Pelosi calls Trump 'stupid' in new book, explains why she ripped up SOTU speech: 'Pages and pages' of lies
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s, D-Calif., new book is shedding light on some of her most contentious moments with former President Trump.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on some of the most juicy and dramatic accounts found in her new book, "The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House Hardcover," several of which were moments from her combative relationship with the former president.
"I’ve had a lot of conversations with this man, and at the end of nearly all of them, I think, ‘Either you are stupid, or you think that the rest of us are,’" the congresswoman wrote about her political opponent.
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Pelosi’s quote about Trump’s supposed lack of intelligence came from a segment of her memoir in which she recounted their phone conversation just ahead of her announcement that House Democrats were launching an impeachment inquiry into the then-president regarding his phone call to Ukraine.
In the anecdote, Pelosi described how Trump called her to insist that he made a "perfect call" to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the Biden family’s business dealings with the country.
In the book, Pelosi wrote that during their conversation, Trump "complained about how this announcement was happening today, the day when he was speaking to the UN General Assembly." She then proceeded to call him "stupid."
Democrats would eventually go on to impeach Trump over charges that he pressured a foreign power to investigate a political opponent, as Biden was a top contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the time. Trump was not convicted during the process.
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