Hunter Biden is back.
There are a couple of reasons why that matters. One is that Hunter Biden is a stand-in for his father. When Hunter talks, Hunter is speaking for Joe Biden. And when he speaks for Joe Biden, he is speaking for the establishment wing of the Democratic Party.
The second reason is that Hunter Biden&#8217;s exposure of the entire Left for the fraud that it is, because of his father, is quite incredible.
It is worthwhile to remember that Hunter Biden was part of that inner coterie of people surrounding Joe Biden who knew that Joe was unhealthy, mentally unwell, and who left him in place because they were essentially playing at the presidency. When you listen to Hunter, you should understand he was at least partially the actual president of the United States for several years.
So that makes Hunter’s interview with Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5 on YouTube important.
He said Nancy Pelosi drove Biden out of the race. “You know who did not want Kamala Harris to be president and did not want her to be the nominee?” Hunter asked. “Nancy Pelosi didn&#8217;t want her to be; none of Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s people wanted her to be. They wanted an open convention. They wanted a floor fight. I don&#8217;t know what the hell they wanted, but they wanted to be the ones to anoint whoever they were going to anoint to become the next president of the United States. … All I know is that they definitely did not want Kamala Harris, which undermined her, which undermined the campaign.”
He also took some swipes at people like George Clooney and David Axelrod, saying:
<blockquote>You know what George Clooney did? He was given the blessing by the Obama team or the Obama people and whoever else, and David Axelrod and whoever the f*** else. &#8230; ‘We are going to insert our judgment over yours.’ We, me, and James Carville, who hasn&#8217;t won a race in 40 f***ing years, and David Axelrod, who had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama — and that was because of Barack Obama, not because of David Axelrod and David Plouffe and all of these guys, the Pod Save America guys who were junior speechwriters on Barack Obama&#8217;s Senate staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him for years, making millions of dollars, the Anita Dunns of the world, who&#8217;s made $40, $50 million off the Democratic Party &#8230; I don&#8217;t have to be nice. &#8230; What right do you have to step on a man who&#8217;s given 52 years of his life to the services of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in The New York Times to undermine the president?</blockquote>
Hunter also suggested that he was totally qualified to be on Burisma&#8217;s board. One of the kind of seamy realities about the last election cycle is that some of it was about Joe Biden&#8217;s age. A lot of it was about a widespread perception of the Biden family&#8217;s absolutely deep and abiding corruption.
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Hunter denied he had been put on the board of Burisma for any political reason, which, of course, is absolutely ridiculous. He had no experience in the energy sector. He couldn&#8217;t point out Ukraine on a map, and suddenly he was on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm?
It had nothing to do with his last name being Biden.
The last part of the interview was amusing — Hunter defending himself by making the argument that crack is somehow safer than alcohol, which is a hell of an argument.
But put all of this aside. Put aside the Biden administration and its corruption, the fact that Joe Biden was dead for several years, and that his family was essentially running the government. If you see Hunter as a stand-in for the Joe Biden moderate wing of the Democratic Party, things start to get interesting because Hunter Biden also spoke about policy.
There were two particular issues where Hunter Biden put specific focus: illegal immigration and Israel. These issues are the ones where Democrats are completely at odds with the American people, but they will not let it go. They are more likely to let go of the trans issue than to let go of illegal immigration and open borders, as well as the new flavor of the month, that Palestinians are the great victims in the Middle East, including Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, Islamic Jihad, and all the rest of the terrorist groups.
If you&#8217;re trying to figure out the direction of the Democratic Party, if you&#8217;re trying to get out the divining rod and determine which direction the Democratic Party is going to move into, the more moderate side or the more radical side, here’s the key: the moderates are already caving to the radicals.
They may separate from the trans stuff because it&#8217;s been so wildly unsuccessful for them. But the root cause of the Democratic Party is a belief that America is a great victimizer in the world, and therefore, America ought not to have borders, and also America’s foreign policy should be to abandon any strong ally, as long as it is beneficial to the Democratic Party.
“All these Democrats say you have to talk about and realize that people are really upset about illegal immigration,” he said. “How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you get food on your table? Who do you think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your garden? Who do you think is here, by the sheer, just grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because they thought that they could give themselves and their family a better chance, and he&#8217;s (Trump) somehow convinced all of us that these people are criminals? White men in America are 45 more times likely to commit violent crime than an immigrant.”
He actually concluded that statement by suggesting that we should actually force El Salvador to send back illegal immigrants. Which is funny, since the ones we&#8217;re sending to El Salvador are, by and large, people with actual criminal records.
This is vitally important because Hunter was Joe Biden&#8217;s partially functioning brain during the administration. This is the Democratic Party perspective on illegal immigration: America ought to be an open borders country because unfettered immigration, without any sort of real security, without any sort of concern about cultural assimilation, is an effective good.
That is something the Democratic Party deeply believes in. As we start discussing 2028 candidates understand, there will not be a Democrat on the stage who significantly calls for border security.
It&#8217;s not just with regard to immigration. The Democratic Party also realizes that the energy in its party is very much on the side of third-world-ism.
It&#8217;s the Zoran Mamdani belief that the Third World has been victimized by America and her allies, and therefore the Third World must have her revenge. Hunter was talking about the dramatic increase in antisemitism under his father&#8217;s administration and claimed the real reason for that is because of the Israelis. In other words, after Hamas murdered 1,200 Jews in Israel and took 250 hostage, a couple of dozen of whom are still being held hostage after a year and a half, it&#8217;s Israel&#8217;s fault that antisemitism broke out.
He quoted the noted hater of Israel, Tom Friedman, saying that the worst thing that&#8217;s happened to the Jewish people is the Israeli government. “Jewish people globally, the threats to their lives, the anti-Semitism that it has generated,” he said.
The worst thing that has happened to the Jewish people is the Israeli government, according to Hunter Biden. Then he bragged about how his father tried to hamstring Israel in its pursuit of getting back its hostages and ending Hamas, an actual, honest-to-god, American State Department-designated terrorist group in the Gaza Strip.
“He took away the bunker-busting bombs from the Israelis,” he boasted. “He tried to curtail Netanyahu&#8217;s thing. He forced Netanyahu to open up shipping lanes and aid lanes at the Rafah crossing to be able to get food aid in. He put pressure over and over and over again. And now, by the way, that is not even remotely happening. What is happening is that they were bombing food lines. There is no one in there to be able to record it. &#8230;There have been more journalists killed at this war in Gaza than in any other war combined, and nobody&#8217;s doing anything about it.”
This is propaganda on behalf of Hamas, because the reality is that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the GHF, which has been actually facilitating the entry of aid into Gaza, has been denying Hamas access to the food, which is why Hamas is shooting people and then attempting to insinuate itself among the population in order to shoot at Israeli soldiers, who then respond. That is the reality.
But these are the parts of the Democratic base that the Democrats are trying to woo. It is very important to them, illegal immigration, and third-world-ism. There is no systemic immunity for the Democratic Party against the radical base.
It does not exist. So if you think they&#8217;re going to nominate somebody who&#8217;s quasi-moderate in 2028, you’re wrong.
It is not going to happen.

