Rising Democratic star Jasmine Crockett has been accused of screaming at staff, making an aide cry, opting to work from home rather than in Congress and being ‘rude.’
Crockett, 44, has quickly rocketed into an outsize role in the Democratic Party since being sworn into office in January 2023.
The former Texas House Representative and public defender has been rewarded for her vocal opposition to President Donald Trump with a profile-raising speaking spot at the Democratic National Convention last summer and is a cable news mainstay on CNN and MSNBC.
But three sources that worked with or for Crockett have revealed to the New York Post that working for the congresswoman is a nightmare.
From making staff cry to hardly showing up to work in her Capitol Hill office, the sources are spilling the tea on what working for the left’s rising star is really like.
‘She is laying around her apartment, won’t come into the office, and is really just indifferent to staff and will scream at them,’ a former aide told the Post.
‘She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bulls*** that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things.’
Another source close to Crockett’s team shared: ‘It is widely known that she’s not nice to staff and is just not a really dedicated member focused on constituents.’
Sources that have worked for or closely with Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, have said the congresswoman is rude and treats her staff poorly, according to the New York Post
Crockett has frequently lashed out at President Donald Trump, recently calling him a ‘piece of s***’
A third source revealed: ‘She is focused almost exclusively on being an influencer, not a member of Congress.’
They described the Democrat as ‘all diva, no wow.’
Crockett’s office did not respond to the New York Post’s request for comment. She also did not respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment.
When the Texan does choose to show up to work on Capitol Hill, she prefers to be driven from her apartment to the complex in a rented car, and not to be chauffeured around in a staffer’s vehicle – as is common practice.
It ‘has to be an Escalade,’ one source revealed, noting that the liberal also wants her aides to open the door for her once she is ready to disembark.
‘You’re technically allowed to do this but it’s wildly inefficient. Instead of using the scheduler’s car, she rents a car every week in DC,’ one of the sources said. ‘She expects her staff to drive her around while she’s in the back seat.’
They added that Crockett’s ‘treating the staffer like an Uber driver’ appeared like a ‘power play.’
The lawmaker’s antics have, at times, left her staffers feeling uncomfortable, the Post reports.
One source described Crockett as ‘all diva, no wow’
After a headline-grabbing back-and-forth during a House Oversight Committee hearing last year in which Crockett accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of having a ‘bleach blonde bad built butch body,’ some of the lawmaker’s LGBT staffers were perturbed.
Within Crockett’s staff arose complaints about the congresswoman’s use of the term ‘butch.’
‘She told her gay staff members, ‘That’s not offensive. You’re stupid if you think so,” a former Crockett aide claimed. ‘It was kind of like how Trump says, ‘The gays love me.”
The report accused Crockett of burning through staff quickly, with many either being fired or leaving on their own accord.
And when it comes to her press staff, the Democrat wonders why they are even necessary given her skyrocketing media profile.
‘She gets rid of press people because she’s like, ‘I do all of the press stuff,” one of the sources claimed.
‘She thinks she’s her own best adviser, she knows best, and has this toxic staff environment.’
One incident recounted involved Crockett berating an aide until the point of tears.
‘Do you really want to be here?’ a source recalled the Democrat saying to a crying staffer. ‘And if not, you can leave!’
A young black woman, who was eventually fired by Crockett, told a colleague: ‘I don’t want to hear Jasmine Crockett talk about helping black women when she just fired one for no reason!’
In a recent interview with the Atlantic magazine, Crockett called a staffer and scolded him in front of the reporter for leaving an unclear note on her schedule.
In the same interview, after an aide brought the lawmaker lunch, Crockett peered inside, recoiled and said ‘This looks like crap,’ according to the report.
After the interview, the Texan became upset with the reporter and tried to retroactively kill the profile.
She told the Atlantic journalist she was ‘shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions.’
Though, as that’s not how journalistic practices are normally handled, the piece was published anyway.