Pelosi On Hilary Clinton’s Podcast Blames Religious Americans For Being ‘Willing To Sell The Whole Democracy Down The River’ Over Abortion
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi charged religious Americans who voted for President Donald Trump of ‘selling out the whole democracy’ of the United States over the issue of abortion.
Speaking on the podcast of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Speaker touched on the recent Capitol Hill chaos, the upcoming Biden administration and the circumstances that brought President Donald Trump to the White House in 2016.
During the roughly 30-minute podcast, the two fierce critics of the President lamented how some Americans voted for Trump as the two went on to blame “religious Americans” and their position against abortion for delivering his win over Clinton, herself.
“Now, there’s one other element that I have been talking about for a long time that gives me great grief as a Catholic,” Pelosi started. “I think that Donald Trump is president because of the issue of a woman’s right to choose.”
“When he signed that paper saying, ‘These are the judges that I will appoint,” that was the dog whistle to the Evangelicals, to the Catholics, and all the rest. A woman will not have the right to choose.”
“When you see the polls about impeachment now, 80% think what happened was wrong; 70-some percent said he’s responsible, but 40-some percent don’t think he should be impeached. Well, why? One issue: abortion,” the Democratic House Speaker claimed, without citing any evidence.
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“And that is enough,” Pelosi continued. “When you take the greed of those who want their tax cut, that’s probably a small number, but nonetheless a number, and then you take the abortion issue – and many of these people are very good people; that’s just their point of view. But they were willing to sell the whole democracy down the river for that one issue,” she said.
Clinton, Pelosi floats Putin conspiracy theory
During the podcast, the two Democrats also floated a conspiracy theory that Russian President Vladimir Putin was again involved in US affairs – claiming as a matter of fact, that he was behind the chaos at the Capitol Hill on January 6.
Singling out the violence that happened in the nation’s capital during the joint congressional session to certify the Electoral College votes for Biden, Clinton and Pelosi suggested establishing a “9/11-type commission” to look into the incident and the possible involvement of Putin in the incident – while largely silent on all the other violence that took place across the country over the summer initiated by Antifa and BLM protesters.
“I hope historically we will find out who [Trump is] beholden to, who pulls his strings,” the failed presidential candidate, Clinton said.
“I would love to see his phone records to see whether he was talking to Putin the day that the insurgents invaded our Capitol. But we now know that not just him, but his enablers, his accomplices, his cult members, have the same disregard for democracy,”he added.
Pelosi, who spent the past four years trying to remove President Trump from office and went on to pursue the two-year “Russian collusion hoax” over the 2016 election retorted: “I don’t know what Putin has on him politically, financially, or personally, but what happened last week was a gift to Putin, because Putin wants to undermine democracy in our country and throughout the world.”
Meanwhile, in an interview released on President Trump’s last full day in office, Pelosi calls Trump ‘unworthy to be president’ and ‘stain on our country.’
Pelosi calls Trump ‘unworthy to be president’ and ‘stain on our country’ https://t.co/9Sc51GzOai
— The Independent (@Independent) January 19, 2021
Trump has been ‘toughest’ on Russia
Despite repeated comments from Democrats on the alleged “link” with Putin, President Trump has maintained that he has been the toughest US President in Russia, noting for example, how he authorized the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats from the US in the wake of Kremlin’s alleged use of a nerve agent to poison a former Russian spy living in the United Kingdom.
There’s also been a total of 52 policy actions on Russia under the Trump administration as of December 2019 which included sanctions, indictments and Executive Orders against the Kremlin as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also earlier said it’s “crazy talk” to say the US isn’t tough on Russia under President Trump.
In 2018, TheHill contributor Jen Kerns wrote that President Trump is tougher on Russia in his first 18 months than how his predecessor, Barack Obama has been in eight years.
“Even though the left-wing media will never give him credit, President Trump has been far tougher on Russia than his predecessor, Barack Obama,” Kerns said. “For starters, it was President Obama who, according to Reuters, was ‘caught on camera’ saying to a Russian leader that he’ll have more flexibility after the election — not President Trump.”