President Donald Trump leaned into his squabble with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday, retweeting a Fox Business Network compilation of Pelosi tripping over her words during a press conference.
“We wish that his family or his Administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country,” Pelosi tweeted in response.
Per the New York Times, the dramatic escalation in their argument, starting with the dueling press conferences after a scuttled infrastructure meeting, was by Pelosi’s own design. She reportedly wanted to shift the national conversation off the impeachment debate roiling her caucus with an attack that would garner extensive media coverage.
Her aggression towards Trump is also a tactic to help her not appear soft on the President while dissuading her caucus from going after impeachment, since she’s been arguing that Trump wants them to start proceedings so he can be exonerated by the Republican-led Senate.
If that’s her REAL plan, I wonder why she would allow it to be leaked to NYT. I think this is just the message Pelosi wants NYT to disseminate. Everyone should’ve known NYT is not a friend by now. It’s only a tool and I hope Pelosi is just making use of it.
Sweep the leg, Madam Speaker.
More and more a print version of Faux for the REPUGS.
“President Donald Trump leaned into his squabble with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday, retweeting a Fox Business Network compilation of Pelosi tripping over her words during a press conference.”
You might, and this is just a suggestion from a non-professional, just might want to indicate that this was a “doctored,” “misleadingly edited,” “altered,” “fake” or other appropriate descriptor of the video.
ETA: (Kate, you wrote the article about the video yesterday, where the word “manipulated” describes it - that would be good here, too. Sorry if this is picking nits. Keep up the reporting. We appreciate it.)
This could get fun* because he is so damn easy to knock off balance with veiled insults about his manhood, competence, etc. He can’t let anything go.
*fun: only because if I didn’t laugh I would start sobbing and never stop