House Democrats push GOP to do more than talk tough on Trump

The following article by Mike DeBonis was posted on the Washington Post website August 16, 2017:

President Trump points to members of the media as he answers questions in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on August15. (AP)

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 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 woman and injured many others. Continue reading “House Democrats push GOP to do more than talk tough on Trump”