House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated she won’t take any step to reprimand freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., after she called President Trump a “motherfucker” and said Democrats would impeach him.
“I probably have a generational reaction to it,” Pelosi told MSNBC’s Joy Reid when asked her response to the comments. “But in any event, I’m not in the censorship business.”
“I don’t think that — I mean, I don’t like that language. I wouldn’t use that language,” Pelosi said. “I don’t, again, establish any language standards for my colleagues. But I don’t think it’s anything worse than what the president has said.”
Tlaib made the comments about removing Trump from the White House during an event hosted by MoveOn as she shared a conversation she had with her son.
“Look mama, you won. Bullies don’t win,” Tlaib recounted her son saying.
“You’re right, they don’t. And we’re gonna go in and impeach the motherfucker,” Tlaib said.
Tlaib has stood by her comments, and tweeted Friday morning, “I will always speak truth to power. #unapologeticallyMe.”
“This is not just about Donald Trump. This is about all of us,” Tlaib tweeted. “In the face of this constitutional crisis, we must rise.”
Pelosi added in her interview that Democrats would not move to impeach Trump until special counsel Robert Mueller concludes his report on whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin during the 2016 election.
“We shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason,” Pelosi said.
