Jasmine Crockett Defies Pam Bondi’s Fox News ‘Threat’: I’ll Say It ‘50,000 Times!’ | EUROtoday

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) schooled Attorney General Pam Bondi with a lesson on free speech Wednesday after Bondi demanded the congresswoman to chill it together with her criticism of billionaire Elon Musk.

“To have her go on Fox News and to then decide that she wanted to send a threat to me, it was wrong,” Crockett mentioned at a House judiciary committee listening to on Wednesday.

“She is the highest law enforcement agent in this country, and people are watching, and they are consuming this information.”

Crockett continued, “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 took to Fox News final week to inform Crockett that she must “tread very carefully” after the congresswoman, throughout a livestream occasion hosted by a bunch protesting Musk’s Tesla firm, revealed that her birthday want was for “Elon to be taken down.”

Crockett was encouraging peaceable protests just like the Tesla Takedown motion. But in some cases, Tesla dealerships have been the goal of vandalism.

Bondi falsely steered that Crockett was calling for bodily assaults geared toward Musk — who has backed federal spending cuts and firings underneath President Donald Trump — and careworn that the congresswoman ought to apologize to Tesla shareholders.

On Wednesday, Crockett mentioned the “rest of us” can’t get “whatever federal contracts we want,” get safety from federal legislation enforcement and get their companies protected by the federal authorities like Musk.

“That is somebody who is operating above the law,” she mentioned.

Crockett mentioned she was “happy” to see peaceable protests on her birthday, March 29, world wide towards Musk earlier than turning her consideration again to Bondi.

“She knew good and well if she watched the entire thing that I specifically told protesters to make sure you consult with lawyers, just like I told protesters over and over and over in the history of me advising people to go out and exercise their constitutional right,” she mentioned.

“The fact that there are other sitting members that have received letters of threat from this new DOJ tells me that they are about retribution, and they are not about following the law.”