Pelosi Hits Trump After Oval Office Address: President Has ‘Chosen Fear’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speak on Capitol Hill in response President Donald Trump's address, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., pose for photographers after speaking on Capitol Hill in response President Donald Trump's prime-time address on border security... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., pose for photographers after speaking on Capitol Hill in response President Donald Trump's prime-time address on border security, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) MORE LESS

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the president has “chosen fear” in making the case to the American people for the border wall and Democrats “want to start with the facts.”

Pelosi said Tuesday night in a rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address that “we all agree that we need to secure our borders.”

She noted that the House passed legislation to reopen government on the first day of the new Congress. But Trump rejects that legislation because it doesn’t have funding for his border wall.

She says: “The fact is: President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage, must stop manufacturing a crisis, and must reopen the government.”

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  1. I can’t believe that we can’t do better than Chuck and Nancy on TV. They look like the American Gothic.

  2. Avatar for denisj denisj says:

    Both Pelosi and Schumer did a good job, in my opinion. Now the task is to stay on message every minute by every D.

  3. Keep pissing on “your” team. It’s all you fucking got. Shameless.

  4. Yeah, but years of political experience old age and treachery will outsmart that stupid wimpy man child every time.
    His days are definitely numbered and there not going up

  5. Avatar for edys edys says:

    No I don’t agree we “need to secure our borders”!!! I think we need to secure our Democracy!!! Stop playing to Trump’s base! They are GARBAGE. Call him out on his LIES and his xenophobic CRAP. STOP acting like adults dealing with an adult. For gods sake start acting like adults dealing with a pathological lying, fascist mobster!!!

    PS: This doesn’t mean I don’t agree with them or support them. This just means I want them to get a whole shitload meaner about this stuff. Fight fire with Fire!!

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