Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stirred controversy at the Texas Tribune Festival over the weekend, implying that former President Donald Trump might skip the upcoming presidential debate out of “cowardice.”
Her comments have provoked a sharp response from the Trump campaign, which accused her of spreading “fake news.”
During a conversation with journalist Kara Swisher, Pelosi discussed various topics, including her take on the forthcoming ABC News Presidential Debate scheduled for Tuesday in Philadelphia, where Trump is set to face off against Kamala Harris.
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When asked what advice Pelosi would offer Trump, she responded skeptically about his participation: “You think he’s gonna show up?” This remark elicited laughter and applause from the audience.
Swisher probed further, asking if Pelosi knew something that the public did not. Pelosi’s reply was cutting: “I know cowardice when I see it.”
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“Do you know something I don’t know?”
“I know cowardice when I see it.”
Pelosi is a communist lunatic. Let’s stop acting like she’s got all of her marbles.pic.twitter.com/CZRiVUmF2a
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) September 9, 2024
The exchange highlighted ongoing tensions between the former House Speaker and the former president, who have frequently clashed in public.
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Swisher also referenced remarks by former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who had previously called Trump a “misogynist pig” at the same festival. Pelosi praised Cheney, saying, “Isn’t she wonderful?”
In her conversation with Swisher, Pelosi also referred to herself as “Speaker Emerita,” though she noted that “Speaker” remains her title.
The Trump campaign quickly rebuked Pelosi’s suggestions about Trump potentially skipping the debate. Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, told Fox News Digital, “Nancy Pelosi has no idea what she is talking about and has been proven to be a liar and fraud. If she isn’t busy giving herself fake titles to make herself feel better, she’s peddling fake news because it’s the only thing she’s ever done.”
This spat is the latest in a long history of animosity between Pelosi and Trump. Their contentious relationship was famously encapsulated in 2020 when Pelosi tore up her printed copy of Trump’s State of the Union address immediately after his speech to a Joint Session of Congress, an act that drew significant media attention and public commentary.
As the debate approaches, all eyes are on Trump and Harris, with many wondering if Pelosi’s provocative comments might foreshadow an unconventional approach by Trump to the upcoming electoral events.
The debate remains a critical moment for both candidates as they seek to sway voters ahead of the November election.
The back-and-forth between Pelosi and the Trump campaign underscores the deeply polarized nature of current American politics, where even the anticipation of a presidential debate can become a battleground for accusations and insinuations from both sides of the aisle.
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SHe’s a disgrace.
Gee, sounds just like the Herry Reid school on democrat strategy, lie, tell lies and then lie some more. C’mon Nan try to get original.
Nancy is not welcome in Texas!
Mumbler yes, speaker no. Pelosi couldn’t figure her way our of a wet paper bag if she didn’t have a team of traitors running as her puppeteers.
Alcoholic
Anyone else not surprised Kamala found a way out of Debating Trump?
The Democrat Party is trying to sell ‘a pig in a poke’. the phrase dates to the 1500s, when merchants stuffed piglets (and sometimes cats and dogs) in sacks, or “pokes,” and sold them sight unseen to unwitting buyers. The phrase today means “an offer or deal that is foolishly accepted without being examined first.”
Does ANYONE think the debate will actually happen!? There’s NO WAY Harris can withstand a debate against Trump (or against ANYONE with even a shred of knowledge about any policy, at all)! She can’t debate. Especially if the mics are off. ALL she has is “Excuse me! I’m speaking!” Without that little gambit she’s literally got NOTHING.
The dim leadership is run by geriatrics led by demented Pelosi.
Its funny hearing Cheney talk about someone else being a pig when she is the original pig with lipstick on and Nancy is the poster child go for term limits. BTW is Paul’s new boyfriend still hammering it home.
Don’t be so hard on Paul – when it came to love, he had a choice between her and a drug-crazed filthy communist hippie wielding a hammer.
She’s delusional, psychotic. Out of touch with reality.
There is Nancy Pelosi, casually strolling down the hallway with a couple of boobs.
I think she was referring to him going to prison, and not attending.
nancy is to america what hitler was to germany
The Jezebel Nanzi witch needs a bucket of water thrown on her, good riddance.
Boiling water, of course!
Looks to me like Pelosi is trying to help fellow drunkard Kamala by making this absurd statement.
It’s Harris who has shown the nation who the coward is in this race with her and her sidekick VP pick not willing to give interviews even to networks who lick their boots
Harris’s best friend is the wife of the guy who is in control of ABC, anyone want to bet that she won’t be given the questions to be asked beforehand?
“You think he’s gonna show up?” Yes I do, you old alcoholic dingbat, unless y’all kill him first. Ever notice how the Demonrats always give away their plan before something bad happens? It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest that they would go to any measure to keep someone from humiliating their puppet Kamaltoe in front of the whole world. Nevermind that she needs absolutely no help in doing just that. Pray for President Trump. These evil, soulless idiots are capable of anything. When someone shows you who they are you should believe them.
are any of us surprised? she is nothing but a coward!
Nancy Pelosi, proof that elections in Commiefornia have been stolen for centuries.
this comments section sure isnt yahoos
That old drunken worthless POS needs to retire and get the hell out of politics, both her and her husband are nothing but drunken fools.
Yeah, just like Harry Reid…remember him?
I think Nancy should hearld in gibbiting on the steps of the capitol.
The old money-grubbing witch is still drunk with power and dedicated to evil, misery, and the destruction of America.
You’re right because she never ever had planned to show up in the first place, just string along !!!
If you want to learn where this witch (did I spell that correctly?) learned her craft, just google her father’s name, the commie/cocaine-dealing mayor of Baltimore when I was growing up there in the 1950s, Thomas D’Alesandro. That’ll give you a clue to how this creep matured!
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Not too late for Kamala to get 🙊 Monkeypox.
Nancy is drunk.
theyre scared that their naturalized anchor baby is gong to get slaughtered…
meanwhile people are wondering when the insider trading Pelosi will be brought to justice?
The witch is evil. Throw water.
so the old dried up sckank chimes in again