President Donald Trump on Thursday linked violent rhetoric flowing from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to political violence, including the most recent assassination attempt on him.
“This lunatic, Hakeem ‘Low IQ’ Jeffries, should be charged with INCITING VIOLENCE!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Trump posted an image of Jeffries standing by a photo of Trump that had the words “maximum warfare, everywhere all the time” upon it. Next to that was an image from a video that showed accused gunman Cory Tomas Allen as he arrived at the White House Correspondents Association dinner.
“The Radical Left Democrats actually want to Destroy our Country,” Trump posted.
When Jeffiries was asked about the comment he made after the attempt on Trump’s life, he said, “I stand by it,” according to Axios.
Jeffries mocked “so-called criticism from these phony Republicans.”
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“You can continue to criticize me for it. I don’t give a ____ about the criticism … get lost,” he said after the attempt on Trump’s life.
Jeffries was criticized by Republicans for language that could be easily interpreted as a call to violence.
“So-called Hakeem Jeffries is a disgrace to the United States Congress,” Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida posted on X.
“He is deranged, disgusting and violent. It is unacceptable that House Democrats continue to remain silent in the aftermath of his call for ‘maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time’ against Republicans,” he wrote.
“Their casual acceptance of hateful and divisive language enables this out-of-control behavior,” he wrote.
“Democrats must hold so-called Hakeem accountable. Americans will not let the violent and thuggish behavior of so-called Hakeem go unchecked. Accountability is coming to all of these sick extremists,” he wrote.
Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia noted on X that on the night of the attempted assassination, radical Democrats held “Death to tyrant” and “Death to all of them” signs outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner.
“The Democrat Party’s rhetoric is demonic and dangerous,” he wrote.
This article originally appeared on The Western Journal and is reposted with permission.
