Pelosi Backs Resolution to Censure Trump for Charlottesville Comments
By Sam Dorman
August 19, 2017
Congress must censure @realDonaldTrump for his repulsive defense of white supremacy in the wake of #Charlottesville.
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) August 18, 2017
On Friday, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed the first congressional resolution to censure the president for remarks he made after the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In a statement released on Friday, Pelosi justified the resolution by citing what she said was President Donald Trump's “repulsive defense of white supremacists.”
“Every day the President gives us further evidence of why such a censure is necessary,” Pelosi said of the resolution, which Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wa.) introduced.
Pelosi called on Congressional Republicans to publicly distinguish themselves from the president. “[T]he Republican Congress must declare whether it stands for our sacred American values or with the [p]resident who embraces white nationalism,” Pelosi said.