“People love you and you win,” Representative Rashida Tlaib, the newly elected Democratic US Representative of Michigan, was captured in a video sayingto an enthusiastic audience of her supporters: “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’re going to go in there, and we’re going to impeach the motherf*****.”
The blunt comment gave the US liberal establishment a jitter: “Impeachment was always going to hang heavily over a divided Washington,” the New York Times reported, “but it took little more than 24 hours this week for a freshman House Democrat’s exuberant, expletive-laden impeachment promise to upend the bonhomie of a new Congress and prompt President Trump, by his own telling, to ask the newly elected speaker if Democrats planned to impeach him.
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