‘Really Sick’: Nancy Pelosi Reacts to Trump Blaming Her For Jan. 6th, He’s ‘Projecting His Own Failures’
CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviewed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Monday night and asked her to react to Trump recently blaming her for the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol while referring to her as “Nikki Haley.”
“It’s become somewhat famous now. President Trump in New Hampshire apparently trying to criticize you. You were sort of referencing this, but I just want to play that because I was curious what you thought when you saw this,” Cooper said introducing the clip of Trump’s gaffe:
“By the way, they never report the crowd on January 6th. You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley. You know they did. You know, they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything. Deleted it, destroyed all of it. All of it. Because of lots of things. Like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people. Soldiers, National Guard. So whatever they want, they turned it down.
“I mean, none of the facts he’s saying are actually true, but, obviously he was trying to talk about you calling her you, Nikki Haley,” Cooper said.
“Well, four times. He made a mistake in a very short period of time. So that’s a different story than a slip of a tongue. But I will say that on that score, this is really sick. This is a president who refused to send the National Guard for hours, and now he’s doing what he always does. He protects, he projects his own guilt onto other people,” Pelosi responded.
“You’re actually on tape that your daughter happened to be filming on that day, where you are trying to get the National Guard or the military to send troops to the Capitol. You’re saying think about it as if it’s the White House. Think about it like it’s the Pentagon,” Cooper added, rebutting Trump’s longheld and widely debunked claim that Pelosi turned down help that day from him.
“Yeah, not only me, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell said, you better get them over here in a hell of a fast or some terminology like that. Yeah, I mean, this is ridiculous. It’s we pleaded with the Secretary of Army. We pleaded with him to appeal to the secretary of defense,” Pelosi replied, adding:
Oh, it’s going to take a long time. I have to go talk to my boss. All of that. What’s so sad is the District of Columbia, unlike any state in the Union, the head of the District of Columbia does not have the authority to call up the National Guard. It has to be from the executive branch. And they know they didn’t do it.
And now they try to turn it around. But that’s the story of his presidency always projecting his own failures and then trying to put it onto somebody else. It’s really a sad situation for our country because he’s been a national security risk. He was a personal risk that day for so many, people were injured, hundreds, over 100 police officers, law enforcement people were injured. Some people died.
And this person doesn’t even know who he’s talking about there. And is anybody making a fuss? Is that by making a fuss for some reason, it’s okay if you’re 77 and making a mistake 75 times in a row. Whatever you did then. But if you’re Joe Biden, then they hold you to a higher standard, but they always hold Democrats to a higher standard. We can live up to it.
Watch the clip above via CNN.