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) reintroduced the anti-corruption PELOSI Act on Friday, aiming to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks, while President Trump signaled he would sign such legislation into law.
The legislation, whose acronym PELOSI stands for &#8220;Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments,&#8221; and is named after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose husband has drawn <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/deceptive-tactic-nancy-pelosi-disclosed-180000159.html">scrutiny</a> for millions in suspected insider trading.
&#8220;Members of Congress should be fighting for the people they were elected to serve — not day trading at the expense of their constituents,&#8221; Hawley <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-reintroduces-pelosi-act-to-ban-congress-from-trading-stocks/">stated</a>, according to a press release from his office.
&#8220;Americans have seen politician after politician turn a profit using information not available to the general public,&#8221; the Missouri Republican added. &#8220;It&#8217;s time we ban all members of Congress from trading and holding stocks and restore Americans&#8217; trust in our nation&#8217;s legislative body.&#8221;
Under Hawley&#8217;s proposal, elected officials and their spouses would be barred from owning individual stocks while serving in Congress.
The legislation would still allow investment in broader financial instruments such as mutual funds, ETFs, and Treasury bonds.
The bill provides a six-month grace period for compliance after enactment. Any lawmaker refusing to divest would face financial penalties and surrender profits to the federal treasury.
The Government Accountability Office would be required to audit congressional compliance with the law within two years of enactment and submit a report to congressional ethics committees, according to the <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Hawley-PELOSI-Act.pdf">legislation</a>.
When asked on Friday by a reporter if he would support a ban on congressional stock trading, President Trump said he would “absolutely” sign such a bill.
&#8220;Well, I watched Nancy Pelosi get rich through insider information, and I would be okay with it. If they send that to me, I would do it,&#8221; the President said.
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It is time! Pass my PELOSI Act now &#8211; no stock trading by members of Congress <a href="https://t.co/w1enBmv0BG">https://t.co/w1enBmv0BG</a>
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A 2022 New York Times investigation <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/politics/congress-members-stock-trading-list.html">identified</a> at least 97 members of Congress who reported stock trades that potentially intersected with their committee work, raising questions about whether elected officials were using privileged information to enrich themselves.
The issue has <a href="https://publicconsultation.org/united-states/stock-trading-by-members-of-congress/">garnered</a> bipartisan support for reform, with polls consistently showing over 80% of Americans favor banning congressional stock trading.
Similar legislation has been introduced in previous sessions of Congress but failed to advance to a floor vote in either chamber despite widespread public support.

