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The Hill
4 hours ago
- Politics
- The Hill
Crockett: Republicans are ‘gonna run away' from Epstein vote
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) slammed congressional Republicans in a Saturday MSNBC interview over efforts in the House to force a vote on releasing investigative records related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Crockett accused Republicans of not wanting to pursue a measure that would force the Department of Justice to release all of its files on Epstein, who died in prison as he faced charges of sexual trafficking. 'I absolutely think they are gonna run away with this as quickly as possible,' Crockett said. 'I don't anticipate that we will get to any resolution on this.' It's not entirely clear what will happen with the controversy surrounding Epstein this week. For much of the month, President Trump's supporters have been divided over whether information should be released after much of the MAGA movement was upset over a report from the Department of Justice that said its evidence showed Epstein committed suicide in prison, and that there was no so-called 'clients list.' A petition in the House led by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) could force a floor vote on releasing files related to Epstein once it acquires a majority of signatures in the chamber. At least 10 Republicans have signed on so far. Separately, the House Rules Committee last week advanced another measure that would given the Department of Justice more discretion over what to release. A Wall Street Journal story last Thursday that said Trump had written Epstein a 'bawdy' 50th birthday card largely unified MAGA behind the president and may take the air out of the controversy. Trump has denied the Journal's story and sued the company, and Republicans have echoed the president's criticism of the news outlet. But it's not entirely clear if that will quiet calls for the release of all information held by DOJ. Democrats have seized on the issue to try to force the GOP into difficult votes given the chaos it has caused Republicans. Crockett, who has developed a big social media following with provocative comments during interviews and committee hearings, went as far as calling Trump a 'wannabe Hitler' and said that Republicans 'know that he does not want this released,' referring to the Epstein files. 'If he's trying to hide it, they understand that it is most likely problematic for him, as well as the MAGA brand, as well the Republicans,' Crockett said. 'So, I don't anticipate that they will be on board for doing anything that may harm them or their fearless leader.'
Fox News
6 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Trump challenges AOC and Jasmine Crockett to intelligence test after calling them 'very low IQ'
President Donald Trump lobbed a signature zinger on Tuesday as he paused to speak with reporters before boarding Marine One en route to an artificial intelligence summit. "[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], look, I think she's very nice, but she's very low IQ, and we really don't need low IQ," Trump said, smiling as cameras rolled. He added, "Between her and Crockett, we're going to give them both an IQ test to see who comes out best."TRUMP DARES AOC TO TRY TO IMPEACH HIM: 'MAKE MY DAY' Trump went on to share his own credentials: "I took my test. I took a real test at Walter Reed Medical Center, and I aced it. I got every one of all those questions right," he told the waiting press. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has ramped up her criticism of President Trump recently, calling him a "rapist" in a post on X following a DOJ update related to Jeffrey Epstein. She appeared to be referencing the 2023 civil trial leveled against Trump by writer E. Jean Carroll. A jury found Trump liable of sexual assault, but not of rape. Critics said she defamed the president with the remark. Back in May, Crockett said "you're terrified of smart, bold Black women telling the truth and holding you accountable" after President Trump called her a "low IQ person" on Meet the Press. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPWhether Ocasio‑Cortez or Crockett will take the bait and accept the IQ test challenge remains to be White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Black America Web
6 days ago
- Politics
- Black America Web
Fox News Insulted Jasmine Crockett Because They Fear Intelligent Black Women
