President Donald Trump is pushing back on talk by some House Democrats of impeaching him.
On Friday, Trump asked in a tweet: “How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong” and has had the “most successful two years of any president.”
Trump said newly elected Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan “dishonored herself” when she used profanity to describe him.
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Speaking to reporters in the Rose Garden, Trump said that he thought Tlaib’s comments were “disgraceful.”
The Michigan Democrat exclaimed at an event late Thursday that Democrats were going to impeach Trump, and used a profanity for him.
She didn’t back down Friday, tweeting that “I will always speak truth to power.” She added the hashtag, ”#unapologeticallyMe.”
Trump, who routinely slings verbal attacks at his critics, said: “I thought her comments were disgraceful” and “disrespectful” to the United States.
How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2019
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D) said he doesn’t think “comments like these particularly help.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she doesn’t like the profane language used Tlaib, but Pelosi says it’s no worse than what Trump himself has said.
Pelosi said Friday at an MSNBC town hall that she doesn’t agree that the House should move to impeach Trump without more facts. She said, as she has many times before, that impeachment is “divisive” and she wants the new Democratic majority to be unified.
Pelosi said that she has a “generational” reaction to that language and wouldn’t use it, but that she won’t censor her colleagues. Pelosi is 78, while Tlaib is 42.
(AP)
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the problem with most politicians nowadays is that they are more interested in hurting the opposing party rather than helping the citizens of this great country
make politics great again
(or at least better)
Why is trump the only one that says it again and again but nobody else ?
Competence is neither a grounds, nor a defense in impeachment. So far he has not done anything that is impeachable, and political correctness is similarly, neither a grounds nor a defense to impeachment. He has threatened to spend money with an appropriation , which is an impeachable offense, but he hasn’t done so and is probably engaged in his usual “over-the-top” rhetoric as a bargaining tactic (cf.; his book on negotiating in which he advocates taking unrealistic radical positions in order to bargain down to what he actually wants). Outrageous rhetoric is NOT an impeachable offense.
Tlaib is a lot like Trump. A deceitful vulgar bigoted liar.