Pelosi Drops Bombshell on CBS: Accuses Trump’s ‘Violent’ Rhetoric of Fueling Attack on Her Husband After Jan. 6!

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) criticized the idea of President-elect Donald Trump pardoning Jan. 6 rioters and connected her husband’s 2022 home invasion attack to rhetoric she said President-elect Donald Trump had used that inspired people to behave violently.

Pelosi joined CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday where anchor Margaret Brennan pressed her about Trump’s promise to pardon some of the more than 1,600 people who were convicted of crimes after storming the Capitol four years ago Monday.

While strongly opposing Trump pardoning people who illegally entered the Capitol, Pelosi connected David DePape’s bludgeoning of Paul Pelosi with a hammer in October 2022 to the incoming president. Brennan said:

The president-elect has said that in the first nine minutes of his new term, he will pardon many of those who participated in January 6th. He said a look at a case-by-case basis. But in looking back at what happened four years ago, there are recordings, there’s video evidence of what happened.

This is personal for you. Some of these writers in your office chanting your name. One of them, one of the defendants. “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain, but we didn’t find her.” For you, this is personal. So when you hear about pardons, do you think the nonviolent attackers deserve to be pardoned?

Pelosi said she viewed anyone who was at the Capitol as capable of violence and criticized Trump for riling them up.

“It didn’t end that day. He called out to these people to continue their violence,” she said. “My husband being a victim of all of that. And it’s still he still has injuries from that attack. So it just goes on and on. It isn’t something that happens and then it’s over. No. Once you are attacked, you have consequences that continue. So I don’t it’s really strange a person is going to be president of the United States who thinks that it’s okay to pardon people who are engaged in an attack.”

Brennan noted some of the Jan. 6 defendants were merely charged with trespassing and Pelosi signaled she was open to seeing their convictions with more nuance but concluded:

I know that some of that encouragement and then the follow-up that that so many people were threatened, including me and to my home looking for me and finding my husband, and as I say, who still suffers from head injuries from that on that day. So these things don’t just happen and go away. When you have a head injury. But anyway, to see the threat to so many people in elective office now going beyond me, but so many people in elective office, it shouldn’t be a threat to your family that you have chosen to do public service.