Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) claimed that President Donald Trump’s supporters were “mentally ill” — and then demanded bipartisan opposition to Trump — during her recent appearance on Katie Couric’s “Next Question” podcast.
Crockett told Couric that she would be happy to have any “regular” Republican — naming George Bush, but not saying whether she meant George H.W. Bush (41) or George W. Bush (43) — and said that Trump’s political success was essentially proof that there was a “mental health crisis” in the United States.
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????NEW: Jasmine Crockett calls Trump supporters *MENTALLY ILL* — then immediately calls for bipartisanship????
“This idea that we don’t care how many people get hurt, we don’t care how we prostitute our service members — you know, thinking that you have your own special little army… pic.twitter.com/puAcojbTZJ
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During the podcast, Crockett lashed out at the president over the U.S. Army 250th birthday celebration and parade, suggesting, as many Democrats have, that the parade was not really for the Army, but for Trump’s birthday.
“This idea that we don’t care how many people get hurt, we don’t care how we prostitute our service members — you know, thinking that you have your own special little army that’s for you … it is sick. It is really sick. And anybody that supports it is also sick,” Crockett claimed.
“We’ve got a mental health crisis in this country because everyone — no matter how you affiliate yourself — should be against Trump. Period,” she continued. “This is not partisan for me. Like, I would give anything to have — sad to say — George Bush. Like, give me any regular Republican nowadays, and I would be happy.”
“I don’t know how far he has to go before we can come together and just say, ‘Enough is enough.’ Like, this should not be partisanship,” she concluded.
During the same appearance, she claimed that former Vice President Kamala Harris — who lost to President Trump in rather spectacular fashion — had been far more qualified to serve as president, arguing that Americans were simply too racist and sexist to vote for her and instead went with the “old white man.”