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Sen. Hawley Reintroduces PELOSI Act To Curb Congressional Stock Trading, Trump Signals Approval

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took a swipe at former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during Tuesday&#8217;s daily briefing, pointing to the California Congresswoman&#8217;s previous statements on tariffs and saying that President Donald Trump was only doing what she&#8217;d suggested.
Leavitt referenced Pelosi&#8217;s stance on tariffs — and specifically, the United States&#8217; trade deficit with communist China — from nearly 30 years earlier, and argued that she should be pleased with the &#8220;retaliatory tariff&#8221; the Trump administration was placing on China.
Pelosi, in a recently-recirculated <a href="https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1907875133638705646" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clip</a> from 1996, stood on the House floor and laid out her reasoning for hitting back at China economically — among them the fact that China placed an average tariff of 35% on all goods coming from the United States, and only allowed some 2% of U.S. exports to cross the border into the country. In return, the United States had only a 2% tariff on Chinese goods — and allowed one-third of the goods produced in China to be imported into the country. The result of that deficit was 10,000,000 Chinese jobs supported by U.S. imports compared to only 170,000 American jobs supported by Chinese trade. That, she said, was a &#8220;status quo&#8221; that was unacceptable.
&#8220;On this day, your member of Congress could have drawn the line to say to the President of the United States, do something about this U.S.-China trade relationship that is a job loser for the United States,&#8221; she said at the time.
Leavitt, during Tuesday&#8217;s briefing, referenced that speech, saying, &#8220;Nancy Pelosi said, &#8216;How far does China have to go? How much more oppression? How big a trade deficit? How many jobs have to be lost for the American workers? How much dangerous proliferation has to exist before members of this House of Representatives will say, &#8216;I will not endorse the status quo&#8217;?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, President Trump is finally answering her call,&#8221; Leavitt continued. &#8220;Nancy Pelosi can thank President Trump today for the 104% retaliatory tariff that will be going into effect on China.&#8221;
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&quot;Well, <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> is finally answering her call&#8230; years later. Nancy Pelosi can thank President Trump today for the 104% retaliatory tariff that will be going into effect on China.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/QQP5vJoHRI">https://t.co/QQP5vJoHRI</a> <a href="https://t.co/jigac6eyLd">pic.twitter.com/jigac6eyLd</a>
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Press Sec. Throws Shade At Nancy Pelosi Over ‘Retaliatory Tariff’ Aimed At China

Press Sec. Throws Shade At Nancy Pelosi Over 'Retaliatory Tariff' Aimed At China

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) bucked calls from members of his own party to step down after he voted to support a Republican spending bill to keep the government open.
Schumer made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; with host Kristen Welker when he was asked if he was &#8220;feeling pressure to step down.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, I&#8217;m not stepping down,&#8221; Schumer fired back. &#8220;And let me just say this, Kristen. I knew when I cast my vote against the government shutdown that there would be a lot of controversy. And there was.&#8221;
&#8220;But let me tell you and your audience why I did it, why I felt it was so important,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The CR was certainly bad, you know, the continuing resolution. But a shutdown would be 15 or 20 times worse. Under a shutdown, the Executive Branch has sole power to determine what is &#8216;essential.&#8217; And they can determine without any court supervision. The courts have ruled it&#8217;s solely up to the executive what to shut down. With Musk, and DOGE, and Trump, and this guy Vought, they would eviscerate the federal government.&#8221;
Welker later pressed Schumer over whether he was &#8220;making the same mistake that President Biden did&#8221; when he decided to run for re-election and later had to bow out at the last moment because of a disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump.
&#8220;No, absolutely not,&#8221; Schumer said. &#8220;I did this out of conviction. And, look, in my caucus, we have a disagreement as to some people voted one way, some people voted the other. But we&#8217;ve all agreed to respect each other because each side saw why the other side felt so strongly about it. And our caucus is united in fighting Donald Trump every step of the way.&#8221;
Schumer also addressed criticism from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who claimed that Schumer gave into Republican demands and did not secure anything in return.
&#8220;Well, what we got, at the end of the day, is avoiding the horror of a shutdown,&#8221; Schumer replied. &#8220;There was no leverage point that we could&#8217;ve asked for things, they just would&#8217;ve said no. And because they control — let&#8217;s not forget, they control the House and Senate — they could force a vote, yes or no on the CR, without any additions.&#8221;
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President Biden Meets With Congressional Leaders To Discuss Legislative Priorities For End Of Year

Schumer Fires Back At Democrats Pushing His Ouster: ‘I’m Not Stepping Down’

