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Video Undermines Trump’s Efforts to Blame Pelosi

October 14, 2022 at 5:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Never-before-seen video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other congressional leaders on Jan. 6, 2021, offers strikingly vivid evidence undermining former president Donald Trump’s long-debunked claim that the failure to adequately protect the Capitol from a pro-Trump mob lay not with him but with Pelosi,” the Washington Post reports.

“In the video shown Thursday by the House committee investigating the attack, Pelosi is on the phone pleading with Trump administration officials for help to stop the violence and secure the Capitol as U.S. Capitol Police were overmatched by the hundreds of rioters storming the building — including some who demanded her head. Getting nowhere with the officials, she reaches out to Virginia’s governor and says she will contact the D.C. mayor.”

“Throughout the video, Pelosi is intent on resuming the congressional process of counting the electoral college votes for Joe Biden’s win while showing the nation that the government was still functioning despite the siege.”

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