During a televised debate in early August 2025, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett used quotes from the Bible to challenge U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
Throughout August 2025, a rumor circulated on social media that U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett used quotes from the Bible to challenge U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee during a TV debate.
“During a recent televised debate, Rep. Jasmine Crockett took Mike Huckabee down over his interpretation of Christian morality,” Facebook (archived) posts sharing (archived) the claim read.
At least one popular post featured a side-by-side image of Crockett and Huckabee with overlaid text that read: “You will cry idiot!” The posts also included what appeared to be a transcript of the alleged exchange, in which Crockett allegedly quoted parts of the Bible to highlight why its messages aligned more closely with her political views than his.
The rumor prompted multiple Snopes readers to search our website and email us to verify whether the alleged exchange between the pair actually occurred.
However, the story about a debate between Crockett, a Texas Democrat, and Huckabee, a Republican, was entirely fabricated.
A Google search produced no evidence of reputable news media outlets reporting on the story, which would have been the case if it were true.
Instead, the false claim originated from multiple YouTube videos posted by channels that clearly labeled their content as “entirely fictional.”
A reverse image search tool revealed that the side-by-side photo from the popular Facebook post originated from a YouTube video (archived) posted on Aug. 13, 2025, by a channel called Celebrity Stories. The image appeared as the video’s thumbnail.
The video was titled: “Mike Huckabee QUESTIONS Jasmine Crockett’s Morals — Her Bible Quote Leaves Him Without Words.”
(Celebrity Stories on YouTube)
Its transcript showed that some of the language closely mirrored the posts on Facebook. For example, the posts included the following lines:
Then came the knockout:
“Jesus never said, ‘I was a wealthy corporation and you gave me tax breaks.’
He never said, ‘I was a gun manufacturer and you protected my profits.’
He never said, ‘I was a pharmaceutical company and you let me charge whatever I wanted.'”
In comparison, a portion of the audio narration in the YouTube video stated:
Crockett saved her most devastating point for last.
“You know what Jesus never mentions in Matthew? He never says, ‘I was a wealthy corporation and you gave me tax breaks.’
He never says, ‘I was a gun manufacturer and you protected my profits.'”
However, unlike the Facebook posts, the video included a disclaimer in its description that clearly stated the story was fake: “The stories presented on this channel are entirely fictional and crafted solely for entertainment.”
The video also included an “altered or synthetic content” disclosure that stated: “Sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated.”
(Celebrity Stories on YouTube)
YouTube said viewers should expect to see such a disclosure in three scenarios: when creators manually disclose such content via YouTube studio, when the creator uses YouTube’s own generative AI tools, like DreamScreen, or when metadata known as Content Credentials indicates the entire video was made with AI.
The claim itself did not originate solely from the Aug. 13 Celebrity Stories YouTube video. Multiple other channels posted similar iterations of the footage before that date (archived). One version (archived) appeared on a channel called Shock Files on Aug. 10. The caption of the video also included a disclaimer stating that the stories presented on the channel were “entirely fictional and crafted solely for entertainment.”
Snopes has investigated various rumors about Crockett. For example, we debunked a claim that she teamed up with comedian Stephen Colbert to launch a new TV show. We also fact-checked a rumor that Vice President JD Vance told her to “go back to the zoo” during a congressional hearing.
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