House Dem Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries Calls Trump ‘The Grand Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue’

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JEFFRIES: "Let me just simply say — obviously, these are challenging times in the Unites Sates of America. We have a hater in the White House. [inaudible] The Grand Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We've learned that, while Jim Crow may be dead, he's got some nieces and nephews that are alive and well. So one of the things we need to do is learn from the lessons of Dr. King and he dealt with such hate in the '50s and '60s. In 1963, I think it was the governor of Alabama who rose in his inauguration speech and said, 'segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.' That was Governor George Wallace. Now, Dr. King showed us in that very same year that when haters rise up, you don't run from the problem, you run toward the problem. So shortly after that, Dr. King announced that he was going to desegregate Birmingham. He announced it even in the aftermath of that segregationist speech that Wallace said. Dr. King went to Birmingham, even though he knew there were billy clubs in Birmingham, blood-thirsty dogs in Birmingham. There was Bull Connor in Birmingham, but you don't run from the problem, you run toward the problem. And that's a lesson that Dr. King teaches us all today as we confront the drama that we're dealing with in Washington right now. I don't want to go into all about shutdown, but I want to make it clear, we are not going to give Donald Trump one dime for medieval wall.”

(Mediaite)