Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in contrast the risk of former President Trump to America’s existential wars, just a little over a month after the assassination try on the 45h president.
During the fourth and remaining day of MSNBC’s protection of the Democratic National Convention, Pelosi appeared on the community to speak concerning the occasion’s mission to beat Trump in November, whom she instructed is as a lot of a risk to democracy because the British authorities was in the course of the American Revolution.Â
“The times have found us,” Pelosi declared to community anchor Andrea Mitchell, noting that liberals are dealing with the identical stakes that have been current in 1776 after which the Civil War.Â
“We have to defeat a person who is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen – At the beginning of our country, Thomas Paine said that times have found us. Declare war, establish a new nation.”
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in contrast the risk of former President Trump to the risk that the British posed to the American colonists throughout an MSNBC section on Thursday. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
She continued, evaluating it to one other fraught time in American historical past.
“Abraham Lincoln took up that charge to keep our country together years later – decades later, and now the times have found us to save our democracy,” she stated, including, “That is what we are here to do.”
Pelosi’s darkish characterization of the previous president comes simply over a month after President Biden urged the occasion to decrease the charged political rhetoric following the tried assassination of Trump.
On the night of the Trump capturing, Biden addressed Americans, saying, “My fellow Americans, I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics. Do remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies. We’re neighbors, we’re friends, coworkers, citizens, and most importantly, we are fellow Americans. We must stand together.”
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U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a USA signal throughout Day 4 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 22, 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)
X customers ripped Pelosi for the assertion.
Conservative digital strategist Greg Price shared a clip of Pelosi’s phrases, commenting, “Pelosi says that defeating President Trump is the equivalent of defeating the British and the Confederacy because he’s a ‘threat to democracy of a kind we have not seen.’ Only been a little over a month since the guy was nearly assassinated BTW.”
PR specialist Chris Barron requested, “Remind me again which side is threatening political violence?”
Conservative columnist Eddie Zipper replied, “Says the woman who overruled every Dem primary election.”
Pro-Trump commentator Collin Rugg made the identical level, including, “Says the woman who staged a coup on the democratically nominated candidate.”
Columnist Miranda Devine remarked, “Bad woman.”
