Hakeem Jeffries Rips Karoline Leavitt Over Rhetoric Claims | EUROtoday

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) tore into White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and the Trump administration after Leavitt demanded that political rhetoric towards President Donald Trump and his supporters be “toned down” after Saturday’s assault on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“Get lost,” he stated. “Clean up your own house before you have anything to say to us about the language that we use.”

Jeffries’ phrases had been half of a bigger response on Monday when a reporter alluded to language used within the days main as much as and after the WHCD taking pictures, particularly Leavitt’s remarks and Jeffries’ personal use of the time period “maximum warfare” when discussing redistricting days earlier than the dinner.

“I know you said you stand by your comments. At the same time, you have been the subject of threats as well, so with respect to this comment about ‘maximum warfare’ — even if it’s about redistricting — why not tone down the language here in this moment?” Jeffries was requested.

“I think that what’s interesting to me, as you pointed out, is that the so-called White House press secretary, who’s a disgrace — she’s a stone-cold liar — had the nerve to stand up there and read talking points being critical of statements, all taken out of context, that Democrats have made, and didn’t have a word to say about anything that MAGA extremists have said or done, including providing aid and comfort to violent insurrectionists here at this Capitol on Jan. 6, who brutally beat police officers,” Jeffries replied earlier than slamming the president for pardoning “violent rioters,” noting that “many” of them “have gone back into communities across the country to re-offend.”

“And as you pointed out, one of whom threatened to kill me,” he advised the reporter. “[The rioter] said‘Kill the terrorists.’ Where did that language come from? What Republicans use that language? Why did that pardoned MAGA extremist, violent insurrectionist, choose to use the language of terrorism directed at me when he threatened to kill me at an event?”

Jeffries scoffed at Leavitt for “wanting to lecture America and lecture us about civility.”

Earlier, he had defended his phrases of “warfare.”

“As it relates to the comment related to ‘maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time,’ in connection with the redistricting battle that Republicans launched, I stand by it,” Jeffries stated Monday.

“You can continue to criticize me for it,” he added, referring to Republicans. “I don’t give a damn about the criticism.”