Former Speaker and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took down Jake Tapper when he requested her about Trump’s false claims about Kamala Harris’s cognitive talents.
Video of the complete Pelosi interview on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Tapper performed this clip of Trump in Savannah at the moment, and mentioned, “Donald Trump saying that Kamala Harris has greater cognitive issues than Joe Biden:
Trump claims Kamala Harris has greater cognitive issues than Biden, however since Harris destroyed Trump on the debate, what does this say about Trump? pic.twitter.com/j2ZmB5SVkx
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 24, 2024
Pelosi went off:
Why would you even cowl that? It is a one who’s not on the extent. He’s their nominee for president. He’s incompetent. Let’s not even speak concerning the silliness of all of it and the weirdness of all of it and the assault on girls that it’s. We’re not going to speak points. Incompetent. The one factor he did as president.
The one factor he did as president when he had the bulk was to go a invoice that gave 83, a tax lower that gave 83 of the advantages to the highest 1%, including 2 trillion to the nationwide debt. The worst job creation report of anyone president since Herbert Hoover.
Properly, it’s not due to COVID.
We put three trillion {dollars} into the, into the financial system when he was president working with, uh, uh, and the Congress, uh, working collectively. We put three trillion {dollars} into the financial system. So, don’t blame it on, and what did he do with COVID? Denial and delay. answerable for hundreds and hundreds of individuals dying.
So if you happen to’re going to forgive his job report due to COVID, ensure you attribute lots of these deaths to him as nicely.
Tapper replied, “Not forgiving something, simply noting, simply noting the content material.”
Pelosi continued, “Incompetent. You understand, neglect foolish and loopy and crooked and all the remaining. Incompetent.”
Tapper tried to justify the clip, “Let me simply say, why do I run that clip? I run that clip as a result of that’s the Republican presidential nominee and I assumed you may need a response to it.”
Pelosi calling him out made Tapper admit that he solely requested her that query to get a response from her, which is lazy journalism.
Former Speaker Pelosi was appropriate to name him out, as a result of what Tapper was serving to to unfold whether or not he realized it or not was a racist declare made by Donald Trump. Trump has been attacking Harris’s cognitive talents partially for play into the racist stereotype that black persons are silly or much less clever.
I selected to embed the clip and never quote from it in order that readers can select in the event that they need to hear these types of assaults, however I can’t advance them by placing them in print.
There are essential points to debate, however large media remains to be taking part in the Trump sport.
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