Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claimed violence on the left is “far more prevalent” when asked about a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter being charged with threatening to assassinate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

A Capitol rioter, who was pardoned as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 participants earlier this year, was charged with threatening Jeffries’s life at an event in New York on Monday, CBS reported .

Recommended Stories

North Carolina Senate approves new congressional map targeting Don Davis

WATCH LIVE: Mike Johnson holds a press conference addressing government shutdown

Nick LaLota breaks with Trump over Santos commutation: 'Three months is not enough'

“I will tell you this, the violence on the left is far more prevalent than the violence

See Full Page