Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) declared Sunday that we “may not have a United States” soon, because President Donald Trump is acting like a “thug.”
Crockett joined MSNBC anchor Alex Witt on the network to discuss Trump’s recent firings of top level FBI officials, including those involved in his criminal prosecutions and the January 6th Capitol riot cases and prosecutions.
The Texas Democrat claimed Trump is trying to get “rid of those checks and balances” in the DOJ to consolidate power for himself. She also said American voters are getting what they voted for and shouldn’t be surprised by his actions.
“Americans thought that it was okay to take a full-fledged criminal and make him the president of the United States,” she said accusingly. “And then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things.”
WITT: Since Donald Trump took office, multiple top FBI officials and federal prosecutors who all worked on January 6th cases, they’re out of a job. And now the DOJ wants names of those who worked on the Trump or January 6th investigations for possible firing. What do you make of this apparent cleansing?
CROCKETT: I mean, you just called it what it is. It’s a cleansing. I mean, this is listen, when Democrats got out there and we said that our democracy was really at risk, people were like, Democrats, you’re out there, you’re gaslighting. It’s not our democracy. Well, he did say he’d be a dictator on day one.
Democrats, you know, it’s just Trump. He just talks. Well, let me tell you something. He is doing more than talk. And we talked about Project 2025. We talked about the consolidation of power. We talked about how he wanted to be a king. We talked about in a democratic republic. That is not what it is. We have some sort of checks and balances and he is doing everything that he can to get rid of those checks and balances the DOJ and the people that he’s going after. We’re simply doing their jobs.
The problem is that Americans thought that it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the president of the United States. And then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the United States. And if we don’t wake up, we may not have a United States, because right now he has only been successful in being a divider in chief.