House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) painted a significant number of Republicans as extremists by invoking the so-called “insurrection” to suggest supporters of former President Donald J. Trump could turn to violence when the 2024 GOP frontrunner is arraigned in Miami on Tuesday.
The top House Democrat appeared on MSNBC’s “Politics Nation” on Sunday where he and the show’s host, the Reverend Al Sharpton discussed the conservative reaction to Trump’s indictment by Special Counsel Jack Smith and a New York Times article that used a handful of cherry-picked examples to suggest that millions of Americans are potential domestic terrorists.
During their chat, Sharpton brought up the Times piece, another Maggie Haberman special, to set up Jeffries who would accuse Trump supporters of abandoning “democracy,” a term that has been stolen by today’s extremist Democrats and redefined as a cloak for their own twisted, anti-American agenda.
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“The New York Times is reporting that the right-wing media has exploded with calls for violence and rebellion. With the rhetoric surrounding this indictment reported to be even more extreme than what we saw around Trump’s indictment in the Manhattan DA’s hush money probe just three months ago,” the veteran race hustler said, referring to the piece by Haberman and three other NYT propagandists.
“Right now, public officials in Miami and the Secret Service are bracing for possible demonstrations from Trump supporters Tuesday in Miami,” Sharpton continued. “As a manager of Trump’s first impeachment, having lived through literally the events of January 6, are you concerned we will see violence from his supporters going into Tuesday, if not after?”
Rep. Jeffries responded by going to the J6 narrative that has served as the cornerstone for the repurposing of the federal law enforcement apparatus into the Democrat Party’s secret police, “It’s certainly appropriate and important for federal law enforcement officials in partnership with state and local officials to take every available precaution to prevent the type of violence that we saw on January 6 because of the extreme rhetoric that is coming from many right-wing ideologues in this country.”
“It’s important to understand what is perhaps at the root of what we’re seeing in terms of this irresponsible rhetoric. The right wing in this country wants to end Social Security and Medicare as we know it, they want to strip away reproductive freedom,” he continued, grossly misrepresenting the GOP’s political philosophy.
“They want to undermine the right to vote and believe that voter suppression is their pathway into maintaining power. They want to cut taxes for the wealthy, the well-off, and the well-connected, while at the same time trying to undermine middle-class folks, those who aspire to be part of the middle class the poor, the sick, and the afflicted,” the New York City Democrat added.
“Their policies are out of step with the American people, and that’s why they’ve been losing elections and underperforming, as they did in the 2022 midterm elections,” he said. “And so many of us have long been concerned…and you’ve been a leading voice in this regard, that if right-wing folks in this country concluded that they can no longer win elections democratically, they wouldn’t abandon conservatism, they’d abandon democracy.”
“And what we’re seeing from some of these calls to violence coming from some of the more extreme members of the right-wing in this country is an abandonment of democracy,” Jeffries claimed. “And that should frighten everyday Americans.”
Haberman and company’s article cites “experts” with the only two quoted being former DOJ official Mary McCord, an MSNBC contributor and virulent Trump hater, and Timothy J. Heaphy, the lead investigator for Nancy Pelosi’s now-defunct sham J6 committee.
Trump Supporters’ Violent Rhetoric in His Defense Disturbs Experts https://t.co/WQWQKfnP5p
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) June 11, 2023
According to the NYT article, “Despite whatever security precautions are taken for Mr. Trump’s appearance on Tuesday, security experts said that the rhetoric and the threats from it were unlikely to subside and would likely become more pronounced as the case moves forward and the 2024 election nears.”
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