Nancy Pelosi crashes press conference to tear into Mitch McConnell, rage at 'cowardly' Republicans

[left-of-center2012]

Nancy Pelosi crashed the House impeachment manager's post-trial press conference Saturday to rage against Mitch McConnell and call out Republicans' 'cowardly' vote to stop Donald Trump from being convicted for 'incitement of insurrection'.

'It had not been my intention to come to this press availability,' Pelosi said as she spoke to reporters on the fifth and final day of the Senate proceedings. 'But what we saw today was a cowardly group of Republicans who apparently have no options because they were afraid to defend their job – respect the institution in which they serve. But why I came over was because I listened to Mitch McConnell,' Pelosi continued.

Pelosi angrily recounted the events of January where McConnell, who was still Senate majority leader at the time, refused to accept the impeachment article against Trump before Joe Biden's inauguration. 'So for him to get up there and make this indictment against the president and then say, 'but I can't vote for it because it's after the fact.' The fact that he established! The fact that he established that it could not be delivered after the inauguration.'

When asked about censuring the ex-president, Pelosi asserted that didn't go nearly far enough. 'Oh these cowardly senators who couldn't face up to what the president did and what was at stake for our country are now going to have a chance to give a little slap on the wrist,' she said as she physically gave herself a slap on the wrist.

'We censure people for using stationary for the wrong purpose,' she said, picking up a few pieces of paper laying on the podium and waving them around. She added: 'We don't censure people for inciting insurrections.'

Pelosi suggested Republicans voted to not convict Trump because they 'can't get another job' and want to make sure they are reelected.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9257989/Nancy-Pelosi-crashes-press-conference-rage-cowardly-Republicans-voting-acquit-Trump.html

[Tommymac]

1. Give 'Em Hell, Nancy

Harry would have wanted it that way.

[SergeStorms]

6. Nancy tells them the truth...

and the republicans THINK it's hell.

[Tommymac]

9. Thanks for the 'correction'

Another student of President Truman, I see.

[SergeStorms]

15. Can't let a chance like that...

slip by. It ranks right up there on my favorite quotations scale.
Have a heart, will you?

[triron]

7. +1000

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Brava, Speaker Pelosi!

[malaise]

17. She nailed that scumbag

Bigly!

[Chainfire]

3. If the founders are looking down on us, they will be asking themselves

"Why didn't we hang the bastard?"

[Irish_Dem]

10. I keep thinking the same thing.

If the FFs are looking down they are puzzled.

[Chainfire]

19. Yea, I can visualize Adams asking Washington, "Are they all on dope?"

[Irish_Dem]

20. Ben Franklin saying "I told you so."

[Irish_Dem]

23. Aaron Burr saying "Hold My Beer."

OK I could do this all night.

[Chainfire]

29. Why did we waste our time giving the a damn Constitution?

[Irish_Dem]

30. "Next time we'll just hand them the 10 commandments and tell them to F off."

[aggiesal]

40. 8 Commandmets ...

"Thou shall not kill" and "Thou shall not commit adultery" would not apply to Pendejo45.

[Irish_Dem]

41. I think it would have to be 0 commandments in that case.

[aggiesal]

44. Here they are, I'll mark them off

1 - You shall have no other gods before me (Christian Right believe Pendejo45 is God sent)
2 - You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God (Pendejo45 thinks he's God)
3 - Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy (Pendejo45 never attends church)
4 - Honor your Father and Mother (Pendejo45 has no honor)
5 - You shall not kill (Jan. 6th, 2021)
6 - You shall not commit adultery with somebody's spouse (Well documented)
7 - You shall not steal (Well documented)
8 - You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor (Pendejo45 lies every time his lips are moving)
9 - You shall not covet your neighbor's house (Pendejo45 takes what he wants)
10 - You shall not covet your neighbor's wife (Pendejo45 takes what he wants)

OK, you win. 0 Commandments

[Irish_Dem]

46. You have just proved that God had Trump in mind when He wrote the commandments.

Excellent work Aggiesal!

[rickyhall]

49. Catholic version omits "Graven images" & doubles up on "Coveting".

Just sayin'.

[Irish_Dem]

25. Hamilton and Jefferson bickering.

Hamilton wants Trump's bank account and assets seized.
Jefferson wants to write a brilliant essay taking down Trump piece by piece on moral grounds.

OK I will stop.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. NEVER get close to an Italian grandmother when she is mad

Speaker Pelosi seldom gets mad. But when she does, look out.

My full blooded Italian Grandmother erupted like Mt. Vesuvius when she got mad. Speaker Pelosi was quite restrained. I bet in private, she lets loose.

[Irish_Dem]

12. If McConnell had been there she would have torn him from limb to limb.

He is OK with having her killed, she will never forget that I would imagine.

[Blue_true]

13. Speaker Pelosi was likely right up there with Pence on those thugs lists

after they breached the Capitol Building. She should rip McConnell limb to limb. McConnell purposely delayed a trial so that he could turn around and claim that since Trump was out of office, a conviction was not right. What Mitch should understand is that a Trump has a knife pointed at Mitch’s back, Mitch is going to get what he deserves.

[Irish_Dem]

16. She was at the top of the list, the flying monkeys were calling out and looking for her.

There was a very chilling clip of this.

