Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday blasted President Trump for firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper just two days after Joe Biden was projected as the winner of the presidential election.
“The abrupt firing of Secretary Esper is disturbing evidence that President Trump is intent on using his final days in office to sow chaos in our American Democracy and around the world," Pelosi said in a statement.
"Continuity
and stability are always important during a presidential transition;
they are absolutely imperative at this moment, as this historically
erratic Administration prepares for its departure," she added.
Isn't the Madame Speaker the one who stood by while mobs chanted "Defund the Police" and/or similar sentiments which led to her losing power in the House? Before she begins pointing fingers at
ReplyDeleteothers for "sow[ing] chaos" maybe she should reflect on what kind of chaos would be unleashed without police.
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ReplyDeleteThat being said, a high up Republican credited the House gains on the defund the police talk, and Speaker Pelosi did little to tamp down that kind of rhetoric, as online research will indicate. In fact she pushed a "Police Reform" bill, which was an obvious response to the defund the police movement.
Here is a NYT headline on the same subject: "How 'Defund the Police' Roiled Competitive Races in New York".