House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says she will “never forgive” former President Donald Trump for what she says is his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection.
During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday, Pelosi was asked for her reaction to a federal judge’s decision to order the release from jail of an individual who was photographed in her office on Jan. 6. She said she would not weigh in on “what happens in any particular courtroom.”
However, she said, “I will never forgive those people and the president who instigated the insurrection for the trauma that they caused to the workers in the Capitol. Whether it was the young people who work in our offices, whether it was the custodial staff who make the Capitol run, whether it was the Capitol Police.”
“[The rioters] messed up my office, they broke mirrors, they stole stuff and the rest. Who cares. What I do care [about] is the impact, the negative impact, the fright that they instilled in people because they were doing their civic duty,” she added.
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"I will never forgive those people and the president who instigated the insurrection for the trauma that they caused to the workers in the Capitol." — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack pic.twitter.com/R0wkt4ptIF
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) April 28, 2021
The day after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Pelosi accused the former president of committing “an unspeakable assault on our nation and our people.” She also called on then-Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office and warned that she might move forward with an impeachment proceeding.
Pence did not invoke the 25th amendment and just one week after the insurrection, the House voted to impeach Trump on the charge of “incitement of insurrection.”
However, Trump was acquitted in the Senate as the Democrats failed to win over 17 Republicans to meet the 67 vote threshold for conviction.
After the acquittal vote, Pelosi blasted the Republicans who voted against conviction.
“Senate Republicans who voted not to convict chose to abandon the Constitution, the Country and the American people with this vote,” she said in a statement.
