Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants every American voter to know something before they cast their ballot on Election Day, and her prediction about what to expect next from former president Donald Trump is dire.
During an appearance Sunday on MSNBC, Pelosi told host Jen Psaki that Trump’s recent campaign speeches in which he cannot manage to stay on topic are the clearest signs yet of “cognitive deterioration.”
“You saw, recently, when he was talking about whether he chose electrocution or being eaten by sharks. Something’s very wrong there.”
What does that mean for the country if Trump manages to win on Tuesday?
“So I think people who are thinking about voting for him have to know that he can’t last as president for four years with his brain deteriorating at the rate that it is and is clearly evident, and they may be voting for President Vance, which is a horrible thing for our country.”
The former House Speaker also talked about the right-wing violence which impacted her family when a Trump supporter broke into her home in 2022 and violently assaulted her husband, Paul, with a hammer.
“You’re right, our family has experienced the violence… coming into our house, violating the sanctity of our home, the safety of my husband, looking for me, echoing what was said on January 6th in the Capitol.”
Here’s the video from MSNBC:
Trump needs to lose and lose badly on Tuesday. If he doesn’t, this country is absolutely doomed.
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused MSNBC host Katy Tur of being a Donald Trump “apologist” during a tense back-and-forth on the network yesterday afternoon, and all Tur could do was whine that she’d always been tough in her reporting on the disgraced former president.
The exchange was part of a larger conversation the two were having about the accomplishments of President Joe Biden and how they compare with the Trump administration.
“Donald Trump is a great threat to our democracy. What is a democracy, what are the pillars? What are the pillars?” Pelosi asked.
“A free and independent press to tell the story,” she continued. “To keep everybody informed of what people are saying and doing. That transparency is essential.”
“Independent judiciary. An independent judiciary when they’re practically threatening on TV exposure of jurors in the trial of the president, or any trial, and any of that. What is an independent judiciary about? It’s about free and fair elections. And what do they do, but suppress the vote?”Independent judiciary. An independent judiciary when they’re practically threatening on TV exposure of jurors in the trial of the president, or any trial, and any of that. What is an independent judiciary about? It’s about free and fair elections. And what do they do, but suppress the vote?
“So, there’s nothing in his ‘performance,’ if that’s the word we’ll use, what he has done, that would indicate he cares, prioritizes, or ever valued, or ever did anything to support a democracy.”
The former Speaker of the House added, “And now on the ballot saying he should have immunity from whatever he might do, I mean, really, I have sympathy and respect for everybody who votes. I’m just glad people vote. I know some of them will never, will always reject those of us who might look different to them in leadership and the rest, and that’s that.”
“But there are those who have real legitimate concerns about immigration, globalization, innovation, and what does that mean to their job and their family’s future? And we have to address those concerns. And Joe Biden is doing that. Created nine million jobs in his term in office. Donald Trump has the worst record of job loss of a president. So, we just have to make sure people know.”
Tur interjected, “That was a global pandemic.”
Clearly irritated by the suggestion from Tur, Pelosi countered, “He had the worst record of any president. We’ve had other concerns in our country. If you want to be an apologist for Donald Trump, that may be your role, but it ain’t mine.”
Tur: “I don’t think anybody can accuse me of that.”
Actually, Katy, they most certainly can accuse you of just that. Trying to cover for the biggest failure of the Trump administration, their handling of the COVID pandemic which led to a jobless recession and over a million deaths is indeed being an apologist for the worst U.S. president of the past 100 years.
The 2024 election should not be the least bit competitive when you lay Biden’s accomplishments next to Trump’s incompetence and insurrection. Democracy is on the ballot. If we value this republic, we’d damn well better show up in November and reject Trump.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) believes she knows why failed former president Donald Trump is constantly praising Russian war criminal Vladimir Putin, and she’s letting the world know.
Pelosi was a guest on MSNBC’s “Inside With Jen Psaki” Monday evening, and she told the host, “What does he have on Donald Trump that he has to constantly be catering to Putin?”
Calling Putin one of “the most evil people in the world,” Pelosi continued.
“I don’t know what he has on him, but I think it’s probably financial. Or something on the come ― something that he expects to get.”
Think about this: Have you ever once heard Trump say anything negative about Putin? And now consider some of the many positive things the failed former U.S. president has said regarding the Russian president:
“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius,’” Trump said during an interview. “Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine – of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”
“They say, ‘Trump said Putin’s smart.’ I mean, he’s taking over a country for two dollars’ worth of sanctions,” Trump told a crowd at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago. “I’d say that’s pretty smart. He’s taking over a country – really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in.”
In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump said, “Yesterday reporters asked me if I thought President Putin was smart. I said, ‘Of course, he’s smart,’ to which I was greeted with ‘Oh, that’s such a terrible thing to say.’ I like to tell them, ‘Yes, he’s smart.’”
Whatever the reason Trump is so enamored with Putin, is says a lot about Donald that he chooses to admire a man who has gleefully murdered women and children, taken Ukrainian kids hostage, and continues to engage in atrocities on a daily basis.
And whatever Putin has on Trump, the two of them deserve each other. Both of them are equally craven and evil.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made it clear Wednesday evening exactly what she thinks about how Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is running things in the lower chamber of Congress, and the hand gesture she used to express herself set off laughter on social media.
Speaking with Anderson Cooper, Pelosi noted that the only reason McCarthy agreed to open an impeachment inquiry aimed at President Joe Biden is because he is so terrified of losing the Speaker’s gavel that he has given into every demand made of him by GOP extremists.
“You have to impeach the president or else we’re going to vacate the chair of speaker,” Pelosi said. “You have to shut down government or else we’re going to vacate the chair of speaker. This is not responsible governance, but it’s the chaos on the Republican side.”
Cooper asked if that doesn’t put McCarthy in what can best be called an “impossible situation.”
“Yeah. The incredibly shrinking speakership.”
As she made the comment, Pelosi also made a gesture with her hand that suggested either something being crushed or shriveling up, much like the so-called speakership of Kevin McCarthy.
Cooper: Is it an impossible situation that McCarthy has put himself in?
Pelosi: *hand gesture* Yeah. I think it’s an incredibly shrinking speakership. pic.twitter.com/PrBQt7R82m
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was discussing her two decades a leader in the Democratic Party on Thursday, noting that she will no longer be a member of the House Democratic leadership.
Pelosi pointed to three different presidents she worked with to pass major legislation:
“I have enjoyed working with three presidents, achieving historic investments in clean energy with President George Bush.
“Transformative healthcare reform with President Barack Obama. And forging the future from infrastructure to healthcare to climate action with President Joe Biden.”
Notice someone Pelosi didn’t mention? She was also Speaker during Donald Trump’s four years in the White House, but she didn’t give him a shoutout, HuffPost reports.
Of course, Pelosi also served as speaker of the House under President Donald Trump, but he bore no mention during her speech.
Trump relentlessly attacked Pelosi in public, often with one of his juvenile nicknames: “Crazy Nancy.”
Just two weeks ago, he told a crowd of supporters at a rally in Iowa, “We’re going to end Crazy Nancy Pelosi’s political career once and for all.” Days earlier, a man had broken into Pelosi’s San Francisco home and attacked her husband with a hammer, sending him to the hospital for surgery on his head. The suspect, David DePape, had reportedly shouted, “Where’s Nancy?”
Pelosi will remain a member of Congress, representing California’s 12th congressional district. She was first elected to that office in 1987.
