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Victor Davis Hanson: Jasmine Crockett’s Defense of Karmelo Anthony Is Absurd

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Sami Winc: So, Victor, let’s turn again to the Karmelo Anthony case, just for a minute. We did talk on Friday about it. But Jasmine Crockett—who probably doesn’t deserve press, but since she kind of represents an extreme segment of the United States, we’ll give her some attention here. After the trial verdict and sentencing, she got on a podcast and said that the knife was not really a weapon, basically, that it was just too small and who could consider it a weapon?

I think she was trying to argue with the murder charge. I don’t know. She didn’t actually say that.

Victor Davis Hanson: She’s a lawyer, and she’s such an ignoramus. She really is. She reminds me of Graham Platner. He was from the upper-upper-upper middle class, and then he plays Joe Working Man, Oyster Man, while his dad’s friend gives him an island to work on, and his mom is his only customer. And he went to a prep school, right?

She’s the same way. She grew up in an upper-upper-middle-class family in the suburbs, and then she created, she didn’t develop it naturally, this inner-city ghetto accent. She uses that and gets sassy, and then when she gives a serious interview, she turns it off, and she’s acting as if she’s a professional.

But she’s also an abject racist. All she talks about is white, white, white. White people, white people, white people, white people. Well, I said ignoramus without being defamatory, but evidential. She doesn’t understand the law. What does it matter if I take a rock and hit someone—if you took a rock and smashed Metcalf’s head, the rock is a murder weapon. It doesn’t matter if there was a two-by-four in the tent and he charged him and hit him with a two-by-four. That’s a murder weapon. The only distinction is if it’s illegal to carry a knife of a particular—then that’s an accessory felony. But that doesn’t matter, because that’s an accessory charge. The main charge is murder—using a murder weapon. It could be a rock, it could be a two-by-four, it could be a piece of steel, it could be a knife, it could be a........

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