The hypocrisy of the left in this country, and the lengths to which their enablers in the leftist media will go to push a narrative would be laughable, if it weren’t so potentially dangerous, and that was on display Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. Host Dana Bash was interviewing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and had him weigh in on a Truth Social post by President Trump, where he called the Democrat party, “America’s greatest enemy.” Jeffries’ response was outrageous.
Bash saved the question for the end of the segment.
BASH: I want to ask you before I let you go, about something the President just put on Truth Social this morning. He said, now, with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the radical left, highly incompetent Democratic party. Your response?
JEFFRIES: Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut, before he gets somebody killed.
BASH: Hakeem Jeffries, thank you so much for being here. Appreciate it.
But it was Jeffries himself, who minutes earlier, in the very same interview, described President Trump, Republicans, and especially ICE Agents as the enemy, without ever uttering the word, in response to being asked about Trump’s plan to deploy ICE at airports to help TSA Agents during the government shutdown. After Tom Homan discussed how ICE agents would pitch in, Bash merely asked Jeffries: “What’s your response to what Tom Homan revealed here?”
JEFFRIES: There are three things that have been true since Donald Trump and Republicans came back into power last January. Life is more expensive. Life is more chaotic, and life is more extreme. The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE Agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances, kill them. We’ve already seen how ICE conducts itself.
Pretty outrageous. Enough to motivate acts of violence? Maybe, who knows. But it’s at least as provocative as what Trump had posted, which was apparently lost on Bash. And I presume that Bash had no idea what Jeffries said back in January of 2025, about a Federal Funding freeze related to DEI programs. “We are going to fight it legislatively, we are going to fight it in the courts, and we are going to fight it in the streets.” I guess she didn’t know that in September of 2017, Jeffries called Trump a “racial arsonist.” There have been two assassination attempts on Trump since then. Bash must have forgotten about those. And of course, it’s not just Jeffries.
In December of 2023, then President Joe Biden called Trump and Republicans an existential threat to America. The Democrats have routinely suggested Trump is a threat to democracy.
On March 20, 2018, Biden was speaking at an anti-sexual harassment event at the University of Miami and said of Trump, “If we were in high school I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”
And in October 2016 then V.P. Biden said, “I wish we were in high school, I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish.”
On June 22, 2019, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), appeared on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and said of Trump, ” And my testosterone sometime, makes me wanna feel like punching him.”
On March 4, 2020, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the leading Democrat in the Senate, spoke at a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, focused on a Louisiana abortion rights case. He used the opportunity to issue this message, or threat, to two conservative Justices, “I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have unleashed the whirlwind, and you will pay the price…You won’t know what hit you, if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Two years later, in June of 2022, a man attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home.
In June of 2008, while running for President, Barack Obama was speaking at a fundraiser in Philadelphia about the campaign ahead against John McCain, and reportedly said, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
More recently, Dr. Cornel West, appearing on CNN’s NewsNight With Abby Phillip earlier this month, called President Trump “a gangster.” Days after the start of the Iran war, Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), one of the six Democrats to make a video encouraging military service members to disobey unlawful orders, called Trump a ‘five- time draft dodger” on CNN’s The Source With Kaitlan Collins, and CNN’s Bakari Sellers called V.P. Vance “an A-hole” on a February edition of CNN’s NewsNight.
There are so many more examples of the violent and vulgar rhetoric coming from the mouths of the left. Dana Bash should watch her own network.
