House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday on CNN’s The Situation Room that the Supreme Court had “enabled” President Donald Trump to act like a king, calling the situation shameful.
“You know, one thing to understand, as people who are flirting with the Trump administration or doing the bidding of the Trump administration or engaging in the pay-to-play schemes of the Trump administration, the statute of limitations is five years,” the House’s top Democrat said.
“Donald Trump and this toxic administration will be long gone, but there will still be accountability to be had. And that process, of course, begins now. But it will not be complete until perhaps there is an independent Department of Justice, certainly an independent House of Representatives in Democratic hands,” he claimed.
It should be noted that Democratic attorneys general and prosecutors, as well as Joe Biden’s Justice Dept., all went after Trump during his four-year hiatus from the White House, engaging in unprecedented actions against a former president.
“The Department of Justice is one of the great institutions in law enforcement in the history of this country and Donald Trump and these extremists have been destroying its integrity,” Jeffries continued. “And we should also blame the conservative justices on the Supreme Court for all of the things that we see happening, because they basically gave this president blanket presidential immunity in a country where the framers of the Constitution said, we don’t want a king.
‘Israeli’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed concerns about visiting New York City under its newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who has vowed to arrest him over an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant.
Netanyahu, speaking in an interview with Australian journalist Erin Molan, reacted strongly to Mamdani’s anti-‘Israel’ stance, calling the threats unfounded and predicting a bleak future for the city under socialist policies.
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic socialist and former New York State Assembly member, made history by winning the 2025 New York City mayoral election on November 4, defeating Independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa with 50.4% of the vote.
As the first Muslim, South Asian, and youngest mayor in over a century, Mamdani’s victory energized progressive voters but drew criticism for his vocal opposition to ‘Israel’.
He assumes office on January 1, 2026, amid debates over his platform, which includes affordable housing and police reform.
During his campaign, Mamdani pledged to honor the ICC’s arrest warrant against Netanyahu for his war crimes in Gaza, stating he would direct the NYPD to detain the ‘Israeli’ leader if he enters the city.
Legal experts have called this promise unenforceable, as local authorities lack jurisdiction over international warrants without federal involvement.
Mamdani doubled down on the vow in October, framing it as a stand against what he termed genocide in the ‘Israeli’ assault on Gaza.
Netanyahu, undeterred, told Molan, “Hell no, of course not,” when asked if he feared arrest in New York.
He criticized Mamdani as a “young uneducated leader” lacking knowledge of economics and antisemitism, urging him to “get his act together” before making such statements.
Netanyahu said he is willing to have dialogue with Mamdani if he educates himself on these issues, per his expression.
The prime minister linked Mamdani’s socialist policies to economic failure, drawing from ‘Israel’s’ own shift away from socialism under his leadership, which he credited with boosting growth and reducing inequality.
He warned that such approaches could bankrupt New York, stating, “That’s where NY might be headed.”
Netanyahu also connected rising antisemitism to societal collapse, noting it “always collapses societies” by targeting Jews first, then other groups.
He predicted a “very dim future” for New York under Mamdani.