House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., condemned an alleged death threat against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., made by a man previously convicted for crimes tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“I don’t know any of the details of this at all. I don’t know who’s been alleged to have been involved in this,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday in the Capitol. “I will say that anybody — anybody — who threatens political violence against elected officials or anyone else should have the full weight and measure of the Department of Justice on their head.”
“I trust that that will happen — I hope it will,” he added. “We are intellectually consistent about that, obviously.”
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