House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., urged Democrats to fight President Donald Trump‘s agenda “in the streets.” A senior White House official told Fox News, “Hakeem Jeffries must apologize for this disgraceful call to violence.”
Jeffries made the remarks when answering a question about whether New York City Mayor Eric Adams was pushing back enough against President Trump. Specifically, if Adams’ failure to go against Trump made him a “good fit” to lead New York.
“Right now, we’re going to keep focus on the need to look out for everyday New Yorkers and everyday Americans who are under assault by an extreme MAGA Republican agenda that is trying to cut taxes for billionaires, donors, and wealthy corporations and then stick New Yorkers and working-class Americans across the country with the bill,” Jeffries said.
“That’s not acceptable. We are going to fight it legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets” he concluded.
Many took to social media to condemn Jeffries for his rhetoric, and compared him to Maxine Waters. In 2018 the Democratic Representative from California encouraged her supporters to fight back against the Trump administration regarding the White House’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.
“Let’s make sure we show up whenever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcomed anymore, anywhere,” Waters told supporters at a Los Angeles protest.
WATCH: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries calls for violence as he says people must “fight” President Trump’s agenda “in the streets.” pic.twitter.com/ZEEkhtIGbZ
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Jeffries spokesperson Christie Stephenson told Fox News Digital, “The notion that Leader Jeffries supports violence is laughable. Republicans are the party that pardons violent felons who assault police officers. Democrats are the party of John Lewis and the right to petition the government peacefully.”
Jeffries spin about violence is laughable… after he had advocated it.
Note that it was Biden that pardoned thousands of dangerous criminals.
And the J6 group as a whole was NOT violent and most were not even convicted in court… so they are NOT felons.
Plus it was Pelosi who refused to safeguard the Capitol when Trump had offered the National Guard.