Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi rubbed salt in the wound after she orchestrated the coup that successfully removed lame-duck President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party nominee.
The 84-year-old congresswoman has been featured in a slew of media appearances this week to hawk her new book and to take a victory lap after she led the mutiny against the befuddled leader who was swapped out with her fellow Californian VP Kamala Harris in an unprecedented move.
“I love him so much, I think he’s been really a fantastic president of the United States,” Pelosi said in an interview with the New Yorker that was published on Thursday. “So I really wanted him to make a decision of a better campaign because they were not facing the fact of what was happening.”
“Just a little background, I’ve never been that impressed with his political operation,” she added, giving the knife she shoved into Biden’s back a good hard twist. “They won the White House. Bravo. But my concern was this ain’t happening, and we have to make a decision for this to happen. The President has to make the decision for that to happen.”
“I never called one person, but people were calling me saying that there was a challenge there. So there had to be a change in the leadership of the campaign, or what would come next,” she told host David Remnick insisting that reports she was working behind the scenes to oust the decrepit incumbent aren’t true.
Pelosi also made the claim that she never called anyone – although not denying her key role in the plot – during another interview, this one with Lesley Stahl of CBS News that aired over the weekend.
“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
“I understand that you don’t want to own this,” Stahl pressed the speaker emerita. “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.”
In the “CBS Sunday Morning” interview Pelosi also made the delusional claim that Biden has been such a great leader that he’s deserving of having his face added to Mount Rushmore.
“He was in a good place to make whatever decision – the top of his game,” she told the incredulous Stahl. “Such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of president of the United States.”
“Well, you got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and he’s wonderful,” Pelosi said. “I don’t say take him down. But you can add Biden.”
“My goal in life was that that man would never set foot in the White House again,” Pelosi said of former President Donald J. Trump during a Wednesday talk with reporters, according to the Washington Post which reported that she was “pounding the table nine times for emphasis and to explain why she acted,” referring to her leading the anti-Biden insurgency.
“I can tell you that he’s not happy with Obama, and he’s not happy with Nancy Pelosi,” Trump said at a Thursday news conference when he addressed the Democrat coup. “He’s not happy with any of the people that told him ‘you’ve got to leave.’ He’s very unhappy, very angry.”
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