Pelosi Stands By Not Speaking To President Trump For Over A Year
Friday marked one year since Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had spoken to President Donald Trump.
Though it is unprecedented for a Speaker to go that long without talking to the president, Pelosi defended this move while speaking to reporters that day.
Pelosi Defends Not Speaking To Trump For A Year
When asked by MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace if she would be open to talking to Trump if he reached out to her, Pelosi replied, âIt would depend on what the purpose is.â
Pelosi and Trump last talked to one another at the White House on October 16, 2019, when they met to discuss pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, according to The Hill. This meeting quickly went off the rails, with the two of them trading insults before Pelosi stormed out with her fellow Democrats.
Afterwards, Trump tweeted out a photo showing Pelosi pointing at him and other members of his administration, captioning it, âNervous Nancyâs unhinged meltdown!â Pelosi said that at the time, she had been telling Trump that âall roads with you lead to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.â
âWhat was funny about it is the White House put out that photo, because weâre not even allowed to wear a smartwatch in the room,â Pelosi said on Friday. âThey put that out and I said, âThank you very much, Mr. President.â â
âBut we left because there was no purpose to staying there,â she added. âThere was no truth coming from the other side.â
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Pelosi went on to say that though she is not speaking to Trump, she is still working with White House representatives including Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
âSo it isnât as if it has to be person to person between the Speaker and the president,â she explained. âIt has to be knowledge for knowledge in terms of what our purpose is, what we know about the challenge we face and what the possible solutions are.â
Pelosi added that she and the White House are still disagreeing about earned income and child tax credits as outlined in Democratsâ coronavirus relief proposal. She said that Mnuchin has not yet sent her his proposed changes on a testing strategy, and that she expects to talk to him again on Sunday.
âSo weâll still waiting to see what the changes are, because as you know, the devil and the angels are in the detail,â Pelosi said.
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This piece was written by James Samson on October 17, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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