Brand new Rep. Rashida Tlaib, one of the first Muslims in Congress, made her intentions known last night.
The new Michigan representative, on her first day in Congress, wrote an op ed in which she called for the impeachment of President Donald trump, The Hill reported.
Tlaib in the article, co-written by Trump impeachment advocate John Bonifaz, drew a distinction between “the power of a criminal prosecution” and “the impeachment power.”
“While Congress has the impeachment power to prevent future harm to our government, prosecutors have the power to seek punishment for those who commit crimes,” Tlaib and Bonifaz wrote.
“Those who say we must wait for Special Counsel Mueller to complete his criminal investigation before Congress can start any impeachment proceedings ignore this crucial distinction,” the article continues.
The op-ed is a break from top Democratic leaders who have said they are waiting to see the final results from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation before they seriously examine impeachment…
“We already have overwhelming evidence that the president has committed impeachable offenses,” Tlaib and Bonifaz wrote. They went on to accuse Trump of offenses including obstruction of justice, “violating the emoluments clause,” “abusing the pardon power,” “directing or seeking to direct law enforcement to prosecute political adversaries for improper purposes,” and more.
“This is not just about Donald Trump,” they wrote. “This is about all of us. What should we be as a nation? Who should we be as a people? In the face of this constitutional crisis, we must rise.”
Is the new Congress classless?
Tlaib throughout her campaign pushed Trump’s impeachment as a central tenant of her platform.
“I keep telling people this is about electing a jury that will impeach him, and I make a heck of a juror,” Tlaib, one of the first of two Muslim women elected to Congress this year, told The Hill in April.
Tlaib in the article also rejected arguments that seeking to impeach Trump is “politically unwise.”
“Such a claim places partisan gamesmanship over our country and our most vulnerable at this perilous moment in our nation’s history,” she wrote.
Later in the day she was speaking to supporters and got even more blunt.
She said that she was having a conversation with her son when he told her “‘Look, Mama, you won. Bullies don’t win,’” she said.
“And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t.’ Because we’re gonna go in there and impeach the m***erf****r,” she said.
Democrat Rashida Tlaib during her first day in Congress: “We’re going to go in and impeach the motherf**ker.”pic.twitter.com/WIvz5Q7XLb
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 4, 2019
Isn’t that a nice thing for a mother to tell her son.
This new Congress is classy.
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