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.
I see we have tryouts for Hank Johnson’s slot well underway....
,,,,, ,,, “start looking for the people who are actually pulling the strings.”
Wh do you think they are? The Soros bunch?
Soros is too public. He is undoubtedly involved but he is also a con-artist as well. He is not the one pulling the strings.
If you look at Crockett interviews before she got into office and after there is a major difference between them. The accent, the cadence, the word usage it is all changed.
Start taking a look at the people who are writing her scripts and those who are telling them what to write.
Now please understand I am not saying the actors are not evil people. They probably are. I am just saying that removing them from office and replacing them with another puppet will not do anything because the script writers are still the same.
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