Source: Robin L Marshall / Getty 'Her incompetence is beastly.''She certainly is a mental deficient.''She's a dumb-dumb, and you can't take her seriously.''She is a recalcitrant piece of garbage.' 'She's massively incompetent.' That was Fox News' Lisa 'Kennedy' Montgomery trying to demean Rep. Jasmine Crockett five times in a single rant. But all that petty derision reveals nothing about Congresswoman Crocket and far more about Kennedy's own intellectual bankruptcy, moral squalor, and her talent for cheap, performative cruelty masquerading as political commentary. The only real skill she's honed is making the shallow sound edgy to people too dim-witted to notice. If Kennedy had a real argument, she wouldn't have needed to stack five personal insults on top of each other like a sad little Jenga tower of insecurity. A truly intelligent and competent commentator wouldn't rely on crude, empty attacks in place of reasoned critique. She needed five insults because she had nothing else. No substance. No evidence. No point. No working brain cells. Just spit and bile. Just look how hard she had to work just to prove she had nothing. And ultimately, she demonstrated that she's the one who's actually mentally deficient. Kennedy's rant came after Crockett dared to call out Donald Trump's 'racist and wrong' remarks about the president of Liberia speaking 'such good English.' When Crockett labeled Trump's words for what they were, the GOP rapid-response machine snapped into gear. Kennedy simply picked up that baton for Fox News. She didn't contest a single fact. She went straight for the oldest, most cowardly trick in the racist playbook: smear the Black woman's intelligence. Reduce her to a 'dumb-dumb.' Make sure the audience sees her as unworthy of basic respect. It's pathetic and so damn predictable. Kennedy knows she can't beat Rep. Crockett on substance. She can't out-argue her. Crockett is a civil rights attorney, a sitting member of Congress, a woman who can dismantle Republican talking points with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back. She is sharp, fearless, and unbothered by conservative fragility. And that terrifies mediocre bigots like Kennedy. This is the same Lisa Kennedy who made her name being smarmy on MTV in the 90s, who rebranded herself as a libertarian edgelord sneering at working people's needs, and who has built a career in conservative media serving up sarcastic, punchline-level takes for an audience desperate for reassurance they'll never have to take Black women seriously. Kennedy isn't offering critique; she's offering white folks a comfortable fantasy where no Black woman is ever smarter than they are. She's the human embodiment of smug mediocrity. This is a woman who leveraged the aesthetics of rebelliousness into a decades-long gig kissing the ring of right-wing power while pretending she's too hip to care about the damage. She's the type who rails against government overreach but has no problem with state violence at the border or policing Black communities, the kind of libertarian who mocks student debt relief but wants her rich pals' taxes cut. Kennedy has no policy chops. She's not serious. She's a lazy performer who built her brand on eye-rolling, faux-radical snark that crumbles the second you ask her for actual ideas. She's the sort of TV pundit who thinks being mean is the same thing as being smart. She's paid to pander to viewers who want to hear that even the most obviously intelligent Black woman in the room is a 'dumb-dumb,' because that lie is easier for them to swallow than gagging on the fact that she's one of the dullest minds in the room. 'She is a recalcitrant piece of garbage.' That line is a window into who Kennedy is. She's a smug, washed-up cable clown who traded whatever critical thinking skills she once pretended to have for the cheapest form of white grievance theater. She's not a serious commentator. She's a professional bigot-whisperer whose job is to sneer, belittle, and dehumanize Black women who won't stay in the roles her audience finds comfortable. Calling Crockett 'garbage' is Kennedy admitting that she can't match Crockett's command of the facts, her courtroom-honed intelligence, or her refusal to play nice for people who despise her. It's Kennedy revealing that she knows exactly what her audience wants to hear and delivers it with a wink and a sneer. She's not just smug mediocrity. She's a willing foot soldier for white grievance politics, who lacks confidence in her own intellect and the right-wing worldview she's there to defend. At the end of the day, she knows Crockett was right. But instead she says, 'Look at this dumb-dumb.' Kennedy's disrespect of a sitting Black representative was personal, and it was also universal. Every time a Black woman shows up in American public life with undeniable intelligence, whether she's a Representative like Jasmine Crockett, a Supreme Court justice like Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Vice President like Kamala Harris, or a scholar, attorney, doctor, journalist, or educator, there is a reliably ugly backlash waiting for her. It doesn't matter if she graduated from the nation's top schools, served with distinction, or simply out-argues her opponents in debate. As soon as her intelligence shines, the slur emerges: 'mentally deficient,' 'low IQ,' 'affirmative action case,' 'DEI hire,' 'dumb,' 'illiterate,' 'incoherent.' Source: Vinnie Zuffante / Getty This isn't random name-calling. It taps into centuries of propaganda about Black inferiority. It's the same old lie that Black people are less intelligent, especially Black women. It's a deliberate racist strategy that is about policing who gets to be seen as competent, authoritative, or deserving of respect in American public life. Because for people invested in whiteness, a Black woman who is brilliant, articulate, prepared, and unafraid is a threat to the entire hierarchy they depend on. She