Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) known as out Republican lawmakers for speaking powerful on legislation and order however refusing to carry President Donald Trump to that very same customary.
Crockett pointed to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador jail. A court docket ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” his launch and return to the US, however Trump has refused.
Trump and his supporters have as a substitute attacked Abrego Garcia and accused him of being an MS-13 gang member. Abrego Garcia’s spouse and lawyer has denied that, and he hasn’t been convicted of any crimes.
As Crockett famous, that’s in sharp distinction to the president.
“So far as I’m involved, he’s rather a lot much less felony than the individual that’s sitting within the White Home ’trigger final time I checked, he doesn’t have any felony convictions,” she mentioned on MSNBC on Sunday. “I don’t even assume he has any excellent circumstances, versus the man that also had circumstances pending when he was sworn in on January twentieth and in addition has 34 felony convictions.”
Trump was convicted final 12 months on all 34 costs within the case associated to hush cash funds made to porn star Stormy Daniels. He additionally had a number of federal circumstances pending that had been dropped after he gained final 12 months’s election.
“So pay attention, I don’t wish to hear something from the Republican Party about how they attempting to maintain us secure when their fearless chief is definitely the most important felony to this point that we have now seen as a result of I haven’t seen anyone with a rap sheet that appears just like the president’s,” Crockett mentioned.
See extra of her dialog with MSNBC’s Katie Phang beneath:
