By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--June 19, 2020
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s big whopper that she doesn’t want President Donald Trump and his supporters COVID-19 “endangered” at tomorrow’s Tulsa rally is right up there with her earlier whopper that she always prays for the president.
Pelosi accused President Trump Wednesday of embarking on an "ego trip" by scheduling a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., which she said could put him and others in danger of contracting coronavirus.
"For the president to have this ego trip that he wants to take to Tulsa to have a mass rally of people coming together, endangering their own health and the people that they go home to ... " she told CNN, adding that the rally was "a danger to the President himself, and he’s our president. We don’t want him to be endangered. But we don't want to be foolish about it.” (Fox News, June 18, 2020)
RELATED: Nancy Pelosi’s “Prayers” For President More Hex and Curse-Like Than “Prayerful”“…Earlier this month, at the end of her weekly news conference, Pelosi had begun to walk off the stage when a reporter from the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group called out to her, “Do you hate the President, Madam Speaker?” Pelosi wheeled around and wagged her index finger at him. “I don’t hate anybody,” she said. “I was raised in a Catholic house. We don’t hate anybody. Not anybody in the world.” She stalked back to the microphone. “This is about the Constitution of the United States and the facts that lead to the President’s violation of his oath of office,” Pelosi said. Then she added, “I still pray for the President. I pray for the President all the time. So, don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that.” (New Yorker, Dec. 17, 2019)Telling whoppers about praying is never a good thing. Meanwhile, here’s what the “Royal We” leader did when virtue signalling Juneteenth. In one way or another Nancy Pelosi has been part of the Washington power structure for 33 years, though on some days it seems like forever.
“Pelosi sent a letter to the House Clerk Cheryl Johnson requesting the removal of four previous House Speakers to honor Juneteenth, which is observed June 19 and commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States. (Fox News) “To appropriately observe Juneteenth this year, I write today to request the immediate removal of the portraits in the U.S. Capitol of four previous Speakers who served in the Confederacy: Robert Hunter of Virginia (1839-1841), Howell Cobb of Georgia (1849-1851), James Orr of South Carolina (1857-1859), and Charles Crisp of Georgia (1891-1895)," Pelosi wrote to the Johnson.
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"The portraits of these men are symbols that set back our nation’s work to confront and combat bigotry," she added. “The action is the latest effort by Pelosi to rid the Capitol of relics that celebrate Confederate icons. Her pursuit started during her first speakership when she successfully moved a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee down to the crypt.” “Pelosi is also trying to remove 11 Confederate statues from the Capitol but needs others to sign off. However, Pelosi does have the power to move statues around and she's open to relegating the statues to dark corners of the Capitol if she can't get them removed. “Confederate statues across the nation have come down in rapid succession in recent weeks in the wake of the death of George Floyd and flood of protests demanding racial justice. Pelosi mentioned the names of black Americans who recently died in her letter requesting the removal of the confederate portraits on Juneteenth. "Very sadly, this day comes during a moment of extraordinary national anguish, as we grieve for the hundreds of black Americans killed by racial injustice and police brutality, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others," she wrote.”Burning question no media reporter is asking: “Why did Nancy Pelosi wait until Juneteenth, 2020 to demand that portraits of long dead Confederacy house speakers be removed from Cancel Culture Congressional halls?” Hiding icons in dark corners and tossing statues down into the crypt is not really getting rid of them.
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