Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-13) recently sat down with Mehdi Hasan from The Intercept for his “Deconstructed” podcast where the Michigan representative blamed President Donald Trump for the alleged death threats she’s receiving.
“Absolutely, he is the leader of our country. He sets the tone and you, even in rallies and other instances, he’s even said if impeachment continued, we’re going to see violence. We’re going to see—I mean, it’s almost like he’s sent out some sort of signal,” Tlaib responded when asked if she holds “this president’s rhetoric responsible” for the threats.
During the show, Tlaib continued to build her case for impeaching Trump by invoking the emoluments clause, claiming Trump is “making decisions not in the best interest of the American people,” but “based on the profit lines.”
“The Constitution demands it and I want to reiterate to people to understand that this is beyond collusion with Russia. This is beyond the Mueller investigation. Every single day that he’s president of the United States that has not divested in all of his domestic and foreign corporations, he’s making decisions not in the best interest of the American people,” she said.
Tlaib went on to claim that this “causes a tremendous amount of fear” among her constituents because they “understand we now have a guy that still is sitting, in many ways, CEO of various interests foreign and domestic.”
“Look, it’s not a waste of time to hold the president of the United States accountable,” she added. “No matter what we pass, he’s the administration that has to implement it. So, if it’s not in the corporate interest of his own, you know, profit line, then he’s not going to implement it on the best interest of the American people.”
Tlaib also addressed recent comments she made that employed the anti-Semitic “dual loyalty” conspiracy, which suggests that Israel essentially controls U.S. politicians.
“It’s ridiculous for those to somehow, the desperation and trying to tie that somehow, that I’m somehow anti-Semitic. It’s absolutely ridiculous,” she said.
Naturally, the two also discussed comments that she made calling the president a “motherf—,” which Trump called “disgraceful.”
“He disgraces the office of the presidency every single day,” Tlaib said.
– – –
Anthony Gockowski is managing editor of Battleground State News and The Minnesota Sun. Follow Anthony on Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Rashida Tlaib” by Rashida Tlaib.
Photo “Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0.
She has absolute right to her opinion in this country. She would be a second rate citizen with no right to speak under rules of Islam if imposed here. She better thank God she even has a right to speak out.
She made several accusations but offered no facts to back them up. Her comments in this interview are slanderous and she needs to be held accountable in a court of law.
That women refers to herself as Palenstian. She does not refer to herself as Palenstian-American, or American -Palenstian, but a Palenstian. Not in office a month and she is already requesting a Codel at the expense of taxpayers to Palestine. She should be removed from Congress.
These people have used victimhood to get their way for too long. This evil woman began with her big mouth hating Jews and Whites and is only there to take away our rights to create a Islamic state. People look beyond what she is saying and learn about Sharia and Islam. She’s not a victim, she is a perpetrator. She needs to be impeached.
Exactly!! Her big mouth is the reason she gets death threats!
Signed it & forwarded it. That potty mouth entitld, Soros funded POS can float down the sewer.
There is a petition to get rid of her. Everybody should sign it. She is a traitor.
I already did sign!
Assuming she’s actually getting death threats, its probably because she’s an anti American, Jew hating, Hamas and Islamic jihad supporting POS.
Tlaib curses our President! She says terrible, disgusting things about him!
63 million people who voted for Mr. Trump don’t like her!
Then she blames Mr. Trump!!
As a confirmed supporter of the President with the absolute best record of keeping campaign promises, I’m hoping somewhere, some Trump deranged, bile infested hater can find a promise of promising Palestinian
telephone customer service representatives, whether elected to political office or not, that he has not kept.
And she wonders why people hate her? Does she have proof for her salacious allegations? Nope. I don’t know how she was ever voted in but covering herself in a Palestinian flag when she found out, probably the dumbest move ever.
So true
The acusers are usually the doer in most cases. Beware of the TAQIYYAH DOCTRINE OF SATAN/ISLAMIC ALLAH, fircitvwill deceive even the very “ELECT.”
Her mouth is the problem.
Her mouth is what is causing the threats.
you r right!
He has done nothing wrong, he is ALL ABOUT the American people. Obummers are the ones that separated America. Obummers are the ones that stole money. She needs impeached. She needs deported to where ever she came from.
Interesting. This woman lies and says terrible things about OUR president that, if they were said to her ideological leader (Mohamed), the speaker would be killed. Apparently she, like the rest of the unhinged rabid left, doesn’t understand that there are consequences for what we do and say in any country, even one that has some measure of freedom like ours. I see this claptrap demonstrated in my own town by the “progressives.” Freedom to speak is apparently only for some people. When they’re called on their horrible behavior, they cry and whine that people are mean to them or worse. I don’t care where this woman was born; she needs to return to her ideological country of barbarism, hate and intolerance. We Americans are mostly a peaceful people but we’re getting mighty sick of these ugly demons destroying a decent country.
you r right!
This woman is sick and stupid no doubt.
Blaming Trump for getting death threats? She’s the one who started all this crap with her tasteless remark…..She’s obviously never heard the phrase, “don’t start no crap, there won’t be no crap”
Absolutely! She’s getting threats due to how she was confirmed in on the Koran, NOT the Bible and she hangs the flag of Pakistan and NOT the USA, now WHO is this twit representing???