Nancy Pelosi wants America to know that those weren’t her fingerprints on the knife that was buried in Joe Biden’s back after he was stripped of the party’s nomination by a successful coup.
The former House speaker pleaded innocence that she was whipping up support behind the scenes for overthrowing the octogenarian incumbent who had insisted that he wasn’t dropping out of the race against former President Donald J. Trump right up until the abrupt end of his campaign.
Pelosi sat down with Lesley Stahl of CBS News for an interview, a clip of which was released on Saturday and was pressed by the longtime anchor about her conversation with Biden before he finally caved to the pressure two weeks ago.
“I did not call one person.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks with Lesley Stahl about her role in President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race. https://t.co/BtvgDUKdYf pic.twitter.com/cnJ8ywR5sU
— CBS Sunday Morning (@CBSSunday) August 3, 2024
“Please tell us what you told President Biden to persuade him to step aside,” Stahl invited the scheming elder Democrat to share with viewers.
“Well I’ve never shared any conversations with a president of the United States publicly,” Pelosi dodged, not that she’d ever tell the truth anyway.
Asked by Stahl to comment on reports that Biden was “furious” at her, Pelosi again refused to give a straight answer. “He knows that I love him very much,” she responded.
“I understand that you don’t want to own this,” Stahl persisted. “But it was so well reported…that you were the leader of a pressure campaign…”
“No, I wasn’t the leader of any pressure [campaign],” Pelosi shot back. “Let me say things that I didn’t do. I didn’t call one person. I did not call one person. I could always say to him, I never called anybody.”
Pelosi’s top lieutenants including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called for Biden to step down leading CNN to report that the embattled president was “seething” over what he believed was her working in the background to force him out.
“All of it, we are told, has President Biden seething, tonight, with much of his anger directed at Nancy Pelosi,” CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins told viewers shortly before the other shoe dropped. “That’s because some of the names that are calling for him to drop out of the race are her close allies.”
“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” Pelosi said during an MSNBC appearance. “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. The, I think, overwhelming support of the caucus, it’s not for me to say. I’m not the head of the caucus anymore, but he’s beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision. Not me.”
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It was reported that after weeks of pressure on Biden to step aside, Barack Obama was the one who called him to inform Biden that the mutineers were prepared to invoke the 25th Amendment option with VP Kamala Harris’s approval. Faced with no other choice, he then caved in.
Pelosi can try to deny her involvement but it stretches the belief that she had nothing to do with the unprecedented move against Biden and the undemocratic installation of Harris.
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