May 07, 2026 01:53 PM UTC

Trump Wishes Up Criminal Charges Against Hakeem Jeffries

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• by: Colorado Pols

Politico’s Gregory Svirnovskiy reports, because apparently this is a thing we do in America now:

President Donald Trump pushed for Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to be charged with “INCITING VIOLENCE” on Thursday, his latest call to go after Democratic opponents in the legal arena…

“The Radical Left Democrats actually want to Destroy our Country,” he wrote on Truth Social, alongside an image of Jeffries gesturing to a “maximum warfare” sign and another image from the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which took place three days after the photo of Jeffries was taken…

Jeffries, who unveiled the “maximum warfare” campaign — a redistricting initiative — after Democrats passed a 10-1 redraw in Virginia last month, in particular has drawn Trump’s ire. Trump called the seven-term lawmaker “Hakeem ‘Low IQ’ Jeffries” on Thursday.

It’s another attempt to criminalize what would not be considered under any normal circumstances threatening speech, since lawmakers on both sides very commonly employ militaristic metaphors to spice up the rhetoric while they make the bland sausage of law. This isn’t any more of a “true threat” than James Comey’s seashells, and if Donald Trump’s Justice Department wasn’t in the business of filing criminal indictments motivated entirely by Trump’s personal animus, this unusually brief social media outburst would be the end of it.

Unfortunately, the odds of Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries getting a call from Jeanine Pirro in the next few days are pretty good.