Gotta love shameless hypocrisy.
From The Hill, via Yahoo! -
Johnson on threats against Trump nominees: ‘This is dangerous and unhinged’
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday the threats against President-elect Trump’s nominees and appointees are “dangerous and unhinged” and called on President Biden and other Democratic Party leaders to condemn the incidents.
“This year, there was not just one but TWO assassination attempts on President Trump,” Johnson said in a Wednesday post on social platform X, referring to a shooting during a Pennsylvania rally over the summer when Trump’s ear was grazed with a bullet and another incident at his Florida golf club where agents thwarted an apparent attempt on his life before shots were fired.
“Now some of his Cabinet nominees and their families are facing bomb threats,” he continued. “This is dangerous and unhinged. It is not who we are in America,”
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the U.S. House, voiced a slightly different attitude.
From Politico -
Jeffries office: Bomb threats made against Dem lawmakers ‘unacceptable’
The office of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounced Thanksgiving Day threats made against Democratic members of Congress that ranged from “detailed threats of a pipe bomb placed in mailboxes to swatting.”
Each of the threats was “signed with ‘MAGA’ at the conclusion of the message,” the minority leader’s office said in a statement on Friday.
That makes it sound as if he was as bad a human being as Johnson. Except he went on.
From the same article -
"Threats of violence against elected officials are unacceptable, unconscionable and have no place in a civilized society,” the statement from Jeffries’ office said. “All perpetrators of political violence directed at any party must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
Leader Jeffries' full statement is here, Johnson? Nada. He seems to find political violence and threats of the same acceptable...if the recipients are Democrats.
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