Tag: Rep. Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi delivers brutal takedown after McConnell screed: ‘Frankly, I don’t care what the Republicans say’

AlterNet logoHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on Thursday that she would name managers to take the impeachment of president Donald Trump to the Senate after Republicans set the ground rules for a trial.

In a rant on the Senate floor earlier on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) accused Democrats of undermining the Constitution by impeaching Trump. He gave no indication that Republicans are backing down from their threat not to allow witnesses in Trump’s Senate trial.

Pelosi kicked off her weekly press conference by observing that she and other Democrats have a “spring” in their step after the impeachment vote. Continue reading

‘Follow the money’: Nancy Pelosi lays out the source of all Trump family scandals

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) harkened back to the Watergate scandal in her weekly press conference Thursday and instructed the press to “follow the money.”

When speaking about the mounting scandals facing President Donald Trump and his White House, she said that Americans should all be concerned and disgusted by the president’s statements in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.

“Everybody in the country should be totally appalled by what the president said last night,” she said. “Should be totally appalled. He has a habit of making appalling statements. This one borders on so totally unethical but he doesn’t even realize it.”

View the complete June 13 article by Sarah K. Burris from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.