House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) unloaded on White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday morning, attacking her recent rant during which she called Democrats a party for “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals.”
“And then you got Karoline Leavitt, who’s sick,” Jeffries told reporters on Day 17 of the government shutdown, which was spurred by an impasse over Affordable Care Act subsidies. “She’s out of control, and I’m not sure whether she’s just demented, ignorant, a stone-cold liar or all of the above.”
Leavitt drew the backlash for her attack on the Democrats while a guest Thursday on Fox News after she was asked for the White House’s response to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani not answering whether Hamas should disarm in Gaza.
“The Democrat party’s main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals; that is who the Democrat party are catering to,” Leavitt said.
“Not the Trump administration and not the White House and not the Republican Party, who is standing up for law-abiding Americans, not just across the country but around the world,” she continued.
