House Democrats push GOP to do more than talk tough on Trump [View all]
House Democrats are exploring ways to push wary Republican lawmakers to go beyond measured statements denouncing last week's white-nationalist rallies in Virginia and President Donald Trump's equivocal response to them.
Three Democrats on Wednesday announced plans to introduce a House resolution censuring Trump for his remarks, which included the suggestion made Tuesday that some "very fine people" were among those who participated in the racist "Unite the Right" march and that "both sides" were to blame for violence that killed a Charlottesville, Virginia, woman and injured many others.
"We're at a very significant juncture here," Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., one of the measure's co-sponsors, said in an interview. "We can either have peace, or we can have this president fuel and fan the fires of violence, and that is scary. He needs to be held accountable."
The move to censure the president — which has been accompanied by parallel efforts to increase scrutiny of white-supremacist groups and to remove symbols of the Confederacy from federal property, including the U.S. Capitol — reflects a growing frustration among Democratic lawmakers and activists with the seemingly never-ending cycle of Trump controversies.
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