Politics & Government
Tlaib Calls For Trump’s Impeachment Using Profanity
"We are gonna go in an impeach that (expletive)" Tlaib said to a cheering crowd.
MICHIGAN — Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib made waves Friday after colorfully calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump — calling the president an expletive.
Tlaib was sworn in Thursday as one of Michigan’s new Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and she delivered a strong message to a group of supporters who cheered her on.
“People love you. And you win,” she said in a video posted on Twitter. “And when your son looks at you and says, ‘Momma, look you won, bullies don’t win.’ And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t.’ Because we are gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach that m------------.”
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The video made news Friday and Tlaib backed it up with a tweet saying, “I will always speak truth to power.” with the hashtag #unapologeticallyMe.
Trump fired back in his own tweet Friday, asking how you impeach a leader with the “most successful first two years of any president.”
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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
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Photo credit: Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., smiles following a group photo with the women in the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, during the opening session of the 116th Congress. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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