Democrats Move To Censure Trump Over Charlottesville Response
Trump must be censured for failing to denunciate white supremacists, three Democratic members of Congress say.
Three House Democrats have introduced a bill to censure Donald Trump for saying “both sides” were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville.
Congressman Jerrold Nadler and his colleagues Bonnie Watson Coleman and Pramila Jayapal revealed the plan to formally introduce a resolution on Friday to “censure and condemn” Trump for his response to this weekend’s Unite the Right rally and the ensuing violence.
The resolution will also urge Trump to fire “any and all White House advisors who have urged him to cater to the alt-Right movement in the United States.”
The lawmakers said the President’s failure to condemn the white supremacists and neo-Nazi’s “attempted to create a moral equivalency between white supremacist, KKK, neo-Nazi groups and those counter-protesting” the rally.
“Donald Trump has provided tacit encouragement and little to no denunciation of white supremacist groups and individuals who promote their bigoted, nationalist ideology and policies,” they wrote in the resolution.
“Trump has surrounded himself with, and cultivated the influence of, senior advisors and spokespeople who have long histories of promoting white nationalist, alt-Right, racist and anti-Semitic principles and policies within the country,” they added.
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