Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., snapped CNN anchor Jake Tapper during a live on-air interview on Tuesday, furious that Tapper was showing coverage of former President Donald Trump’s criticisms of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The angry exchange began when Tapper attempted to play a clip of Trump questioning Harris’s cognitive abilities.
Before Tapper could finish his question, Pelosi lost her cool. Critics said the moment was like watching a “boss lecturing their employee.”
“Why would you even cover that?” Pelosi demanded. “This is a person who’s not on the level. He is their nominee for president. He is incompetent. Let’s not even talk about the silliness of it all, and the weirdness of it all, on the assault on women that it is.”
“They laugh at us all over the world. They’re laughing at us. And you know what they’re really laughing at? Kamala, because they can’t believe that she’s going to be president,” Trump had said in an earlier clip.
“They can’t believe… You talk about cognitive problems!? She’s got bigger cognitive problems than [President Joe Biden] has, in my opinion,” he said.
Pelosi didn’t defend Harris’ cognitive ability, but instead went on the attack as she criticized Trump’s record as president, complaining that all Trump did in office was give tax breaks to Americans.
“The only thing he did as president, the only thing he did as president when he had the majority, was to pass a bill that gave 83 [percent], a tax cut that gave 83 [percent] of the benefits to the top 1 percent, adding $2 trillion to the national debt,” Pelosi claimed.
During her rant, Pelosi also claimed that Trump had “the worst job creation record of anybody president since Herbert Hoover.”
When Tapper interjected to point out that the stats were skewed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Pelosi again snapped at the explanation and argued that Democrats in Congress had used the early pandemic panic to increase government spending by $3 trillion.
“What did [Trump] do with COVID? Denial and delay. Responsible for thousands and thousands and thousands of people dying,” Pelosi said.
Tapper later defended his decision to air the clip, saying, “Let me just say, why do I run that clip? I run that clip because that’s the Republican presidential nominee, and I thought you might have a reaction to it.”
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Nancy Pelosi scolded Jake Tapper because he dared to play a clip of President Trump claiming Kamala Harris has a worse cognitive decline than Joe Biden. At least Joe Biden has a valid excuse for his lack of cognitive abilities; Kamala Harris is just a moron. #KamalaHarris pic.twitter.com/rwEU5pG7pn
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