House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested in an interview this week that she would have traded blows with the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“Well, I’m pretty tough,” the California Democrat told USA Today when asked if she was frightened by the rioters, some of whom made it all the way into her office. “I’m a street fighter. They would have had a battle on their hands.”
“I would have had these,” Pelosi jokingly added while holding up her 4-inch heels.
The 81-year-old said she was never personally afraid because of the security around her at all times, but she said she was “afraid for everybody else, and I’ll never forgive them the trauma that they caused to the staff and the members.”
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Many Democrats have called for a 9/11-style commission in response to the riot, which resulted in the shooting death of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, 35, and has been linked to several other deaths.
Pelosi said partisan politics may prevent that commission from happening but that she believes committees in Congress will be able to find answers if that commission isn’t formed.
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“The one thing among our members that is consistent is we must find the truth,” Pelosi said.
