Hours after being sworn in as a new congresswoman on Thursday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) dropped a bomb on an issue around which most Democrats have been walking on eggshells.
“‘Look, Mama, you won. Bullies don’t win,’” Tlaib quoted her son to the crowd at a MoveOn reception. “And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t.’ Because we’re gonna go in there and impeach the motherfucker.”
The crowd erupted.
President Donald Trump apparently saw Tlaib’s speech and reacted with bewilderment Friday morning.
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
Tlaib was uncowed the day after her comments.
I will always speak truth to power. #unapologeticallyMe
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) January 4, 2019
This is not just about Donald Trump. This is about all of us. In the face of this constitutional crisis, we must rise.
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) January 4, 2019
Watch a clip of Tlaib’s speech here:
Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib tells cheering crowd that Trump impeachment coming
“We’re going to go in and impeach the motherfucker” pic.twitter.com/oQJYqR78IA
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) January 4, 2019
Sounds like a rather odd way to start off your two years in the House.
Such coarse language is gonna give Lindsey Graham the vapors!
Not quite the same venom as 'We are going to impeach the n-CLANG"…
This is exactly what we don’t need.
Nothing wrong with this as along as it is isolated incidents…
Our base likes to get stroked too, you know…