Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told left-wing Telemundo during a 20-minute interview that aired on Tuesday night that President Donald Trump and the supposed &#8220;threat&#8221; he poses to the Constitution &#8220;keeps me up at night&#8221; and claimed that the nicknames that Trump gives his political opponents were really things that he believes about himself.
&#8220;You&#8217;re third in command, third in the chain of command here in this country,&#8221; host Jose Diaz-Balart said. &#8220;The president, I guess he&#8217;s labeled you &#8216;Nervous Nancy.'&#8221;
&#8220;He always says what he is,&#8221; Pelosi <a href="https://youtu.be/ZuKHhvYR02M?t=636">erupted</a>. &#8220;If he wants to— if he&#8217;s nervous, he calls somebody else nervous. If he&#8217;s crooked, he calls somebody else crooked. If he&#8217;s shifty— If he&#8217;s shifty, he calls somebody else shifty.&#8221;
&#8220;He says you&#8217;re Nervous Nancy,&#8221; Diaz-Balart replied. &#8220;He says you&#8217;re missing something upstairs, that you&#8217;re crazy.&#8221;
Pelosi, appearing to laugh in a defensive manner, shot back, &#8220;It&#8217;s all about him. That&#8217;s the perfect description of him!&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s how he&#8217;s describing himself,&#8221; Pelosi continued. &#8220;He&#8217;s a self-projector. He&#8217;s always projecting his own shortcomings onto other people.&#8221;
Trump has repeatedly blasted Pelosi on Twitter over a variety of issues. Here are some of Trump&#8217;s tweets about Pelosi this year:
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117782316557000704">April 15, 2019</a>: &#8220;Before Nancy, who has lost all control of Congress and is getting nothing done, decides to defend her leader, Rep. Omar, she should look at the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and ungrateful U.S. HATE statements Omar has made. She is out of control, except for her control of Nancy!&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1137354486698192896">June 8, 2019</a>: &#8220;Nervous Nancy Pelosi &amp; the Democrat House are getting nothing done. Perhaps they could lead the way with the USMCA, the spectacular &amp; very popular new Trade Deal that replaces NAFTA, the worst Trade Deal in the history of the U.S.A. Great for our Farmers, Manufacturers &amp; Unions!&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184620202480193537">October 16, 2019</a>: &#8220;Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! There is either something wrong with her “upstairs,” or she just plain doesn’t like our great Country. She had a total meltdown in the White House today. It was very sad to watch. Pray for her, she is a very sick person!&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1189198831193411585">October 29, 2019</a>: &#8220;Nervous Nancy Pelosi is doing everything possible to destroy the Republican Party. Our Polls show that it is going to be just the opposite. The Do Nothing Dems will lose many seats in 2020. They have a Death Wish, led by a corrupt politician, Adam Schiff!&#8221;</li>
</ul>
One of Trump&#8217;s most brutal tweets targeting the nearly 80-year-old lawmaker came from May of this year when he tweeted out a video clip from Fox Business that included highlights of her repeated stammering during a news conference.
In the tweet, Trump wrote: “PELOSI STAMMERS THROUGH NEWS CONFERENCE”
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131728912835383300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
A few minutes later, Diaz-Balart asked Pelosi, &#8220;What keeps you up at night?&#8221;
&#8220;What keeps me up at night? What keeps me up at night is the threat to our Constitution. It&#8217;s one thing, and it&#8217;s, and I&#8217;m used to it. I come to Congress confident in my ideas, humble enough to listen to other opinions on the other side of the aisle or within our own party,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;But what I&#8217;m concerned about is when people do not take their oath of office seriously. Our founders had great vision. The genius of the Constitution was three separate co-equal branches of government, a separation of powers to be a check and balance on each other.&#8221;
Pelosi then explained that she was specifically referring to the president as the main thing that keeps her up at night.
&#8220;This president is in defiance of that,&#8221; Pelosi said, adding, &#8220;and that is what keeps me up at night, that this president thinks that he can do whatever he wants. He is not above the law. He will be held accountable.&#8221;

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Nancy Pelosi Tells Telemundo What Keeps Her Up At Night

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Former California Rep. Katie Hill resigned after only 10 months on the job &#8230; and it doesn&#8217;t sound like she did it willingly. Hill admitted to having had an affair with a female campaign staffer but denied an alleged affair with her male congressional legislative director — a violation of House ethics rules. RedState and the Daily Mail posted pictures of a naked Hill apparently brushing the hair of her female love interest. Hill blamed the photo release on her husband, since they are engaged in a nasty divorce.
On her way out, Hill was honored by the media elites for giving a lectern-pounding farewell address in which she claimed she was victimized by a sexist double standard. This is downright bizarre. Anyone with some experience in Washington can cite careers ended by sex scandals — Republicans like former Sen. Larry Craig and former Reps. Mark Foley and Christopher Lee, and, most recently, former Democratic Sen. Al Franken. Hill was the pioneering female in this parade. This proves there isn&#8217;t a double standard.
The liberals pretended that because Hill is the first millennial member of Congress to be ousted over cellphone photos, her generation has met some horrifying new demise. In Time magazine, Charlotte Alter claimed in a large headline that Hill merely resigned &#8220;Because of Nudes,&#8221; skipping over the allegations of Hill having sex with two staffers. Alter changed the subject to the risk of sexual messages for everyone, citing a 2015 poll that found 82% of respondents ages 18 to 82 had &#8220;sexted&#8221; in the last year. This completely sidestepped the ethical issues of sex with subordinates.
Democrats are always the victims and never the victimizers.
The New Yorker ran an article unsubtly titled &#8220;The Terrorization of Katie Hill.&#8221; Writer Masha Gessen began by reporting that a mysterious white powder was mailed to one of Hill&#8217;s congressional offices in California and closed the article by insisting that Hill was violently attacked. &#8220;Revenge porn is an act of violence that hurts its victims in many of the same ways that sexual assault does,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;It is also an act that finds easy accomplices, from the people who decided to publish those photographs to whoever sent the white powder to Hill&#8217;s office on Monday.&#8221;
This kind of creepiness happens to both parties. A man was convicted earlier this year for sending threatening letters filled with white powder to President Donald Trump&#8217;s sons. It&#8217;s disgusting to compare that kind of anthrax scare to a reported sex scandal.
Libertine-left interest groups also got involved. Alphonso David, head of the Human Rights Campaign, told The Hill newspaper that Katie Hill was victimized as a bisexual. &#8220;(I)t&#8217;s not unusual or it&#8217;s not a surprise to conclude that she&#8217;s being treated differently because she&#8217;s bisexual,&#8221; he argued. But was he sure? &#8220;We, of course, don&#8217;t have any data or evidence to support that,&#8221; he said. Who needs evidence? To the left, it sounds plausible.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Hill was not forced out of office by her party and decried Hill&#8217;s &#8220;humiliation by &#8230; cyber exploitation.&#8221; Pelosi added that she has warned her children and grandchildren that &#8220;appearances&#8221; like Hill&#8217;s &#8220;can come back to haunt you if they are taken out of context.&#8221;
But the only people wrenching Hill&#8217;s reckless alleged sexual behavior with staff members out of context are liberals.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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President Donald Trump slammed CNN and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday while speaking to reporters on the White House lawn before boarding Marine One and suggested that the administration would be releasing information showing that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman — who claims that he was disturbed by Trump&#8217;s phone call with Ukraine — is a &#8220;Never Trumper.&#8221;
The first reporter that Trump called on asked, &#8220;What would you like to know about the whistleblower?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, the whistleblower gave a very inaccurate report. And, as you know, certain of the media released information about a man that they said was the whistleblower; I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true or not,&#8221; Trump responded. &#8220;But what they said is he&#8217;s an Obama person. It was involved with Brennan; Susan Rice, which means Obama. But he was like a big — a big anti-Trump person. Hated Trump. And they — they said terrible things.&#8221;
Trump continued by taunting CNN for allegedly knowing the identity of the whistleblower and not releasing the name, an idea that Trump most likely got from the RealClearInvestigations report that identified the alleged whistleblower.
&#8220;Now, I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s true or not, but that was reported by some of the media, so you&#8217;ll have to find out,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;They think they know — they know who it is. You know who it is. You just don&#8217;t want to report it. CNN knows who it is, but you don&#8217;t want to report it and, you know, you’d be doing the public a service if you did.&#8221;
In the RealClearInvestigations report, Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst and national security adviser to Trump, said: &#8220;Everyone knows who he is. CNN knows. The Washington Post knows. The New York Times knows. Congress knows. The White House knows. Even the president knows who he is.&#8221;
A couple of minutes later a different reporter pressed Trump about his claim that Colonel Vindman was anti-Trump.
&#8220;Sir, what evidence do you have that Colonel Vindman is a Never Trumper?&#8221; the reporter asked.
Trump responded, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be showing that to you real soon. Okay?&#8221;
Several minutes later, Trump took a shot at Pelosi over the partisan impeachment vote last week where no Republicans and two Democrats in the House voted against the Democrats&#8217; impeachment measure.
&#8220;I think Nancy Pelosi has lost her mind. And I think, frankly, that she should go back home to San Francisco,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;If you look at what’s happening to her district — her district is going to hell, with homeless, with — that they’re not taking care of; with needles all over the street; with tents; with people; with sanitation; with horrible things being washed into the ocean, into the Pacific Ocean.&#8221;
&#8220;I think Nancy Pelosi — her district has probably gone down more than any district, proportionately, in the United States,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;And what she’s done — and what she’s done for that district — and then, on top of it, you’ve got fires eating away at California every year because management is so bad. The governor doesn’t know — he’s like a child. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. And I’ve been telling this for two years: They’ve got to take care of it.&#8221;
&#8220;Every year, it’s always California. Never — it’s rarely somebody else or someplace else,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;But Nancy Pelosi ought to go back to her district and take care of it, because her district has become a mess — number one in the country for going down.&#8221;
&#8220;All she thinks about is impeachment. But she doesn&#8217;t want to impeach,&#8221; Trump concluded. &#8220;You know who wants to impeach? The people that run the party: the radical left.&#8221;
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Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) penned a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday demanding that the Democrat-led committees immediately release the transcripts of the closed-door hearings that have taken place as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
&#8220;Despite the vote in the House on October 31, House Democrats continue to conduct the partisan effort to impeach the President in secret,&#8221; Cheney wrote in <a href="https://cheney.house.gov/2019/11/01/rep-cheney-to-speaker-pelosi-immediately-release-the-full-transcript-of-all-depositions/?utm_source=House+GOP+Media+List&amp;utm_campaign=3d198bb799-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_03_06_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_38d91d4596-3d198bb799-147543833">the letter</a>. &#8220;Your duty to the Constitution and the American people, as well as fundamental fairness, requires that you immediately release the full transcripts of all depositions taken since you pronounced the beginning of an impeachment inquiry on September 24, 2019.&#8221;
&#8220;The selective leaking in which the House Intelligence Committee has been engaged must end immediately and the full and complete record must be provided for the American people to see,&#8221; she added.
Cheney&#8217;s request comes only a day after the full House voted on a resolution establishing the process for the impeachment investigation into the president. The measure passed largely along party lines, 232-196, with only two Democrats defecting on the vote. The resolution outlines how the House Intelligence Committee will proceed with the hearings and gather evidence before turning over the process to the House Judiciary Committee to craft the articles of impeachment, but, Cheney argued, it does not bring additional transparency to the process.
Republicans have been sounding the alarm over how secretly Democrats have been conducting the impeachment hearings. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who sits on the House Intelligence Committee and has been a vocal critic of the process, revealed earlier in October that Democrats have only made the testimony from two witnesses even available to committee members &#8212; that of U.S. special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Even then, Democrats have severely restricted the availability of transcripts.
&#8220;This has been a closed-door, unfair, and unprecedented process. Tens of millions of Americans should know that their member of Congress has had no access to any of the transcripts. In fact, no member has been able to read every transcript,&#8221; Stefanik told reporters on October 22.
&#8220;We were notified this week at our staff level that they would only be printing one transcript for every single member, whether you’re on the committee or not, and you would have to read it with a member of Democratic staff,&#8221; Stefanik explained further. &#8220;That is unprecedented and unfair.&#8221;
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), who is leading the impeachment charge, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/politics/adam-schiff-impeachment-inquiry-interview-transcripts-cnntv/index.html">promised to</a> begin releasing transcripts &#8220;as early as next week.&#8221; Schiff, however, has been facing backlash for not only conducting close-door hearings in the basement of the Capitol Building, but for promulgating theories that have later been debunked.
Accordingly, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-congressman-files-ethics-complaint-against-adam-schiff-over-impeachment-process">filed an ethics complaint</a> against Adam Schiff on Wednesday for his &#8220;blatant and clear-cut violation of longstanding parliamentary precedent&#8221; over the impeachment inquiry.
The California congressman has been making the rounds on news programs and press conferences discussing private information that has leaked from witnesses&#8217; closed door depositions. While the source of the leaks has not been confirmed, many lawmakers have been pointing at Schiff himself.