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivered a back-handed insult to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) over his eleventh-hour conversion on the Republican-led Continuing Resolution that passed on Friday, ensuring that the federal government would be funded through September.
Pelosi — who voted with nearly all of the Democrats in the lower chamber (save Maine&#8217;s Rep. Jared Golden) against the stopgap measure — suggested that Schumer had essentially given away his vote, giving President Donald Trump and the Republicans a win without getting anything in return for his own party.
&#8220;I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,&#8221; Pelosi said at a Tuesday <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/18/san-francisco-nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer-medicaid-government-shutdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> in her hometown of San Francisco. &#8220;And I think that’s what happened the other day.&#8221;
Pelosi had <a href="https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-government-funding-bill-senate">lauded</a> her successor in House leadership, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and called on her party to reject the CR: &#8220;I salute Leader Hakeem Jeffries for his courageous rejection of this false choice, and I am proud of my colleagues in the House Democratic Caucus for their overwhelming vote against this bill.&#8221;
She went on to suggest that any shutdown would be blamed on President Trump in spite of the fact that Democrats — in the Senate in particular — were the only ones with the power to either push the bill across the finish line or stop it in its tracks. &#8220;America has experienced a Trump shutdown before – but this damaging legislation only makes matters worse. Democrats must not buy into this false choice. We must fight back for a better way,&#8221; she said.
Schumer argued that a shutdown, given the optics, would be far more damaging to the Democratic Party as a whole than the passage of the CR — but his party, thus far, does not appear to be buying his argument.
The Senate leader was even on his heels on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-think-you-caved-schumer-gets-an-absolute-grilling-on-the-view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The View</a>&#8221; — which would typically be a relatively friendly audience for Democrats — as several of the hosts questioned not just his vote but also his leadership moving forward.
Even Jeffries, who typically would not cross Schumer in public, refused to answer when asked whether he felt the longtime senator was still the right person to lead the Senate.
One unnamed House Democrat, according to an <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/19/chuck-schumer-house-democrats-hakeem-jeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios report</a> published on Tuesday, said that Schumer&#8217;s popularity within the party was &#8220;hovering somewhere between Elon Musk and the Ebola virus.&#8221;

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Pelosi Low-Key Trashes Schumer: ‘I Myself Don’t Give Away Anything For Nothing’

Pelosi Low-Key Trashes Schumer In Comment: 'I Myself Don't Give Away Anything For Nothing'

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Five years after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tore up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech after he had finished, Democrats are reportedly planning to disrupt Trump’s 2025 address to a joint session of Congress with the same kind of partisan malice.
“Some members have told colleagues they may walk out of the chamber when Trump says specific lines they find objectionable, lawmakers told Axios,” the media outlet <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/04/trump-congress-address-democrats-disrupt-plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Using props has reportedly been discussed, including noisemakers, signs with anti-Trump or anti-DOGE messages, hand clappers, and red cards.
Some Democrats are considering coordinating their clothes by using colors to protest: The Democratic Women&#8217;s Caucus wants its members to wear pink; female members of the Congressional Black Caucus might wear black; Ukraine supporters could show up wearing blue and yellow.
“Some Democrats have announced that they are bringing former federal employees as their guests, as part of a protest of the Trump administration’s mass firings,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/us/politics/trump-speech-what-to-watch.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In 2020, as she sat behind Trump, Pelosi made a grand show of ripping Trump’s speech four times. She <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-nancy-pelosi-ap-top-news-michael-pence-politics-f8edd0389a1a8ba41322e0e34098aafb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasted</a> the next morning, “I felt very liberated last night.”
On Monday, President Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114098542644386176%5C">declared</a> on Truth Social, “TOMORROW NIGHT WILL BE BIG. I WILL TELL IT LIKE IT IS!”
Although Trump&#8217;s Tuesday speech will be broadcast on live television and has many aspects of a traditional State of the Union address, usually delivered in January or February, it will focus on Trump&#8217;s legislative priorities and is classified as an address to Congress.
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/g-s1-50706/trump-will-address-congress-why-isnt-this-first-speech-called-a-state-of-the-union">According</a> to NPR, for the past four decades, some presidents have referred to their first speech as an address to Congress rather than the State of the Union.
President Ronald Reagan delivered a joint address to Congress in his first term in 1981. Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton continued the tradition in 1989 and 1993, respectively, with speeches titled &#8220;Administration Goals.&#8221; President George W. Bush delivered a &#8220;Budget Message&#8221; in 2001, the Associated Press reported.

