Former house speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Expected on Wednesday why the Republican party is so afraid to defy President Donald Trump, referring to a moving event that her family has experienced.
In an interview with Siriusxm's Zerlina Maxwell, Pelosi said that many Gop members of the congress are worried that they could be attacked in the same way as her husband, Paul, was attacked almost three years ago in the San Francisco house of the couple.
“They are afraid of that,” she said. “They don't want their children to be threatened, their families threatened, danger their lives because they speak to him.”
David Depape broke in October 2022 in the house of the Pelose looking for the then speaker who was not there. The intruder beat Paul Pelosi with a hammer and broke his skull.
Depape, who had a track record of embracing right -wing conspiracy theories, was convicted of life in prison without conditional release in the Constitutional Court In October last year he got a 30-year sentence in the federal case against him on top.
Pelosi told Maxwell that she finds it amazing that congress republicans 'ignore the institution in such a way that they represent', which increased little to no opposition against the requirements of Trump and accused them of leaving their constitutional duty to serve as a check to the executive.
Nevertheless, Pelosi seemed to admit that it was understandable that many would have reservations to express him, since Trump could take revenge from them, also by using the Ministry of Justice and the FBI to start unfounded investigations against them.
“There is a real justification for fear, because Trump is simply ruthless in how he goes behind them who do not agree with him,” Pelosi said.
The former speaker also selected the current speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) when she was asked to comment on Trump supporters's anger about the administration about the treatment of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The DOJ and the FBI released a memo earlier this month and noted that there was no evidence to suggest that the chatter was killed or that he kept a customer list to blackmail people.
Pelosi suggested that she thought it was surprising that Johnson, one of Trump's most loyal allies, seemed to be breaking with Trump on this issue.
Johnson “has done everything Donald Trump asked him to do, to the horror of all of us who not only care about the people we serve, but also the institution in which we serve,” said Pelosi.
Johnson claimed his comments on Wednesday to the conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, who called for the release of all files on Epstein, were 'incorrectly presented', and added that there was no daylight between him and Trump.
