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BumRushDaShow

(160,763 posts)
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:13 PM Sep 21

'Accurate': Jasmine Crockett Refuses to Walk Back Comparing Trump to Hitler When Confronted On CNN

Source: MEDIAite

Sep 21st, 2025, 2:00 pm


Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) refused to walk back her comments comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, saying on Sunday that she has used “accurate language” in the past when comparing the commander-in-chief to the man who led Nazi Germany. She then doubled down on her claim, saying the president continues to use the Hitler “playbook.”

Crockett, during on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning, was shown several clips by co-host Dana Bash of her making inflammatory remarks, including calling President Trump a “wannabe Hitler.” Bash pressed Crockett on whether she had a “responsibility as an elected official not to raise the temperature, but rather lower the temperature,” especially when you consider conservative activist Charlie Kirk was just shot and killed for his political beliefs.

The Texas congresswoman declined to distance herself from her past comments. Instead, she doubled down and said the way Trump has acted lately, including celebrating Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from ABC, make it fair to compare the USA to the Third Reich.

“I think that my responsibility is to be transparent and to be honest, and the reality is that we are living in a time in which this administration and this regime is not interested in making sure that people understand history,” Crockett said. “We need to understand why they are so problematic. And so I am using that language because it is accurate language. When we see the consolidation of power, when we see them trying to chill speech of jokesters, when we’re seeing all of this, that is the playbook out of Hitler. And I won’t deny it.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/accurate-jasmine-crockett-refuses-to-walk-back-comparing-trump-to-hitler-when-confronted-on-cnn/

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'Accurate': Jasmine Crockett Refuses to Walk Back Comparing Trump to Hitler When Confronted On CNN (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 21 OP
He's copying the Hitler Playbook chapter and verse Coldwater Sep 21 #1
during his first term popsdenver Monday #38
He really is ck4829 Tuesday #46
Good for her Marthe48 Sep 21 #2
Thank God!! littlemissmartypants Sep 21 #11
Yes, that occurs to me on a regular basis PatSeg Monday #36
👌 F's to give. Hell yes. "Temperature" "toned it down" are RW talking points. underpants Sep 21 #3
Why shouldn't it start with THEM??? calimary Sep 21 #7
Right!? Nt LittleGirl Sep 21 #9
Yeah. Jan. 6, McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, Scott Roeder (Dr. Tiller), Buffalo, El Paso Walmart... underpants Sep 21 #19
ding. AllaN01Bear Sep 21 #25
Absolutely! ck4829 Tuesday #44
Bam SuzyandPuffpuff Sep 21 #4
Well done! ybbor Sep 21 #5
Maybe Dana can spare a moment to fret about dim donnie's comments about Biden's cancer. Grokenstein Sep 21 #6
This is why I quit CNN . . . AverageOldGuy Sep 21 #8
Yep...long ago after the fake ass STAGED CNN Trump town hall. Never been back.... Bengus81 Friday #54
Hitler used trains now Trump is using planes. Botany Sep 21 #10
That is a really good slogan. 'Hitler used trains, Trump uses planes'. travelingthrulife Friday #53
Good for her. People may not know the meaning of "autocrat" or "authoritarian." So--Hitler. Timeflyer Sep 21 #12
Trump was born not long after Hitler's death. Reincarnation possibility to some I guess. twodogsbarking Sep 21 #13
His father got arrested at a Nazi rally at Madison Square Gardens underpants Sep 21 #22
And sometimes Trump says his father was from Germany. thought crime Sep 21 #30
....and claimed his ancestry was Swedish. NM Grins Monday #40
Hmm... Something to think about ck4829 Tuesday #45
truth Evolve Dammit Sep 21 #14
Nice kacekwl Sep 21 #15
If and when the American democracy is restored, I hope she will rise to a very high level in Government. She's a gem. NNadir Sep 21 #16
Thank You Congresswoman Crockett Blue Owl Sep 21 #17
She'd make a great president or vice president. byronius Sep 21 #18
"There is no such thing as white privilege" - Bullshit! enigmania Sep 21 #20
What's the big deal? JD Vance did the same thing. edbermac Sep 21 #21
Like hitler Timewas Sep 21 #23
Refuse to see the comparison at your own peril. Buddyzbuddy Sep 21 #24
She is a straight up evolves Sep 21 #26
Just following JD Vance's example. Norrrm Sep 21 #27
Yep ck4829 Tuesday #47
Uh, why is it only the Democrats' supposed job to "lower the temperature"? Beartracks Sep 21 #28
Right? ck4829 Tuesday #42
AMEN!!!!!! If you don't wanna be called a Hitler wannabe, Jack Valentino Sep 21 #29
Indeed! ck4829 Tuesday #43
A prime candidate for Governor or US Senator from Texas !!!! Jack Valentino Monday #31
Bash is a shill. Joinfortmill Monday #32
She totally is ck4829 Tuesday #48
I wish we had more politicians like Jasmine Crockett! Emile Monday #33
She is correct malaise Monday #34
Agreed ck4829 Tuesday #49
The way I see it... Ohioboy Monday #35
Spot on! ck4829 Tuesday #50
Hey Dana Bash....Trump was at the Kirk rally saying how much his HATES his "opponents" Bengus81 Monday #37
THANK GOD!!!! She didn't back down!!! Grins Monday #39
K&R. She is speaking the truth. ck4829 Tuesday #41
Keep it up OLDMDDEM Tuesday #51
Greg Olear does a little breakdown GoneOffShore Friday #52

Marthe48

(21,934 posts)
2. Good for her
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:20 PM
Sep 21

One difference that might play in our favor. hitler wasn't a broken down demented old man when he had power. traitor felon is a broken down demented old man who is close to the end of his life on this planet. Even with the best health care in the world, he won't live forever.

