WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is so over Donald Trump.
“I’m done with him,” the California Democrat said Tuesday. “I don’t even want to talk about him.”
Pelosi,
speaking at a fiscal summit sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson
Foundation, brushed aside questions about Trump’s remarks last week that
she is a “nasty, vindictive, horrible person.”
Trump lashed out at Pelosi during a Fox News interview in Normandy, France, in response to reports that she had told members of her caucus that she’d rather see him in prison than impeached.
Pelosi
wouldn’t say Tuesday whether she’d told her fellow Democrats that she
wants to see Trump behind bars. But she said it was inappropriate for
the president to show such overt partisanship while in Normandy to
commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
Pelosi
said reporters asked her about Trump while she was in Normandy, but she
refrained from going on the attack because it would have been improper
to do so while on foreign soil.
“The president took a different tact,” she said.
Asked
about the possibility of impeaching Trump, Pelosi acknowledged that
some members of her caucus think he has committed impeachable offenses.
But Democrats are "not even close" to having the majority of their
caucus back impeachment, she said, arguing they have to make sure
they have the strongest case possible before initiating such
proceedings.
Impeachment is “not about politics,” Pelosi said. “It’s upholding the Constitution of the United States.”
And as for Trump’s personal attacks against her?
“My stock goes up every time he attacks me, so what can I say?” she said.
White
House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney spoke later Tuesday at the
same fiscal summit and was asked about Pelosi's remarks.
"We're not done with her, and I doubt she's done with us," he said.
Mulvaney
said he expects the White House and congressional Democrats to continue
their dialogue on various issues, including government spending and the
new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.
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