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Jeffries calls Karoline Leavitt a ‘stone-cold liar’

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by Ashleigh Fields - 04/27/26 5:39 PM ET

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by Ashleigh Fields - 04/27/26 5:39 PM ET

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday called White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt a “stone-cold liar” after she blamed Democrats for the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

“I think that what’s interesting to me, as you pointed out, is that the so-called White House press secretary, who’s a disgrace, she’s a stone-cold liar,” Jeffries said during a House press conference.

“She had the nerve to stand up there and read talking points being critical of statements all taken out of context that Democrats have made and didn’t have a word to say about anything that MAGA extremists have said or done, including providing aid and comfort to violent insurrectionists here at this capital on January 6th who brutally beat police officers,” he added.

During a Monday briefing at the White House, Leavitt called out a number of high profile Democrats over their past rhetoric in the wake of the shooting, where a gunman targeted President Trump and other administration officials at the the annual gala in Washington.

She pointed to remarks made by Jeffries last week, when he said Republicans would be targeted with “maximum warfare” if they proceed with redistricting efforts in Florida.

“This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators, by elected members of the Democrat party and even some in the media,” Leavitt told reporters Monday.

“This hateful and constant and violent rhetoric directed at President Trump day after day after day for 11 years has helped to legitimize this violence and bring us to this dark moment,” she continued.

Jeffries previously called Leavitt a “stone-called liar” in October, when she also accused Democrat of using politically violent language while also stating the Democrat Party was made up of “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminal.”

She made the comments in regards to New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) not calling for Hamas to disarm during a Fox News appearance.

“This so-called White House press secretary wants to lecture America and lecture us about civility. Get lost. Clean up your own house before you have anything to say to us about the language that we use,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol on Monday,

Jeffries went on to further criticize Leavitt and other Republicans, including Trump, for using heightened language to describe their political opponents, defending his “maximum warfare” remarks.

“The notion that any of us are concerned with so-called criticism from these phony Republicans as it relates to anything that has been said — certainly as it relates to the comment related to ‘maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time,’ in connection to the redistricting battle that Republicans launched — I stand by it,” Jeffries said Monday.

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