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned the field of 2020 Democratic presidential nominees that they should resist the urge to move leftward, suggesting that the party cannot win in key states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio with a severely progressive platform.
Speaking at a Bloomberg News roundtable on Friday, Pelosi mocked the liberal ideas, like &#8220;Medicare for All,&#8221; that candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are using to fire up Democrats on social media, noting that what wins in her home district in San Francisco, California, isn&#8217;t what wins in states where Democrats have struggled to remain compeitive, and where voter bases are more moderate.
Instead, Pelosi said, Democrats should focus on what wins in the Rust Belt, because voters in decidedly &#8220;blue&#8221; states will respond to those policies, too.
&#8220;What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi said, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/nancy-pelosi-worried-2020-candidates-100000963.html">according to Yahoo News</a>. “What works in Michigan works in San Francisco — talking about workers’ rights and sharing prosperity.”
“Remember November,” Pelosi added. “You must win the Electoral College.”
She&#8217;s not wrong. Democrats learned in 2016 that the Rust Belt was more volatile than expected; blue collar, working class Democrats responded well to now-President Donald Trump&#8217;s message of economic populism and immigration control and switched parties to cast a ballot for the New York City real estate developer over 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
States like Michigan, Wisconsin, and even Florida &#8212; where panhandle Democrats also swapped parties &#8212; ultimately cost Clinton the presidency, and Pelosi, clearly playing the long game, knows the same thing could happen if nominee Warren or Sanders pushes a platform with massive federal expansions like a &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; or &#8220;Medicare for All.&#8221;
At Friday&#8217;s event, Pelosi also took aim at Warren&#8217;s Medicare for All proposal specifically, calling it, essentially, a pipe dream with a sky-high price tag, <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/468553-pelosi-im-not-a-big-fan-of-medicare-for-all">according to The Hill</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not a big fan of Medicare for All,” Pelosi said, referencing Warren&#8217;s signature agenda item. “I mean I welcome the debate, I think that we should have health care for all.”
“There is a comfort level that some people have with their current private insurance that they have, and if that is to be phased out, let&#8217;s talk about it, but let&#8217;s not just have one bill that would do that,&#8221; she continued, also noting that Medicare for All could be &#8220;expensive.&#8221;
“We have invited advocates for it to testify in Congress, in the Ways and Means Committee, in the Budget Committee, in the Rules Committee, being respectful of the point of view,” she explained, but, ultimately, Democrats have repeatedly declined to press the plan.
Instead, Pelosi suggested, candidates should focus on a message that incorporates &#8220;healthcare for all.&#8221;
That&#8217;s not likely. Warren is using Medicare for All to distinguish herself from other candidates in the field, and to appeal to Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; base, probably on the theory that even die-hard Sanders supporters don&#8217;t believe he&#8217;s likely to be the nominee. She&#8217;s pressing the issue, though, even as critics point out that there&#8217;s no way she can pay for a Medicare for All-type system without increasing taxes on the middle class or, at least, those who fall below the threshold for being considered part of the &#8220;1%.&#8221;
Sanders is, of course, honest about the cost of his plan, suggesting that those who would see their taxes rates rise (including those in the middle class) would also see their health care costs decline, making the tax hike worthwhile.
Pelosi has been working hard to curb the more progressive members of her party for nearly two years, since a &#8220;squad&#8221; of far-left politicians, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), entered Congress. She&#8217;s tangled more than once with Ocasio-Cortez and other newly elected progressives, even over the issue of impeachment.

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&#8216;Remember November:&#8217; Nancy Pelosi Warns Dem Presidential Candidates To Back Off Progressive Platforms

Democratic House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slammed the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates on Friday over their far-left policy ideas, warning that the country is not &#8220;San Francisco.&#8221;
“What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi told Bloomberg News. “As a left-wing San Francisco liberal I can say to these people: What are you thinking?”
Pelosi specifically raised the alarm over socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s (D-NY) proposed $93 trillion &#8220;Green New Deal,&#8221; which Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s former Cheif-of-Staff Saikat Chakrabarti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aocs-chief-staff-admits-green-new-deal-about-ryan-saavedra">admitted</a> was about <a href="https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/the-green-new-deal-trojan-horse-socialism">implementing socialism</a>.
“There’s very strong opposition on the labor side to the Green New Deal because it’s like 10 years, no more fossil fuel. Really?” Pelosi said.
Pelosi has long opposed Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s extremist policies and “threw some serious shade on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – denying her a coveted spot on a special panel on climate change and brushing off her Green New Deal,” The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/02/07/nancy-pelosi-leaves-ocasio-cortez-off-climate-change-panel/">wrote</a> back in February.
Pelosi has repeatedly dismissed the Green New Deal in interviews and comments to reporters.
“It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive,” Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-excludes-ocasio-cortez-new-climate-change-ryan-saavedra">said</a>. “The green dream, or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?”
Later in February, Pelosi took another shot at Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s proposals, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-smacks-down-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-emily-zanotti">saying</a>: “Now, in terms of the Green New Deal [as conceived], that goes beyond what our charge is. Our charge is about saving the planet. They have in there things like single-payer and … what is it? Guaranteed income?”
“And then they have, I don’t know if it’s single-payer or Medicare for All,” Pelosi continued. “It’s kind of, like, a broader agenda &#8230; not what we hope to achieve with this focused, determined, decision-making.”
Pelosi even mocked Ocasio-Cortez in a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview when asked about the support Ocasio-Cortez has in Congress.
“That’s like five people,” Pelosi fired back.
“While there are people who have a large number of Twitter followers, what’s important is that we have large numbers of votes on the floor of the House,” Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nancy-pelosi-mocks-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ryan-saavedra">said</a> in a separate interview.
Pelosi, who is a proponent of big government programs, even expressed concern over the cost of the extreme policies that were being proposed, saying: “We cannot just keep increasing the debt.”
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) &#8212; who is a long shot Democratic presidential candidate &#8212; even expressed anxiety over how far-left the other presidential candidates have become.
“Donald Trump, you can see it in his face. He thinks the game is coming to him. You can see it in his face every day,” Bennet <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-debate-how-far-left-is-too-far-left/2019/07/14/deb8ce90-9f38-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html">said</a> in regards to Democrats eliminating private insurance and forcing everyone into government-run healthcare. “If we nominate someone that is for that plan, we will not win the presidency, and we will have no hope of winning a majority in the Senate.”
“If we’re going to go into this election talking about taking away [employer-based] health insurance for 180 million people, I guarantee we will be on defense,” Bennet added.
A poll from late July <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/455574-nearly-half-of-independents-say-democratic-party-is-too-far-left">found</a> that far more independent voters believe that Democrats have gone too far to the left than believe that Republicans have gone too far to the right.
On the issue of health care, 7 out of 10 Americans <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/03/sorry-bernie-most-americans-like-their-health-insurance-way-it-is/">like</a> their private health insurance and <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/428958-poll-voters-want-the-government-to-provide-healthcare-for">only</a> 1 out of 10 Americans said that they want the Democrats&#8217; government-run “Medicare for All” if it means abolishing private health insurance.
Many of the Democratic presidential candidates support decriminalizing illegal border crossings despite the fact that <a href="http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_1907190926.pdf#page=3">two-thirds</a> of Americans believe that it is a bad idea.

