Posted on 09/18/2025 1:28:16 PM PDT by DFG
Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed on “Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness” Wednesday that committing crimes does not make a person a “criminal.”
Crockett was previously a public defender, civil rights and criminal defense attorney, specializing in “defending our most vulnerable among us from exploitation in the criminal justice system,” according to her official biography. She said on the podcast that she has spoken to people who were “committing crimes” and that she “understood” their motivations.
“[U]nderstanding what ends up having people become criminally impacted really informs so much of what I do legislatively, right?” Crockett said. “So, when people are like, ‘Oh, you know, crime is terrible.’ And yes, it is, right? Like, because when somebody goes out and commits a crime, they don’t typically, you know, say, ‘Well, I’m a D or I’m an R or I’m an I.’ Literally, like it’s about, well, how do you fix it? How do you make communities safer?”
“And I do think that I’m in a unique situation because I was having the conversations with people that were going out and committing crimes. And so I understood what was kind of pushing them there,” she continued. “And so I do want people to know that just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal. That is completely different. Being a criminal is more so about your mindset. Committing a crime can come for a lot of different reasons.”
President Donald Trump has made cracking down on crime a significant part of his second-term agenda. For instance, he deployed the National Guard and took other measures to tackle crime in the nation’s capital on Aug. 11, with violent crimes subsequently declining.
However, Democrats have not been as eager to clamp down on crime.
Nearly all House Democrats voted against Republican legislation aimed at reducing juvenile crime in the nation’s capital on Tuesday as the House of Representatives passed two bills to roll back soft-on-crime policies that the GOP argues embolden repeat offenders and deter local law enforcement.
And I thought there would no possible challenger to Maxine Waters for “dumb” Congresscritters in this decade. Jasmine is certainly giving Maxine a good run for the title, and she has YEARS ahead of her.
There is no maximum limit on ignorance and scatterbrained judgment.
I was convinced that Crockett was a GOP plant to make the Democrats look stupid. Then again, pretty much everybody in her party thinks like her and they can’t all be fakes.
She’s definitely an I.
I is for Idiot.
Well, to be fair, all leftard/woketard demo-commies always claim if their ‘intent’ is pure than it doesn’t matter what the outcome of their actions are - so she probably absorbed that childish, willfully idiotic demo-commie axiom when she was young and impressionable.
“Let them touch these things for once!”
Ha.
Since you bought that vowel I can solve the game phrase:
Jasmine Is A Real Idiot. (applause)
My grandson said the same thing to his mother when I told her he had stolen $3000 out of my bank accounts online.
And she went to Law school!
But she is partially right. Congress members commit crimes every day and it makes them richer!
yeah cause nothing says feeding your family like stealing a bunch of gucci handbags am I right
Affirmative Action got her into law school, I doubt she passed the bar..probably got her a participation certificate and said just go already
I agree with her this much: Having the name Crockett doesn’t make her an Alamo Defender.
I’m so glad these Left Looney people are so emboldened that they proudly exhibit their mental illnesses for the world to see.
so the logical question is, what exactly does make one a criminal if not committing crime?
Is the "criminally impacted" the person who was mugged, or the poor misunderstood mugger who gets arrested for no reason at all?< /eyeroll>
“And I do think that I’m in a unique situation because I was having the conversations with people that were going out and committing crimes.
And those are just your fellow Democrat representatives and senators.
IQ average just 15 points above retarded.
Poster ho for the species.
Show up for class now and then, automatic passing grade due to protected species acts.
>>>Democrat Dimwit Jasmine Crockett...
Plenty descriptive for me!
She’s a lawyer, she should know. /s
SHE & MAD MAX MAKE A PAIR TO DRAW TO
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