House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., demanded Friday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi take action against a freshman Democrat who told a crowd of anti-Trump progressives the House is going to “impeach the motherf–ker.“
McCarthy, speaking to reporters following Friday’s House votes, said Pelosi, D-Calif., had a responsibility to condemn the remarks made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., to a group of supporters Thursday night.
“Somebody should stand up to it — she’s the speaker,” McCarthy said.
Tlaib on Wednesday told a cheering crowd of supporters that she informed her young son when she arrives in Congress “we’re going to go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf–ker,” referring to President Trump.
Pelosi has thus far refrained from criticizing Tlaib. She told MSNBC: “I probably have a generational reaction to it but in any event, I’m not in the censorship business.”
McCarthy and Republican leaders have denounced the comments of Tlaib and other Democrats who have likened Trump to Hitler and the GOP to Nazis.
“I’m not going to repeat the allegations because frankly I don’t want my kids to hear them,” Republican Conference Committee Chairwoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said. “But, what you have seen over the last 24 hours with the very foul language, I think, any comparisons to Hitler or Nazism are completely outrageous.”
McCarthy said Pelosi is obligated as the speaker and head of the Democratic Party to confront Tlaib. “We watched a new freshman stand up, use this language, get cheered by the base and then we watched a brand new speaker say nothing to her,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy said the GOP when in the majority “laid out a resolution” not to use foul language. Reporters asked McCarthy to respond to Trump’s own use of insults, such as the “horse face” insult he lobbed at porn star Stormy Daniels. McCarthy said that many members of the GOP publicly rebuked Trump for his language.
“A lot of them did in that process,” McCarthy said.
