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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was found to have broken the rules of the U.S. House of Representatives by calling President Donald Trump “racist” on the floor Tuesday, but Democrats voted to keep her remarks in the record and restore her speaking privileges.
Pelosi had delivered a statement calling the president racist as a prelude to voting on a House resolution to that effect. Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) raised a point of order, objecting that Pelosi’s statement was a violation of House rules.
It transpired that Collins was correct:
Regardless of the content of Trump’s racist statement, Democrats are going to have a hard time not taking down Pelosi’s words.
Jefferson’s Manual literally says you can’t refer to a statement by the President as racist on the House floor. pic.twitter.com/CeIJA24TS9