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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday endorsed a growing push to censure Donald Trump for his repugnant defense of a white supremacist and neo-Nazi protest that led to deadly violence last weekend.
“The President’s repulsive defense of white supremacists demands that Congress act to defend our American values," she said in endorsing a censure resolution introduced by several House Democrats.
"Every day, the President gives us further evidence of why such a censure is necessary," she said.
Voting to censure Trump would be a purely symbolic condemnation of Trump, but it certainly challenges Republicans to make an on-the-record expression of what many have been saying privately for months. This week has even driven some GOP lawmakers to speak out publicly, like when Republican Sen. Bob Corker notably admitted Trump hasn't demonstrated either the "stability" or "competence" to be president of the United States.
Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler told MSNBC’s Ari Melber Thursday that an official censure would send the message that “the United States is a moral country even if it has an immoral president.”
Trump has now effectively ceded all of the moral authority attached to the office he holds—not that he ever had any inkling about the meaning of morality to begin with. But this week, he may have actually made himself toxic—only time will tell. Regardless, Democrats should absolutely push this effort and make all Republicans, especially Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, answer for their complete and total failure in leadership on all things Trump.