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House Speaker Emerita <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a>&#8216;s (D-CA) daughter, Alexandria Pelosi, took a swipe at first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> in a burgeoning clash between two of the most powerful families in Democrat circles.
In a recent interview, Jill Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-lashes-out-at-pelosi-after-2024-shiv-moment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voiced displeasure</a> with how Nancy Pelosi fueled a Democrat revolt against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 election</a>. Now, Alexandria Pelosi has sounded off with a not-so-subtle Shakespeare reference.
&#8220;If I was Lady McBiden, I’d put on my big girl pants, play the long game and think about my husband’s legacy,&#8221; said Alexandra Pelosi, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/19/lady-mcbiden-alexandra-pelosi-first-lady-00199164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>&#8216;s senior political columnist and politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin. &#8220;There aren’t that many people left in America who have something nice to say about Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi is one of them.&#8221;
Martin&#8217;s report stressed that Alexandra Pelosi &#8220;made clear she was speaking only for herself,&#8221; but also noted the &#8220;deafening silence from the White House in response to a request for comment marks the culmination of the bitter feud between the president and onetime speaker, two of the age’s most prominent Democrats and the bookends of the party’s Obama-era high and Trump restoration low.&#8221;
Although he won the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2024 nomination with the support of more than 14 million primary voters, then-81-year-old Joe Biden bowed out of the White House race in July following a fumbling debate performance against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> under pressure from allies who raised concerns about his age, mental acuity, and electability. Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>, with Biden&#8217;s endorsement, quickly garnered support and became the Democrats&#8217; presidential nominee. Harris ended up losing to Trump.
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During this time, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-biden-conversation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Pelosi privately told Biden that polls showed he could not defeat Trump like he did in 2020 and that he could hurt other members of his party in down-ticket races if he did not bow out. And, in what is widely viewed as a key tipping point — an interview on MSNBC’s &#8220;Morning Joe &#8221; — Pelosi <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nancy-pelosi-stops-short-saying-biden-stay-race-says-time-running-shor-rcna161097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> that she would support whatever decision Biden made about his political future at a time when the president was already insisting he would not leave the race. &#8220;It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,&#8221; she said. Her remarks on MSNBC <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/nancy-pelosis-art-of-power" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly emboldened</a> more Democrats to turn on Biden.
The Washington Post published a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/01/15/jill-biden-interview-first-lady/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Wednesday about its &#8220;exit interview&#8221; with Jill Biden in which the first lady was quoted mentioning how she was thinking &#8220;a lot&#8221; about relationships and took a dig at Nancy Pelosi. &#8220;We were friends for 50 years,&#8221; Jill Biden said. &#8220;It was disappointing.&#8221;
As reported by Martin, Nancy Pelosi has received a wave of &#8220;messages, flowers and calls of concern from heads of state, colleagues in both parties and even royalty&#8221; since breaking her hip in Europe last month, but &#8220;it’s who she has not heard from that’s most remarkable, and that has infuriated Pelosi’s friends and family: Joe and Jill Biden.&#8221;
Martin wrote that he was informed that Nancy Pelosi has tried multiple times to speak with Joe Biden, only to be turned down. &#8220;She’s been told they’re not over it, don’t make more overtures because he’s blaming her,&#8221; an insider told the columnist. Martin&#8217;s report also noted that &#8220;Biden did briefly chat with Pelosi, her husband, Paul, and daughter Christine at a White House holiday party last month. But that encounter only served to remind them of the rupture.&#8221;

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Pelosi’s Daughter Disses Jill Biden In Growing Family Feud

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has confirmed through a spokesman that she will not attend President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration on Monday.
Pelosi, who attended Trump&#8217;s inauguration back in 2017, did not give a reason for skipping out on the swearing-in ceremony.
Notably, the Democrat broke her hip in December and soon after had hip replacement surgery. Still, Pelosi, using a walker, attended a ceremony for the late former President Jimmy Carter earlier this month and also attended a joint session of Congress to ratify Trump&#8217;s win on January 6.
Pelosi has attended 11 presidential inaugurations in total, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-former-speaker-nancy-pelosi-attend-trumps-inauguration/story?id=117747765&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC News.
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Trump and Pelosi have traded barbs at one another for years. In 2023, for example, Pelosi said Trump looked like a &#8220;scared puppy&#8221; when heading into a courtroom.
&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t in the courtroom, of course, but when I saw Trump coming out of his car&#8230;I saw a scared puppy,&#8221; Pelosi <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-snaps-back-nancy-pelosi-over-mean-comments-1817796" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on MSNBC airwaves. &#8220;He looked very, very, very concerned about [his] fate. I didn&#8217;t see any bravado, or confidence, or anything like that. He knows. He knows the truth: That he lost the election, and now he&#8217;s got to face the music.&#8221;
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Many legal scholars and Trump supporters view the lawsuits and prosecution of the president-elect as mere lawfare meant to harm him politically.
Trump returned fire, posting on Truth Social, &#8220;[Pelosi] said something about me, with glee, that was really quite vicious. &#8216;I saw a scared puppy,&#8217; she said, as she watched me on television, like millions of others, that didn&#8217;t see that. I wasn&#8217;t &#8216;scared.&#8217; Nevertheless, how mean a thing to say! She is a Wicked Witch whose husband&#8217;s journey from hell starts and finishes with her. She is a sick &amp; demented psycho who will someday live in HELL!&#8221;
In addition to Pelosi skipping the inauguration, former first lady Michelle Obama also confirmed she won&#8217;t attend. Like Pelosi, no reason was given, though a <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/michelle-obama-not-one-pretend-141908306.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM3atsZc41kCSRMKSfurjA_lU-16DhBVMjma8L5udzrwkvFa0KgXegrcgN4PLiL5kMS7G5o-tI97OUCDDVv0q_D28ERp7U8aWOO1ONbadwbiQg0sOb-32woFiDBFhUNANBcGjAoYOUBI1FcOyeD46QfZpkI09tXrEb_Zwy9CY8KJ">source</a> claims Mrs. Obama doesn&#8217;t want to fake a smile for the cameras.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-michelle-obama-is-reportedly-skipping-trumps-inauguration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here’s Why Michelle Obama Is Reportedly Skipping Trump’s Inauguration</a>

