Nancy: Don ‘crazy’ rips show he is
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi donned a shrink’s hat Sunday, saying President Trump only calls her crazy because “he knows that he is.”
Asked about a tweet that morning in which the president used his favorite epithet for the speaker — “crazy” — Pelosi said, “he has to know that every knock from him is a boost.”
She went on to recount how she hadn’t thought Trump was “worth” impeachment but said he crossed a constitutional line when he withheld military aid to Ukraine while pressuring the country to investigate the Bidens.
“I don’t like to spend too much time on his crazy tweets, because everything he says is a projection,” the speaker said on ABC’s “This Week.” “When he calls someone crazy, he knows that he is. Everything he says you can just translate it back to who he is.”
The interview came as the House is expected to send articles of impeachment to the Senate as early as this week.
Pelosi (inset) didn’t give a specific date for that move Sunday but said, “The ball will be in [the Senate’s] court soon.”
She’s held off on sending the articles, saying she wanted the Senate to determine its rules for Trump’s trial first.
“It’s a positive result in terms of additional emails and unredacted information that has come forward, that [former national security adviser John] Bolton has said that he would testify if subpoenaed by the Senate, other information that has come forward,” Pelosi said. “And more importantly, raising the profile of the fact that we need to have witnesses and documentation, and if we don’t that is a coverup.
“Let’s be optimistic about the future, a future that will not have Donald Trump in the White House one way or another,” she added. “Ten months, we will have an election if we don’t have him removed sooner. But, again, he’ll be impeached forever.”