Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) slammed Republicans over their allegations that President Joe Biden has ties to a bribery scheme as she contrasted GOP lawmakers’ responses to how they reacted to the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump.
“It’s wonderful that they will evaluation one doc and determine that we have now essentially the most corrupt president that ever existed,” mentioned Crockett, who has gone after GOP lawmakers with quite a lot of important remarks in latest weeks.
She went on to have a look at how GOP claims about Biden conflicted with Republicans’ responses to “precise indictments” with “mounds of paperwork.”
“We’ve obtained precise indictments from New York in addition to out of Florida from grand juries. Not essentially the president as they tried to place on the market, not essentially our AG, not essentially the particular prosecutor however from residents who sat down and reviewed not one doc, however paperwork, mounds of paperwork,” Crockett mentioned.
“And decided that there was sufficient to proceed to go ahead and determine whether or not or not Trump had violated legislation. They usually say there’s nothing to see right here,” she mentioned.
Crockett later identified that the FBI allegedly acquired the doc whereas the company was a part of Trump’s Justice Division.
“So sure, my chairman on oversight can’t discover the witnesses,” Crockett mentioned in a nod to feedback from Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on the committee’s Biden household investigation.
“However everyone knows that Jack Smith has discovered all of the witnesses that he must guarantee that he can go ahead together with his prosecution of the previous president,” Crockett mentioned.