The gloves are off now that we know the truth.
In the wake of the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk, the political fallout has been immediate and explosive. Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is not holding back — taking to The Breakfast Club to rip into Republicans who rushed to politicize the tragedy, even before basic facts about the shooter were confirmed.
“What kind of standard are we going to hold ourselves to when you are, say, sitting in the Oval Office or in the House? Like how far will you go?” Crockett asked, questioning the reckless blame game already underway.
She condemned her GOP colleagues for what she described as a grotesque rush to judgment.
“So you know, I hate that some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle immediately came out and they were like, ‘Oh, you know, this is on the Democrats.’ Like, we don’t even know who did what and y’all are like ‘This is on the Democrats,’ Right?” Crockett continued.
Former President Donald Trump was among the first to push the false narrative, quickly pointing the finger at the “radical left.” MAGA media outlets then amplified a baseless claim that the assassin was transgender — a story that spread rapidly across right-wing platforms.
But the truth tells a very different story.
As investigators revealed, the killer was a white man from Utah with no registered political affiliation. The chilling slogans he etched onto his bullets appeared to reference meme phrases associated with right-wing extremists, including those linked to notorious white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Crockett made it clear that Democrats had spoken with one voice from the start:
“I mean obviously the first thing that, you know, anybody would say — and you didn’t have any Democrat that went out there and said otherwise — is like ‘We’re denouncing political violence.’”
Still, she pushed back on the automatic assumption that this act had to be partisan.
“But we’re just assuming like, and we just want to be clear, that we’re not down for political violence but that doesn’t mean that that’s what it was, right?” she continued.
The Texas congresswoman also underscored that many such attacks stem from personal motives.
“Most offenses like this were personal in the first place,” she noted. “I’m not saying this was a personal thing, but I’m saying like the fact that this can’t be personal is wild. Like the fact that they already are presuming that this is somebody that came from our side of the aisle.”
And then came her sharpest challenge:
“And even if it came from our side of the aisle, let’s assume the worst, okay so let’s talk about it,” Crockett said. “Let’s talk about what ‘radicalized’ him. Like we’ve seen writings and manifestos and we’ve seen where it looks like the two people that went after the president before he was the president, had ties to the Republican Party. Like, they had not voted Democratic. They were registered as Republicans.”
She reminded listeners that threats and violence have often targeted members of Congress from within the GOP’s own ranks:
“So let’s talk about it. We know that there members of Congress that left the House last session because they received threats, not from liberals, they received threats from MAGA because literally they would not vote for the MAGA candidate to become Speaker of the House.”
Crockett’s words cut deep into the political rhetoric that has normalized violent imagery and threats:
“So we’ve got to talk about like what it means when you’re running for president or you’re running for one of these higher offices and you go out there and you talk about beating people up, you go out there and you say things like ‘I could shoot somebody in the middle of the street in New York and I could still win.'”
She also condemned the renewed scapegoating of the transgender community in the aftermath of Kirk’s death.
“As soon as” Kirk was killed “the next thing you know the trans community is under attack again,” said Crockett.
Finally, Crockett drove her point home with unflinching clarity:
“When we look at these mass shootings, most of them are linked to neo-Nazism or, you know, Proud Boys or whatever… Every time you say white supremacy, they want to yell, ‘Oh, you’re race baiting.’ No, I am going on facts.”
At this point, the investigation is still unfolding, and the full motive remains unknown. But what is already crystal clear is this: the shooter was not transgender, not a Democrat, and should never have had access to firearms in the first place.
