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Texas Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett says she finds herself rooting for sports teams from Mexico and Canada instead of the U.S. merely because she despises President Donald Trump.Crockett visited the popular Breakfast Club podcast and told host Charlamagne Tha God that she couldn’t root for American teams.The elected member of the U.S. House of Representatives bloviated about people “speaking truth to power” and added, “The fact that I’m rooting for Canada and I’m rooting for Mexico a lot is really wild.”She claimed, “But they are really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now. They can see what...

Crockett was asked about a broad sentiment among voters that President Donald Trump is keeping his campaign promises, a reality they are rewarding with substantial approval ratings, coupled with a struggling Democratic Party seen by many as too left-wing. The lawmaker replied that the voters simply need more “education” to “understand” why the Democrats, who recently suffered massive defeats, are actually the correct coalition to lead the country.

Here’s what she had to say during a recent hearing on censorship: “The thing about the Constitution is that it has always been a balancing test. There are limits to this. And right now what we continue to hear from a certain side of the aisle is that there are no limits to this lawlessness. In fact, there are limits, and I can tell you that one of those limits typically is around hate crimes. You may or may not know that when it comes down to it, if somebody decides that they want to send something hateful in, say,...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, accused many Hispanic voters of having a “slave mentality” for supporting President-elect Donald Trump. “That is my distilled summary of what happens within the Latino community,” Crockett told Vanity Fair on Friday. “I’ve not run into that with the Asian community. I’ve not run into that with the African community. I’ve not run into that with the Caribbean community. I’ve only run into it with Hispanics. When they think of ‘illegals,’ they think of, you know, maybe people that came out of the cartels and that kind of, like, the criminal-type book or whatever. It’s insane.”...

Michelle Obama: It's a 'sacrifice' to travel to Europe to pitch for the Olympics. For Oprah and the president, too. But we're doing it for the kids. By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent09/30/09 5:12 PM EDT In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her "dear friend" and "chit-chat buddy" Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow's visit by President Obama, is a "sacrifice" on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States. "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or...