Adams Calls Trump “A Racist Who is Unfit to Serve”
By CASH MICHAELS
The last time North Carolina Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-NC-12) said anything about the possible impeachment of President Trump, it was May 19th when she issued a statement which ended, “Impeachment is not off the table.”
Adams was one of those who, because of the findings of the Mueller Report, felt that Trump “…has demonstrated a clear disregard for the rule of law and must be held accountable.”
Since then, the Mecklenburg district congresswomen has held her fire, agreeing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to maintain a steady process of fact-finding before formally voting to congressionally indict the controversial commander-in-chief.
But last weekend, that may have changed once Trump took to Twitter again, and spewed what many have described as “racist” attacks on four of Rep. Adam’s Democratic colleagues – four progressive women of color – effectively, but falsely saying that they were not American citizens because of their constant criticisms of his administration.
“It’s been more than twenty-four hours since the President’s hateful, un-American tweets…,” Adams said in a statement issued Monday,” …and there has been no apology. Instead, the President has doubled down on his dangerous rhetoric, proving that he is a racist who is unfit to serve.”
Adams was closer to calling for Trump’s impeachment as she’s ever been, calling him “…a racist who is unfit to serve,” and what he said during a public event at the White House Monday, didn’t help matters. “They hate our country. They hate it, I think, with a passion.” That diatribe followed an explosive tweet on Sunday where the Republican president accused Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Rashida Tiaib (Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) of “racial hatred,” demanded that they apologize to the nation, the state of Israel and him.
Earlier in his weekend tweetstorm, Trump demanded that all four congresswomen of color “go back to your own country.”
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came?” he opined.
However, all are American citizens. Pressley, Tiaib and Ocasio-Cortez were all born in the United States. Rep. Omar is a naturalized citizen.
The four congresswomen, known in the Washington press corps as “The Squad,” did not allow Trump’s divisive broadsides to go unanswered.
"This is the agenda of white nationalists,” Rep. Omar told reporters Monday during a press conference at the Capitol. “Whether it is happening in chat rooms, or it is happening on national TV, and now it's reached the White House garden.”
“So it is time for us to stop allowing this President to make a mockery out of our Constitution. It is time for us to impeach this President."
At that same presser, Rep. Pressley chimed in.
"He does not embody the grace, the empathy, the compassion, the integrity that that office requires and that the American people deserve," Rep. Pressley said. "That being said, I encourage the American people and all of us in this room and beyond to not take the bait. This is a disruptive distraction from the issues of care, concern, and consequence to the American people."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex (D-NY) promised that Trump’s attacks will not dissuade them from their goals for the nation.
"I am not surprised when the President says that four sitting members of Congress should 'go back to their own country' when he has authorized raids without warrants on thousands of families across this country,” she told reporters. “I am not surprised that he used the rhetoric that he does when he violates international human rights and takes thousands of children away from their families."
"We can't allow hateful actions by the president to distract us from the critical work to hold this administration accountable to the inhumane conditions at the border that is separating children from their loved ones and caging them up in illegal horrific conditions," she said.
