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Speaker Nancy Pelosi is accusing former President Donald Trump of not being ‘man enough’ to face the partisan January 6 committee after being subpoenaed to testify just weeks ahead of the November midterm elections.
“I don’t think he’s man enough to show up,” Pelosi said during a Sunday appearance on MSNBC. “I don’t think his lawyers will want him to show up because he has to testify under oath. But I don’t think he’ll show up. I don’t think he’s man enough. We’ll see.”
Nancy Pelosi: Trump isn’t “man enough” to testify in front of the Jan 6 Committee. pic.twitter.com/BoPAsQak76
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) October 23, 2022
“We’ll see if he’s man enough to show up, and the public should make a judgment,” Pelosi added. “No one is above the law. If we believe that, then they should make a judgment about how he responds to that request.”
Speaker Pelosi thus continues her track record of belligerent rhetoric against Donald Trump, which reinforces the perception that the January 6 committee is engaging in a partisan vendetta, and not a legitimate public inquiry.
In a recent CNN presentation that showed previously unaired behind-the-scenes video from January 6, captured by none other than Pelosi’s daughter, she said that she would “punch” Trump if he showed up and that she would “go to jail.”
This is more violent rhetoric than Donald Trump uttered in public on the day of January 6.
Trump last week responded to the partisan January 6 committee’s subpoena for him to testify.
“Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago?” Trump asked on Truth Social. “Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting? Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST’ that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly – A laughing stock all over the World?”
The January 6 committee, which is composed of seven Democrats and two ‘Never Trump’ Republicans, had voted unanimously 9-0 to issue Trump a subpoena to testify before Congress on the Capitol riot.
Donald Trump slammed the committee and its investigation as a “witch hunt” in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday.
“The committee is a hoax, a sham, a partisan witch hunt which is a continuation of the witch hunt that has gone on since the great day for our country that I came down the golden escalator with our future first lady,” Trump said. “They have no case, they have no ratings, so they have to try to do this to get publicity.”
A source close to Donald Trump told Fox News that if he chose to testify, he would “talk about how corrupt the election was, how corrupt the committee was, and how Nancy Pelosi did not call up the National Guard that Trump strongly recommended for her to do three days earlier on January 3, 2021.”
Trump “loves the idea of testifying,” the source added.
The Democratic Party has been desperate to make the 2022 midterm elections about anything except its track record of failure to address an economic recession, soaring inflation, high gas prices, rampant crime, and a border crisis.
Nancy Pelosi: "When I hear people talk about inflation, we have to change that subject." pic.twitter.com/vQSUhwUcdS
— Becker News (@NewsBecker) October 23, 2022
“When I hear people talk about inflation… we have to change that subject!” Pelosi said on “Face the Nation.”
The speaker attempted to reframe the argument away from inflation to the cost of living to justify the Democrats’ spend-thrift policies, which objectively fuel more inflation and exacerbate the inflation problem.
President Biden, however, recently called the argument that massive spending fuels inflation “bizarre.”
Speaker Pelosi was also confronted on MSNBC about the American people’s lack of trust in the Democratic Party.
Reporter: "Why don't the American people, according to the surveys, trust Democrats but instead trust Republicans?"
Nancy Pelosi: "I don't subscribe to what you said that they don't trust us." pic.twitter.com/09QS2v3D5a
— Becker News (@NewsBecker) October 23, 2022
“I don’t subscribe to what you said that they don’t trust us,” she denied.
Pelosi also said that Democrats have to fight that “perception that they are putting out there about inflation.”
The January 6 committee, despite the mainstream media hype and its show-trial theatrics, has failed to distract Americans from the core issues of economics and crime, which will be pivotal in the midterms.
The Democrats nonetheless continue to insist that state abortion laws and the January 6 riots are the most important issues facing the country.
A New York Times/Siena College poll shows that 5% of likely voters rank abortion as the most important problem facing the country today, while 26% name the economy and 18% name inflation or the cost of living.
