Nancy Pelosi Labels Trump ‘Scared Puppy’ At Court

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the previous chief of the Home Democrats and a two-time speaker of the Home, mentioned ex-president Donald Trump seemed afraid at his arraignment Thursday on federal fees of election obstruction and conspiracy.

“I wasn’t within the courtroom after all, however once I noticed his popping out of his automobile or this and that, I noticed a scared pet,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) mentioned Friday in an interview on “Andrea Mitchell Stories” on MSNBC.

“He seemed very, very, very involved in regards to the destiny,” she continued. “I didn’t see any bravado or confidence or something like that. He is aware of. He is aware of the reality, that he misplaced the election and now he’s acquired to face the music.”

Pelosi can be aware of Trump’s physique language, having handled him because the chief of the Home Democrats in 2017 and 2018 after which as speaker of the Home in 2019 and 2020.

And he or she hasn’t been shy about criticizing Trump. In 2020, she ripped up on digital camera her written copy of Trump’s State of the Union speech as quickly as he completed it, saying afterward, “It was the courteous factor to do, contemplating the options.”

And in 2019, a image went viral of Pelosi standing up and pointing a finger at Trump throughout a White Home assembly with him and plenty of different White Home and congressional officers.

Pelosi stepped apart as Democratic chief after the Democrats misplaced Home management within the 2022 midterms. She is now speaker emerita and nonetheless represents a San Francisco-area Home district.

Within the wake of some Home Republicans saying they wish to study impeaching President Joe Biden over unproven allegations of bribery courting again to earlier than he was president, Pelosi challenged them to go forward.

“That is frivolous, this can be a diversionary tactic,” she mentioned on Friday.

“In the event that they wish to topic their members, who’re in troublesome districts, topic them to that, deliver it on. Simply deliver it on,” Pelosi mentioned. “It’s not going to go anyplace.”