Jasmine Crockett claims Trump's critique of her is racist

Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett responded to criticism leveled at her by President Donald Trump by claiming that basically he's just racist. "This is a person that has a problem with people of color, period," Crockett said when asked about Trump's critique.

Trump has repeatedly referred to her as a "low-IQ person," and said it's absurd to think that Crockett is "one of the leaders of the party." She recently referred to him as "a piece of sh*t." And she challenged him to an intelligence test. Crockett also claimed that Trump supporters were the culprits behind the assassination attempts on his life.

Crockett has been vocally against her state's push to engage in mid-decade redistricting, which was instigated by an ask from the president. Governor Greg Abbott called a special legislative session to ask the legislature to take the massive population increase into account and create five more districts. The idea is that these districts will be a majority GOP.

"Listen," said Crockett, "he has nothing of substance to contribute when it comes to critiquing me. There's a lot that I talk about. For instance, we've just had an entire conversation about gerrymandering and redistricting and why it's bad, and instead of him being able to elaborate on the fact that I'm unable to make a cogent argument, or something like that, and then back into his argument that I'm low IQ, he just knows how to throw that insult, but it's a common insult when it comes to people of color.
 

"He just threw the same exact insults as Charlamagne tha God. And so I want people to see him and understand who he is. This is a person that has a problem with people of color, period. I don't care how many black Maga out there with they hats. I want to be clear, when we look at who it is that he's kicking out of this country, is people of color.

"When we look at who he always disrespects and says that they are low IQ, even though, when you look at his cabinet, this has to be the most incompetent cabinet we have ever had in the history of this country, when we're talking about people that literally have the ability to drop bombs or order that bombs be dropped, or make recommendations that bombs be dropped, and they literally don't know how to get the Signal chat right.

"So we're talking about low-IQ individuals, but so long as they say that this guy is their guy, and usually, if they work for a certain news network, that's the only qualification that's necessary.

"I've got news for the President. I am not going anywhere, no matter how many squiggly lines they draw in the state of Texas, I will be back, and I will be on his behind and making sure the real accountability that the American people are demanding, whether they're Democrats, Republicans or independents that it has had when the Democrats take control of this House in the midterms," she said.