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Former House Speaker and California Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi made herself look ridiculous as she attempted to accuse Republicans of hosting a “clown show.”
She appeared on the CNN show “State of the Union” on Sunday and spoke about the testimony in the House last week about censorship in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared.
But when Pelosi attempted to take a swipe at Kennedy and the Republicans as clowns she was left looking like a clown herself.
“This past week, two IRS whistle-blowers, career investigators, testified under oath that the Justice Department slow-walked the investigation into President Biden’s son Hunter and ignored recommendations to file more serious felony charges.,” host Dana Bash said.
“Are you confident the politics did not play a role here?” she said.
“Well, it was a — since you reference the hearing, what a ridiculous clown show, again, on the part of the Republicans,” the former Speaker said.
“Here was a purpose that you described. What did they do? Bring in Joe Kennedy talking about censorship, that he’s being censored, as he’s talking to the world in a congressional hearing, and showing pictures that had nothing to do with the essence of it,” she said before the host corrected her.
“I think you mentioned Robert — Robert F. Kennedy. But on the …”
“Excuse me. I’m sorry,” Pelosi said.
“That’s OK. There are lot of Kennedys,” the host said.
“Robert,” Pelosi said, correcting herself.
Joe Kennedy was born on September 6, 1888 and would be 134 years old now if he had not died in 1969, but considering Pelosi’s age of 83 she may be more familiar with him than his grandson.
She spent the beginning of her interview continuing her crusade against former President Donald Trump.
PELOSI: The president is not above the law. I’m afraid what I heard the vice president say earlier, as much as I admire him — he was a hero that day. Mike Pence was. The president is not above the law.
We saw what happened. It was very clear. It’s heartbreaking, because my motto for all these things, and the flag was still there, being from Baltimore, national anthem, written there. And the flag was still there. We always have to make sure that it’s about the rule of law and about freedom of speech and all of that.
And he has — I mean, the courts will act. He has — innocent until proven guilty.
BASH: But what does justice look like to you?
PELOSI: Well, justice has to be something that relates to the facts and the law. What are the facts? What is the law? Now make the case. And I have been through this so many times in the Congress on ethics cases and the rest of that, nothing about rumor, nothing about reputation, nothing about hearsay, the facts and the law.
BASH: In a private call, the now-speaker, Kevin McCarthy, told the former president that he supported the idea of expunging Trump’s two impeachments, but, apparently, he didn’t commit to bringing it to the floor for a vote. You oversaw both of those impeachment proceedings.
PELOSI: Yes.
BASH: What’s your reaction to this notion?
PELOSI: Well, the president was impeached because we had no choice. He had undermined our national security, jeopardized our well-being of our country.
I was very careful about bringing any impeachment forward. But when the president made that phone call in terms of Ukraine, there was no choice. We had no choice. He must be impeached.
Kevin is, you know, playing politics. It’s not even clear if he constitutionally can expunge those things. If he wants to put his members on the spot, his members in difficult races on the spot, that’s a decision he has to make.
But this is not responsible. This is not about the flag still being there. This is about being afraid. As I have said before, Donald Trump is the puppeteer. And what does he do all the time but shine the light on the strings. These people look pathetic.
