He thought it was going to be a friendly interview with a local TV station.
But House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ended up on the wrong side of an ambush… and got publicly embarrassed instead.
Jeffries showed up this week to an interview with Good Day New York, sporting a Knicks hat and ready to take cheap shots at President Donald Trump over gas prices.
But when host Rosanna Scotto pointed out Jeffries’ hypocrisy, he quickly turned into a bumbling mess.
You have to see this!
Hakeem Jeffries gets RIPPED after talking about the economy.
HOST: Gas prices were up under Obama
JEFFRIES: Well, listen
HOST: And Biden, right?
JEFFRIES: Well, I’m not…
HOST: Didn’t we have gas prices over $5?
JEFFRIES: Well
HOST: I remember eggs were like $12 a dozen pic.twitter.com/CDcLlfpOHV
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