House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters on Tuesday said President Donald Trump should be imprisoned and "placed in solitary confinement," an escalation in House Democrats' rhetoric against Trump as they launch impeachment proceedings.

The California Democrat, one of the earliest advocates for the president's removal from office, said on Twitter that impeachment "is not good enough for Trump." Waters is one of the House committee chairs investigating the president and tasked with making a case for impeachment.


She said Republicans should stop Trump's "filthy talk of whistleblowers being spies & using mob language implying they should be killed."