Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) called out President Donald Trump’s response to director Rob Reiner’s killing, saying she has “no words for where we are in this country.”
“That is a problem. Like, as we are sitting here saying, ‘Hey, let’s denounce political violence,’ he continues to kind of fan these flames, or send these messages that, if it’s on behalf of this, then it’s completely understandable,” Crockett said in an interview with political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen posted Monday.
The president received major backlash over a post he made Monday addressing Reiner’s killing, claiming that the famed “A Few Good Men” director and his wife had died “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
Trump has since doubled down, saying, “I wasn’t a fan of his at all.”
Crockett told Cohen she does not understand the moment Americans are in where it is acceptable for the president to make that comment “after a tragic death, before having any information.”
