On MSNBC’s “All In,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) doubled down on his pledge of legal retaliation against Trump officials and associates if Democrats retake power. He noted that Trump “sycophants” in the Department of Justice do not have immunity and will be pursued. The statement comes after the indictment of Letitia James for mortgage fraud. The statement suggests that the country could be in store for waves of purge politics in which parties fire or prosecute officials from the prior administration.
The comments come after the charging of Letitia James for mortgage fraud, a move widely viewed as retaliation for her own lawfare record.
On the program, Jeffries was asked about his prior threats of tit-for-tat actions against Trump supporters or enablers.
Host Chris Hayes noted, “You put a statement out in response to the news of Tish James’s indictment, in which you said, among other things, that those sycophants who aid and abet the president’s schemes will not be able to hide from serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable. What do you mean by that?”
Jeffries responded that
“there are so many different corrupt sycophants within the Trump administration, including, but not limited to within the Department of Justice. Now, these people don’t have immunity. And the reality is the statute of limitations is five years, and there will be accountability with the next administration, if not before, when Democrats take back control of the House of Representatives.”
In the meantime, James is claiming victim status in the indictment despite being lawfare’s happiest warrior, who ran on a pledge to nail Trump if elected (without bothering to specify what that crime or offense might be). James is declaring, “I am fearless.” She is also shameless.
I have been critical of some of these cases, which followed a social media posting in which Trump chastised the Justice Department for not indicting a list of political opponents. Within days, Comey and James were indicted. That posting will feature prominently in the challenges to be filed for vindictive prosecution by both defendants. James is likely to raise the resignation of former acting U.S. Attorney Eric Siebert, who reportedly was forced out after objecting to the basis for indicting James.
Jeffries’ pledge suggests that cycles of purge politics are likely to continue unabated in this country.
Juaqeem Jeffries.
But that would actually be re-retaliation, wouldn’t it?
Gutter politics! While I do think Trump could hold back statements and judgements, what do we expect this man to do? He has been tormented and hounded for years and now that he is President again, the hidden files show the corruption of Obama and Hilary and their cohorts. What would any of us do? The DOJ is following the law and people like Letitia James started this when she ran for election. She went out looking to ‘get’ Trump — certainly not the level of the law we want to prescribe to. The Dems do not learn though — look at James in VA. But here is the problem … when people vote these people into office, knowing that they are after a person, they sink to the gutter level too. Letitia James knows what she did and her best defense is indefensible. If she has committed a crime, then why should she be different than us?
And so it will be for the people of VA and CA when they vote along party lines and not for intelligent, mindful of the law people. Let us see come November what country we really have! I only hope for one that follows the law and the Constitution.
I guess breaking international law as you kill people on boats disqualifies you for the Nobel Peace Prize.
You would be wrong, but thanks for playing
Nice
Over 70 Percent of Americans Back Trump’s Strikes on Drug-Smuggling Boats: Poll
Eat this sucker
Deep in grief at the death of some of your fellow MS13 terrorists?
And they would have made such fine upstanding Guest Democrat Voters if they had only been allowed to get here!
As tragic as it is DJT is the 1st president to actually fight the drug war, cartels. So much better than just say no. Up the war to bunker busters aimed at cartel residences.
Go south to fish. Imo
Recall when Reagan made deals with the cartels to support Iranian terrorists to keep Americans hostage to make Carter look bad so that Reagan could win an election and stunt the growth in real wage growth for 40 years?
That’s the Republican way.
Trump’s doing what Obama did in reverse order:
1. Win Nobel Peace Prize.
2. Kill people.
Actually, the first drone strike ordered by Obama under his administration occurred on January 23rd, 2009.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/obama-legacy/drone-program-strikes.html#:~:text=But%20on%20Jan.%2023%2C%202009%20%E2%80%94%20Obama%27s,suspected%20Taliban%20compound%2C%20killing%2018%20people%20inside.
Obama didn’t won the Nobel Peace Prize until December 10th, 2009 In Oslo, Norway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/world/europe/11prexy.html
So no, Trump isn’t doing Obama had done in reverse order.
+100
From the history of the last few administrations when the Democrats came to expect no accountability for their actions, they would continue their use of lawfare and the general weaponization of government at all levels regardless of the prosecution of James and Comey. Lack of a response just begets more of the same.
We also see video of Jeffries yesterday, trying to bully a fellow member of Congress, violating every norm by moving as close to him as he can get and waving his hands and fingers in the mans face. Talking over the man while complaining that he wont be talked over. Calling him names and demanding that Lawler “keep your mouth shut”.
Jeffries is rightly the leader of his party. He is a typical left wing thug.
Thank goodness, I wasn’t in Mike Lawler’s shoes. Otherwise, Temu Obama would had suffered more than a bruised ego. You simply do NOT point your finger at another person, especially in their face or chest and expect not to suffer consequences of your actions.
