Stephen Miller Went Ham on Jasmine Crockett After She Defends Convicted Killer Karmelo Anthony
A sitting congresswoman just told the country she thought the killing was justified.
A Collin County jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of first-degree murder and sentenced him to 35 years — and within hours, Rep. Jasmine Crockett climbed on her podcast to explain why she thinks he was right to do it.
Stephen Miller didn't need many words to respond.
On June 9, jurors rejected Anthony's self-defense claim after three hours of deliberation. Witnesses testified that Anthony — a then-17-year-old from Frisco Centennial High School — walked into the Memorial High School team tent during a spring rainstorm, refused to leave when Austin Metcalf asked him to, then reached into his backpack, pulled out a knife, and drove it two inches into Metcalf's sternum after Metcalf pushed him. Metcalf, a junior with a 3.97 GPA whose family said he planned to attend college, bled to death.
Jurors also rejected the "sudden passion" claim during sentencing — which would have capped Anthony's prison time at 20 years — and gave him 35 instead.
Before the verdict was 24 hours old, Crockett was on her podcast, Clock It with Crockett, running defense.
Crockett's Argument, In Her Own Words
She started with the knife. Holding her thumb and forefinger close together on camera, she challenged whether the 3.5-inch folding blade that left a two-inch wound in Metcalf's sternum even qualified as a weapon.
"Well, I would argue the size of it alone, you wouldn't even think it's a deadly weapon," she said.
When a guest compared it to a Swiss Army knife, Crockett embraced the framing. "Yeah, like with the little scissors and everything and whatever. So it was small."
Then she went further. She reframed the killing as a terrified Black teenager's justified response to racial aggression — not a murder.
"He decided to go under a tent and simply didn't want to be put out in the rain by some kid he didn't know," she said. "There was no mercy seen when this black boy said, 'I was scared.'"
She described a hypothetical where a 300-pound attacker had her pinned to the ground, argued she would have every right to use a knife in that situation, and implied Anthony's circumstances were comparable. Trial witnesses testified nothing of the sort happened. Metcalf pushed Anthony once. Anthony drew the knife and stabbed him.
When TMZ caught her on Capitol Hill afterward and asked directly whether race drove the guilty verdict, she said it "absolutely" did — pointing to Collin County's demographics as proof the jury was stacked against Anthony. What she didn't mention: Fox News confirmed the jury included four men and eight women, with three racial minorities among the twelve.
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Miller's Eight Words
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller didn't construct a rebuttal. He posted eight words and attached Crockett's quote:
"You can no longer pretend not to know what Democrats will do with power."
Miller's point wasn't primarily about Karmelo Anthony or even Jasmine Crockett. It was about what it means that one of her party's most-promoted voices — the congresswoman her own allies call a "phenomenal messenger," the one they were counting on to flip a Texas Senate seat — looked at a unanimous first-degree murder conviction and said the killer had it right.
Democrats have spent two years trying to sand down the edges: tough-on-crime mayors, softer rhetoric, don't-say-defund. Then the Anthony verdict drops, and Crockett goes on a podcast and declares the knife wasn't a weapon, the county was racist, and the dead kid's family never knew a day of real suffering.
No hedging. No caveats. The mask didn't slip. She took it off.
Victor Davis Hanson didn't sugarcoat his read on the Daily Signal: "She's a lawyer, and she's such an ignoramus."
What the Metcalfs Said
Austin Metcalf's father stood in the courtroom after sentencing and slammed his fist on a table. "People think grief is sadness," Jeff Metcalf said. "It is not. It is rage. Pure unfiltered rage."
His wife put it differently: "For journalists, activists, this is a story. For our family, this is our reality."
The jury spent three hours looking at the testimony, the knife, and the facts of what happened under that tent in Frisco. They came back with first-degree murder.
Jasmine Crockett spent the evening saying they got it wrong.
Stephen Miller is saying: now you know.
Sources:
- Tyler Piccotti, "Who Is Karmelo Anthony? All About His Trial and Conviction of Austin Metcalf's Murder," Biography, June 10, 2026.
- Landon Mion and Stephanie Pagones, "Karmelo Anthony verdict draws anti-white rage and lies from radical Dem congresswoman, angry activists," Fox News, June 11, 2026.
- Ramiro Vargas, "Jasmine Crockett says knife that killed Austin Metcalf wasn't a 'deadly weapon' due to its size," Washington Times, June 11, 2026.
- Staff, "Karmelo Anthony found guilty of murder over Texas track meet stabbing, sentenced to 35 years in prison," ABC News, June 10, 2026.
- Staff, "Victor Davis Hanson: Jasmine Crockett's Defense of Karmelo Anthony Is Absurd," Daily Signal, June 12, 2026.
- Carlos Garcia, "Jasmine Crockett drops SHOCKING statement about parents of victim murdered by Karmelo Anthony," Blaze Media, June 10, 2026.
