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Fox’s Peter Doocy was the only reporter during Wednesday’s White House press briefing to ask Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the incendiary rhetoric from congressional Democrats on Tuesday against President Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Not surprisingly, Leavitt shredded them and cited the obvious about Musk and DOGE having been a campaign pledge:
DOOCY: Are any officials here preparing to fight Democratic lawmakers in the streets?
LEAVITT: Absolutely not.
DOOCY: So — so these —
LEAVITT: And thanks for the question.
DOOCY: — some elected Democrats are so steamed about DOGE, Congresswoman Lamonica McIver says we are at war. Ilhan Omar says we might actually see somebody get killed and Chris Van Hollen says we have to fight this in the Congress. We have to fight this in the streets. So what now?
LEAVITT: And may I just point out, if you heard that type of violent enticing rhetoric from our side of the aisle from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, I think there would be a lot more outrage in this room today. It’s unacceptable, the comments that have been made by these Democrat leaders and frankly, they don’t even know what they’re talking about because President Trump was an elected — with a mandate from the American people to make this government more efficient. He campaigned across this country with Elon Musk, vowing that Elon was going to head up the Department of Government Efficiency, and the two of them with a great team around them, we’re going to look at the receipts of this federal government and ensure it’s accountable to American taxpayers. That’s all that is happening here and for Democrat officials to incite violence and encourage Americans to take to the streets is incredibly alarming, and they should be held accountable for that rhetoric.
