The congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has revealed she is “rooting” for Canada and Mexico over Donald Trump in their attempts to stand up to him, saying it is “really wild” to find herself in that position given he is the president of the US.
“They are really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now,” the Democratic representative from Texas said on Friday on the popular Breakfast Club podcast, alluding to the political feuds Trump has engaged in with the US’s two North American neighbors during the first month of his second presidency. “They can see what it is and they were like, ‘We are not messing with this crazy regime.’”
Crockett’s remarks came a day after the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, and the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, each aimed verbal rebukes at threats from Trump to challenge both countries’ self-rule.
After the White House designated Mexican drug cartels – which generally arm themselves with US guns – as terrorist organizations eligible to be struck directly by the military under Trump’s command, Sheinbaum responded by saying, “This cannot be an opportunity … to invade our sovereignty,” whether by air, land or sea.
“With Mexico, it is collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism,” Sheinbaum also said. “The Mexican people will under no circumstances accept … intrusions or any other action from abroad that is detrimental to the integrity, independence or sovereignty of the nation.”
Meanwhile, after Trump placed a telephone call to a US hockey team on Thursday that went on to lose a tournament final to a selection of players from Canada, which he has repeatedly boasted about taking over and making his nation’s 51st state, Trudeau wrote on social media: “You can’t take our country – and you can’t take our game.”
Both Sheinbaum and Trudeau’s governments have also grappled with threats of steep trade tariffs from Trump’s administration. And, among other maneuvers, Trump unilaterally ordered that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed the Gulf of America while seeking administrative retribution against the Associated Press for not changing its style to comply with that directive. Sheinbaum, for her part, threatened the creators of Google Maps with a lawsuit after they caved to Trump and renamed the international waters in the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
Crockett attributed her stance on Trump’s feuds with Canada and Mexico to those who voted for him in November’s election despite his being convicted in New York state months earlier on 34 felony charges.
Those charges involved hush-money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels right before the Republican’s victory in the 2016 presidential election. He avoided substantial punishment for his conviction in that case by defeating former vice-president Kamala Harris in the fall to retake the Oval Office after losing it to Joe Biden in 2020.
“Y’all knew who he was when y’all elected him, so don’t act surprised,” Crockett, 43, said of Trump, 78. “You elected somebody who was actually convicted by a jury of his peers of 34 felony [counts].
“I … got no convictions, no arrests, no nothing. And I would never be qualified for president in this country in the eyes of the vast majority of them.”
Crockett then invoked other unresolved criminal prosecutions stemming from Trump’s alleged improper retention of government secrets after his presidency as well as his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol in early 2021 that were doomed when he won against Harris.
“But a guy who literally not only ended up becoming a convicted felon [and] also had other cases that were pending … oh yeah – he’s good to go,” she said.
Crockett is a progressive who has been representing a Dallas-based congressional district since early 2023. Early in February, she was among about a dozen Democratic lawmakers who joined hundreds of demonstrators to protest against Trump’s so-called department of government efficiency (Doge) and its access to federal financial systems that process trillions of dollars in annual transactions.
“We are not going to sit around while you go and desecrate our constitution,” Crockett said while addressing the crowd that day. “We are going to be in your face and on your asses.”
Despite Crockett’s address, most Democrats don’t trust those in Congress to offer much resistance to Trump, according to a SurveyUSA poll of more than 1,700 registered voters that was published on Wednesday.
Article by:Source: Ramon Antonio Vargas
