WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman and two other House Democrats Wednesday moved to censure President Donald Trump for saying "there's blame on both sides" for the white supremacist march in Charlottesville that left one person dead.

Watson Coleman (D-12th Dist.) and Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) plan to introduce their resolution on Friday, the next time the House holds a brief session.

"Donald Trump's continued false equivocation following the Charlottesville attacks is not only disgusting, it is dangerous," Watson Coleman said. "If the executive branch refuses to accept facts and truth, Congress has a responsibility to take the lead and be on record unequivocally standing against all forms of terrorism and hate."

The resolution says Trump "attempted to create a moral equivalency" between the white supremacists and those protesting their rally; surrounded himself with people "who have long histories of promoting white nationalist, alt-right, racist and anti-Semitic principles and policies," and "provided tacit encouragement and little to no denunciation of white supremacist groups and individuals."

Trump's White House staff includes Stephen Bannon, former head of the Breitbart website that he called a favorite of white supremacists; and Sebastian Gorka, who, according to the Forward newspaper, worked with anti-Semitic organizations in Hungary and wore a medal linked to the pro-Nazi World War II Hungarian regime.

The lawmakers acted following Tuesday's press conference at Trump Tower in New York City where Trump went back on earlier remarks that specifically singled out for criticism the white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members who populated the march.

"You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent," Trump said.

Before then, he took two days to repudiate neo-Nazis and anti-Semites among the marchers after initially bemoaning "hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides."

"Our nation is looking for true leadership and unity, but this president prefers to pander to his fringe supporters than to clearly state what we all know to be true: that racism has no place in this country -- full stop," Watson Coleman said.

Separately, Watson Coleman, Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-10th Dist.) and the other Democratic lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee asked the panel's Republican majority to hold hearings on domestic terrorism.

Congress has a responsibility to "stand up to all ideologically-motivated violence," the lawmakers said in a letter to committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and the other GOP committee members.

"Failure to act as innocent people continue to be terrorized, harmed, and killed by domestic terrorists puts American lives in peril," they wrote.

One of the people protesting the Charlottesville demonstration, Heather Heyer, was killed when a Nazi sympathizer drove his car into a crowd of march opponents.

"In the past 15 years, domestic terrorists have killed more Americans than foreign terrorists -- many of these attacks motivated by far-right and white supremacist ideologies," Watson Coleman said. "We have a responsibility to Heather Heyer, other victims of domestic terror, and all Americans who experience grief at the hands of this scourge."

McCaul responded Wednesday by suggesting that committee members discuss domestic terrorism during a previously scheduled hearing next month with the heads of the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.

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