House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she is praying for President Trump after she announced days earlier that the Democratic-led House was beginning an impeachment inquiry into him.
“I pray for the president all the time. I pray for the safety of his family, wish that he would pray for the safety of other families and do something courageous on guns. But I also pray that God will illuminate him to see right from wrong. It’s very problematic,” she told MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday.
“There is no cause for any joy,” she said. “This is a very sad time for our country.”
On Thursday, Pelosi accused Trump of engaging in a cover-up after a whistleblower alleged that the White House attempted to conceal a record of a call between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The whistleblower’s complaint alleged a transcript of a call was moved into a separate electronic system in an effort to conceal it.
“When you have a system of electronic storage of information that is specifically for national security purposes and you have something that is self-serving to the president politically, and you decide you might not want people to know and you hide it someplace else, that is a cover-up,” Pelosi said.
The House opened a formal impeachment inquiry Tuesday based on the allegation that the president urged Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
