Rep. Jasmine Crockett has long been known for her willingness to speak truth to power, yet the aftermath of her heated exchange with Rep. Nancy Mace left her with a response that, as she puts it, was “completely inappropriate.”
“We understand that you received a very unnerving call,” co-host Sara Haines asked Crockett during a Wednesday segment of “The View.” The congresswoman replied that, while holding public office, one is riddled with “tons of calls from lots of haters all the time.” But this particular call stood out for its unusual nature.
“There was actually someone who works for another sitting member of Congress that called from that congressional office to our office to try to basically say, ‘Yeah, I want to put money on this, I want them to go outside,’” Crockett revealed.
“That is completely inappropriate,” she added.
Sunny Hostin quickly interjected, labeling the act “threatening,” a point Crockett swiftly agreed.
“It is threatening, and I don’t care what side of the aisle you come from, but it should never be OK for a staffer — and it wasn’t OK for her [Mace], either,” Crockett said. “We’re living in a time in which, yeah, people on the outside are following their lead, but instead of Nancy Mace challenging me to go outside to fight, what she should be fighting for is a better economy, especially for those in South Carolina that are about to feel it.”
The incident Crockett was referring to while on “The View” occurred at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Jan. 14, when Crockett highlighted Mace’s campaign efforts to prohibit a transgender colleague from using public restrooms in the Capitol, along with her backing of anti-trans legislation.
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“Somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now, so she’s gonna keep saying, ‘trans, trans, trans,’ so that people will feel threatened,” Crockett said at the time. “And child, listen—”
Mace, likely misinterpreting Crockett’s use of the Black colloquialism “chile,” was enraged and responded, “I am no child; do not call me a child.” The pair went back and forth, and Mace, in a raised voice, told Crockett, “If you want to take it outside, we can do that.”
In a Wednesday interview with MSNBC, Crockett alluded to another commonly used phrase in the Black community that goes, “fuck around, and find out,” when she cautioned that President Donald Trump’s confrontational stance towards blue states will soon see America enter its “find out phase.”