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Nancy Pelosi Will Not Attend Trump’s Inauguration

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Ahead of her departure from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a>, first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> voiced displeasure with Speaker Emerita <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-CA) over how the prominent House Democrat fueled a revolt against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 election</a>.
The Washington Post published a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/01/15/jill-biden-interview-first-lady/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Wednesday about its &#8220;exit interview&#8221; with Jill Biden, noting that the first lady has become the &#8220;keeper of the family grudges&#8221; — a nod to what she wrote in her 2019 memoir about recalling &#8220;every slight committed&#8221; against the people that she loves.
&#8220;Which brings us to Nancy Pelosi, whom Jill has known nearly as long as Joe,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Who had been a close friend to Joe as they ascended to the highest tier of American politics. Whom Jill couldn’t wait to invite to the White House once coronavirus restrictions allowed the Bidens to entertain. And who went on MSNBC’s &#8216;Morning Joe&#8217; in July with a shiv.&#8221;
Though he won the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2024 nomination with the support of more than 14 million primary voters, then-81-year-old Joe Biden bowed out of the White House race in July following a fumbling debate performance against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> under pressure from allies who raised concerns about his age, mental acuity, and electability. Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>, with Biden&#8217;s endorsement, quickly garnered support and became the Democrats&#8217; presidential nominee. Harris ended up losing to Trump.
During this time, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-biden-conversation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Pelosi privately told Biden that polls showed he could not defeat Trump like he did in 2020 and that he could hurt other members of his party in down-ticket races if he did not bow out. And, in what is widely viewed as a key tipping point — the MSNBC interview — Pelosi <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nancy-pelosi-stops-short-saying-biden-stay-race-says-time-running-shor-rcna161097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> that she would support whatever decision Biden made about his political future at a time when the president was already insisting he would not leave the race. &#8220;It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,&#8221; she said. Her remarks on MSNBC <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/nancy-pelosis-art-of-power" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly emboldened</a> more Democrats to turn on Biden.
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According to The Washington Post, this is how the exchange with Jill Biden when it came to Pelosi went down:
<blockquote>&#8220;&#8216;Like I said,&#8217; Jill says now, seated in the Green Room of the White House on the first Sunday of January, &#8216;I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships.&#8217;
Her face, nearly pearlescent with lustrous foundation, betrays no particular emotion. She’s holding a china cup.
Tea. With honey and lemon.
&#8216;It’s been on my mind a lot lately, and — &#8216;
Jill pauses.
&#8216;We were friends for 50 years.&#8217; She is using her teacher’s voice now. &#8216;It was disappointing.'&#8221;</blockquote>
After Harris lost the presidential election to Trump, Pelosi appeared to blame the outcome on Joe Biden during an interview with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/politics/pelosi-harris-biden-open-primary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
&#8220;Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-blames-kamalas-loss-on-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, adding, &#8220;The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.&#8221;
Pelosi also said: &#8220;And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.&#8221;
There had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hes-furious-at-you-pelosi-grilled-about-dem-mutiny-against-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that Joe Biden was frustrated at Pelosi, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/14/biden-frustration-obama-pelosi-00173883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">among others</a>, for pressing him to step aside. However, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-does-not-deny-democrats-forced-him-out-claims-he-wouldve-won" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> during an interview on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; in September that his relationship with Pelosi was &#8220;fine.&#8221; Joe Biden also claimed — as he has done <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-the-hell-knows-biden-gets-asked-if-he-would-have-the-vigor-to-serve-another-term" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple times</a> now — that he was &#8220;confident&#8221; that he would have beaten Trump in a rematch.

