CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings slammed Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Sunday after the Texas Democrat attacked Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Crockett appeared on State of the Union and criticized Kirk after host Dana Bash asked why she voted against a resolution condemning his murder. She said “only two caucasians” joined her in opposition and called Kirk a “Confederate” with “harmful” rhetoric.
Kirk was killed in Utah on Sept. 10 by an alleged assassin who claimed Kirk was doing harmful things. When Bash pressed Crockett on her past heated rhetoric, she doubled down, targeting both Kirk and President Donald Trump and making another Hitler comparison.
Jennings responded bluntly: “Well, she’s lying.”
“I mean, Charlie Kirk targeted nobody. He was not racist in any way. I’ve listened to hours and hours and have been with Charlie Kirk at events. There wasn’t a racist bone in his body,” Jennings said. “To say that he was continuously targeting people of color is nothing but a malicious smear on the very day that people are remembering Charlie, and he’s going to be laid to rest.”
Jennings continued: “When you combine the no votes on the resolution and then look at leading Democratic voices like Ilhan Omar and Jasmine Crockett, who’ve gone out to smear Charlie before he’s even had his funeral… a lot of the people saying we need to come together need to look inward. I was shocked by her. I was a little stunned by what happened this morning.”
Four Republicans joined Democrats in defeating a resolution to censure Omar for comments she made on Sept. 11, where she said those defending Kirk’s campus appearances were “full of shit.”
Crockett has a history of inflammatory statements. She compared ICE to “slave patrols,” defended comparisons of Trump to Hitler on The Breakfast Club, claimed Trump supporters were mentally ill, and mocked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who uses a wheelchair.