Posted on 03/03/2025 5:40:30 PM PST by Libloather
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is getting trolled on social media for posting a video insisting “the American people are with us” in opposing President Trump — while standing all alone outside the Capitol.
Jeffries made the claim in a video posted on X – and several users mocked the New York Democrat over the fact that he had no supporters there to back up his claim.
“Just got back to the Capital. Another day, another lie from these people who are out of control,” Jeffries’ video message begins, with the desolate east side of the US Capitol Building in the background.
“I’m told that Donald Trump, Mike Johnson and the extreme MAGA Republicans are claiming that Democrats are sending paid protesters into their town hall meetings,” he adds.
“What’s wrong with y’all? What’s wrong with y’all? We don’t need to send paid protesters into your town hall meetings.”
“The American people are with us,” the Democratic leader claims. “All across the country people are rising up to push back against the assault on the economy, the assault on hardworking families, the assault on our democracy and the assault on Medicaid.”
“We don’t need paid protesters, bro. The American people are with us.”
The congressman’s post was quickly ratio’ed on X — racking up far more replies (three times as many in this case) than shares.
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Dime store obama.
Oh, they have ideas. Just very bad ones.
They used to pay phony supporters to show up. Guess they lost so much money in Kamala’s spending spree that they’re broke.
hakeem has been really struggling since nancy broke her hip
RE: ...to spend all your time shooting three pointers...
Like the movie Soul Man where the white guy put on black makeup to pass for black to get into the university after he was denied for being white, Hakeem probably is not able to play good basketball and had to descend to work in politics as a con artist.
Gaslighter
Exactly. I agree with you 100%.
Dollar General Obama.
They repeat the same things they said in the 60s. Over and over.
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