{"id":198397,"date":"2019-12-16T06:25:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T06:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/trump-takes-nasty-dig-at-pelosi-in-latest-slam-of-house-dems.html"},"modified":"2019-12-16T06:25:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T06:25:59","slug":"trump-takes-nasty-dig-at-pelosi-in-latest-slam-of-house-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-takes-nasty-dig-at-pelosi-in-latest-slam-of-house-dems.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump takes nasty dig at Pelosi in latest slam of House Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/6dd98_694940094001_6116014099001_6116016526001-vs.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Shawn: President Trump's impeachment edge\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Eric Shawn: President Trump&#8217;s impeachment edge<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Judy Miller on the unexpected political impact of the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">President Trump<\/a> on Sunday took a swipe at House Speaker <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.<\/a>, over her response to a reporter who asked why bribery wasn\u2019t included in the newly unveiled articles of impeachment, despite <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Democrats<\/a> \u2013 including the speaker herself \u2013 having leveled those charges repeatedly against the president throughout <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">impeachment proceedings<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cYou yourself accused [Trump] of bribery,\u201d the reporter asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did you decide not to make bribery one of the articles of impeachment?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Pelosi said the decision not to include bribery in the articles of impeachment against Trump came after \u201cworking together with our committee chairs, our attorneys and the rest.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In a retweet of Pelosi\u2019s response, Trump <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">wrote<\/a> that the House speaker\u2019s teeth \u201cwere falling out of her mouth, and she didn\u2019t have time to think!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He then followed up the tweet by writing that \u201cCongressional Do Nothing Democrats are being absolutely decimated in their districts on the subject of the Impeachment Hoax.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrazy Nancy is finding defending Shifty Schiff harder than she thought!\u201d he tweeted, in reference to House Intelligence Committee Chairman <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Adam Schiff, D-Calif.<\/a>, one of the most visible figures of the impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>NADLER BRUSHES OFF VAN DREW&#8217;S PLANNED JUMP TO GOP, SAYS HE&#8217;S &#8216;REACTING&#8217; TO POOR POLL NUMBERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democrats repeatedly have accused Trump of withholding military aid from <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Ukraine<\/a> until it investigated\u00a0former Vice President <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Joe Biden<\/a> and his son. Trump and the White House have denied he did anything wrong.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">witness testimony last month<\/a>, Pelosi lobbed the bribery accusation\u00a0against Trump. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBribery\u2014and that is in the <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Constitution<\/a> and attached to impeachment proceedings,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cThe bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake investigation into the election\u2014that\u2019s bribery.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When asked at the time whether bribery would be included as an article of impeachment, she replied: \u201cWe haven\u2019t even made a decision to impeach. That\u2019s what the inquiry is about.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m saying, [what] the president has admitted to as \u2018perfect,\u2019 is bribery,\u201d Pelosi said. <\/p>\n<p><em>Fox News\u2019 Brooke Singman contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/gA6iQWBxoqI\/trump-pelosi-teeth-house-dems<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Eric Shawn: President Trump&#8217;s impeachment edge Judy Miller on the unexpected political impact of the proceedings. President Trump on Sunday took a swipe at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., over her response to a reporter who asked why bribery wasn\u2019t included in the newly unveiled articles of impeachment, despite Democrats \u2013 including the speaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-198397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}