{"id":2260761,"date":"2024-06-05T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-byron-donalds-scorches-hakeem-jeffries-for-trying-to-peddle-jim-crow-hoax-on-house-floor\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T22:44:51","slug":"gop-rep-byron-donalds-scorches-hakeem-jeffries-for-trying-to-peddle-jim-crow-hoax-on-house-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-byron-donalds-scorches-hakeem-jeffries-for-trying-to-peddle-jim-crow-hoax-on-house-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Representative Byron Donalds Criticizes Hakeem Jeffries for Pushing Jim Crow Hoax in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-rep-byron-donalds-scorches-hakeem-jeffries-for-trying-to-peddle-jim-crow-hoax-on-house-floor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2260761&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The commentary by Allison Anton \u2064on June 5, 2024, addresses Democrats&#8217; tactics to boost support among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anaylsis-more-than-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake-and-were-just-created-in-january\/\" title=\"Anaylsis: More Than Half Of Joe Biden\u2019s Twitter Followers Are FAKE and Were Just Created in January\">black men<\/a> as their backing for Joe Biden declines. The strategy involved twisting Rep. Byron Donalds&#8217; statements, prompting a \u2064response from both Donalds and Hakeem Jeffries,\u2064 highlighting the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-smell-a-rat-in-bidens-plan-to-aid-ukraine\/\" title=\"GOP suspects ulterior motives in Biden's Ukraine assistance proposal.\">political controversy surrounding<\/a> these \u200devents.\u200d The analysis by Allison Anton on June 5, 2024, delves\u200b into the Democratic \u2063strategy to increase support among \u2062black men amidst waning approval for Joe \u2062Biden.\u2063 This involved distorting \u2064Rep.\u2062 Byron Donalds&#8217; remarks,\u2063 sparking reactions from \u2064Donalds\u200c and Hakeem Jeffries, shedding light on the ensuing political turmoil.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/%20\"><span>Allison Anton<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 5, 2024 at 2:24pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>The Democrats, seeing the support for Joe Biden among black men rapidly declining, have deployed one of their most well-worn tactics in an attempt to shore up support among that demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Which, as has become all too typical, did not consist of addressing the concerns that have caused black men to jump ship to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, the strategy consisted of lying about what black Republican Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida said during a recent Trump campaign event.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/election\/trump-black-voters-philadelphia-20240604.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>, Donalds, along with fellow GOP Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas, hosted an event at a cigar bar Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Among many of the topics discussed during that event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-rep-byron-donalds-hit-racist-attack-anti-israel-encampment-calmly-dismantles-agitator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donalds<\/a> discussed how, while black voters have historically had conservative values, since the 1960s they have consistently voted Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Donalds said, \u201cYou see, during Jim Crow, the black family was together. During Jim Crow, more black people were not just conservative \u2014 black people have always been conservative-minded \u2014 but more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hakeem-jeffries-decries-byron-donalds-outlandish-jim-crow-comments-about-black-families\/\" title=\"Hakeem Jeffries criticizes Byron Donalds for \"outlandish\" Jim Crow remarks on black families\">black people voted conservatively<\/a>. And then H.E.W. [U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare], Lyndon Johnson \u2014 you go down that road, and now we are where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Would Rep. Byron Donalds be a good VP pick for Trump?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Obviously, Donalds was not saying that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-biden-tells-sick-lie-role-civil-rights-movement-right-faces-mlks-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Rights movement<\/a> was a bad thing, or that Jim Crow laws were a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, he was observing how much more stable the black family was in general before the explosion of social welfare programs in the \u201960s.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats, however, desperate to stanch the hemorrhaging of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-expands-lead-biden-new-poll-women-blacks-hispanics-jump-off-sinking-ship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black men<\/a> from the party, decided to take Donalds\u2019 words and spin them to their own advantage.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in this video shared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X, Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat Minority Leader of the House, accused Donalds of saying instead that \u201cblack folks were better off during Jim Crow.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rep. Byron Donalds made the ignorant observation that Black people were better off under Jim Crow.<\/p>\n<p>Fact check. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YAiOeaVzPD\">pic.twitter.com\/YAiOeaVzPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries\/status\/1798376217642742077?\">June 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the video, Jeffries claimed that what Donalds said was an \u201coutlandish, outrageous, and out-of-pocket observation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not better off,\u201d he continued, ignoring what Donalds actually said, \u201cwhen a young boy named Emmett Till could be brutally murdered without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not better off when black women could be sexually assaulted without consequence because of Jim Crow, we were not better off when people could be systematically lynched without consequence because of Jim Crow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After listing several more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/black-ex-gop-candidate-hits-back-biden-tells-can-find-real-21st-century-jim-crow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Crow<\/a> restrictions that Donalds never once praised, Jeffries concluded by upbraiding Donalds, saying, \u201chow dare you make such an ignorant observation? You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donalds, however, was not going to let Jeffries\u2019 accusations go unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>Recording a response that he shared to his X account, Donalds addressed the controversy by saying, \u201cAmerica, Joe Biden\u2019s campaign is lying to you once again and they\u2019re gaslighting. Now they\u2019re trying to say that I said black people were doing better under Jim Crow. I never said that.