Jill Biden Lashes Out At Pelosi After 2024 ‘Shiv’ Moment

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For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Sunday&#8217;s narrative focused primarily on the terrorist attack that took place last week in New Orleans — along with a concerted effort to drive conversation away from the terror risk posed by the open southern border and toward the threat of homegrown terrorism.
As soon as it was clear that the truck attack in New Orleans had been motivated by radical Islamist ideology — coupled with conflicting reports about the truck that was used and whether it had recently crossed the border — a number, President-elect Donald Trump among them, pointed to the porous border and questioned whether more such attacks might be possible or even imminent.
But Democrats and legacy media were quick to put distance on the topic of the border and the crisis that has unfolded there under the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s lax policies — and they emphasized the fact that at least in this particular case, the perpetrator was an American citizen who had been radicalized.
On ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas raised the question of how exactly the New Orleans terror suspect had been radicalized — specifically, whether ISIS had recruited him or he had come to them.
&#8220;The main focus of the investigation right now: trying to figure out if the suspect was radicalized on his own or if someone from ISIS directed him in anyway,&#8221; Thomas told anchor George Stephanopoulos.
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“The main focus of the investigation right now: trying to figure out if the suspect was radicalized on his own or if someone from ISIS directed him in anyway.” <a href="https://t.co/8o1oMWvGZN">https://t.co/8o1oMWvGZN</a> <a href="https://t.co/dhsDNS4kDu">pic.twitter.com/dhsDNS4kDu</a>
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas doubled down on that narrative, saying outright that the border was not part of the problem, at least in this current case.
&#8220;The assailant who perpetrated the terrorist attack in New Orleans was born in the United States, raised in the United States and served in our armed forces. It is not an issue of the border,&#8221; he said.
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“The assailant who perpetrated the terrorist attack in New Orleans was born in the United States, raised in the United States and served in our armed forces. It is not an issue of the border,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says. <a href="https://t.co/rRMUv9vl3M">https://t.co/rRMUv9vl3M</a> <a href="https://t.co/CdxBxDH9S1">pic.twitter.com/CdxBxDH9S1</a>
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He went on to add that officials had noted a &#8220;significant increase&#8221; in &#8220;homegrown violent extremism&#8221; in recent years, specifically over the last decade.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a very difficult threat landscape,&#8221; he said.
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Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas tells George Stephanopoulos that officials have seen a “significant increase” over the last 10 years in “homegrown violent extremism.”
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also addressed the idea of violent extremism coming from domestic sources, claiming that it was a deterrent for women who might otherwise run for office.
&#8220;Women are known to be more, shall we say, ethical, than men,&#8221; Pelosi claimed, giving no evidence to support her theory. &#8220;And so, when they go after women candidates, they go after their ethics. And they&#8217;ll say this, that and the other thing. And then the child comes home from school crying because somebody said a bad thing about mom on TV. And nobody wants that.&#8221;
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The threat of domestic violent extremism is discouraging women from running for public office, says <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a>, telling <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a> that women candidates are attacked particularly for their ethics.
&quot;Women are known to be more, shall we say, ethical, than men. And so, when… <a href="https://t.co/ZXOhIkrCdU">pic.twitter.com/ZXOhIkrCdU</a>
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Pelosi then pivoted to January 6th, as Congress prepares to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, claiming that the American people had only voted for President-elect Trump a second time because they were more worried about their bank accounts than the threat of violence.
&#8220;They just had a different view as to what was in their interest, economically and the rest,&#8221; she told his Margaret Brennan.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a> says she doesn&#39;t believe the American people disregarded the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol attack by voting to reelect Donald Trump, but &quot;they just had a different view as to what was in their interest, economically and the rest.&quot; Trump&#39;s continued efforts to falsely… <a href="https://t.co/km4MOA8SGp">pic.twitter.com/km4MOA8SGp</a>
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On &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) on the issue — asking specifically whether Trump had jumped the gun when he linked terror threats in the United States to the porous border and the lax immigration policies under Biden and Harris.
&#8220;Wasn&#8217;t that premature given that this was an American citizen?&#8221; Tapper asked.
Banks pushed back, noting that former President Barack Obama had referred to ISIS as &#8220;the JV team of terrorism, and obviously they&#8217;re not.&#8221; He went on to note that Trump had essentially cut ISIS off at the knees during his first term and was prepared to do the same again.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> presses GOP <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorBanks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorBanks</a> on his and Trump&#39;s comments connecting the New Orleans terror attack to Biden&#39;s border policies: &quot;Wasn&#39;t that premature?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/MhN6BNWdKe">pic.twitter.com/MhN6BNWdKe</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1875938781854884319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NBC News took a different tack and a different direction, with the focus primarily on the end of Biden&#8217;s presidency and the imminent certification of Trump&#8217;s victory.
On &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; after addressing the New Orleans attack, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ran defense for Biden — and his surrogates in the Democratic Party and legacy media — claiming that no one had misled the American people with regard to the president&#8217;s obvious mental decline.
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Schumer says ‘we didn’t’ mislead Americans on Biden’s mental acuity: Full interview <a href="https://t.co/IfpizHdPFR">https://t.co/IfpizHdPFR</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1875917176646799800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On NBC&#8217;s soon to be spun off affiliate MSNBC, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was laser-focused on her favorite target: Trump. Her guests joined her to discuss the upcoming sentencing in his Manhattan hush-money trial and how that was likely to impact the beginning of the presidency.
&#8220;The final thing that&#8217;s important to note is by sentencing Donald Trump this Friday, [Judge Merchan] will trigger Donald Trump&#8217;s appellate rights …&#8221; guest Andrew Weissmann noted. &#8220;It gives finality to the trial court&#8217;s ruling here, and it sends a message about this case to the public.&#8221;
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&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1875985476621947244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) falsely suggested during an interview over the weekend that President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s rhetoric was the reason for the 2022 attack on her husband, Paul Pelosi.
Pelosi made the unsubstantiated claim during an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with Margaret Brennan, while talking about how Trump may pardon some January 6 defendants who are serving sentences for their roles in the riot.
Pelosi claimed that those who used violent words on that day had &#8220;intention&#8221; to carry out actual violence.
&#8220;Now it didn&#8217;t end that day,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;As you know, he called out to these people to continue their violence, my husband being a victim of all of that, and he still has injuries from that attack. So it just goes on and on. It isn&#8217;t something that happens and then it&#8217;s over. No, once you are attacked, you have consequences that continue.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s really a strange person who&#8217;s going to be President of the United States, who thinks that it&#8217;s okay to pardon people who are engaged in an attack,&#8221; she continued, claiming that Trump had &#8220;conned&#8221; the American people about the January 6 riot.
&#8220;The President said he would go on a case-by-case basis,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So I assume that some of those people may not have engaged in the violent activities that some of the others did.&#8221;
She again doubled down on falsely suggesting that Trump had offered &#8220;encouragement&#8221; to those who were &#8220;looking for me and finding my husband.&#8221;
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On President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to pardon Jan. 6 defendants, <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a> says, “It&#8217;s really a strange person who&#8217;s going to be President of the United States, who thinks that it&#8217;s okay to pardon people who are engaged in an attack.&#8221; When asked if she would be… <a href="https://t.co/mvD4RrxNux">pic.twitter.com/mvD4RrxNux</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1875938349015617575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Nancy Pelosi Falsely Suggests Her Husband Was A ‘Victim’ Of Trump’s Rhetoric

