House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed a Sinclair news reporter for asking if she hates President Trump.
The California Democrat was walking out of her weekly press conference when James Rosen asked, “Do you hate the president, Madam Speaker?”
Pelosi stopped and returned to the microphones to condemn the question, telling reporters she is a Catholic and prays for the president.
“Don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that,” Pelosi said. “As a Catholic, I resent you using ‘hate’ in a sentence that references me.”
Rosen told Pelosi the question echoes accusations by Republicans and the GOP witness at the Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday that Democrats are moving to impeach Trump because they don’t like him.
Pelosi denied it.
“I don’t hate anyone,” Pelosi said. “We don’t hate anyone.”
Pelosi said she has “a heart full of love” and prays for the president, and even though she disagrees with his agenda, it is not the motivation for impeaching him.
“It has nothing to do with that,” she said. “I think the president is a coward when it comes to helping our kids who are afraid of gun violence. I think he is cruel when he doesn’t deal with helping our Dreamers, of which we are proud. I think he is in denial about the climate crisis. However, that’s about the election … take it up in the election.”
Impeachment, she said, “is about the Constitution of the United States.”
