Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday exposed why the Republican Party is so afraid of defying President Donald Trump, referencing a harrowing event her family experienced.
In an interview with SiriusXM’s Zerlina Maxwell, Pelosi said many GOP members of Congress worry they could be attacked in the same way her husband, Paul, was assaulted inside the couple’s San Francisco home nearly three years ago.
“That’s what they’re afraid of,” she said. “They don’t want their children threatened, their families threatened, their lives in jeopardy because they speak out against him.”
David DePape broke into the Pelosis’ home in October 2022 looking for the then-House speaker who was not there. The intruder went on to beat Paul Pelosi with a hammer, fracturing his skull.
DePape, who had a track record of embracing right-wing conspiracy theories, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in state court in October of last year on top of a 30-year-sentence he got in the federal case against him.
Pelosi told Maxwell that she finds it astounding that congressional Republicans “would be so ignoring of the institution that they represent,” raising little to no opposition to Trump’s demands, accusing them of abandoning their constitutional duty to serve as a check to the executive branch.
Still, Pelosi seemed to concede that it was understandable that many would have reservations about speaking out against him given that Trump could seek revenge from them, including by using the Department of Justice and the FBI to launch baseless investigations against them.
“There’s real justification for fear, because Trump is just ruthless in how he’s going after those who do not agree with him,” Pelosi said.
The former speaker also singled out current House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) when she was asked to comment on Trump supporters’ anger with the administration over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The DOJ and the FBI released a memo earlier this month noting that there was no evidence to suggest the disgraced financier was murdered or that he kept a client list to blackmail people.
Pelosi suggested that she found it surprising that Johnson, one of Trump’s staunchest allies, seemed to break with Trump on the issue.
Johnson “has done everything Donald Trump has asked him to do, to the horror of all of us who care about not only the people we serve, but the institution we serve in,” Pelosi said.
Johnson on Wednesday claimed his comments to conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, calling for the release of all files on Epstein, were “misrepresented,” adding that there was no daylight between him and Trump.
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