Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), the woke congresswoman who was caught on tape physically and verbally assaulting federal agents with ICE and DHS when she and others stormed the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey, apparently has a history of violent rhetoric. In fact, it was she who called for Democrats to “shut down” urban areas during a post-inauguration protest.
Rep. McIver’s call for Democrats to “shut down” the District of Columbia came as she and other Democrats held a protest outside of the Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C., a protest that appears to have been sparked by claims that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency were inappropriately granted access to Treasury data.
Such is what was claimed, at the time, in a suit launched by several federal employee unions. They accused the Treasury Department of granting Musk unlawful access to sensitive information. Those unions were the Alliance for Retired Americans, the American Federation of Government Employees, and the Service Employees International Union . They alleged that Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, violated federal law by sharing the department’s data with DOGE.
Lawyers for the woke unions claimed in the lawsuit, “Federal laws protect sensitive personal and financial information from improper disclosure and misuse, including by barring disclosure to individuals who lack a lawful and legitimate need for it. In his first week as Treasury Secretary, defendant Bessent violated these restrictions.”
It was all of that lawfare against DOGE that led to the protest, and Rep. McIver’s violent rhetoric during it. Beginning her stunningly imprudent rant, McIver shouted, “Look, I came here with one simple message just like you all — we will not take this sh*t from Donald Trump and Elon Musk!”
Continuing, she yelled that the Trump Administration should let the crowd into the Treasury Department building, screaming, “So let’s let them know loud and clear to let us in!” She continued by spewing leftist populist rhetoric, yelling, “We will not stand for this, we will fight back! The people always had the power!”
Then, repeatedly declaring that the left was “at war” with Trump and DOGE, Rep. McIver told the raging crowd, “We are at war. Anytime a person can pay 250 million dollars to a campaign and be given access to the Department of Treasury of the United States of America, we are at war.”
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It was during that ridiculous rant that Rep. McIver yelled, “We will not take this!” Then, getting to the “insurrection” bit of her screaming stump speech, McIver called on her fellow Democrats to “shut down” the city, saying, “We will fight back! And goddammit, shut down the city!” Watch her here:
So, the incident in which McIver attacked the ICE and DHS personnel at the Delaney Hall ICE facility was far from the first time she has been involved in pushing direct action against the Trump Administration. First, it was demanding mass riots that shut down DC, and then it was actually attacking federal agents and allegedly bodyslamming a female ICE officer.
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