Thank you Mr. Jeffries for making it that much more obvious that we cannot allow Democrats back in power again. Vote Republican!
Allow? And who is we? You and the ignorant, bigoted, racist geriatric farts who populate this blog?
racist… Get a new word.
Libs have worn that one to death.
Yes!
Get new material ANON! Get lost would be better!!! Anon is 14 years old??
“And who is we?” the annony moron asks. Why, we would be the patriotic Americans who love things like freedom of speech, liberty, the Constitution, the American flag, apple pie. We patriotic Americans who want secure borders, illegal criminal aliens arrested and deported. We patriotic Americans who want biological males out of womens sports, locker rooms and bathrooms. We patriotic Americans who want pornography out of elementary school libraries. We patriotic Americans who voted and got Trump elected for a second time.
That is who!
But, by all means, do keep crying!
History is an excellent antidote for the scores of threats Democrats hurl at Americans. President Bill Clinton fired all 93 U.S. Attorneys on a single day, March 23, 1993, and it was unprecedented with no reasons provided.
ATTORNEY GENERAL SEEKS RESIGNATIONS FROM PROSECUTORS
Published: March 24, 1993
WASHINGTON, March 23— Attorney General Janet Reno today demanded the prompt resignation of all United States Attorneys, leading the Federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia to suggest that the order could be tied to his long-running investigation of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, a crucial ally of President Clinton.
https://archive.ph/894U1
It is embarrassing to see Hakeem Jeffries act like a slave boy of his white Masters Democrats, the party that lynched blacks, defended slavery and authored Jim Crow laws
All we need next is for Schumer to threaten SCOTUS Justices to solidify the Dems reputation as being agents of violence. Oh wait….
Slave boy? WTF, you r hate for dems is so great that you resort to racist monikers? You SF.
What a stooge. Context, moron.
Oh oh sumone big mad…
Uh oh someone cant spell or discern.
Nobody gets mad at your idiotic comments.
You’re a punch line, not an antagonist.
So racism is all about context huh?
Rappers and pro athletes seem to think so
Do you mean like how you idiots once called Larry Elder the “black face of white supremacy” during the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-candidate-larry-elder-is-a-threat-to-black-californians
Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t cast stones.
So you are justifying what Clinton did? Supporting the Democratic President who, during his administration, worked to a balanced budget?
Lmao the Contract With America was between the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS and the people.
Clinton was dragged to a balanced budget, led by Newt Gingrich, you imbecile.
Nice attempt to rewrite history.
Nazi
Remind me again, Professor, how did those “…challenges to be filed for vindictive prosecution” work out when Trump made them against James and Bragg?
The President ran on accountability for abuses which ran afoul of the law- definitely part of his mandate. But the Executive Branch is overpopulated with deeply entrenched unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats hellbent on thwarting ANY attempt to fulfill that mandate. Unfortunately, legitimate charges are finally brought only under pressure from the executive, giving the appearance of retaliation.
Did the grand jury see it that way? Apparently not.
Comey and James have been indicted.
What are elections even for if the President can’t demand his agenda isn’t followed even by the people under his direction responsibility?
Well, Granny, a grand jury is given only the information the prosecution wants them to have. There is no one speaking for the defendant, no one to show that there are gaps, that any testimony is reliable. Comey is a skilled lawyer; if he thought there was a solid case against him, he’d shop for a deal rather than risk going to court.
Trump didn’t run on accountability; he ran on destroying the Federal government and hurting vulnerable people. On increasing the Federal deficit, handing as much cash to billionaires as possible in the form of free military protection, low cost access to non-renewable national resources, and the ability to make the damages that companies do a public harm while allowing them to retain private wealth.
Accountability starts with accounting and no account has been done and no account has been published. The majority are being eliminated with no accounting for the costs of their efforts or the benefits. He’s wiped out the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a department that does thing like claw back money illegally taken from consumers by corporations. Entirely non-political. Essentially gone.
“He’s wiped out the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a department that does thing like claw back money illegally taken from consumers by corporations. Entirely non-political. Essentially gone.”
Your type of political hyperbole and fear-mongering at the least, and total falsehood at the most, is probably why you sign in as “Anonymous” -because on another site you would be blocked or exposed for your nonsense.
Not only is the CFPB NOT “wiped out,” –it will continue to do its work and REMAIN OPEN open during the gov’t shutdown.
If you don’t believe me, look it up. thanks in advance.
With a threat like that, I smell a Trump blanket immunity deal coming for the DOJ. I love how the pundits are coming out of the woodwork claiming that Trump’s statements are going to lead to her dismissal. If that were true, it would seem like an AG and a DA both campaigning on using their office to take out a political rival, then actually doing it, in coordination with a presidential election, would have done the same thing. Funny how it feels like two different justice systems at work here.
blanket immunity deal? Immunity from what?