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) underwent surgery on Saturday in Europe after she fell and broke her hip while traveling in Luxembourg.
Pelosi&#8217;s office said that it was a &#8220;successful hip replacement&#8221; and that she was already &#8220;well on the mend.&#8221;
&#8220;Pelosi is grateful to U.S. military staff at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center at Landstuhl Army Base and medical staff at Hospital Kirchberg in Luxembourg for their excellent care and kindness,&#8221; her office said in a statement. &#8220;Pelosi is enjoying the overwhelming outpouring of prayers and well wishes and is ever determined to ensure access to quality health care for all Americans.&#8221;
The octogenarian was wearing high heels when she fell down the stairs and broke her hip at the Grand Ducal Palace.
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives was in Luxembourg with a bipartisan Congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/nancy-pelosi-injury-luxembourg-hospital-5f3c3514" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Pelosi was admitted into the hospital after she tripped and fell following a group photo with other lawmakers and officials who were on the trip.
A photo posted by the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg appeared to show the group photo that Pelosi was posing for before she fell.
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She can be seen wearing high heels in the photo as she clutched the hand of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX).
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We welcome <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nasa</a> Bill Nelson and Members of Congress to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg and Belgium. The sacrifices of brave <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWII?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWII</a> soldiers echo from the past, reminding us that each generation must continue the fight for freedom and… <a href="https://t.co/ae50RVceWL">pic.twitter.com/ae50RVceWL</a>
— U.S. Embassy Luxembourg (@USEmbLuxembourg) <a href="https://twitter.com/USEmbLuxembourg/status/1867570544675090828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;She continues to work and regrets that she is unable to attend the remainder of the CODEL engagements to honor the courage of our service members during one of the greatest acts of American heroism in our nation’s history,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Speaker Emerita Pelosi conveys her thanks and praise to our veterans and gratitude to people of Luxembourg and Bastogne for their service in World War II and their role in bringing peace to Europe.&#8221;
The statement added that she was &#8220;personally and officially honored&#8221; to travel with the distinguished delegation, many of whom had family members who fought in WWII.

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