House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) looked defeated Friday afternoon when reporters confronted her over her outrageous claims Trump endangered her life by cancelling her military flight then allegedly leaked her commercial travel plans.
Earlier Friday morning, Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill accused President Trump of endangering Pelosi’s life by leaking her commercial travel plans.
Nancy Pelosi doubled down on those claims when confronted by reporters.
“We had the prerogative to travel commercially, and we made plans to do that, until the administration then leaked that we were traveling commercially,” Pelosi told a gaggle of reporters.
Watch Pelosi struggle through her wild accusations:
NEW: Nancy Pelosi on cancelled CODEL: "We had the prerogative to travel commercially, and we made plans to do that, until the administration then leaked that we were traveling commercially." https://t.co/NEBf8njLDw pic.twitter.com/zZm71BOFf7
— ABC News (@ABC) January 18, 2019
When asked if Trump canceled her trip as retaliation for her ‘requesting’ the rescheduling of the State of the Union address, Pelosi said, “I would hope not. I don’t think the president would be that petty, do you?”
A reporter then confronted Pelosi on her extraordinary claims that President Trump put members of Congress and other lives in danger, including her own.
“You’re essentially accusing the President of the United States of endangering the lives of members of Congress and American troops — that’s extraordinary!” a reporter said to Pelosi.
Pelosi waved her arms around as she stuttered her way through her response, doubled down and said, ‘it’s the way the State Department explained it to us.’
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“This is a fact. This isn’t even an opinion,” Pelosi added.
VIDEO:
Asked if she viewed Pres. Trump's canceling overseas congressional trip as retaliation for her urging rescheduling of State of the Union, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, "I would hope not. I don't think the president would be that petty, do you?" https://t.co/ASTjELGlU8 pic.twitter.com/3npEI9UKy5
— ABC News (@ABC) January 18, 2019
A White House correspondent for the Daily Mail said senior officials told her it’s a “flat out lie” that the WH would leak information that would threaten Americans’ safety.
NEW: Senior official tells me it's a "flat out lie" the WH would leak info that would threaten Americans' safety. "When the Speaker of the house and about 20 others from Capitol Hill decide to book their own commercial flights to Afghanistan, the world is going to find out." https://t.co/Kg7x1xLbuc
— Francesca Chambers (@fran_chambers) January 18, 2019
