Did Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Really Say He Will “Fart Hard” For The Freedom To Vote?

Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries made an embarrassing slip-of-the-tongue today while delivering remarks after the House Speaker vote.

Mike Johnson won House speakership again, meaning that Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries has now lost 20 consecutive votes in a row.

However, he didn’t let that keep him from giving a positive message to House Democrats fighting “to make the American Dream possible.”

But then, as Jeffries’ speech wound down, he made a Biden-level gaffe.

Or maybe worse.

“We will fart hard…fight hard…for the freedom to vote!”

Watch for yourself:

"We will fart hard— fight hard for the freedom to vote" -Hakeem Jeffriespic.twitter.com/Yl3011Iflv

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 3, 2025

Don’t get me wrong, that slip-up was pretty funny.

But, unironically, it might have been the part of Jeffries’ speech that made the most sense…

During his full comments, Jeffries preached a message of unity while maintaining that “there are no election deniers on our side of the aisle,” referring to Democrats.

Um, excuse me?

Are we forgetting 2016?

🚨 HYPOCRITE ALERT

“It’s time for us to come together NOT as Democrats or Republicans but as Americans”

2 seconds later

“There are no election deniers on our side of the aisle”

Dollar Store Obama, Hakeem Jeffries, who has lost 20x to become Speaker of the House is a LOSER pic.twitter.com/u2BTuE0rTn

— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) January 3, 2025

Hakeem Jeffries claims "there are no election deniers on our side of the aisle."

I guess he's never heard of Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/glepnxOBGz

— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) January 3, 2025

Is Jeffries suffering from memory loss?

He, himself, called President Trump’s election win back in 2016 illegitimate on several occasions.

Fox News commented:

Democratic House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., claimed that there are “no election deniers” in the Democratic Party, despite previously claiming on social media that the 2016 presidential election was “illegitimate.”

After Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was re-elected to the top House post for the 119th Congress on Friday, Jeffries addressed lawmakers.

“There are no election deniers on our side of the aisle,” Jeffries said while speaking on the House floor on Friday, prompting applause from the Democratic members in the chamber.

Despite claiming that members of his party don’t deny election results, Jeffries himself claimed on X, previously known as Twitter, that President-elect Trump’s 2016 election victory wasn’t legitimate.

“The more we learn about 2016 election the more ILLEGITIMATE it becomes,” Jeffries wrote in February 2018. “America deserves to know whether we have a FAKE President in the Oval Office.”

Jeffries again made a similar claim several years later.

“Keep pouting. History will never accept you as a legitimate president,” Jeffries wrote to Trump in a 2020 post. A screenshot of the post was shared by Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska following the speaker’s vote on Friday.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who ran against Trump as the Democratic nominee in 2016, also said that Trump was an “illegitimate president” after his election win that year.

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