WATCH: Pelosi Snaps at Reporter Over Jan. 6 Question
WATCH: Pelosi Snaps at Reporter Over Jan. 6 Question
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), former Speaker of the House, told a reporter to “shut up” in response to a question about actions she took on Jan. 6, 2021.
A reporter for LindellTV, an outlet founded by Trump ally Mike Lindell, followed Pelosi out of the Capitol on Wednesday and repeatedly pressed her about a claim that the former Speaker denied requests to send in the National Guard when the Capitol was under attack nearly five years ago.
“Are you at all concerned about the new January 6th committee finding you liable for that day?” the reporter, Alison Steinberg, asked Pelosi. “Why did you refuse the National Guard on January 6th?”
Pelosi, flocked by aides, turned around to address the reporter’s claim.
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“Shut up,” Pelosi said. “I did not refuse the National Guard. The president didn’t send it.”
“Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?” Pelosi asked.
Steinberg responded: “The American people want to know. We still have questions. Thank you.”
“Numerous independent fact-checkers have confirmed again and again that Speaker Pelosi did not plan her own assassination on January 6th. The ongoing attempts to whitewash the deadly insurrection are shameful, unpatriotic and pathetic,” Pelosi’s spokesperson, Ian Krager, said in a statement to The Hill.
Krager also responded Wednesday to Steinberg’s post on the social platform X in which the LindellTV reporter wrote that “Nancy Pelosi just told me to ‘SHUT UP’!”
“Because you parrot Republican lies about January 6th and got called out on your bulls‑‑‑,” Krager responded on X.
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Trump and his allies have long claimed the president made a “recommendation for troops” on Jan. 6, 2021, but that Pelosi denied his request.
The Speaker of the House does not have authority over the National Guard.
Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller also testified under oath that Trump did not give orders to prepare troops before that day.
Republicans last month voted to create a new Jan. 6 investigative committee, which will revisit the attack almost three years after the initial Jan. 6 select committee delivered its report blaming Trump for inciting the riot. The new panel also has powers to investigate the old one.
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