Pelosi Announces Resolution To Condemn Trump’s Racist Comments

Presumptive Speaker, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and US President Donald Trump argue before a meeting at the White House December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (... Presumptive Speaker, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and US President Donald Trump argue before a meeting at the White House December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced a resolution Monday introduced by Democratic members born abroad to condemn President Donald Trump’s racist tweets aimed at four congresswomen of color.

“This weekend, the President went beyond his own low standards using disgraceful language about Members of Congress,” Pelosi wrote in a statement addressed to her caucus. “Let me be clear, our Caucus will continue to forcefully respond to these disgusting attacks.”

“The House cannot allow the President’s characterization of immigrants to our country to stand,” she continued. “Our Republican colleagues must join us in condemning the President’s xenophobic tweets.”

The majority of Republicans have been silent on Trump’s tweets, which urge Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Omar was born in Somalia but came to the U.S. as a pre-teen; the other three were born in the United States.

Pelosi’s defense of her members comes on the heels of some Twitter tension between Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff and the official House Democrats account, which some took as a sign of a rift between Democratic leadership and the progressives in the party.

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  1. Meanwhile…

  2. “Let me be clear, our Caucus will continue to forcefully respond to these disgusting attacks.”

    I am sure Trump is quaking in his golf shoes.

  3. Congressional Resolution:

    “It is hereby stated that any and all condemnation of Progressive Democratic Representatives is to fall only within the purview of the Speaker of the House. We ask politely for the President to stand down, we got it”

  4. A resolution to condemn a tweet.

    That’s about as effective as Pelosi can get!

    I think the biggest rift is between the Dem establishment and the Democratic-voting
    public.

  5. What would you do, big talker? Stay silent? It’s what good Germans did

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