PatSeg

(51,022 posts)
36. Yes, that occurs to me on a regular basis
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:03 AM
Monday

The main difference between Trump and the many strongmen he admires and tries to emulate is he is very old and unhealthy. He has so little time to do the vast damage he dreams of.

underpants

(193,238 posts)
3. 👌 F's to give. Hell yes. "Temperature" "toned it down" are RW talking points.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:23 PM
Sep 21

Screw them. Tone what down? The facts she just spelled out? F you.
Republicans have been goading and fanning the flames for decades with many actions deaths injuries as a result.

calimary

(87,928 posts)
7. Why shouldn't it start with THEM???
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:54 PM
Sep 21

They’re the ones turning up the temperature. EVERY time they stand up for him or deny that he’s done anything wrong or that he lies full-out, like a snake in the sun.

It’s our right to voice objections. And WE’RE the ones who tend to do so without using physical violence.

underpants

(193,238 posts)
19. Yeah. Jan. 6, McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, Scott Roeder (Dr. Tiller), Buffalo, El Paso Walmart...
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:49 PM
Sep 21

etc.

ybbor

(1,676 posts)
5. Well done!
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:26 PM
Sep 21

We need more like her! She should be leading the resistance, not the feckless Schumer and Jeffries. “Strongly worded letters” and tldr statements aren’t ringing true with the public. Call a spade a spade, as she does! Love her fearlessness!!!

Grokenstein

(6,153 posts)
6. Maybe Dana can spare a moment to fret about dim donnie's comments about Biden's cancer.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:47 PM
Sep 21

Ha ha ha, who am I kidding?

AverageOldGuy

(3,000 posts)
8. This is why I quit CNN . . .
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:56 PM
Sep 21

. . . and am close to leaving MSNBC.


Bash pressed Crockett on whether she had a “responsibility as an elected official not to raise the temperature, but rather lower the temperature,” especially when you consider conservative activist Charlie Kirk was just shot and killed for his political beliefs.


I am so damn tired of this "lower the temperature" and "both sides" bullshit. WE DEMOCRATS DID NOT START THIS FIGHT.

I'm really beginning to wonder is there is a single commentator, anchor, or whateverthefuck you want to call them who has studied the history of Hitler's rise to power.

Botany

(75,372 posts)
10. Hitler used trains now Trump is using planes.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:04 PM
Sep 21

ICE IS DEPORTING PEOPLE TO AFRICA ON NEARLY UN-TRACKABLE MILITARY FLIGHTS

How many of these deportees to either Africa or El Salvador are already dead?

https://democraticunderground.com/10143534143





And meanwhile Trump is having banners of himself put up and Washington D.C. that are 4 stories
Tall and they are packing a stadium in Arizona for America’s own Horst Wessel aka Charlie Kirk to make him a Deity for the MAGA crowd. America is all but finished. What was the deportee’s crime? They were dark skinned.

travelingthrulife

(3,358 posts)
53. That is a really good slogan. 'Hitler used trains, Trump uses planes'.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 10:36 AM
Friday

With pics of the ICE goons and the statement:

"ICE IS DEPORTING PEOPLE TO AFRICA ON NEARLY UN-TRACKABLE MILITARY FLIGHTS"

underpants

(193,238 posts)
22. His father got arrested at a Nazi rally at Madison Square Gardens
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:56 PM
Sep 21

He kept a book in Hitler’s speeches on his bed stand
His signature LOOKS like a Klan rally.


thought crime

(810 posts)
30. And sometimes Trump says his father was from Germany.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 11:17 PM
Sep 21

And Trump was born not long after Hitler's death...

NNadir

(36,648 posts)
16. If and when the American democracy is restored, I hope she will rise to a very high level in Government. She's a gem.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:24 PM
Sep 21

byronius

(7,830 posts)
18. She'd make a great president or vice president.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:38 PM
Sep 21

Top of my list.

Crockett/Newsom or Newsom/Crockett, I’m onboard.

edbermac

(16,342 posts)
21. What's the big deal? JD Vance did the same thing.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:52 PM
Sep 21

The claim was true. In a 2016 text message to his former law school roommate, Vance wrote: "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?"

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-hitler-vance-quote/

Beartracks

(14,117 posts)
28. Uh, why is it only the Democrats' supposed job to "lower the temperature"?
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:08 PM
Sep 21

More to the point: Why are Democrats the only ones who are defending democracy and the Constitution?

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Jack Valentino

(3,385 posts)
29. AMEN!!!!!! If you don't wanna be called a Hitler wannabe,
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:32 PM
Sep 21

QUIT ACTING like a Hitler wannabe, DIAPER DON !!!

Ohioboy

(3,792 posts)
35. The way I see it...
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:05 AM
Monday

It's up to Trump to not act like Hitler.

It's up to Crocket to point out when he does.

It's up to Trump's supporters to shut the F up and stop acting like whiney little babies.

Bengus81

(9,450 posts)
37. Hey Dana Bash....Trump was at the Kirk rally saying how much his HATES his "opponents"
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:49 AM
Monday

Does that sound like lowering the temp? WHY is the onus always on Democrats Dana? Got a fucking answer for that?

Grins

(8,901 posts)
39. THANK GOD!!!! She didn't back down!!!
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:02 PM
Monday

Tired of Democrats APOLOGIZING when they have nothing to apologize for.

Here’s my comeback: “Yeah; I said it! Prove me wrong!”

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