House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries mentions his chief congressional opposition — MAGA — often when he tweets and speaks. Jeffries routinely decries what he sees as disingenuous portrayals of reality promulgated by the MAGA wing of the Republican Party.
In the last week alone on Twitter, Jeffries has slammed MAGA Republicans for trying to “turn back the clock” on racial issues in America, for “fighting for the privileged few,” and turning “the historically bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act into a hate-filled vessel for right-wing MAGA extremism.” (See Jeffries addressing the issue below.)
House Republicans turned the historically bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act into a hate-filled vessel for right-wing MAGA extremism.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) July 14, 2023
The hyper-partisan GOP bill undermines our military readiness and hurts America’s national security.
They have no shame. pic.twitter.com/91OtbECZUc
But in general, when it comes to the MAGA alpha, Donald Trump, Jeffries has been less aggressive in commenting on news relating to the former President. Even when Jeffries was interviewed by Rev. Al Sharpton after it was announced Trump would face a 37-count federal indictment in Florida, Jeffries was measured in his response.
“It is quite unfortunate,” Jeffries replied, about the GOP support Trump received before the indictment was even unsealed, signaling that loyalty was going to outweigh truth for his MAGA supporters.
“These charges are incredibly serious and relate directly to the safety and security of the American people, which is a president’s — a former president’s — most solemn responsibility. And at least according to the indictment, one that was undermined in severe ways by the former president, who is innocent until proven guilty.”
That’s a soft condemnation given the opportunity to expound.
But the recent news that Trump received a letter naming him as a target in the Special Counsel’s federal investigation into election fraud brought a more severe reaction from the House Minority Leader. Without mentioning former President Trump by name, Jeffries challenges those same MAGA colleagues backing him to wait for evidence to be presented before crying witch hunt and “weaponized DOJ.”
Jeffries says plainly: “A mob of insurrectionists violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th in order to halt the peaceful transfer of power. The American people deserve to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
That Jeffries’s anodyne call for the exposure of the truth should sound so menacing and controversial at the moment perfectly illustrates the divided nature of the country, all of whose citizens should ostensibly benefit from the truth. After all, it’s said the truth shall set you free, but not everyone involved in the case believes that.
A mob of insurrectionists violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th in order to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) July 18, 2023
The American people deserve to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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