House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) finds himself at the center of a firestorm over his private sit-down with Jared Kushner that has leftists steaming hot, with James Carville being among them.
“F**k these people,” raged the salty strategist who vented his spleen about the top House Democrat’s meeting with President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law, a big secret until it was publicly revealed by Maggie Haberman of The New York Times over the weekend.
According to the paper, the “rare engagement” between the duo “was held in a private space in New York City, offered up by a mutual friend of the two men,” a report that comes at a bad time for the embattled Jeffries who is hoping to become the first black House speaker in the nation’s history if the Dems win back control in the upcoming midterms.
The “Ragin’ Cajun” addressed the report during a fiery rant on Monday’s episode of the “Politicon” podcast, unloading both barrels on the sneaky Democrat leader and his double-dealing.
(Video: YouTube/Politicon)
“Let me try to explain something, and Hakeem, you’re a smart guy,” the octogenarian mastermind of Bill Clinton’s 1992 election began. “Let me explain something here, very, very clear. You have Democrats that have a different position on Medicare for all, whether that’s a good idea. You have Democrats that have different positions on effective policing, and there’s a whole variety of subjects of which there are some disagreements within the Democratic Party.”
“On one thing, on one thing, there is no disagreement,” the fuming Carville continued. “There’s unanimity. And it is simply this: in the opinion of every Democrat in the United States, progressive, moderate, middle road, left, f**k, I don’t know whatever you want. We believe one thing above all: these people are a pack of felons and traitors, and you do not meet with them. You do not meet with them.”
The 81-year-old party elder declared that what the aspiring next speaker should do is to “drag his ass before a committee and find about what backdoor-dealing whorehouse sh*t he’s got going on with Steve Witkoff and everybody else.”
He opined that the administration and members of the president’s family “have no idea what they’re doing,” and that “They’re making every backdoor bullsh*t deal they can, and we don’t meet with them. Don’t meet with them!”
“F**k these people,” spat Carville.
How bad of a look is it for Jeffries? After the story of his get-together with Kushner spread like wildfire, the Big Apple Dem moved into damage control mode, insisting that just because he met with Trump’s most trusted adviser, it doesn’t mean anything.
No one from the Trump Cartel is getting a pass. pic.twitter.com/QA0yxs0mTO
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) August 25, 2026
“No one from the Trump Cartel is getting a pass,” Jeffries said in a three-minute video posted to X on Monday in which he acted like a gangsta like the time he posted a picture of himself brandishing a baseball bat.
“He asked for a meeting, and I took it,” the busted Democrat claimed, “to discuss the affordability crisis that exists. That is not a hoax.”
“At the same period of time, and I shouldn’t have to say it, but I am. No one is going to get a pass,” Jeffries pledged. “We are gonna hold every single member of the Trump cartel accountable, beginning on day one. If you’re stealing from the American people, shortchanging the American people, or screwing over the American people, you’re going to be held accountable.”
It’s unlikely that the video is going to satisfy his critics who want him out of leadership.