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday for not being honest with the American people when she outlined her caucus&#8217; agenda when overtaking the majority.
&#8220;Democrats are trying to impeach the president because they are scared they cannot defeat him at the ballot box — that&#8217;s not my words, that&#8217;s the words of my colleagues from the other side of the aisle that have offered impeachment three different times,&#8221; McCarthy said while speaking on the House floor. &#8220;This impeachment is not only an attempt to undo the last election, it is an attempt to influence the next one as well.&#8221;
&#8220;This is not what Democrats promised when they entered the majority 11 months ago &#8230; we heard what the speaker said when she talked about words of optimism and cooperation. It was said we would work together to make America stronger, more secure, and more prosperous,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We were told our mission was to return the power to the people. In fact, our new colleagues on the other side of the aisle were sent to Washington with a mandate to do just that. So what&#8217;s happening? Nothing like that today.&#8221;
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McCarthy&#8217;s remarks came during the House&#8217;s debate period on the resolution establishing the process for the Democrat-led impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump. Pelosi had previously been reluctant to embrace her caucus&#8217; demands to move forward on impeachment proceedings, even as the calls grew louder.
Democrats largely gained the House majority after a wave of moderates were elected to purple districts during the 2018 midterm election cycle. With the 2020 election on the horizon, Pelosi had been fearing that voters&#8217; distaste for impeachment could put the majority back in the hands of Republicans. Over the summer, the speaker repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to suppress her party&#8217;s cries.
&#8220;Not long ago, Democrats recognized that a partisan impeachment would put politics over people and harm our nation,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;That exact same speaker that talked about cooperation, promised the American people that they would do different, they would be different if we trusted you with the majority &#8212; you have failed in that promise.&#8221;
&#8220;That speaker said impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there&#8217;s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, the word bipartisan, I do not think we should go down that path because it divides the country,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;What has changed since those words have been spoken?&#8221;
The Republican leader noted that as Congress prepares to adjourn for another recess, it continues to neglect its duty to the American people. Rather than debating issues critical to national security or passing legislation to fund the government and pay American troops, he argued that Congress has been solely focusing on undemocratically and unfairly investigating the president.
&#8220;This Congress records more subpoenas than laws, that&#8217;s the legacy. It is not just devoid of solutions for the American people, it is now abusing its power to discredit democracy by using secret interviews and selective leaks to portray the president&#8217;s legitimate actions as an impeachable offense,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;Democrats are continuing their permanent campaign to undermine his legitimacy. For the last three years, they have predetermined the president&#8217;s guilt, they have never accepted the voter&#8217;s choice to make him president.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re one year away from an election. Not just for this house but for the highest office of presidency,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Why do you not trust the people? Why do you not allow the people to have a voice? Why in a process that America lends their voice to all of us, that you deny us to speak for them?&#8221;

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WATCH: Leader McCarthy Uses Pelosi&#8217;s Own Words Against Her: &#8216;Why Do You Not Trust The People?&#8217;

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The House voted to pass a resolution confirming the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump and outlining the &#8220;rules&#8221; that will govern the House Intelligence Committee&#8217;s fact-finding process, even though that process has already begun.
The measure passed on a nearly strict party line vote, 232-196, with all but two Democrats &#8212; Reps. Collin Peterson (D-MN) and Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ) &#8212; voting to pass the resolution. Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI), the House&#8217;s lone independent, voted to pass the resolution.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-votes-resolution-impeachment">Fox News reports</a> that Republicans and Democrats engaged in a fiery floor debate ahead of the vote, with legislators from both sides lobbing pointed barbs. Republicans had, by far, the more significant complaints, charging that the Democrats were engaging in a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; on Halloween, that they were launching a &#8220;coup&#8221; against the President, and that the impeachment inquiry itself was &#8220;pre-ordained,&#8221; and that Democratic legislators were just looking for an excuse to start the process.
Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) took the fight to Twitter, calling the impeachment inquiry a &#8220;sham&#8221; and pointing out that the &#8220;resolution&#8221; that Democrats seemed so eager to label a mere &#8220;codification&#8221; of previously agreed-up standards keeps the public &#8212; and Republican legislators &#8212; in the dark.
&#8220;Transcripts aren&#8217;t required to be made public,&#8221; Lesko explained of the resolution&#8217;s guidelines. &#8220;Exculpatory evidence does not have to be turned over.&#8221;
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This resolution for a sham impeachment process is a farce:
&#8211; Transcripts aren&#39;t required to be made public &#8211; Exculpatory evidence does not have to be turned over
Democrats are misleading the public once again. This does not open up the process, nor does it provide transparency. <a href="https://t.co/QnvHeWDaEt">pic.twitter.com/QnvHeWDaEt</a>
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The resolution also, famously, puts Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in charge of the full inquiry, and gives Schiff the power to order subpoenas and compel testimony. Republicans are allowed to issue their own subpoenas and present their own testimony, but any rebuttal witnesses, or witnesses presented in defense of the President, must be approved by Schiff, the operating chair of the investigation.
The resolution calls for an &#8220;open hearing or hearings&#8221; where the President&#8217;s allies can present their case in defense of Trump, but only after Democrats have presented their case. All witness requests must be submitted to Chairman Schiff for approval: &#8220;to allow for a full evaluation of minority witness requests, the ranking minority member may submit to the chair, in writing, any requests for witness testimony relevant to the investigation described in the first section of this resolution within 72 hours after notice is given.&#8221;
Schiff, of course, is already under scrutiny by the GOP for statements he made at the opening of the Congressional impeachment inquiry, recounting what he now admits was an &#8220;imagined&#8221; conversation between the President and Ukrainian government officials, with the President demanding an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s possible exercise of influence in the country in return for cutting a foreign aid check.
The White House later released a transcript of the call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky which did not show any &#8220;quid-pro-quo&#8221; arrangement.
Republicans charged that such a measure, requiring them to run their full case by Schiff in order to present basic evidence, violates the President&#8217;s Due Process rights. Democrats insist that the rules outlined in the resolution are the same rules that applied during both Bill Clinton&#8217;s and Richard Nixon&#8217;s impeachment inquiries.
The White House cited those rules when responding to the vote.
&#8220;With today’s vote, Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats have done nothing more than enshrine unacceptable violations of due process into House rules,&#8221; White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told reporters.
So far, Democrats have conducted the impeachment inquiry mostly in private, behind closed doors, and occasionally, in a SCIF &#8212; a specially created classified information zone within the Capitol. The resolution sets the stage for Democrats to bring the hearings out into the open &#8212; something that will, no doubt, provide some measure of relief to Republicans who say they&#8217;ve been cut out of the process so far.
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House Votes To Formalize Impeachment Inquiry

Impeachment Resolution Passes House On Party Line Vote After Fiery Debate

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) criticized the insignificance and theatrics of House Democrats&#8217; forthcoming resolution to formalize the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
&#8220;It is a lot of play acting,&#8221; Kennedy told Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer on Thursday morning. &#8220;Speaker [of the House Nancy] Pelosi&#8217;s plan A, the secret hearings and the absence of due process just did not work — she got a lot of pushback and not just from the politicians up here, but I think a lot of members of the American people were offended.&#8221;
&#8220;Whether they like Trump or not, we all believe in due process and the rule of law,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So, she&#8217;s moved to plan B.&#8221;
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Kennedy&#8217;s remarks came as the House Rules Committee voted along party lines to advance a resolution establishing the process for the Democrat-led impeachment investigation into the president — it outlines how the House Intelligence Committee will proceed with the hearings and gather evidence before turning over the process to the House Judiciary Committee to craft the articles of impeachment.
After nearly three hours of Republicans&#8217; unsuccessful attempts at amending the resolution, it passed 9-4. It will be brought to the House floor for a full vote later in the day.
&#8220;My personal opinion is that [the vote] is like putting fresh paint on rotting wood. I think everybody knows how it is going to come out,&#8221; Kennedy said. &#8220;This whole freak show, circus without a tent, whatever you want to call it — maybe that is being too harsh, let&#8217;s just call is play acting &#8212; this was all preordained as soon as the Mueller report came out.&#8221;
&#8220;The Washington establishment — and I&#8217;m talking about the entrenched politicians here on both sides of the aisle, members of the media, academics, the corporate phonies — they just knew that [Special Council] Bob Mueller was going to get rid of the president,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They were shocked when he called it like he saw it, and they started scrambling, and I think this was planned the day after the Mueller report came out.&#8221;
The Louisiana senator further explained that Republicans have been urging Pelosi to bring a formal vote on impeachment to the floor in order to give the White House due process, which the aforementioned resolution still does not fully provide.
&#8220;These rules are not due process. The minority, yes the minority, can now call witnesses, but only with [House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff&#8217;s] and Speaker Pelosi&#8217;s consent,&#8221; Kennedy said. &#8220;That is not due process. You can&#8217;t challenge the evidence if your opponent gets to approve the introduction of the evidence first. That&#8217;s why I say it&#8217;s a lot of play acting.&#8221;
&#8220;Speaker Pelosi better be careful because she is going to hurt Congress&#8217;s 10% approval rating here with the American people,&#8221; he joked. &#8220;I think our country is very divided, I think half are saying to themselves &#8216;give the guy a break&#8217; and the other half are saying &#8216;how did we get here?&#8217; And you know what? That is why God made elections.&#8221;

