Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Wednesday pushed again in opposition to Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi after the Justice Division head criticized the Texas Democrat’s feedback about tech billionaire Elon Musk being “taken down” a number of occasions.
“To have her go on Fox News, and to then decide that she wanted to send a threat to me, it was wrong,” Crockett stated throughout a Home Judiciary subcommittee listening to.
“Because here it is, she is the highest law enforcement agent in this country and people are watching and they are consuming this information, and they are believing that simply because I decided that I wanted to exercise my right to free speech — which I am not abridged from doing — that she then wanted to then politicize something that should not be politicized. I don’t like Elon Musk, I’m going to say it 50,000 times.”
Bondi has taken two latest swings at Crockett on Fox Information, one on March 23 and one final week, over feedback Crockett made throughout a livestreamed occasion final month through which she stated that “all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.”
“And Maria, now you have this congresswoman, Crockett, who is calling for attacks on Elon Musk on her birthday? … Well, she is an elected public official, and so she needs to tread very carefully,” Bondi stated on Fox Information’s “Sunday Morning Futures” on March 23.
A day later, Bondi stated that Crockett ought to apologize to Tesla shareholders for her livestream feedback.
“She needs to unequivocally denounce the violence, she must apologize immediately, not only to all Texans, but to our country, to the American shareholders of Tesla, because she is promoting violence,” Bondi advised Fox Information’s Sean Hannity.
The Hill has reached out to Crockett’s workplace and the Justice Division for remark.
