Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries lashed out at “extreme MAGA” Republicans shortly after the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Sunday.
“Extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of a national abortion ban and Trump’s Project 2025. We must stop them,” Jeffries wrote on X.
Extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of a national abortion ban and Trump’s Project 2025.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) September 15, 2024
We must stop them.
The top Democrat leader was excoriated by users for his tone-deaf comments given Trump just had another attempt on his life by suspect Ryan Routh, a registered Democrat who hated Trump, at his golf course in West Palm Beach.
The gunman’s now-scrubbed social media accounts also echoed anti-Trump rhetoric used by Kamala Harris’s campaign.
What the actual F is wrong with you
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 15, 2024
I'm starting to think "extreme MAGA Republicans" don't exist and the real extremists are you guys.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 15, 2024
Are you and your peers in your party very disappointed today that a person who took direct action was stopped by the Secret Service, Rep. Jeffries?
— Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) September 15, 2024
Looks like someone was listening to you.
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) September 15, 2024
You belong in jail.
Your posts are exactly why there are multiple attempts on Trump’s life. YOU are complicit.
— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) September 15, 2024
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.
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) September 15, 2024
He posts something like this in the middle of another assassination attempt on President Trump’s…
But Democrats and the media are blaming the former president’s own rhetoric for the second assassination attempt against him.
NBC's Lester Holt: "Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants" in Springfield, Ohio, resulting in bomb threats. pic.twitter.com/apw9WQ1liR
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 15, 2024
This kind of rhetoric caused another assassination attempt on President Trump. STFU!
— Alex Stone (@StoneJAlex) September 15, 2024
WATCH: MSNBC's Alex Witt argues *the Trump campaign* needs to turn down the rhetoric now that Donald Trump has been shot at for the second time in three months.
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 15, 2024
"Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to [tone it down]?"
Elise Jordan replies she hopes… pic.twitter.com/NGjxqIsTPR
Opinion: Opinion: There is no place in politics for violence. That said, the former president, Donald Trump, brings a lot of this stuff on himself. https://t.co/vq4J5VSKIe
— Enquirer (@Enquirer) September 16, 2024
.@RepSherrill (D-N.Y.) blames Trump, GOP's "attempts to divide, to enrage the population, to put out false rumors & misinformation rhetoric" as well as the "availability of assault rifles" for 2nd assassination attempt pic.twitter.com/Cz3tbaeCfK
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 16, 2024
Trump meanwhile blamed Democrats like Jeffries for their own rhetoric demonizing him, his policies, and his supporters as threats to Democracy — talking points that were directly parroted by suspected would-be assassin Ryan Routh.
“The Rhetoric, Lies, as exemplified by the false statements made by Comrade Kamala Harris during the rigged and highly partisan ABC Debate, and all of the ridiculous lawsuits specifically designed to inflict damage on Joe’s, then Kamala’s, Political Opponent, ME, has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust,” Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social.
“Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!” Trump added.