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Elise DeGeeter on January 31, 2025

CV NEWS FEED // The White House asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, to apologize Friday for calling on supporters to “fight” the Trump administration’s agenda “in the streets.” 

At a press conference Friday, Jeffries claimed that everyday Americans “are under assault by an extreme MAGA Republican agenda.” 

(Re. Jeffries doesn’t seem to understand how the Constitution works since it wasn’t used during Biden’s time in office. Please ask the Democrats to send him to a class on “how the Constitution works” so they can remove his training wheels.)

“We are going to fight it legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. And we’re gonna fight it in the streets,” he said. 

He claimed Trump’s agenda “is trying to cut taxes for billionaire donors and wealthy corporations and then stick New Yorkers and working-class Americans across the country with the bill.”

(Rep Jeffries has the nerve to question President Trump on his agenda – after never opening his mouth when Biden was raping the taxpayers funds and causing a TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT for nothing in return. He should be jumping with joy that the President is trying to shore up the country instead of tearing it down like they did. Maybe he wants to continue like Biden did. Sounds like it!)

(I thought he would try to work with the new President after seeing what Biden did and how bad they got beat in the election. The voters voted for the new President to clean out the swamp and that is what he is doing. Jeffries needs to join the street people for a parade on improving the country instead of looking like a street thug. This is the USA where we work to love our country/people not dwell on hating others. Be a leader and show them you can lead the Democrats to MAGA.)

A release from the White House communications office called Jeffries’ statement “a sick call for violence.” 

The White House statement asks: “Will Minority Leader Jeffries apologize for this disgusting threat? Or will he double down on the same calls for violence that have plagued the country for years?” 

When Fox News Digital asked Jeffries for clarification, his spokesperson Christie Stephenson said, “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, however, is now facing mounting demands from GOP lawmakers that he apologize.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minnesota, said on X that Jeffries “should promptly apologize for his use of inflammatory and extreme rhetoric.” 

“President Trump and the Republicans are focused on uniting the country; Jeffries needs to stop trying to divide it,” Emmer added. 

White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai stated in a communication to Fox: “While President Trump remains focused on uniting our country and delivering the mandate set by the American people, the House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, incites violence calling for people to fight ‘in the streets’ against President Trump’s agenda.”

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