disrupts the lie that whiteness is the natural home of competence and authority. The psychology behind it is pathetic. If you can't disprove her, you have to degrade her. You have to reduce her to something less than you so you can feel safe, unchallenged, and unthreatened. Calling her 'dumb' isn't an analysis of her arguments; it's an exorcism. It's an attempt to expel her from the realm of people who have to be listened to or taken seriously. It's about making sure the audience doesn't even consider the possibility she's right. This is why these attacks are so formulaic and so emotional. They're not built to rebut a Black woman's logic; they're built to reassure the insecure. They work by triggering a familiar, comforting stereotype for white audiences: that no matter how many degrees she has, no matter how well she argues or writes, no matter how prepared she is, she's still just a dumb, beastly Black girl who should know her place. Calling Jasmine Crockett 'mentally deficient' is the white supremacist mind doing damage control. Kennedy called Jasmine Crockett a 'dumb-dumb' not because Crockett is anything of the sort, but because she's dangerously smart in ways that threaten conservative power. She knows the law. She knows how to use it. She knows how to make Republicans look like the unserious, unethical frauds they are. Kennedy knows that if people actually listen to Jasmine Crockett, if they hear her questions, watch her disassemble Republican witnesses, or see her call out right-wing hypocrisy in real time, then they might start to wonder why Kennedy and her Fox News pals never have any answers. She can't say: Jasmine Crockett is wrong about Republicans shielding criminals. Because Crockett isn't. She can't say: Jasmine Crockett doesn't understand the law. Because Crockett demonstrably does. All Kennedy can say is: Don't listen to her, she's a dumb-dumb. That's it. That's the entire intellectual offering. It's the rhetorical move of a coward. Of a hack. Of a professional gaslighter who's made a living comforting racists with the lie that any Black woman who challenges them is actually an idiot in disguise. Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist and author of 'Spare The Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America' and the forthcoming 'Strung Up: The Lynching of Black Children In Jim Crow America.' Read her Substack here . SEE ALSO: Fox News Is Crashing Out Over Jasmine Crockett Again Racist Host Says Rep. Crockett Pretends To Be 'Hood' SEE ALSO Fox News Insulted Jasmine Crockett Because They Fear Intelligent Black Women was originally published on
New York Post
7 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Jasmine Crockett claims GOP would rather ‘bury their constituents' than fight climate change
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, accused Republicans on Friday of wanting to 'bury their constituents' after the deadly Texas floods by rolling back ways to combat climate change. She specifically called out the Trump administration and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem for what she claimed was a delayed response to the flash flooding that devastated parts of central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend. She went on to blame the Republican Party for voting on the 'big, ugly bill' to effectively begin 'clawing back' on ways to help combat climate change and prevent similar disasters. 'The reality is that we are going to continue to face emergencies, especially since as we just got done with the big, ugly bill, they are clawing back those things that would have hopefully started to cool this planet down, because they don't believe in science,' Crockett said on MSNBC's 'The Weeknight.' 'The least that they could do is believe in helping American people. Unfortunately, we continue to see Republicans decide that they want to bury their constituents instead of actually doing everything that they can to make sure that they live amazing and full lives.' More than 120 people were killed in the flash flooding with dozens reported missing. Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett accused Republicans of wanting to 'bury their constituents' by failing to fight climate change. Photo byfor ESSENCE Since last week, several Democratic figures have been quick to politicize the floods by blaming climate change and President Donald Trump's government cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) for exacerbating the damage. Follow The Post's coverage on the deadly Texas flooding In a statement to Fox News Digital last week, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson called it 'shameful and disgusting' to see Democrats politicizing the tragedy and insisted accusations that the NWS was understaffed had been 'debunked by meteorologists, experts, and other public reporting.' A makeshift memorial near the Guadalupe River for victims of flooding in Kerrville, Texas. AP Photo/Eric Gay Last month, Crockett also agreed with a statement from CNN analyst Michael Fanone that 'Republicans want poor people to die as quickly as humanly possible.' 'I agree,' Crockett responded. 'I don't think that is a glitch, but that's actually part of the design.'
