Trump defends Pelosi, says she's 'not a racist'

[melman]

President Donald Trump, in a surprising turn, defended Democrat Nancy Pelosi amid her dispute with Rep. Alexandria Ocascio-Cortez and other freshman Democrats, saying the House speaker "is not a racist."

"I'll tell you something about Nancy Pelosi that you know better than I do, she is not a racist. OK? She is not a racist. For them to call her a racist is a disgrace," Trump said while speaking to reporters before departing on Marine One.


Trump and Pelosi have had an up-and-down relationship since she assumed the speakership and has led a House Democratic majority during Trump's third year in office. She has sought to serve as a check on the President but also resisted some calls from within her ranks to push for Trump's impeachment.

Ocasio-Cortez told The Washington Post Wednesday Pelosi has been explicitly "singling out of newly elected women of color" in her criticism of the outspoken progressives. Asked by CNN's Manu Raju if she thought Pelosi was racist, the Queens congresswoman said: "No, no! Absolutely not, absolutely not."

Trump said Ocasio-Cortez "should not be doing what she's doing" adding she's being "very disrespectful to somebody that's been there a long time."

"I don't think that Nancy can let that go on. A group of people that came ... I don't know where they came from," Trump said.

Link to tweet

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/12/politics/nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/index.html

[kentuck]

1. "Please don't impeach me..."

Now he says it.

[underpants]

2. Stephen Miller must think this is clever

[jcgoldie]

3. Trump saying someone is not racist

Guess that would be like Epstein saying someone else isn't a pedophile.

[edhopper]

4. "I should know,

I'm a racist and I know one when I meet them."

[Bettie]

5. It is a set-up

for when he puts out a campaign ad about how even Nancy Pelosi saw that there was no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing by him or his minions.

[SouthernProgressive]

6. This is actually a pretty insidious comment. I doubt Trump came up with it on his own. NT

[Celerity]

7. get ready for shit like this on full blowtorch level until November 2020

[Dr. Strange]

8. The Matrix is glitching again.

[ismnotwasm]

9. I'll take my cues from the Black Congressional Congress

Not internet trolls. Trump for instance

[melman]

11. "not internet trolls"

clever.



btw, it's the Congressional Black Caucus.


more info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus

[Trumpocalypse]

10. Trump: Pelosi is not a racist.

Reporter: How do you know?

Trump: I’m one and she never comes to the meetings.