Trump magnifies another insult to Pelosi aboard Air Force One

President Donald Trump took advantage of his free time on Air Force One to launch another attack on Nancy Pelosi, accusing the speaker of the House of criticizing him privately while he was at the airport. foreign.

Although Trump did not stick to the political tradition of leaving politics on US shores while he was abroad, he quoted the speaker under a new nickname, writing in a tweet that "Nervous Nancy Pelosi is a shame for herself and her family for having a disgusting statement, especially since I was with foreign leaders abroad.

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Sources told POLITICO this week that Pelosi, in an in camera meeting on Trump's dismissal, told his colleagues: "I do not want to see [Trump] accused, I want to see him in prison. "

Pelosi resisted growing impatience in his caucus to dismiss the president, but said this week that she would prefer to see him beaten at the polls and then prosecuted for his alleged crimes. Trump on Friday insisted that "there is no evidence that such a thing was said," reiterating his claim that his 2016 campaign had not been a collusion with Russia.

Pelosi refused Thursday to make her remarks during her ceremonies in Normandy, France, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Before her departure, she had criticized Trump's threats to slap the customs duties imposed on her. Mexico through its enforcement of immigration law. Trump spent the week in Europe, where he was celebrated by Queen Elizabeth II and met with leaders from the United Kingdom, France and Ireland.

Trump took off his gloves, while Pelosi escalated his criticism of the president, accusing him last month of "hiding" by blocking congressional investigators. He only credited Pelosi with a mocking nickname in the weeks that followed and told Fox News' Laura Ingraham in an interview broadcast Thursday that he had "tried to be nice" with Pelosi but that he did not want to be in a bad mood. she was a "nasty, vindictive and horrible person". .

"Nancy and nervous Dems are doing zero congressional work," he said in a Friday tweet, "and have no intention of doing anything other than going on a fishing expedition to see if they want to do anything." they can find something about me – both illegal and unprecedented in the history of the United States. "He asked Pelosi to" get to work "to tackle the price of drugs and infrastructure , despite the fact that he thwarted an infrastructure meeting held last month following the president's "cover-up" remarks.

Pelosi, through the intermediary of a spokesperson, declined to comment because she was traveling abroad to mark the anniversary of the disembarkation.

Trump's critics against Pelosi for having reprimanded him abroad intervene a few weeks after deciding not to follow the same tradition, alongside North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in his critics on the former vice president and potential rival of 2020, Joe Biden. Biden, in this case, reacted to the president's attacks only moments after Trump's return to American soil.