boy Elon Musk when she commented, “All I need to see occur on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.”

Crockett insists she was endorsing nonviolent demonstration and instructed attendees at an anti-Tesla rally to comply with native legal guidelines. Tesla tons and showrooms have been beset with incidents of arson and graffiti in latest weeks, and a few Trump supporters have tried to attach Crockett to the property injury.

Lawyer Common Pam Bondi went as far as to warn Crockett to “tread very rigorously” in her future feedback concerning the Tesla CEO and StarLink founder.

Bondi additionally steered that Crockett apologize to Tesla shareholders contemplating the rise of violence in opposition to Tesla dealerships and showrooms. “She must unequivocally denounce the violence; she should apologize instantly, not solely to all Texans however to our nation, to the American shareholders of Tesla, as a result of she is selling violence.”

Crockett was greatly surprised by Bondi’s risk.

“As a result of right here it’s, she is the best regulation enforcement agent on this nation and persons are watching and they’re consuming this info, and they’re believing that just because I made a decision that I wished to train my proper to free speech — which I’m not abridged from doing — that she then wished to then politicize one thing that shouldn’t be politicized,” Crockett mentioned. 

“I don’t like Elon Musk, I’m going to say it 50,000 instances,” she doubled down.

Crockett has additionally refused to apologize for calling wheelchair-bound Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “Governor Scorching Wheels,” although most agree mocking somebody’s handicap is beneath a member of Congress.