Pelosi lauds Trump indictments as ‘beautiful and intricate’
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has heaped lavish praise on special counsel Jack Smith, calling the two federal indictments brought against her bitter foe Donald Trump “exquisite.”
Pelosi (D-Calif.) seemed bullish on the prospect of federal prosecutors winning convictions of the former president, who derided her as a “demented psycho” on social media Sunday and predicted she would one day rot in hell.
“The indictments against the president are exquisite,” Pelosi, 83, told New York Magazine in an interview published Monday.
“They’re beautiful and intricate, and they probably have a better chance of conviction than anything that I would come up with.”
Pelosi made the gleeful remarks on Friday, one day after Trump was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to four charges pertaining to his efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential eleciton.
“It all depends on what happens at the end of the day, but you have to determine what the end of the day is,” she mused. “Yesterday was the end of a day. The former president of the United States was arraigned, and that was a triumph for the truth.”
Trump is also staring down the barrel of a 40-count indictment over his alleged stockpiling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort and a 34-count indictment out of Manhattan accusing him of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election.
Despite Trump’s mounting legal troubles, the 77-year-old, who has denied wrongdoing across the board, is the clear 2024 GOP frontrunner.
He is also polling neck and neck with President Biden in a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 race.
“Don’t even think of that,” Pelosi fretted when asked about the possibility of a second Trump term. “Don’t think of the world being on fire. It cannot happen, or we will not be the United States of America.”
“If he were to be president,” she added, “it would be a criminal enterprise in the White House.”
On Friday, Pelosi belittled Trump as a “scared puppy” after his appearance in DC federal court.
Trump didn’t take too kindly to that slight.
“How mean a thing to say! She is a Wicked Witch whose husbands [sic] journey from hell starts and finishes with her,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “She is a sick & demented psycho who will someday live in HELL!”