“Squad” Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) found the hole she’s stuck in dug even deeper on Wednesday as critics resurfaced posts that confirmed her derogatory statements about disabled Texas Governor Greg Abbott weren’t a one-off.
The wheels fell off Crockett’s reputation earlier this week when a video emerged of a recent appearance where she appeared to mock the Republican executive for being confined to a wheelchair. The quip, made before a friendly audience, was excused by Crockett one day later in a “non-apology” which claimed she wasn’t referring to Abbott at all when she called him “Governor Hot Wheels.”
“Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there – come on now! And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot a** mess, honey,” Crockett said during a fundraising dinner for the progressive Human Rights Campaign organization.
By Tuesday morning, the Texas Democrat sounded less than contrite in a social media statement where she claimed the nickname actually referred to the “planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants” into majority-black communities around the country.
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