Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Pelosi says Esper firing shows Trump intent on sowing 'chaos'

 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/525175-pelosi-says-esper-firing-shows-trump-intent-on-sowing-chaos

 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.

3 comments :

  1. 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
    others for "sow[ing] chaos" maybe she should reflect on what kind of chaos would be unleashed without police.

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  2. I had to switch browsers to use Diswus because I couldn't log in anymore with Safari for some reason. I can log in with Firefox, but have trouble posting links or even pasting at all into s comments box

    That 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".

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