Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) dropped an expletive when she called for President Trump to be impeached in a speech on Thursday night.
Tlaib told her supporters at a MoveOn.org event that her son said to her, “Momma, look you won. Bullies don’t win.”
“And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t,’ ” Tlaib said. “Because we’re going to go in there and impeach the motherf—er.”
Tlaib defended her comments in a tweet:
I will always speak truth to power. #unapologeticallyMe
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) January 4, 2019
However, she refused to answer reporters’ questions on the matter:
.@RashidaTlaib would not address her comment last night that she wants to “impeach the motherf**cker” pic.twitter.com/NgEyN7znmq
— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) January 4, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) deflected when asked about Tlaib’s comments:
Pelosi asked if she will talk w/ Rep. Tlaib about her “impeach the motherf***er” comment:
“I’m going talk to the president about his remarks,” she said as she heads to WH shutdown negotiation. pic.twitter.com/JqFY7RyBRE
— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) January 4, 2019
Trump told reporters during a press briefing in the Rose Garden on Friday that he thought Tlaib’s comments were “disgraceful.”
“I think she dishonored herself, and I think she dishonored her family,” Trump said. “Using language like that in front of her son, and whoever else was there, I thought that was a great dishonor to her and to her family. I thought it was highly disrespectful to the United States of America.”
Tlaib, the first elected Palestinian-American congresswoman, has called for a one-state solution and has expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. A map in her Washington D.C. congressional office featured a sticky note emblazoned with the word “Palestine” over Israel.
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