According to newly released edited HBO footage from the House Administration Committee, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) immediately tried to blame former President Donald Trump for the events of January 6th, instead of taking responsibility as Speaker of the House.
The video supports former President Donald Trump's claim that House Speaker Pelosi is to blame for not preparing adequate security ahead of the protests.
The edited footage is Published by POLITICO In a video from Wednesday, Pelosi is seen being escorted by Capitol Police from the House chamber to an SUV, where she asks if then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had approved the request to deploy the National Guard, the video shows. McConnell responded that he had.
Trump offered to send in the National Guard just days before January 6 but was rebuffed. As reporter Joel Pollack reported in June, “President Trump was later criticized by critics for not quickly deploying the National Guard during the riots.”
“How many times have members of Congress asked, 'Are you prepared? Are you ready?' They're not prepared for the worst,” Pelosi said in the video. “Now we call in the National Guard? They should have been here from the beginning. I don't understand. Why would we empower our people like this without being prepared?”
The comments build on comments made in an earlier HBO video released in June in which Pelosi admitted to taking responsibility for not allowing the National Guard to protect the Capitol.
On January 7, Pelosi began planning to pin the blame for the incident on Trump instead of calling for the resignation of Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. POLITICO “Our focus has to be on the president. Let's not look away,” Pelosi said. “I don't want to equate this with an insurrection or an impeachment or anything like that.”
POLITICO The report said Pelosi was using a public relations strategy to avoid taking responsibility.
“He's victimized his own people,” Pelosi said of her conversation with Sund on Jan. 6. When discussing how harshly to criticize Sund for Capitol Police failures, Pelosi urged aides to “soften the language,” describing “widespread failures of leadership at the top of the Capitol Police.”
The discussion then turned to the fate of the House's chief security officer, Paul Irving, as the group debated whether Irving should be retained to manage security for the upcoming inauguration.
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Pelosi ended the conversation by requesting a list of Trump's cabinet members so she could call them out by name in her urging to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office, and said she would describe Trump as a “domestic enemy in the White House.”
“Let's not be shy about talking about this,” Pelosi said.
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