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries?\">@RepJeffries<\/a> you need to check your sources and stop lying to the American people because you and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?\">@JoeBiden<\/a> are losing Black men.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t say that.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I said \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udfff <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZE6Qaqoadz\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZE6Qaqoadz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GoPh5HnsJM\">pic.twitter.com\/GoPh5HnsJM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByronDonalds\/status\/1798388027666145675?\">June 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Donalds, clearly incensed by the twisting of his words, then continued, informing viewers that \u201cThey are lying. But, why would you be surprised? Because they always lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The congressman brought up Biden\u2019s notorious comment from the 2020 election cycle, \u201cIf you have a problem figuring out whether you\u2019re for me or Trump, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/voter-humiliates-biden-say-besides-aint-black\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you ain\u2019t black<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donalds then went on to clarify what he actually said Tuesday and to give context to illustrate what he actually meant.<\/p>\n<p>Donalds explained that, \u201cwhat I said was that you had more black families under Jim Crow, and it was the Democrat policies under H.E.W., under the welfare state, that did help to destroy the black family. That\u2019s what I said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donalds then noted that \u201cI also said that you\u2019re seeing a reinvigoration of black families today in America, and that is a good thing. So didn\u2019t listen to the lies from the Biden administration, I know what I said, and I\u2019ll say it straight to camera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donalds was right to call out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hakeem-jeffries-goes-off-deep-end-mike-johnson-elected-speaker-compares-jan-6-pearl-harbor-9-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffries<\/a> and the Democrats for twisting his words.<\/p>\n<p>Donalds was making a very specific point about how Democratic policies designed to encourage dependence on the government have led to the degradation of black families, and he was absolutely correct in his assessment.<\/p>\n<p>As he noted at the original event and his response video, many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-top-dem-concerned-biden-losing-black-voters-says-cant-break-maga-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black voters<\/a> have woken up to that fact and decided to take their lives back into their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries was race-baiting and trying to stir up controversy because he, along with the rest of the part, is worried about Trump\u2019s inroads with urban voters.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if they are that worried, perhaps they should look at revising their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democrats-newest-plan-turn-us-european-style-welfare-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unpopular policies<\/a>, rather than painting their opponents as racists.<\/p>\n<p>Because, nowadays, most people aren\u2019t going to let those accusations go unanswered.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d Those 12 words have been stuck in my head since I first read them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn recently made that comment to Floyd Brown, founder of The Western Journal. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>And if the leftists and the elites get their way, that\u2019s exactly what will happen \u2014 no real election, no real choice for the Electoral College, and no real say for the American people. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal is fighting to keep that from happening, but we can\u2019t do it alone.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We work tirelessly to expose the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-rep-anna-paulina-luna-scolds-dems-waving-ukrainian-flags-after-vote-put-those-damn-flags-away\/\" title=\"Video: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Criticizes Democrats Waving Ukrainian Flags - 'Remove Those Flags!\">lying leftist media<\/a> and the corrupt America-hating elites.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech\u2019s stranglehold is now so tight that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without help<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  from you, we will not be able to continue the fight. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The 2024 election is literally the most important election for every living American. We have to unite and fight for our country, otherwise we will lose it. And if we lose the America we love in 2024, we\u2019ll lose it for good. Can we <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>count on you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  to help? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>With you we will be able to field journalists, do more investigative work, expose more corruption, and get desperately needed trStephen A. Smith Lights Up Analyst Over WNBA Delusion, Caitlin Clark Jealousy &#8211; &#8216;Who Talks About the WNBA?!&#8217;uth to millions of Americans. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We can do this only with your help. Please don\u2019t wait one minute.<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>  Donate right now<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Thank you for reading,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. Please <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  today.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-45810\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-45810\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45810\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45810\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Allison Anton dabbles in fiction, as well as commenting on depressing modern trends and media. She calls the metro Atlanta area home, and when she\u2019s not writing, she\u2019s creating a loving home for her amazing husband.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a June 5, 2024 commentary at 2:24 pm, Allison Anton highlighted Democrats&#8217; use of a familiar tactic as support for Joe Biden among black men declines. 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