House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat down with Lesley Stahl for an interview on “60 Minutes” following Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. She used the opportunity to take a couple more shots at President Trump during his last few days in office.
Stahl asked the Democrat Speaker, ” Is anybody running the executive branch of the government?”
“Well, sadly, the person who’s running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the United States,” Pelosi responded. “And we’re only a number of days until we can be protected from him. But he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him.”
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“It has been an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country led by this president, for the moment, who have chosen their Whiteness over democracy,” Pelosi later said in a meeting with her San Francisco constituents.
In the “60 Minutes” interview, Stahl asks if lawmakers have taken the 25th Amendment of the Constitution “off the table” in their discussions about how to approach the president after the Capitol riot.
“No, it isn’t,” Pelosi answered. “Nothing is off the table.”
Pelosi would go on the describe her experience inside the Capitol as protesters breached security and forced their way into the building.
“I was pulled from the podium,” she recalled, “just literally pulled from the podium.”
Presumably referring to security, Pelosi said, “They were vocally saying, ‘Where’s the speaker? We know she has staff. They’re here someplace. We’re going to find them.”
Two photos of the siege that have since been widely distributed are linked to Pelosi: One is a shot of a man carrying a podium that is suspected to have been taken from Pelosi’s office, and another shot is of a different man seated behind Pelosi’s desk in her office.
