Forcing that decision on Trump is the entire point of this exercise. 

Putting Trump in that quandary is the goal, and that’s the only reason the bill is not being introduced as a concurrent or “sense of” resolution.

 It’s notable that there are Republican co-sponsors who are eager to shove this in Trump’s face. 

They actually want to humiliate their own nominee because they believe he deserves it.


 It’s their way of holding his head down in the toilet and forcing him to say the words that Nazis and Klansmen are not “good people” and that the rally in Charlottesville wasn’t carried out by people legitimately concerned about preserving the heritage of Thomas Jefferson.

If the plan works, the joint resolution will be sitting there on Trump’s desk in the Oval Office and he’ll be looking at it and thinking to himself that if he signs it he will be eating some delicious crow.