Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) falsely suggested during an interview over the weekend that President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetoric was the reason for the 2022 attack on her husband, Paul Pelosi.
Pelosi made the unsubstantiated claim during an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” with Margaret Brennan, while talking about how Trump may pardon some January 6 defendants who are serving sentences for their roles in the riot.
Pelosi claimed that those who used violent words on that day had “intention” to carry out actual violence.
“Now it didn’t end that day,” she claimed. “As you know, he called out to these people to continue their violence, my husband being a victim of all of that, and he still has injuries from that attack. So it just goes on and on. It isn’t something that happens and then it’s over. No, once you are attacked, you have consequences that continue.”
“It’s really a strange person who’s going to be President of the United States, who thinks that it’s okay to pardon people who are engaged in an attack,” she continued, claiming that Trump had “conned” the American people about the January 6 riot.
“The President said he would go on a case-by-case basis,” she said. “So I assume that some of those people may not have engaged in the violent activities that some of the others did.”
She again doubled down on falsely suggesting that Trump had offered “encouragement” to those who were “looking for me and finding my husband.”
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On President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to pardon Jan. 6 defendants, @SpeakerPelosi says, “It’s really a strange person who’s going to be President of the United States, who thinks that it’s okay to pardon people who are engaged in an attack.” When asked if she would be… pic.twitter.com/mvD4RrxNux
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 5, 2025
