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BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts)
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 04:04 AM Nov 4

Hakeem Jeffries Accuses Trump And the GOP of Running a 'Pedophile Protection Program'

Source: msn/MEDIAite

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) accused President Donald Trump and the GOP of running a “pedophile protection program” instead of fighting to make life better for the American people. During a Capitol Hill press conference on Monday, Jeffries accused the Republicans of caring “less” about the pain the government shutdown is causing.

“All Republicans care about is the opinion of one man, the puppet master of the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump,” Jeffries said. “They don’t care about anything else. How else can you explain the fact that they are weaponizing hunger? How else can one explain the fact that they refuse to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, and they’re hurting their own constituents?”

Jeffries claimed that the five states most impacted by ending tax credits on the ACA are all run by Republicans: West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

“How else can you explain the fact that Republicans have canceled votes now for six consecutive weeks — missing in action, taxpayer-funded vacations, running the pedophile protection program — while doing nothing to make life better for the American people.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/hakeem-jeffries-accuses-trump-and-the-gop-of-running-a-pedophile-protection-program/ar-AA1PJQZo

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gordianot

(15,716 posts)
3. This needs to be a chorus.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 07:03 AM
Nov 4

Apparently the GOP is held together with glue of dead pedophiles. Why risk political annihilation unless you are all blackmailing each other.

Paladin

(32,023 posts)
4. +1000.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 07:49 AM
Nov 4

We need to hear this sort of public criticism from ALL of Democratic leadership, every damn day. We're not anywhere close to effectively weaponizing current events against the trump regime.

Scrivener7

(57,827 posts)
5. Hakeem, you could have a judge swear in Adelita Grijalva, and then call for a vote to release the files.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 08:26 AM
Nov 4
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/does-adelita-grijalva-need-mike-johnson-to-swear-her-in/ar-AA1OJRFm
“The Constitution itself simply says you must take an oath to defend the Constitution before you're sworn in, but it doesn't say who has to administer that oath,” Thomas Berry, director of constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, said in an interview from Washington, D.C.


Would some question it? Yes. Does that matter? NO! It would be a lot better than "strong words."

ancianita

(42,578 posts)
9. The bigger problem: calling for a vote -- "strong words" itself -- still isn't the same as getting Repubs back
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:49 PM
Nov 4

into the House to vote.

Though Jeffries could get the discharge petition onto the floor for a vote, he'd still require a simple majority of the House to sign it. Has he, for a fact, got a majority count that includes Republicans vote who'll vote for it? If so, he's been keeping that knowledge close to the vest.

We can't complain about Jeffries not getting Grijalva sworn in, as if that alone would make the discharge petition a done deal. We also know that House rules have always dictated that the minority absolutely cannot call the majority party back into session.

Sometimes letting growing public disapproval of House Republicans grow even more is a good strategy going toward the midterms.

Every single day Jeffries uses strong words on tv cable news deepens the public's memory of how servile, scared and stupid trump republicans have been for just one man.

KS Toronado

(22,098 posts)
7. Last week I wrote my 3 Rs in Washington DC and accused them of being "pedophile protectors"
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 10:22 AM
Nov 4

Now I wonder if some influential Liberal seen that and got word to Hakeem Jeffries? Here's what I wrote.....

My letter to my 3 elected Rs in DC , I only used 4 lines of my original idea.

https://democraticunderground.com/100220759084

Our next No Kings rally I'll have a new sign, something along these lines

..WHY ELECT
..PEDOPHILE
.PROTECTORS
TO CONGRESS ?

other side....

....WHY DO
REPUBLICANS
...PROTECT
PEDOPHILES ?

We need to attack elected Rs at our rallies more than orange man I believe, we need a super majority in the
House and Senate to un-tRump our Government. Let's point out the R party is broken beyond repair.

louis-t

(24,530 posts)
10. He knows he can't pardon Diddy.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 07:46 PM
Nov 4

Even as stupid as he is, he knows that would be a bridge too far.

FakeNoose

(39,493 posts)
11. Question: are all billionaires pedophiles, or does it just seem that way?
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 07:50 PM
Nov 4

Maybe it's because I'm only hearing about the ones who are throwing piles of money at Chump.

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