WASHINGTON – Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined Newsline on Newsmax to discuss his heated exchange with Rep. Tlaib (D-MI) after her continued use of dangerous rhetoric attacking conservatives and Disney's cancelation of The Jimmy Kimmel Show.

Watch the full interview here.

"Rashida Tlaib was trying to, once again, defame and dehumanize the people that she disagrees with politically":

"My reaction to what happened yesterday is people who are just common sense people, decent people, moral people, we cannot be quiet against this insanity that comes from the radical left. Rashida Tlaib was trying to, once again, defame and dehumanize the people that she disagrees with politically. I find it to be outrageous, I’ve always found it to be outrageous, and now what is clear following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, that there are nut jobs out in the country who are listening to her rhetoric, scribbling that stuff, putting it on the casing of bullets and then shooting people, and in this case of Charlie Kirk - assassinating them. So good people in America, you cannot sit idly by, say nothing and do nothing. You have to challenge yourself when it meets you. Listen, I want everybody to be safe. I recognize the humanity even in the people I disagree with like Rashida Tlaib. I want her to be safe, I want her to be able to go home to her family. Just like I want to do the same to mine. But to let them continue with this insane rhetoric, which makes no sense simply because they want to win political elections - enough is enough, we gotta stand firm. When good people stand firm against insanity, the right prevails, good people prevail."

"I don’t want to listen to the left because they have no credibility whatsoever. They have never stood for the First Amendment in this country, not in the modern era":

"The Democrats don’t care about free speech, they never have - period. Um, when Americans were being silenced, when Americans were being censored, when Americans were being de-platformed, when Americans were being  debanked, they didn't care, they cheered it on. And so now you have an FCC commissioner, who's saying you know what let’s just look into this, now they want to feign outrage and now they care about the First Amendment. The arc of history in the modern era is clear: the Democrats don’t care about any of that stuff. They were perfectly fine with the Biden Administration spying on the American people and either deplatforming or censoring the American people. So I’m not listening to them. In the case of Jimmy Kimmel, let’s be very clear, his ratings are down. The show is not that good and Disney, basically looked at it said you’re not that good now and your distractions are causing us ads, it’s causing us advertisers, it’s causing our affiliates to drop the show. So you know what. Jimmy, you gotta sit down. That’s what happened. I don’t want to listen to the left because they have no credibility whatsoever. They have never stood for the First Amendment in this country, not in the modern era. Maybe old school Democrats did, but this new radical version of the Democrat Party has not and that is not me saying it, the proof is in their actions."

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