New Jan 6 footage reveals Nancy Pelosi’s fury with Trump after Capitol riot: ‘I feel sick about what he did’
New footage following the harrowing events of January 6 captures Nancy Pelosi’s anger at Donald Trump over the Capitol riot which saw a pro-MAGA mob temporarily halt the certifiying of the 2020 election results and left five people dead.
The previously unaired footage came from documentary maker Alexandra Pelosi, who was accompanying her mother in the early days of 2021 to make a film about her role as House Speaker. The film, Pelosi in the House, was released by HBO on December 13, 2022.
Some 50 minutes of footage was handed over by HBO to the House Administration Committee, headed by Republicans, this week.
The committee has established a new investigation into the Jan 6 riot in an attempt to undercut the now-disbanded bipartisan House Select Committee, according to Politico. The committee, which released its final report in December 2022, found that Trump was liable for the chaos and violence of his supporters at the Capitol.
In the new footage, Pelosi can be seen in the back of her car in theearly hours of January 7 and appears exhausted.
“I just feel sick about what he did to the Capitol and the country today,” the House Speaker says. “He’s got to pay a price for that.”
In a conversation with her staff the next morning, Pelosi asked for a list of Trump’s cabinet so she could call on them to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. She added that she was going to describe Trump as “a domestic enemy in the White House” in a statement.
“Let’s not mince words about this,” she said. But in the end, she didn’t call out any cabinet officials or call Trump a “domestic enemy.”
The HBO footage also gives a more detailed look at Pelosi’s evacuation from the Capitol, revealing her agitation at being forced to