The House’s top Democrat was taken to task for an online remark made not long after a plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump was foiled by Secret Service agents on Sunday, the second such attempt in as many months. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) took to X on Sunday to condemn what he described as “extreme MAGA Republicans,” stating, “We must stop them.” His post came just an hour after former President Donald Trump survived a second assassination attempt.
Extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of a national abortion ban and Trump’s Project 2025.
We must stop them.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) September 15, 2024
“Extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of a national abortion ban and Trump’s Project 2025,” Jeffries said in an X post Sunday, adding, “We must stop them.” His comment was immediately set upon by supporters of the former president, many of whom accused Jeffries and his party of inciting the attempts on Trump’s life with their dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric.
The response were brutal and honest:
America take note of the party that is fomenting political violence, and radicalizing their low IQ, low information voters whom they spend the entire time gaslighting and lying to.
He posts something like this in the middle of another assassination attempt on President Trump’s…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) September 15, 2024
You want to revise this statement since there was just another ass*ssination attempt on Trump you worthless POS?
— SaltyGoat (@SaltyGoat17) September 15, 2024
Are you kidding me? A likely-Democrat just tried to sh**t President Trump again and this is what you post?
— Paul A. Szypula ?? (@Bubblebathgirl) September 15, 2024
You are so full of shit Hakeem. He isn’t with project 2025. He isn’t doing a national abortion ban. You lie.
Another attempt on Trumps life just happened, and you’re here lying about Trump. The only extremism I see is the democrat party trying to take out president Trump.
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) September 15, 2024
Trump was almost assassinated AGAIN because of you and your gremlins rhetoric.
WTF is wrong with you people?
— Sara Rose ??? (@saras76) September 15, 2024
This kind of rhetoric caused another assassination attempt on President Trump. STFU!
— Alex Stone (@StoneJAlex) September 15, 2024
“Again folks! SHOTS FIRED at Trump Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida,” Donald Trump Jr. said on the X platform. “An AK-47 was discovered in the bushes, per local law enforcement. The Trump campaign has released a statement confirming former President Trump is safe.”