Runoff Election Held In Louisiana For State&#8217;s Senate Seat

WATCH: GOP Senator Slams Dems&#8217; Impeachment Resolution: &#8216;Fresh Paint On Rotting Wood&#8217;

Adam Schiff

Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), who resigned Sunday following allegations that she had an affair with a congressional staffer, was reportedly told to resign by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
Radio host Joe Messina reported on his Monday program “The Real Side,” that Hill’s resignation was demanded by Pelosi after the speaker learned that staffers in Hill’s office confirmed her affair with Legislative Director Graham Kelly. The staffers reportedly acknowledged the affair to the House Ethics Committee, which opened <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrat-katie-hill-under-investigation-over-sex-scandal">an investigation</a> into the allegations.
When Pelosi learned of this, Messina reported, she told Hill to resign.
“My understanding is that a couple of those staffers; they had proof that she was having an affair with one of her staffers,” Messina reported. “The Ethics Committee found out hard and fast that she did have that relationship.”
Messina said he received the information from his sources in Washington, D.C., who have been proven correct in the past.
Messina said he became suspicious after Hill announced her resignation without admitting she had done anything wrong. In her resignation letter and accompanying video, Hill claimed she resigned to protect her community, staff, friends, and family from her “abusive husband” and “political operatives.” Pelosi’s statement went a different direction, saying Hill “acknowledged errors in judgement.” This is likely referring to Hill’s delayed admission that she was in a “throuple” relationship with her husband and a campaign staffer. Still, Messina reported, if Hill did nothing wrong &#8212; as her own resignation announcement seemed to indicate &#8212; why would Pelosi say Hill “acknowledged errors in judgement?”
The radio host said he was inclined to report the information he had received because he said Hill was continuing to deny that she had an affair with Kelly, even though it wouldn’t make sense for her to resign if she had done nothing wrong.
Messina also said that a D.C. source told him the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee conducted a poll of Hill’s popularity and found that her approval number in the district had dropped from around 80% prior to the scandal to around 16% after. This, Messina suggested, helped cement Hill’s fate.
Pelosi’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry prior to press time. Nor did Hill’s office. Tom Rust, Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the House Ethics Committee, told the Daily Wire “no comment” when asked whether the Ethics Committee had completed its investigation into Hill’s alleged misconduct. The Ethics Committee loses jurisdiction to investigate a lawmaker once that member has resigned, as has happened in the past.
In addition to Hill’s implications that she did nothing wrong, left-wing media outlets suggested that Hill was actually <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-tries-to-suggest-katie-hill-did-nothing-wrong-even-though-congress-passed-bill-last-year-banning-what-she-did">the victim of a crime</a> known as “revenge porn.” The Daily Wire previously reported that Buzzfeed and several other journalists couched Hill’s resignation in a story about victimhood, ignoring the fact that the House of Representatives prohibited lawmakers from having sexual relationships with members of their staffs and campaigns in response to the #MeToo movement. The photos aside, Hill admitted to an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate and her staffers reportedly had evidence that she had an inappropriate relationship with a congressional staffer.

Report: Staffers Allegedly Confirmed Katie Hill’s Affair With Legislative Director, Leading Pelosi To Demand Resignation

Sexual Harassment

Democratic leader House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) has addressed the abrupt resignation of fellow California Democratic Rep. Katie Hill, who announced her decision Sunday amid growing scrutiny over her alleged affair with a campaign staffer and allegations of another affair with a congressional staffer after she took office — the first to which she has admitted and the second she has denied.
&#8220;Congresswoman Katie Hill came to Congress with a powerful commitment to her community and a bright vision for the future, and has made a great contribution as a leader of the Freshman Class,&#8221; Pelosi said in a brief <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/102719-2">statement</a> released Sunday. &#8220;She has acknowledged errors in judgment that made her continued service as a Member untenable. We must ensure a climate of integrity and dignity in the Congress, and in all workplaces.&#8221;
Hill resigned Sunday after the House Ethics Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrat-katie-hill-under-investigation-over-sex-scandal">announced</a> earlier in the week that it was launching an ethics investigation into allegations that Hill had an affair with a congressional staffer in violation of House Rules.
&#8220;The Committee is aware of public allegations that Representative Katie Hill may have engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on her congressional staff, in violation of House Rule XXIII, clause 18(a),&#8221; the committee said in a statement Wednesday. &#8220;The Committee, pursuant to Committee Rule 18(a), has begun an investigation and will gather additional information regarding the allegations.&#8221;
The committee&#8217;s announcement followed Hill&#8217;s admission to an affair with a campaign staffer after a series of <a href="https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2019/10/18/ca-rep.-katie-hill-allegedly-involved-female-staffer-2-yr-throuple-relationship">reports</a> and the circulation of photographic evidence of Hill and the staffer in sexually charged situations. Hill and her husband filed for divorce after the alleged affair(s), and she is now accusing him of mounting a &#8220;smear campaign&#8221; against her.
As first reported by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/27/rep-katie-hill-to-resign-amid-allegations-of-inappropriate-relationships-with-staffers-000301">Politico</a> on Sunday, with pressure mounting, Hill decided that it was time to step down. In a statement issued Sunday, Hill painted herself as largely a victim in the situation.
The decision to resign, she suggested, was primarily motivated by her desire to protect those who support her from being &#8220;subjected to the pain inflicted by my abusive husband and the brutality of hateful political operatives who seem to happily provide a platform to a monster who is driving a smear campaign built around cyber exploitation.&#8221;
&#8220;It is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation from Congress,&#8221; Hill tweeted along with an attached statement Sunday. &#8220;This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community, and our country.&#8221;
&#8220;I can longer allow my community, family, friends, staff, supporters, and especially the children who look up to me as a role model, to suffer this unprecedented brand of cruelty,&#8221; said Hill in a statement posted on social media Sunday. &#8220;For the mistakes made along the way and the people who have been hurt, I am so sorry, and I am learning — I am not perfect person and never pretended to be.&#8221;
Below is the full text of Hill&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrat-katie-hill-is-resigning-amid-allegations-of-sexual-relationships-with-staffers-report-says">resignation statement</a> issued Sunday:
<blockquote>This is what needs to happen so that the good people who supported me will no longer be subjected to the pain inflicted by my abusive husband and the brutality of hateful political operatives who seem to happily provide a platform to a monster who is driving a smear campaign built around cyber exploitation. Having private photos of personal moments weaponized against me has been an appalling invasion of my privacy. It’s also illegal, and we are currently pursuing all of our available legal options.”
However, I know that as long as I am in Congress, we’ll live fearful of what might come next and how much it will hurt. That’s a feeling I know all too well. It’s the feeling I decided to leave when I left my marriage, and one I will not tolerate being forced upon others. I can longer allow my community, family, friends, staff, supporters, and especially the children who look up to me as a role model, to suffer this unprecedented brand of cruelty.
For the mistakes made along the way and the people who have been hurt, I am so sorry, and I am learning — I am not perfect person and never pretended to be. It’s one of the things that made my race so special. I hope it showed others that they do belong, that their voice does matter, and that they do have a place in this country. That is something I believe with all my heart.
Those of you who know me personally know that I’m a fighter. And it’s thanks to countless other fighters who supported me that we were able to stand up for the ideals we believe in. Now, my fight is going to be to defeat this type of exploitation that so many women are victims to and which will keep countless women and girls from running for office or entering public light.</blockquote>

Pelosi Responds To Rep. Katie Hill&#8217;s Resignation: &#8216;Untenable&#8217;

