Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat, defended comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler during an appearance on “The Breakfast Club” on Friday.
The comments came just two days after conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah by a leftist gunman, and after years of Democrats comparing Trump and his supporters to the evil 20th-century German dictator.
Also, her remarks underscored a growing pattern in which Democrats refuse to lower the temperature of political rhetoric even as violence escalates.
On the program, Crockett not only stood by the Hitler comparison but also tried to blame Trump himself for political violence.
“We’ve got to talk about, like, what it means when you’re runnin’ for president or you’re runnin’ for one of these higher offices, and you go out there and you talk about beating people up,” she said.
“You go out there and you say things like ‘I can shoot somebody in the middle of the street in New York and I could still win.’”
