Congressman Keith Self is blasting Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett for cracking a joke about Texas Governor Greg Abbott's disability ... though he refused to condemn President Donald Trump for doing something similar.
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00:00Why is it important to censure Congresswoman Crockett?
00:06Well, first of all, she is just a bully.
00:08That's all there is to it.
00:10She's trying to explain it in a way she can't.
00:12And frankly, I'm not sure I support the censure
00:16because I frankly want AOC and Crockett
00:19to run for president in 2028.
00:21So let's just lay it out.
00:24If the Democrat party is gonna commit suicide,
00:27maybe they'll do it with AOC and Crockett.
00:29Maybe they'll just take the whole party down.
00:32If I'm kind of picking up what you're putting down,
00:34you think she crossed the line,
00:37whether you wanna censure her or not with the comment
00:40because you're saying she's a bully.
00:41Oh yeah, absolutely.
00:43This was out of bounds.
00:43Look, I've heard Greg Abbott tell people personally
00:47that in self-deprecation, he said,
00:51how slow was I running for a tree
00:53to hit me when it's falling?
00:55But he's allowed to do that.
00:57That's self-deprivation.
01:00I take great umbrage to someone
01:04disrespecting our disabled folks,
01:06whether it be the governor of Texas
01:09or whether it be the man on the street who has a disability.
01:12That's not something we do in America today.
01:14She's picking on the wrong man too.
01:16She's picking on Greg Abbott.
01:18He's heard it all and he can defend himself.
01:21Well, if the issue though is picking on disabled people,
01:28what about this?
01:28I gotta see this guy.
01:29Oh, I don't know what I said.
01:31I don't remember.
01:33He's going like, I don't remember.
01:35Maybe that's what I said.
01:36So that was Donald Trump talking about Sergei Kavaleski,
01:41who is a New York Times reporter who is disabled
01:44and Donald Trump was clearly mocking him.
01:48What's the difference?
01:49I am going to address what Crockett said
01:53as my colleague in Congress.
01:54We are addressing the censure movement,
01:57the censure that a member of Texas delegation
02:00is gonna put on the floor.
02:02This is not right, regardless of who does it.
02:05We've established that in America
02:08and I will stand on that position
02:10that our disabled folks do not deserve to be mocked.
02:13Well, but what about losing the high ground
02:17when the leader of your party does something like that?
02:20I'm not losing the high ground.
02:22That's a rhetorical question.
02:23I'm not gonna go there because I am going to stand
02:27that we do not mock people with disabilities.
02:30That's my stance.
02:31That's my stance against Crockett.
02:33And I think that whether I vote for the censure or not,
02:36I'll go back to the fact that the Democrat Party
02:38is now has AOC and Crockett as the two coming faces,
02:43the future faces of the Democrat Party.
02:46That's the point here.
02:47But Donald Trump is the face
02:48of the Republican Party right now.
02:50So was it wrong when he did that?
02:51Just like it's wrong when Jasmine Crockett did what she did.
02:54Once more, I'm gonna address Crockett
02:57and what she did against Greg Abbott.
03:00I'm not going to address any hypotheticals beyond that.
03:03Not a hypothetical, it actually happened.
03:05You can make your comparisons.
03:06I'm talking about Crockett.
03:08I was told we were gonna come on this show
03:11to discuss Crockett.
03:13That's what I'm prepared to do.