December 8, 2022 3:58pm EST
Hakeem Jeffries called Trump's 2016 election victory a 'hoax,' referred to him as 'so-called' president
Jeffries has recently come under fire by prominent Republicans as an 'election denier'
By Kyle Morris | Fox News
Incoming House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., denied the legitimacy of former President Donald Trump's 2016 election victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, calling it a "hoax" and referring to Trump numerous times as the "so-called" president.
From June 2017 to January 2018, Jeffries, who was first elected to Congress in 2012, issued a number of tweets that seemingly refused to acknowledge Trump as the rightful winner of the 2016 presidential election.
"Climate Change is NOT a hoax. But 45's election may have been," Jeffries wrote in a June 2017 tweet, nearly five months after Trump entered the White House.
Jeffries — who was elected last month by his Democratic House colleagues to succeed Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as House speaker — has faced scrutiny from high-ranking Republicans over previously resurfaced remarks he made apparently denying the legitimacy of Trump's presidential election victory. But numerous times in tweets during Trump's presidency, Jeffries repeatedly suggested that Trump's election was fraudulent.
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