{"id":152715,"date":"2025-09-14T14:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=152715"},"modified":"2025-09-14T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:59:39","slug":"i-am-going-on-facts-crockett-tears-into-maga-colleagues-for-rhetoric-after-kirk-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=152715","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8216;I am going on facts!&#8217; Crockett tears into MAGA colleagues for rhetoric after Kirk murder&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/jasmine-crockett-charlie-kirk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alternet<\/a>: &#8220;Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is going after House Republicans after many of them blamed Democrats for this week&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2673981072\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2673981072\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">As the Daily Beast reported Friday<\/a>, Crockett\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fhp7dNfV8JE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went on &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0to share her thoughts on the national climate in the wake of this week&#8217;s fatal shooting of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/11\/trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a>\u00a0ally 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The vast majority of these shootings, whether they are seen as political or not, if we look at the numbers \u2014 white supremacy ideology. But we don\u2019t want to do anything about that,&#8221; the Texas Democrat said&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The congresswoman also said President Donald Trump had contributed to making the current political environment more fractious and confrontational, and blasted his remarks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trump-crackdown-radical-left\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blaming the &#8220;radical left&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0after Kirk died. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet: &#8220;Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is going after House Republicans after many of them blamed Democrats for this week&#8217;s\u00a0murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. As the Daily Beast reported Friday, Crockett\u00a0went on &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221;\u00a0to share her thoughts on the national climate in the wake of this week&#8217;s fatal shooting of the\u00a0Trump\u00a0ally and MAGA movement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152716,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152715\/revisions\/152716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}