President Trump, on Monday, defended his decision to keep some top congressional Democrats out of the loop before the U.S. strike on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saying the mission was too important to risk.
Trump, on Sunday, said he did not notify some members of Congress — including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and senior Democrats on the committees currently working to impeach him, including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) &#8212; about a raid because he was worried about leaks.
Trump, on Monday, repeated his charge.
&#8220;The only thing is they were talking about why didn&#8217;t I give the information to Adam Schiff and his committee, and the answer is because I think Adam Schiff is the biggest leaker in Washington,&#8221; Trump said on Monday. &#8220;You know that, I know that, we all know that. I&#8217;ve watched Adam Schiff leak. He&#8217;s a corrupt politician. He&#8217;s a leaker like nobody has ever seen before.&#8221;
Pelosi, on Sunday, demanded that Trump brief the House on the mission.
“The House must be briefed on this raid, which the Russians but not top Congressional Leadership were notified of in advance, and on the Administration’s overall strategy in the region,” she said in a statement. “Our military and allies deserve strong, smart and strategic leadership from Washington.”
Pelosi also downplayed the significance of taking out the top ISIS leader.
&#8220;The death of al-Baghdadi is significant, but the death of this ISIS leader does not mean the death of ISIS. Scores of ISIS fighters remain under uncertain conditions in Syrian prisons, and countless others in the region and around the world remain intent on spreading their influence and committing acts of terror,&#8221; she said.
On Sunday, Trump said of congressional leaders, &#8220;We notified some [and] others are being notified now as I speak.&#8221;
&#8220;We were going to notify them last night, but we decided not to do that because Washington leaks like I’ve never seen before,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;There’s no country in the world that leaks like we do, and Washington is a leaking machine.&#8221;
Trump added that the &#8220;only people that knew were the few people that I dealt with &#8230; A leak could have caused the death of all of them.”
&#8220;I told my people we will not notify them until our great people are out — not just in but out,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;I wanted to make sure this was kept secret. I don&#8217;t want to have men lost and women. I don’t want to have people lost.&#8221;
Schiff told ABC News’ “This Week”, on Sunday, that Trump had made a “mistake” by not notifying the congressional “Gang of Eight,&#8221; made up of the top Republican and Democratic members of the House and Senate intelligence committee as well as leaders from both parties.
“In terms of notifying the Gang of Eight, that wasn&#8217;t done. Look, the reason to notify the Gang of Eight is frankly more important when things go wrong. If — the president said it was dangerous flying in. The Russians could have shot down American planes,” Schiff said.
&#8220;Had this escalated, had something gone wrong, had we gotten into a firefight with the Russians, it’s to the administration’s advantage to be able to say, ‘We informed Congress we were going in, they were aware of the risks. We at least gave them the chance to provide feedback.’ That wasn&#8217;t done here. I think that&#8217;s a mistake,” the California Democrat said.

Trump at World Series

Trump Defends Keeping ‘Leaker’ Schiff, Pelosi Out Of Loop On Al-Baghdadi Raid

Islamic State (ISIS)

President Trump on Sunday said he did not notify some members of Congress — including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and senior Democrats on the committees currently working to impeach him &#8212; about a raid on the top ISIS terrorist because he was worried about leaks.
“We notified some [and] others are being notified now as I speak,” Trump said in a speech Sunday.
&#8220;We were going to notify them last night, but we decided not to do that because Washington leaks like I’ve never seen before,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;There’s no country in the world that leaks like we do, and Washington is a leaking machine.&#8221;
Those on the outside included Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA). Trump said that was the safest course of action.
“Washington is a leaking machine,” Trump said. “The only people that knew were the few people that I dealt with &#8230; A leak could have caused the death of all of them.”
&#8220;I told my people we will not notify them until our great people are out — not just in but out,&#8221; Trump added.
The president said he did speak with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Burr (R-NC) about the operation, but only after it had concluded.
&#8220;I wanted to make sure this was kept secret. I don&#8217;t want to have men lost and women. I don’t want to have people lost,&#8221; he said.
In his Sunday morning speech from the White House, Trump declared: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,” adding that the ISIS leader was &#8220;the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice.”
&#8220;As U.S. forces bore down on al-Baghdadi, he fled into a &#8216;dead-end&#8217; tunnel with three of his children, Trump said, and detonated a suicide vest,&#8221; the <a href="https://apnews.com/2c2c48e64f934d329c72a7af3dc284b1">Associated Press</a> reported.
“He was a sick and depraved man, and now he’s gone,” Trump said. “He died like a dog, he died like a coward.” Al-Baghdadi’s identity was confirmed by a DNA test conducted on site, Trump added.
Trump&#8217;s decision mirrored that of then-president Barack Obama when U.S. forces raided a compound in Pakistan and killed Osama bin Laden. While some congressional leaders were told beforehand, others were kept in the dark.
&#8220;Vice President Joe Biden notified congressional leaders of bin Laden’s demise shortly before 10:00 pm, according to FOX, while world leaders were also told of the news,&#8221; the <a href="https://nypost.com/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-killed-us-has-body/">New York Post</a> reported then.
Trump tweeted Saturday night that &#8220;something very big has just happened,&#8221; teasing his Sunday announcement. But he said he sent that tweet after U.S. forces had already returned safely from the mission. The president also said he had notified countries like Russia before the raid.
Schiff told ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday that Trump had made a “mistake” by not notifying the congressional “Gang of Eight,&#8221; made up of the top Republican and Democratic members of the House and Senate intelligence committee as well as leaders from both parties.
“In terms of notifying the Gang of Eight, that wasn&#8217;t done. Look, the reason to notify the Gang of Eight is frankly more important when things go wrong. If &#8212; the president said it was dangerous flying in. The Russians could have shot down American planes,” Schiff said.
&#8220;Had this escalated, had something gone wrong, had we gotten into a firefight with the Russians, it’s to the administration’s advantage to be able to say, ‘We informed Congress we were going in, they were aware of the risks. We at least gave them the chance to provide feedback.’ That wasn&#8217;t done here. I think that&#8217;s a mistake,” the California Democrat said.

President Trump Makes Statement On The Raid That Killed ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Trump Didn’t Notify Pelosi, Other Leaders, Before Raid On ISIS Leader

Syria

President Trump on Saturday took aim at House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over the dismal state of her home district, San Francisco.
Trump said the California Democrat ought to spend less time trying to impeach him, and more time fixing the city.
&#8220;I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary &amp; environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars – and all she works on is impeachment,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
&#8220;&#8230;.We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!&#8221;
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I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary &amp; environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars &#8211; and all she works on is Impeachment&#8230;..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188054936942198784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;.We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188054937839775744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
Trump has hammered lawmakers from various parts of the country over the ghastly state of their major cities, including New York City, Los Angeles, and Baltimore.
In July, Trump ripped former Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who represented Baltimore before passing away this month.
&#8220;Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA&#8230;&#8230;
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155073964634517505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;&#8230;Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately! &#8230; As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient &amp; well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous &amp; filthy place,&#8221; Trump wrote.
During an interview with Fox News from Osaka, Japan, Trump said some U.S. cities run by Democrats are in bad shape.
“You can’t have what’s happening – where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat,” he said in July. “I mean, they’re getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick – where the people living there are living in hell, too. Although some of them have mental problems, where they don’t even know they’re living that way. In fact perhaps they like living that way. &#8230; And you have people that work in those cities. They work in office buildings, and to get into the building, they have to walk through a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago.”
Trump also talked about Pelosi&#8217;s city. “I own property in San Francisco &#8230; it was so beautiful,” he said. “And now areas that you used to think as being, you know, really something very special, you take a look at what’s going on with San Francisco, it’s terrible. So we’re looking at it very seriously,” he said, adding that his administration might “intercede” to “get that whole thing cleaned up.”
San Francisco is literally overflowing with poo. “Since 2008, over 23,800 cases of human waste were reported in the heart of San Francisco. There were 13 reports of human feces in front of City Hall; 17 events at the U.S. Marshals office; and 67 reports at the Tenderloin police station on Eddy Street,” <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/04/15/mapping-san-franciscos-human-waste-challenge-132562-case-reports-since-2008/#365c0b8b5ea5">Forbes</a> reported.
“I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed told <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SF-Mayor-Theres-more-feces-on-the-sidewalks-than-Ive-ever-seen-488156431.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NBC News</a> last year. “That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs – we’re talking about from humans.”

Trump Blasts Pelosi For Letting San Francisco &#8216;Rot Away&#8217; While She Pursues Impeachment