Immunity from Jeffries plan.
For any and all crimes, alleged, known or unknown.
Sound familiar?
Pardon is the correct term
The correct use of the word ‘pardon’ is after conviction and sentencing.
Not anymore dum dum.
Under a blanket “preemptive pardon”, since no one has been charged with a crime, the DOJ employees would have immunity from future prosecutions.
Plan Its called political rhetoric. Nothing more. Listen to Trump.
“blanket immunity deal? Immunity from what?”
Yeah, that’s the part they don’t consider. Like if they said “Trump has immunity from being convicted of being a pedophile rapist,” they would have to admit Trump is a pedophile who rapes children. Hence the step up in dropping missiles on go-fast boats out of Venezuela rather than understanding why US drug addiction is out of control.
Release the Epstein files.
Old enough to remember the prosecutions/persecutions of Steve Bannon, Roger Stone Jr., Rudy Gulliani, Sidney Powell, etc………………
Democrats complaints fall on deaf ears because they prosecuted, harassed, spied on, doxed, and imprisoned their political opposition for the last 8 years. Were they really so ignorant as to not know that they would be subject to the same rules they themselves created?
It shows, that they are incapable of thinking logically about consequences of their policies whether it was their mass importation of illegal aliens, masking and un-educating our youth, or promoting violence by calling their political opposition Nazis/fascists/racists. That’s why voting for Democrats is voting for chaos and the destruction of our mores, values, and morals. Let’s stop until they repent.
PS – Jeffries – have you ever heard of pre-emptive presidential pardons? Welcome to the insane world you created. Sadly we are stuck with your ugly world and are not going to play nice anymore.
incapable of thinking logically? Nonsense, the dems are far better coordinated. And look at the army they have on the streets.
And BTW calling for violence and revenge against political opponents has been part of American history since it founding.
Highly educated huh?
“Look at the army they have on the streets” says it all. This is just more proof that antifa is the SS of the Dems, that BLM was just a partisan Demo operation and that the anti-ICE protests are just astroturf garbage.
BTW, once it became obvious that climate change was a grift and a joke the professional “protesters” (the so-called “army”) shifted quickly to marching against Israel and for hamas. Now that Gazans are cheering Trump’s peace move watch as they all turn to ICE as the next target for protesting. The little tents full of crazed, angry “students” yelling at Jews that we saw at HArvard, Columbia, NYU and all the other campuses will now be anti-ICE angry crazed illegals loving morons starting in 3,2,1…
Antifa are terrorists, and as you mentioned are coordinated and funded by Dems. Nice set-up for me Anonymous!
sounds like Sedition?
Sedition? Gawd man, you really are dumb.
^^^ Really dumb commenter
The Democrat Party needs to be destroyed for THEIR 2nd Civil War
☝️Keyboard Kommando.☝️
^^^Idiot spastic persona non gratis
Okay, you start, you stoopid keyboard warrior.
^^^^Stoopid (sic) and illiterate keyboard warrior
The greatest existential threat to the USA is political vengeance. Jeffries unabashedly promises more.
Not climate, not low birth rate, not nuclear war, not cow farts, not China.
No it is not. You and the idiots here that are demanding vengeance. Um… some 4 plus years now. Right?
Vengeance? How about accountability for the seditious conspiracy unleashed 2016, 2020 election interference and the exposed corruption against a duly elected President?
Army in the streets? I see a bunch of blue haired children and bipolar people running around screaming with illegal interlopers throwing rocks.
Get thee back to BlueSky where you are confirmed and justified. Leave this site to adults.
Wrong. We are not demanding vengeance. Why would we? With all this MAGA winning, we dont need no vengeance!
Pardon all sycophants! 😁
Welcome to the Third World. Enjoy your stay
I have traveled the word on business and so have had a very close-up look at government and politics in more than 40 countries, most of them what are considered to be “third world.” How our government and politics are now functioning is highly reminiscent of Indonesia. Unbelievable that we have sunk to that level.
Traveled the world… did you learned the language of all 40 countries? No. Did you at least live in any country for more than several years? No. And based on your personal bias you determined that the USA is akin to Indonesia. I don’t think so.
You don’t need to understand Persian to understand Iran is a killer of men. Your argument is specious.
In your case, understanding is a misnomer. And who wrote anything about Iran?
Its not as difficult a concept as you seem to think, dum dum.
What is the concept then?
LOL thank you for confirming that you’re an idiot, unworthy of explanation and incapable of understanding.
“did you learned the language of all 40 countries?”
Did you ever “learned” English? No.
Oh oh the bigots have had arrived.
“Oh oh the bigots have had arrived.”
More piss poor grammar from the illiterate one.
More red meat for the mob
Mobster^^^^