Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett likened assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk to a “confederate” on Sunday as she attempted to justify voting against a resolution honoring him.
Every Republican voted in support of the resolution on Friday, but 58 Democrats voted against it. On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Crockett cited the fact that he had criticized her as a reason she did not support the resolution.
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“[A] month prior to him passing away, he had actually gotten out on his podcast … and he was talking negatively about me directly,” Crockett said. “So if there was any way that I was going to honor somebody who decided that they were just going to negatively talk about me and proclaim that I was somehow involved in the great white replacement? Yeah, I‘m not honoring that kind of stuff, especially as a civil rights attorney and … knowing that there were people that died, people that were willing to die, that worked to make sure that voices like mine could exist in this place.”
“So to me, just like we wanted to make sure that those Confederate relics were taken down, the idea of a new age relic being propped up was something that I just could not subscribe to,” she added. “And it is unfortunate that more of my colleagues, even on my side of the aisle, could not see the amount of harm that this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities.”
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also smeared Kirk during her remarks on the House floor opposing the resolution on Friday.
“We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake,” she said. “Who after the violent attack on Paul Pelosi said, ‘some amazing patriot’ should bail out his brutal assailant and accused Jews of controlling ‘not just the colleges, it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.’”
“His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans far from ‘working tirelessly to promote unity’ asserted by the majority in this resolution,” she added.
Moreover, some liberals and left-leaning outlets have made false claims about Kirk and misquoted him to portray him as a bigot.
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