San Francisco

Last week, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was hailed a hero by politicos and the news media after a photo made the rounds online showing the top Democrat standing up with her finger pointed at President Trump.
As previously reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sounds-alarm-pelosi-needs-help">The Daily Wire</a>, the photo was taken on Wednesday during a closed-door meeting with Trump regarding Syria. Top Democrats walked out of the meeting after the president allegedly called Pelosi either a &#8220;third-rate politician&#8221; or a &#8220;third grade politician&#8221; &#8212; the exact wording of the alleged put-down is in dispute.
The president posted the photo of Pelosi, captioning it: &#8220;Nervous Nancy&#8217;s unhinged meltdown!&#8221;
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Nervous Nancy&#39;s unhinged meltdown! <a href="https://t.co/RDeUI7sfe7">pic.twitter.com/RDeUI7sfe7</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184597281808498688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Upon quick media praise, Pelosi made the photo her new Twitter banner:
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The picture Pres Trump tweeted from today’s meeting at the WH that he captioned “Nervous Nancy’s unhinged meltdown!” is now Pelosi’s cover photo: <a href="https://t.co/xLJZCtPQxc">pic.twitter.com/xLJZCtPQxc</a>
&mdash; Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) <a href="https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1184608897337831426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican, posted a famed photo of her and former President Barack Obama to her Twitter page and compared the media coverage.  &#8220;The news media hails [Speaker Pelosi] as a hero for pointing her finger at [Donald Trump], but when I stood up to [Barack Obama] I was vilified as rude and racist,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Such Hypocrites!&#8221;
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The news media hails <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a> as a hero for pointing her finger at <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> but when I stood up to <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarackObama</a> I was vilified as rude and racist. Such Hypocrites! <a href="https://t.co/banxxQp7F1">pic.twitter.com/banxxQp7F1</a>
&mdash; Jan Brewer (@GovBrewer) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovBrewer/status/1184896321246773248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Brewer was referring to photo taken of her with the then-president on a tarmac in 2012. Similar to the Pelosi photo, Brewer has her finger pointing at Obama.
&#8220;According to Brewer, the president had objected to her portrayal of him as dismissive and patronizing in her book, &#8216;Scorpions for Breakfast,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jan-brewer-slams-media-hypocrites-for-praising-pelosi-finger-pointing-after-scolding-her-for-doing-the-same-to-obama">Fox News</a> reported Monday. &#8220;The cameras caught her waving her finger at Obama, something for which she received a flood of criticism. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/opinion/a-deficit-of-dignity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A New York Times</a> op-ed, for instance, accused Brewer of treating the president &#8216;as if he were some errand boy and not the commander-in-chief.'&#8221;
Alternatively, Democrats and their allies in the news media gushed over the photo of Pelosi and Trump.
For example, columnist and prominent anti-Trump #Resistance figure Bill Kristol posted the photo with the caption, &#8220;OK, maybe I am a feminist.&#8221;
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OK, maybe I am a feminist. <a href="https://t.co/iy4J6bIMLd">pic.twitter.com/iy4J6bIMLd</a>
&mdash; Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1184608067574550529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I hope this picture of Nancy Pelosi, the sole woman at the table, standing-up and speaking-up, inspires other bad-ass women to run for office,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Ana Navarro wrote.
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I hope this picture of Nancy Pelosi, the sole woman at the table, standing-up and speaking-up, inspires other bad-ass women to run for office. <a href="https://t.co/MQoIvCo4NJ">pic.twitter.com/MQoIvCo4NJ</a>
&mdash; Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1184653523973300224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This photo could be a Pelosi campaign poster &#8212; the sole woman in the room, literally standing up to the President. Why he thinks this makes her look bad is a mystery,&#8221; said David Lauter, the Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.
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This photo could be a Pelosi campaign poster &#8212; the sole woman in the room, literally standing up to the President. Why he thinks this makes her look bad is a mystery. <a href="https://t.co/7iEuD4UUVO">https://t.co/7iEuD4UUVO</a>
&mdash; David Lauter (@DavidLauter) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidLauter/status/1184601583457316864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Thank you [Speaker Pelosi] for standing up for the American people!&#8221; Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) posted. &#8220;Thank you for leading the House of Representatives to pass a resolution today opposing the failed policy of [Donald Trump] in Syria by a bipartisan vote of 354 to 60. Thank you for not taking crap from [POTUS].&#8221;
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Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a> for standing up for the American people!
Thank you for leading the House of Representatives to pass a resolution today opposing the failed policy of <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> in Syria by a bipartisan vote of 354 to 60.
Thank you for not taking crap from <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>. <a href="https://t.co/If1MiNuO4G">https://t.co/If1MiNuO4G</a>
&mdash; Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1184605431819329536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC host Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell posted: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in a lot of presidential meetings in that room and I never saw anyone literally stand up to a president like that because no one ever had to. Only Trump would tweet this perfect picture of his weakness &amp; humiliation. [Speaker Pelosi] finest moment.&#8221;
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I&#39;ve been in a lot of presidential meetings in that room and I never saw anyone literally stand up to a president like that because no one ever had to.
Only Trump would tweet this perfect picture of his weakness &amp; humiliation. <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a> finest moment. <a href="https://t.co/wca1oSqytY">https://t.co/wca1oSqytY</a>
&mdash; Lawrence O&#39;Donnell (@Lawrence) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/1184599218654044160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The difference in media portrayal of Brewer and Pelosi, according to eldest Trump son Don Jr. is rather simple: &#8220;That’s because the media is full of s***,&#8221; he posted to Twitter on Sunday, captioning the former governor&#8217;s tweet.
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That’s because the media is full of shit. <a href="https://t.co/PuPLeCT4ax">https://t.co/PuPLeCT4ax</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1186003111002988544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related:<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sounds-alarm-pelosi-needs-help"> Trump Sounds Alarm: Pelosi Needs Help!</a>

Jan Brewer

Former Republican Governor Shares Photo Of Herself And Obama, Asks: Why Is Pelosi Praised When I Was Smeared As Racist?

Barack Obama

The following is satirical.
In a rare move, President Trump has reversed course and canceled plans to hold the 2020 G-7 Summit at the Trump National Doral in Miami. The leaders of the world’s seven most advanced economies will instead be staying at the Motel 6, 15 miles outside of Tallahassee.
The world leaders will now be able to enjoy the Motel’s free cable TV service, plus a complimentary breakfast in the lobby annex. Responding to the announcement, Germany’s Angela Merkel said she hoped they would have those miniature blueberry muffins, which she enjoyed so much last time she was there.
The decision to hold the Summit at the Doral had come under fire from Democrats who said that housing the world leaders at a luxurious well-run resort with Trump’s name on it would give people the impression that the president was a successful businessman who was capable of restoring the nation’s economy and bringing sanity to our international relations, which would in turn expose the Democrats and their mainstream media for the dishonest hypocrites and incompetents they are.
In a statement to a gathering of reporters all of whom, strangely enough, looked exactly alike and were named Chuck Todd, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “Holding the G-7 at the Doral would be in direct violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution. Our founding fathers did not want the president hanging around all day using emoluments until his whole body was as soft and pink as a girl’s so that our enemies believed we were weak and were tempted to invade.”
When one of the Chuck Todds told Ms. Pelosi that she may have confused emoluments, which are profits, with emollients, which are lotions, the speaker demanded an immediate secret and unofficial impeachment investigation into James Madison and Congressman Adam Schiff announced that he had already seen enough evidence to convict Madison although he couldn’t tell anyone what it was, because it was secret, like what he did last night with his stuffed pink bear.
But that’s another story.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-scraps-plan-to-host-g-7-at-his-florida-golf-resort-at-zero-cost-to-the-usa">Trump Scraps Plan To Host G-7 At His Florida Golf Resort At ‘Zero Cost To The USA’</a>

Motel 6

Trump Cancels G-7 At The Doral And Will Instead House World Leaders At Motel 6 [Satire]

Angela Merkel

Chuck Todd

Satire

On Saturday, Barbara Streisand posted a gruesome cartoon on Twitter showing a bloody President Trump impaled by the stiletto heel of the shoe of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The cartoon showed a pair of high heels, with one labeled &#8220;Pelosi.&#8221; What appears to be blood is dripping from the impaled chest of Trump.
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— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) October 19, 2019</blockquote>
The disturbing image came after Pelosi walked out of a White House meeting on Syria on Wednesday.
In his own post, Trump posted a picture from the meeting and labeled it, &#8220;Nervous Nancy&#8217;s unhinged meltdown!&#8221;
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Nervous Nancy&#8217;s unhinged meltdown! <a href="https://t.co/RDeUI7sfe7">pic.twitter.com/RDeUI7sfe7</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2019</blockquote>
Streisand posted several other bizarre tweets, including one showing Trump crushed under a giant peach.
&#8220;One may argue about a narrow or broad impeachment resolution but Trump has committed multiple impeachable acts,&#8221; she wrote, linking to a New York magazine article.
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One may argue about a narrow or broad impeachment resolution but Trump has committed multiple impeachable acts. <a href="https://t.co/jABlGwWuH4">https://t.co/jABlGwWuH4</a>
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) October 19, 2019</blockquote>
She also called Trump the &#8220;moron-in-chief&#8221; on Saturday morning in a post to her 625,000 followers.
&#8220;Our moron-in-chief seems to not know that there have been other female astronauts. He’s too busy tweeting to read up on America’s history,&#8221; she wrote.
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Our moron-in-chief seems to not know that there have been other female astronauts. He’s too busy tweeting to read up on America’s history.<a href="https://t.co/aA6y159gxE">https://t.co/aA6y159gxE</a>
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) October 19, 2019</blockquote>
The violent cartoons came as a clothing company posted a billboard in New York City&#8217;s Times Square showing Trump being hog-tied by a woman clad in the company&#8217;s athletic wear.
&#8220;The 30-foot-high billboard featuring a model binding a Trump look-alike with red, white and blue rope while stomping on his face was put up earlier this week as part of an advertising campaign by Dhvani, a Portland-based clothing company,&#8221; The Daily Mail wrote.
Donald Trump Jr. blasted the billboard, saying, &#8220;Hey @NYTimes and MSM. Since you had time to thoroughly cover a stupid and tasteless meme seen by 8 people with incredible outrage, I figured you should dedicate the same time and outrage to THIS BILLBOARD IN TIMES SQUARE you hypocrites!&#8221;
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYTimes</a> and MSM. Since you had time to thoroughly cover a stupid and tasteless meme seen by 8 people with incredible outrage, I figured you should dedicate the same time and outrage to THIS BILLBOARD IN TIMES SQUARE you hypocrites! 
Unless of course you’re just full of sh*t. <a href="https://t.co/fsEF6ClRuv">pic.twitter.com/fsEF6ClRuv</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1185177883356094464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
The president&#8217;s son also ripped Streisand&#8217;s post.
&#8220;Looking forward to the media outrage like when someone shared a cartoon meme to 8 people depicting media violence. But seriously, who are we kidding? Their outrage only flows one way,&#8221; he wrote.
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Looking forward to the media outrage like when someone shared a cartoon meme to 8 people depicting media violence. But seriously, who are we kidding? Their outrage only flows one way.
Barbra Streisand Shares Photo of Nancy Pelosi Killing Trump <a href="https://t.co/vIvBETq9Db">https://t.co/vIvBETq9Db</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1185600019950379009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
Killing Trump has been a motif among the limousine liberals. In 2017, comedian Kathy Griffin released photos of herself holding a bloody decapitated head that looked like the president&#8217;s.
That same year, a New York City play depicted a Trump lookalike being brutally stabbed to death in a bloody assassination during a production of “Julius Caesar.”
Another comedienne, Sarah Silverman, called for a military coup to take out Trump. Actress Rosie O’Donnell talked on Twitter about “stopping” Trump. And rapper Snoop Dogg put out a music video in which he assassinated a clown dressed as Trump.
On NBC’s Saturday Night Live this month, Michael Che seemed to say that assassinating Trump would be faster than impeachment.
“All right, maybe I just don’t understand politics well, because, when they said Trump was gettin’ impeached I immediately thought, &#8216;Great! Trump’s fired! Let’s get drunk!&#8217; But they’re like, &#8216;No, he’s just bein’ impeached, but he ain’t exactly ‘peached yet. It’s still gonna take another year or so.&#8217; And I’m like, &#8216;Well, damn, that sucks, let’s get drunk.&#8217;
“I mean, president is only a four year job but it feels like it’s taking ’em five years to just fire his a**. It’s frustrating! You know, I bet somebody explained how long impeachment takes to John Wilkes Booth and he was like, &#8216;OK, well, where is he at right now?&#8217; &#8220;

