Hakeem Jeffries torched White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday, calling her “sick”, “demented,” and a “stone cold liar” over her attacks on Democrats during the government shutdown.

The House Minority Leader’s broadside came after Leavitt, 28, claimed that the Democrats’ base is made up of “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.”

Jeffries said that rhetoric, delivered from outside the White House while federal workers go unpaid, crossed a line.

“We’ve already seen a rise in political violence and hatred in America,” the 55-year-old New York Rep. told reporters. “And then you’ve got swastikas apparently appearing in the offices of Republican members of Congress.”

Jeffries was referring to Rep. Dave Taylor, a Trump ally since 2016, who had launched an i

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