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President Trump on Thursday night shared some recommendations for U.S. Rep. Karen Whitsett, the Michigan congresswoman who just recently endured a bout with coronavirus– just to now face possible censure by some fellow Democrats.
” Needs to join the Republican Celebration!” the president wrote on Twitter.
Trump was reacting to a message published by Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican politician National Committee, who retweeted a Detroit News story reporting that Whitsett was facing a possible rebuke for having stated “thank you” to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence throughout a current White House conference.
DEMS STRATEGY TO CENSURE MICHIGAN LAWMAKER WHO STATED TRUMP’S BOOSTING OF HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE ‘SAVED MY LIFE’
Whitsett had actually thanked Trump and Pence because she associated her recovery from the coronavirus to having actually taken the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine– a treatment Trump has actually regularly supported during White Home news instructions.
The congresswoman said the drug had actually “saved my life.”
Whitsett likewise thanked the president throughout a look on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” earlier this month.
” I actually want to say that you have to provide this an opportunity,” she stated on the show, referring to the drug. “For me, it saved my life. I just can go by what it is that I have gone through and what my story is, and I can’t speak for anyone else. So that’s not what I’m attempting to do here. I’m only promoting myself.”
Throughout the White Home conference on April 14, Whitsett hinted she was currently receiving pushback from Democrats for thanking Trump.
” Thank you for whatever that you have done,” Whitsett informed the president, according to The Detroit News. “I did not understand that saying thank you had a political line. … I’m telling my story and my reality, and this how I feel and these are my words.”
” Thank you for whatever that you have done. I did not know that saying thank you had a political line.”
— U.S. Rep. Karen Whitsett, thanking President Trump
A group called the 13 th Congressional District Democratic Party Company will consider censuring Whitsett when it fulfills Saturday, The Detroit News reported.
Whitsett is not the only Democrat to face consequences for favorable remarks about Trump.
Likewise in Thursday, a state-level Democratic lawmaker in Georgia reversed a choice to resign after dealing with pressure from other Democrats for stating he supported the president.
State Rep. Vernon Jones of Lithonia said he was persuaded to stay in workplace after receiving an outpouring of assistance following his initial strategy to step down.
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” I will not permit the Democrats to bully me into submission,” Jones said. “I will not let them win. I will NOT resign.”
Last December, New Jersey Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew announced he was changing to the GOP after deciding that his fellow Democrats’ arguments for Trump’s impeachment were “weak” and “thin.”
In January, Van Drew appeared with the president prior to a capacity crowd at a rally in Wildwood, N.J.