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Yahoo
'Heart-breaking': Locals and visitors devastated by loss of Grand Canyon Lodge
Davy Crockett watched from miles away as the first small plumes of smoke began to rise in the Grand Canyon's North Rim. It was not long before the small plumes transformed into huge flames. Mr Crockett, vice-president of the non-profit Grand Canyon Historical Society, went to bed but worries kept him up. The historic Grand Canyon Lodge, with its panoramic views of one of the natural wonders of the world, was in the path of those flames. On Sunday, park officials confirmed the beloved lodge was destroyed in raging wildfires. "It broke my heart," said Mr Crockett. "I was devastated." Hundreds of people are sharing his sadness and posting tributes on social media to the stone lodge perched at 8,000 feet (2,438m), the only accommodation available within the national park's North Rim. It was "stunning, a balm for my weary soul", one person wrote. "Heartbroken to hear the historic lodge, visitor center and more were destroyed." Many of the dozens of cabins at the lodge were also lost in the Dragon Bravo Fire, which has burned over 5,000 acres. Honeymooners, hikers and runners all treasured the lodge and its views, historians and locals said. Karne Snickers has led tours in the North Rim for 24 years. She said the area sees fewer tourists than the South Rim because the view in parts is slightly obscured by "majestic" ponderosa trees. But it was clear on the deck of the Grand Canyon Lodge, she said. "It's very spiritual there," she said. "Sitting on the deck of that lodge, there isn't one dry eye from any trip that I've ever done when you turn away and have to go back to the van." The destruction of the lodge has been like "losing an old friend". "I shed many tears yesterday," Ms Snickers said. The 61-year-old tour guide was there just before the fires began, when a lightning strike ignited a blaze on 4 July that officials initially thought would be containable. But after the winds picked up, the fire exploded, Mr Crockett said. Firefighters were there to protect the lodge, but when a water treatment plant burned down and released toxic chlorine gas into the air, they had to evacuate. Along with the lodge, much of the surrounding nature has been lost too, including 400 year-old trees. Ms Snickers believes one large tree she would have hikers on her tours hug is no longer there. "Much of the beauty is gone," Mr Crockett said. "It'll take decades for things to grow back." This was the second time the lodge burned down. A version that opened in 1928, designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood, was lost four years later from a fire that started in its kitchen. Building a new structure during the Great Depression took years and perseverance, repurposing much of the original building's stonework and lumber. A smaller, temporary lodge that housed construction workers also burned down for unknown reasons, according to Mr Crockett. Then, a massive snowstorm dropped 12 feet of snow in the area one winter, cutting the workers and their families off from food and the outside world for weeks, he said. Finally, some of the workers hiked down to the trailhead in snow shoes to call for help, bringing in snow plows to rescue the rest of the group, Mr Crockett said. After the lodge opened once again, in 1938, it became a "summer getaway that people have just cherished over the years", he said. Lodge guests might encounter an occasional buffalo while walking beside tall pine trees. Inside, they could take in views from the massive windows in the lodge's sun room, or from their table in the dining room, with its high ceiling that was crossed with ponderosa beams. Park officials have yet to say whether they plan to rebuild the iconic lodge, but many visitors and locals are holding out hope. "We have to rebuild this place," Ms Snickers said. "It's going to take time, but it needs to come back. It was a part of history." Historic lodge destroyed in Grand Canyon blaze Rapidly growing fire near Grand Canyon prompts evacuations
