New Rep. Tells Cheering Crowd: ‘We’re Going To Impeach The Motherf*cker’

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 3: Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) votes for Speaker-designate Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) along with her kids during the first session of the 116th Congress at the U.S. Capitol January 03, 2019... WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 3: Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) votes for Speaker-designate Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) along with her kids during the first session of the 116th Congress at the U.S. Capitol January 03, 2019 in Washington, DC. Under the cloud of a partial federal government shutdown, Pelosi will reclaim her former title as Speaker of the House and her fellow Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives for the second time in eight years. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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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.

Tlaib was uncowed the day after her comments.

Watch a clip of Tlaib’s speech here:

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  1. Sounds like a rather odd way to start off your two years in the House.

  2. Such coarse language is gonna give Lindsey Graham the vapors!

  3. Not quite the same venom as 'We are going to impeach the n-CLANG"…

  4. This is exactly what we don’t need.

  5. Nothing wrong with this as along as it is isolated incidents…

    Our base likes to get stroked too, you know…

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