Hakeem Jeffries told a campaign crowd he would run Pete Hegseth out of town the moment Democrats took the House.
Republicans just elected their new House Minority Leader.
And Karoline Leavitt went straight on Fox News to explain why he was the best choice.
Jim Jordan Stopped the Last Sham Impeachment and Now He Is House Minority Leader
Jim Jordan won the closed-door Republican conference vote 106-73 over Steve Scalise on Tuesday – the same day Karoline Leavitt, the former White House press secretary now joining Fox News as a contributor, went on air to call his selection "great news for the Republican Party."
"Jim Jordan is not only a terrific guy, he is a fighter," Leavitt said, "and that's what the GOP is now going to need over the course of the next two years."
Hakeem Jeffries publicly backed impeaching Hegseth before a single gavel had been handed over – promising to move "aggressively" in his first 100 days as the new House Speaker.
Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico already told reporters that Hegseth's impeachment is one of her party's "top three priorities" in 2027.
Six articles of impeachment against Hegseth had already been filed before Democrats controlled a single committee.
"We're going to have sham impeachments," Leavitt said on Fox News.
"We're already seeing articles being brought against our Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. I expect impeachment articles against President Trump as well."
In 2019, Kevin McCarthy pulled Jordan off the Oversight Committee and installed him on the House Intelligence Committee specifically to be Trump's bulldog in the Ukraine impeachment hearings.
Adam Schiff ran the entire operation – controlling the witness list, deciding who could testify, locking Republicans out of the process at every turn – and Jordan exposed him anyway.
Jordan caught Schiff in a direct contradiction – Schiff had publicly denied knowing the whistleblower's identity while his own staff had already met with that whistleblower before the complaint was filed.
He dismantled the Democrats' star witnesses on national television, pointing out that neither William Taylor nor George Kent had ever spoken directly with President Trump.
"You're their star witness?" Jordan asked Taylor on camera – and the entire country watched Taylor admit he had never spoken to the president himself.
That 38-second exchange became one of the defining moments of the entire impeachment circus – the Democrats' lead witness, under oath, admitting his entire case against the president was built on information he never heard firsthand.
Jordan spent two weeks in that hearing room using every minute of Republican questioning time to dismantle the case Democrats had spent months constructing in private.
Democrats Already Filed Pete Hegseth Impeachment Articles Before They Even Took the Gavel
In 2019, Democrats at least pretended the Ukraine call was about national security.
In 2027, Jeffries told a crowd of supporters that running Hegseth out of town would be "one of the first things" his new majority would do.
Democrats have also promised investigations into Attorney General Todd Blanche, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Trump family finances, and every military decision made during the Iran conflict – using every controversy as a weapon and every subpoena as a headline.
They are planning subpoenas, depositions, and coordinated media leaks – every tool Schiff pioneered in 2019, now applied to an entire cabinet at once.
Jordan watched every move in this playbook from the inside – he knows how Schiff timed witness announcements for maximum press coverage, how Democrats used closed-door depositions to leak selectively to friendly reporters while blocking Republican access, how the whole machine is designed to generate headlines rather than accountability.
Democrats spent months openly telling the American people exactly what they planned to do with a majority – and Republicans answered by handing the gavel to the one man who already knows how to take it apart.
"Nobody was more effective in exposing the sham impeachment of President Trump's first term than Jim Jordan," Leavitt said on Fox News.
That is not spin – it is the record.
Democrats made clear they planned to investigate the president's family, his cabinet, and every foreign policy decision he made – what they call oversight and what Jordan has been calling a sham process for seven years.
He will be in the same room to prove it again.
Sources:
- Karoline Leavitt, Fox News, November 10, 2026.
- "Jim Jordan Defeats Steve Scalise to Become House Republican Minority Leader," Scripps News, November 10, 2026.
- "Ohio's Jim Jordan to Run for House Minority Leader," Breitbart, November 4, 2026.
- "Jordan Emerges as Potential Next GOP Leader if Dems Seize House," Fox News, October 8, 2026.
- "Jim Jordan: Star Witnesses in Impeachment Sham Never Met Trump or Talked to Top Staffers," Fox News, November 14, 2019.
- Jim Jordan, "Impeachment – A Closing Argument," Fox News Opinion, January 17, 2020.