Women&#8217;s March Los Angeles

Barbra Streisand Shares Gruesome Cartoon Of Pelosi Impaling And Killing Trump

Barbra Streisand

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Saturday for using an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump as a way to undo the 2016 presidential election which Democrats suggest was wrongly decided by the American people.
&#8220;When I watch the House impeachment proceedings I am both perplexed and appalled,&#8221; Kennedy told Fox News host Neil Cavuto. &#8220;Here is what I hear Speaker Pelosi and [House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff] saying to the American people: &#8216;You&#8217;re stupid and we are smart.&#8217; I hear them saying to the American people, &#8216;you are so stupid you can’t govern yourselves.&#8217; I hear them saying &#8216;you are so stupid that you chose President Trump over Secretary Clinton and we have got to fix it for you.&#8217; I hear them saying &#8216;you are so stupid we are not even going to show you the evidence, you can’t handle it. We are going to do all of this behind closed doors and then tell you what we are going to do.'&#8221;
&#8220;I find that appalling. I find it perplexing because I read all these stories about Speaker Pelosi and what an extraordinarily talented politician she is and how she&#8217;s a strategic thinker and major tactician and I think to myself, does she really believe the American people are going to fall for this?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I know that Speaker Pelosi is a smart lady &#8212; she&#8217;s not dumb, but if this were anybody else I would be thinking to myself it must suck to be that dumb.&#8221;
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives announced in September that they would be moving forward with an impeachment inquiry. The move was in response to a whistleblower&#8217;s testimony accusing Trump of asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for using his position as vice president to remove a Ukrainian prosecutor who was looking into his son&#8217;s business dealings.
The reports were not confirmed at the time of the announcement, and it was not until a day later that the White House released a transcript of Trump’s exchange with Zelensky. After the transcript was made public, many have argued that it fails to show the direct quid-pro-quo agreement initially alleged.
Democrats, however, have stood their ground on impeachment despite refraining from naming a &#8220;high crime or misdemeanor,&#8221; as required by the Constitution. Pelosi also revealed earlier in the week that the House would hold off on a formal vote on impeachment, leaving an actual impeachment inquiry open-ended.
Cavuto pressed the Louisiana senator further and questioned whether Democrats can make a similar argument by putting forth that Republicans are &#8220;stupid enough&#8221; to carry water for a president who consistently puts members of his party on the spot.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t mind being on the spot. I don&#8217;t mind having a public &#8212; not a behind closed doors &#8212; but a public debate with the president of anybody else,&#8221; Kennedy responded. &#8220;But I have always believed, and I will continue to believe, shoot me when I stop believing that the ultimate arbiter is the American people.&#8221;

Rep. Adam Schiff Joins Nancy Pelosi At Her Weekly News Conference On Capitol Hill

GOP Senator Argues Impeachment Is Dem Leadership&#8217;s Way Of Telling The American People ‘You’re Stupid’

White House Press Secretary and Communications Director Stephanie Grisham appeared on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; on Friday morning, where she touched on a wide range of issues, including the recent meeting that Democratic leaders had with President Donald Trump.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you what. I was in that meeting,&#8221; Grisham said. &#8220;The president walked in. He greeted everybody, as he does, and Speaker Pelosi started out the meeting – it was actually quite bizarre. She had no intentions of sitting there. We had military people. We had people there to brief them. And she was not going to listen.&#8221;
&#8220;She got up. She stormed out. Her focus was getting to the cameras,&#8221; Grisham continued. &#8220;It was funny to watch Schumer chase after her. I think he was a little worried that if he didn&#8217;t leave with her, that she would get angry with him.&#8221;
&#8220;The president was measured. He stayed behind and he worked with the Democrats who actually remained behind, too,&#8221; Grisham concluded on the issue. &#8220;And we continued the briefing, and that was it. Again, this president has work to do. We&#8217;re not going to be swayed by all of the Dems and the theater that they continue to perform every day.&#8221;
News of the meeting went instantly viral as Trump tweeted out a photo of Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s meltdown inside the room, writing: &#8220;Nervous Nancy&#8217;s unhinged meltdown!&#8221;
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Nervous Nancy&#8217;s unhinged meltdown! <a href="https://t.co/RDeUI7sfe7">pic.twitter.com/RDeUI7sfe7</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184597281808498688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
Outside the White House, Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer addressed the media about what transpired, claiming that Trump called Pelosi a &#8220;third-rate politician&#8221; and told Democratic leaders regarding Syria, &#8220;There are communists involved, and you guys might like that.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Wide-ranging interview with Stephanie Grisham on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FoxAndFriends?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FoxAndFriends</a>. <a href="https://t.co/yVZch7hJZp">pic.twitter.com/yVZch7hJZp</a>
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1185383753004138496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
The following is the full transcript of White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham&#8217;s interview on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; provided via Fox News:
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The economy is booming. Our people are prospering. Our country is thriving. And our nation is stronger than ever before. But the more America achieves, the more hateful and enraged these crazy Democrats become.
You know, I really don&#8217;t believe anymore that they love our country. I don&#8217;t believe it.
CROWD (chanting): Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years.
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STEVE DOOCY, FOX HOST: I think he likes that part.
BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX HOST: Right.
AINSLEY EARHARDT, FOX HOST: Four more years.
KILMEADE: Twenty-eight minutes now before the top of the hour.
Stephanie Grisham was there last night during the fun. And I imagine it seems like fun for just about everyone. We’ve had reporters there. And she joins us right now as White House press secretary among your many jobs.
Stephanie, how hard was it for the president to turn the page on what he left in Washington, and the chaos from the day before with the speaker leaving the meeting along with Senator Schumer, and go onto that stage and put that behind him?
STEPHANIE GRISHAM, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: It wasn&#8217;t hard at all. The president is still working for this country. He went to Texas yesterday for an official event. He opened up a workshop, a new Louis Vuitton workshop that is supposed to bring 1,000 jobs into Texas. And then he went to that amazing rally. Full. More than 20,000 people there. He&#8217;s got no problem with continuing to work on behalf of the American people, talking about all that he&#8217;s doing for the American people. And the rest in Washington is just noise. It&#8217;s just the Dems doing what they do.
DOOCY: Well, what they&#8217;re doing right now is there&#8217;s this impeachment inquiry, which Congress has not voted on, and the president has made it very clear, he said, look, you know, he said the president says he&#8217;s never done anything wrong as president and they&#8217;re just trying to re-litigate the 2016 election that they lost and they don&#8217;t like it.
GRISHAM: That&#8217;s absolutely what they&#8217;re doing. It&#8217;s comical. You know, I mean, I was with the president on the campaign, of course, and then watching since the day we took office they have been throwing temper tantrum after temper tantrum trying to undo. And really it&#8217;s only gaining momentum. And the people of this country know what the Dems are doing. They&#8217;re tired of it.
And, like I said, the president&#8217;s just going to still continue to work. He&#8217;s going to work on immigration, on health care, on bringing jobs to this country, on the economy, on the opioids crisis. He is a man who has a goal. He&#8217;s been successful all along. And the Dems are certainly not going to stop. It&#8217;s the JV.
EARHARDT: So, Vice President Pence and Secretary Pompeo returned to Washington this morning. The president was touting the ceasefire. And then overnight there were more bombings and there was smoke in the air. Our reports are that civilians are losing their lives in this one city. They&#8217;re shelling. Smoke, machine gunfire. How is the president going to respond to this?
GRISHAM: You know, I want to just say that the president, as president, has an obligation to look out for the troops and to protect this country. And when President Erdogan made it clear that he was going to invade, the president acted decisively to pull our military out of harm&#8217;s way.
Now, he sent a delegation over and they were successful in a cease-fire, but that takes time. I&#8217;m not going to get into operations on the ground, of course. I&#8217;ll leave that to the Department of Defense. But the president is to protect our country. He is putting America first. He&#8217;s always said that. We&#8217;re not going to be in these never-ending wars anymore. And, again, as for the cease-fire, I&#8217;m really, really happy that our delegation was successful. And we&#8217;ll leave it at that.
KILMEADE: Stephanie, a couple of things. We know what happened at the White House the other day, or there&#8217;s two different accounts of what took place. And you say the president was calm, cool, and collected. Nancy Pelosi said he had a meltdown. Now she says she wants all the meetings recorded. Will you record every meeting for the speaker?
DOOCY: Yes, that worked out so well once upon a time.
GRISHAM: Well, I mean, we would love for these impeachment inquiries to be transparent as well. We&#8217;d love for those meetings to be recorded or for us to have access to that. So maybe once she agrees to opening up this kangaroo court of hers, we could record the meetings that happen in the White House.
I&#8217;ll tell you what. I was in that meeting. The president walked in. He greeted everybody, as he does. And Speaker Pelosi started out the meeting – it was actually quite bizarre. She had no intentions of sitting there. We had military people. We had people there to brief them, and she was not going to listen.
She got up. She stormed out. Her focus was getting to the cameras. It was funny to watch Schumer chase after her. I think he was a little worried that if he didn&#8217;t leave with her, that she would get angry with him.
I was in the meeting. The president was measured. He stayed behind and he worked with the Democrats who actually remained behind, too. And we continued the briefing, and that was it.
Again, this president has work to do. We&#8217;re not going to be swayed by all of the Dems and the theater that they continue to perform every day.
DOOCY: Well, I think that picture that we&#8217;re looking at right there is now Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s official Twitter picture where she is doing that right there next to the president.
Speaking of the president, yesterday it was announced that apparently the G-7 Summit, which is going to be next year, during the summer –
GRISHAM: Yes.
DOOCY: Is going to be at Doral –
GRISHAM: Correct.
DOOCY: Which is the golf course resort owned by his family. And a lot of people are saying, number one, in the summer it&#8217;s really hot in Florida. Just telling you ahead of time. But the other thing is, you know, while the president might say, I&#8217;m not making any money off this thing, the promotional value, the marketing value is off the chart.
GRISHAM: I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the case. I&#8217;ll tell you what, the way the media, the mainstream media, is covering it, I don&#8217;t know that the Trump Organization would agree with that. I will tell you this, we –
DOOCY: But everybody knows about it now.
GRISHAM: Well, everybody knew about it before the president took office. I mean the Trump brand is known everywhere. And I do want to say this, we had members of our military office, Secret Service, advance teams, we had several people, the State Department, go out to 10 different states and look at 12 different sites. Doral was one of those sites. All of them came back and made the recommendations to the president that Doral is the perfect place to hold such a summit.
You&#8217;ve got to imagine the things that go into looking at these sites. You need hotel rooms that will allow for the foreign delegations to come and their staff. Transportation needs to be nearby. Airports, hospitals, helicopter landing zones. We had one site that we looked at, I won&#8217;t name what site it was or what state was it is, but the altitude could have make people sick and oxygen tanks would have been brought in. So there&#8217;s a lot that goes into these things.
KILMEADE: Denver.
EARHARDT: Colorado.
GRISHAM: Nope. Wrong.
KILMEADE: OK.
DOOCY: In the mountains. Somewhere in the mountains.
KILMEADE: Not New Mexico. Stephanie, why didn&#8217;t you do the press conference yesterday? Why did Mick Mulvaney? And will we see you do these press conferences, which is traditionally what the While House press secretary does?
GRISHAM: You know, right now, I&#8217;ve said this a bunch, if the president ever wants me to go out and take that podium, I will happily do it. I think as evidenced by yesterday with Mick, it was, again, more theater. It is about people wanting to be on TV and making names for themselves.
And Mick took 30 – he was over there for more than 30 minutes. He took probably 40 questions. People were talking over one another. He did a great job. He mentioned the same message over and over and over and now the media, of course, is, you know, we put a statement out clarifying some of the things that the media got themselves in a tizzy over.
But to answer your question, sure, I&#8217;ll do it if I need to, but this president speaks for himself every day. He offers opportunities for the press corps to ask him questions every day. And there really is no better spokesperson than the president.
I&#8217;m doing TV interviews. I am doing many, many print interviews. I am out there to defend and talk about all of the accomplishments of this president. And I will continue to do that. It seems to be working right now.
EARHARDT: Stephanie, the energy secretary, Rick Perry, told the president he plans to resign. Last night at the rally the president was complimenting him. So it seems – it appears that they still have an amicable relationship. What&#8217;s going on there? Why did he decide to step down? And what happens next?
GRISHAM: Absolutely. So as the president said, he&#8217;s known about this for months. This was the plan for Secretary Perry all along, that it was time. He&#8217;s been with us from the beginning. And there&#8217;s going to be some next steps for him. I&#8217;m not going to get ahead of him, but he&#8217;s going to go on to great things and we wish him really, really well.
KILMEADE: Right. So in other words –
(CROSSTALK)
DOOCY: So did Ukraine have anything to do with his departure?
GRISHAM: Absolutely nothing. No, this was in the works for quite a while. As I said, the president&#8217;s known about it. Nothing like that. We wish him well.
KILMEADE: Right. And he says that – the president said they already have somebody for the position already. Could you tell us who it is?
GRISHAM: No, I cannot get in front of that. No way.
KILMEADE: All right, do you want to tell Steve and then Steve could tell me later?
DOOCY: Good idea.
GRISHAM: Sure, I&#8217;ll do that after we&#8217;re done here.
KILMEADE: Oh, after we&#8217;re done. OK.
DOOCY: But the energy secretary has to have a lot of energy, right? We know that part.
GRISHAM: Yes.
DOOCY: All right.
GRISHAM: Like everybody in this administration.
DOOCY: We could figure that out.
KILMEADE: All right.
DOOCY: Stephanie Grisham, thank you very much for joining us from the bureau today.
GRISHAM: Thank you guys for having me.
EARHARDT: Thanks, Stephanie.