[Hekate]

22. It made my blood run cold when I saw that. They meant to kill her. Trump would have stood alone ...

And in his (and Flynn’s) twisted brain I am sure he saw that as the key to martial law.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Yes indeed. That was the plan.

We now have confirmed that killing people in cold blood means nothing to him.

[babylonsister]

42. Creepy as hell. "Oh Nancy..."

[Irish_Dem]

43. Shouting with almost a gleeful sound as they looked to murder her.

As if they were having fun hunting down a human being.

It was creepy and chilling.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

32. I'd buy that for a dollar!

From "Robocop."

[bluecollar2]

38. It's a toss up...a pissed off italian woman

Or a pissed off Puerto Rican girlfriend...either way it gets ugly...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Call out the traitors for their cowardice every day as long as they are in office.

[dreamland]

8. I hope the DEMs will never trust Repugs ever again. GOP words are shit.

[SheltieLover]

11. K&R!

[DeminPennswoods]

14. She did not mince words

And called McConnell out for his cynical ploy of keeping the Senate out of session so they couldn't receive the article of impeachment, then claiming he voted to acquit because the trial happened after Trump was out of office. A circumstance he himself made happen.

[Hekate]

18. Mme Speaker was in a righteous wrath -- and very much in control of herself. She is splendid.

[dalton99a]

21. Kick

[keithbvadu2]

24. What does the acquittal do to the defense strategy of Trump's terrorists that he 'incited' them?

What does the acquittal do to the defense strategy of Trump's terrorists that he 'incited' them?

[Progressive Jones]

51. I would imagine that it won't make a difference.

We know what Trump did, but the bottom line is this: Trump didn't go on a murderous rampage
in the Capitol building. His scummy fans did.

[keithbvadu2]

52. Practically a saint he is.

[Progressive Jones]

54. Of course he's guilty, but I think you missed my point. nt

[bottomofthehill]

26. I have said it before and I will say it again

This is what Leadership looks like

[yardwork]

36. Trump and his minions are gone, for now, and Pelosi is still here.

[Bucky]

27. Good for her!

Mama Nancy's does not tolerate bullshit. They picked the wrong Democrat to try to murder last month and the wrong leader to piss off this weekend.

[UTUSN]

31. K&R

[judesedit]

33. Good for her. She's got more balls than any of those eunuchs

I was just happy to see 7 voted along with the dems to convict. At least they'll be able to live with themselves and sleep at night. None of them need money. They're all millionaires. I hope they switch parties on seeing what a bunch of losers and lunatics their present party has been representing when they start getting death threats. The whole world knows Dumpy should've been convicted and that the GOP is full of ignorant, bigotted, greedy, raging maniacs with no sense of decency, integrity, or reality.

[Bettie]

34. Sounds like the last fuck was plucked from her field

and she has no more to give.

[birdographer]

35. They will not be reelected

when we go to the polls to vote. They will be as shot down as republicans in GA and PA and other states. Voting for a republican is like voting for a Russian/Nazi leader. Not going to happen.

[lunatica]

48. Maybe their states have just turned blue

as enough voters reject them next time they vote.

[BobTheSubgenius]

37. Good for Nancy Pelosi!!!

A total firebrand - fearless at 80! IMO, there is no way the Democratic party would be in the shape it is without her.

[Hugin]

39. Moscow Mitch... Sold out his country and democracy.

To a fucking moron.

For no good reason.

Because at the end of the day, if he would have done the correct thing as Mike Pence did and relegated a pretender to the obscurity he so richly deserves there would have been no effect. Things would have gone on in the US as they had for 234 years.

Now, however, he has turned over the reigns to the worst element. He destroyed every semblance of justice and equality in this country by not doing what he had taken an oath to do.

[hadEnuf]

45. All Republicans who refused to vote to convict are co-conspirators in the insurrection.

If they did not actually help to facilitate it then their absolute dereliction of duty makes them complicit. That is what they are and they should have that tattooed across their foreheads. There is no walking away from this laughing and claiming vindication. They have let a treasonous dictator wannabe, who ordered thousands of people to violently attempt a coup d'etat of the government of the United States, walk away with no accountability.

This is simply unacceptable. The human excrement like Josh Hawley, MTG, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and the rest of the ring leaders and enablers still need to be fully investigated and dealt with despite this abomination of justice by the Senate Republicans.

This senate acquittal should really be no surprise to anyone. It simply proves that we have been right about these people all along. Let the states deal with Trump, but we need to continue to fight hard to nail the rest of this scum.

[DeminPennswoods]

47. Her dig at the Rs who voted not guilty was classic

When she started talking about how prospective candidates approach her about running for the House saying things like "I could be head of my department or run a foundation or be the best neurosurgeon", etc, I wondered where she was going. Then she said, she liked that because she wanted candidates who had other career options than entering politics. Then she brought down the Mace of the Republic on their heads saying the R acquitters must not have any other career option than serving in the Senate.

[cp]

50. Pelosi is a great Speaker!

McConnell just a fucking weasel (apologies to the genus Mustela).
Thank you, Madam Speaker.

[cstanleytech]

53. I would have called them what they really are which is "cowardly treasonous bastards".