House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she feels “sorry” for President Trump and prayed for him after he repeated his belief on Monday that there was widespread voter fraud in the November election.
“There is no evidence to support what the president said,” Pelosi told reporters. “For a person who is the newly elected president of the United States to be so insecure as to declare that he is now the president, he is ensconced in the White House and he’s saying ‘I won the popular vote and three to five million Americans voted illegally in our country,’ to suggest and to undermine the integrity of our voting system is really strange.”
“I, frankly, feel very sad about the president making this claim. I felt sorry for him. I even prayed for him,” she said. “But then I prayed for the United States of America.”
The California Democrat added later on that it was “really quite startling” when Trump made the claim during the Monday meeting at the White House, which was attended by Senate and House leaders from both parties.
Trump’s comments were echoed Tuesday by White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who said that voter fraud in the election remains a “long-standing belief” of the president based off of various studies.
Trump said Wednesday he wants a formal investigation into his claim there was widespread voter fraud.