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Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham Shreds Pelosi Over Antics In Meeting With Trump

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On Thursday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talked about President Trump and Nancy Pelosi’s meeting at the White House. Video and partial transcript below:
All of this resulted in a blow up at the White House yesterday. The Democrats showed up at the White House and they had this meeting, and they accused Trump of a meltdown, [and then] Trump accused them of a meltdown – so we have dueling meltdown statements here.
 According to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/16/house-opposes-trump-move-to-pull-forces-from-northern-syria.html">CNBC: </a>
<blockquote>Democratic congressional leaders said they walked out of a White House meeting Wednesday on Syria after what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a &#8220;meltdown.&#8221; 
After top Democrats left the bipartisan meeting with Trump, Pelosi told reporters that the president appeared &#8220;shaken up&#8221; by a House vote condemning his decision to remove U.S. forces from northern Syria. …
&#8220;That&#8217;s why we couldn&#8217;t continue in the meeting, because he was just not relating to the reality of it,” Pelosi said outside the White House. …
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer described the meeting as more of a &#8220;nasty diatribe&#8221; than a &#8220;dialogue.&#8221; He said that Trump called Pelosi a &#8220;third-rate politician&#8221; – though Pelosi later clarified the president used the term &#8220;third grade politician.&#8221; House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., added that he had &#8220;never&#8221; seen a president &#8220;treat so disrespectfully a co-equal branch&#8221; of government.</blockquote>
Well, Barack Obama used to do that pretty routinely &#8212; not calling people third grade politicians, or third-rate politicians or any of that. Barack Obama just used to basically call his political opponents Tea Party terrorists. 
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In any case, [here&#8217;s CNBC again]:
<blockquote>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican who voted for the House measure to oppose pulling out of northern Syria, told reporters that Pelosi &#8220;stormed out&#8221; of the meeting. He called her behavior &#8220;unbecoming&#8221; and argued that Pelosi tried to make the gathering unproductive. 
The White House declined to comment on whether Trump called Pelosi a &#8220;third-rate politician&#8221;&#8230;
The vote earlier Wednesday added to the pressure on the president. &#8230;
During the meeting on Wednesday, Schumer brought up former Defense Secretary James Mattis’ recent comment that the Islamic State group “will resurge” in Syria &#8230; Trump then called the former United States Marine Corps general &#8220;the world&#8217;s most overrated general,&#8221; saying &#8220;he wasn&#8217;t tough enough,&#8221; NBC reported.</blockquote>
Yeah, I&#8217;m pretty sure that James Mattis doesn&#8217;t have to prove his bona fides in the toughness category. [CNBC continues by saying], &#8220;Schumer on Wednesday urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to take up the resolution.&#8221;
President Trump also then tweeted about the Democrats. So he tweeted a picture of Nancy Pelosi standing there and lecturing him, and he tweets out, “Nervous Nancy&#8217;s unhinged moment.”
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Nervous Nancy&#8217;s unhinged meltdown! <a href="https://t.co/RDeUI7sfe7">pic.twitter.com/RDeUI7sfe7</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184597281808498688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
Then, he tweeted another picture of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Steny Hoyer, all looking shell-shocked. He tweeted, &#8220;Do you think they like me?&#8221;
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Do you think they like me? <a href="https://t.co/TDmUnJ8HtF">pic.twitter.com/TDmUnJ8HtF</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184595335794036737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
I mean, just top notch trolling by the President of the United States. He also called Nancy Pelosi “sick” after all of this. He said, “Nancy Pelosi needs help fast. There is either something wrong with her ‘upstairs’ or she just plain doesn&#8217;t like our great country. She had a total meltdown in the White House today. It was very sad to watch. Pray for her, she is a very sick person!”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! There is either something wrong with her “upstairs,” or she just plain doesn’t like our great Country. She had a total meltdown in the White House today. It was very sad to watch. Pray for her, she is a very sick person!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184620202480193537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
I don&#8217;t believe that President Trump is going to pray for Nancy Pelosi. I&#8217;m just gonna put that out there. I don&#8217;t actually think that President Trump is going to get on his knees and pray to God for the health of Nancy Pelosi tonight. “Pray for her, she&#8217;s a very sick person.” Okay, so everything is going great, guys. Everything is going spectacularly. 
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