After law enforcement thwarted a potential attack on the White House correspondents’ dinner with President Donald Trump and top leaders, Republican commentators accused Democrats of using violent rhetoric.

A remark by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., popped up repeatedly on TV and online.

“I heard Hakeem Jeffries say this week ‘its maximum warfare all the time,’” CNN conservative pundit Scott Jennings said April 26. “We have a violent streak on the left and a rhetoric problem on the left.”

The Republican National Committee responded on X to Jeffries condemning political violence on a Sunday political show , sharing a clip of his “maximum warfare” remark and asking if he will “apologize and condemn this type of violent rhetoric.”

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