Impeach the motherf---er....

Freshman Rep. Tlaib: Dem majority will 'impeach the motherf---er'

By CAITLIN OPRYSKO

Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib declared Thursday night that the newly installed Democratic majority in the House will "go in there and impeach the motherf---er," breaking with party leaders and stirring controversy just hours after officially taking office.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other top Democrats have been largely hesitant to promise President Donald Trump's impeachment, preferring instead to wait for the results of the ongoing Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. But Tlaib (D-Mich.) and others in the newly installed House have expressed an eagerness to begin impeachment proceedings even before Mueller issues a final report.

“When your son looks at you and says, ‘Momma look, you won, bullies don’t win,’ and I say ‘Baby they don’t,’ because we’re going to go in there and impeach the motherf---er,” Tlaib said at a party Thursday night. Video of the congresswoman's remarks was captured and posted to Twitter by user @_NestorRuiz and were reported by journalists from The Washington Post and The Huffington Post.

Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, had been sworn in earlier Thursday on Capitol Hill. Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Asked about the video on Friday morning, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) neither condemned nor endorsed the comments.

“Well, passions are running high,” she said in an interview on CNN’s “New Day.” “Let's just leave it at that, okay?”

Bustos, who represents a rural Illinois Congressional district where Trump won in 2016, also echoed Pelosi's calls to hold off on impeachment talk until Mueller finishes his investigation.

Tlaib's expletive-laden comment was widely shown on morning cable news shows and drew swift condemnation from Republicans, including from the president, who seemingly jumped on the remarks as evidence the new Democratic House would focus more on opposing the president than on governing.

"How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?" Trump wrote on Twitter.

In another tweet, Trump portrayed the push as a sign of desperation due to the success of his administration in a Friday morning tweet, writing that Democrats “only want to impeach me because they know they can’t win in 2020, too much success!”

Republican leadership in the House weighed in as well.

“Meet the new House Democrat majority,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) wrote on Twitter, linking to a story about the video, while House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told Fox News that Democrats' "whole focus here is to try to attack this president while we are trying to move America forward."