Pelosi is slowly fading into irrelevance. And now she’s fuming over everything.
Because Nancy Pelosi shrieked at a reporter for daring to ask this one question.
Pelosi Snaps at Jan. 6 Accountability Question
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) erupted at a reporter pressing her on why she “refused the National Guard” on January 6, 2021, as she shuffled out of the Capitol Wednesday with an aide’s help.
Clutching support while descending the steps, the 85-year-old former speaker whipped around, wagging her finger in the LindellTV journalist’s face, seething over implications that a new Republican inquiry might hold her accountable.
“Shut up!” Pelosi, 85, barked.
“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 are a serious journalist?” she fumed.
Incriminating Footage and Past Admissions
A 2022 House Republican report exposed Democratic leaders’ fixation on “optics” for avoiding National Guard presence at the Capitol, post-2020 BLM unrest.
Last year’s release by the GOP-led House Administration Committee featured Pelosi on video—captured by her daughter Alexandra for HBO—repeatedly conceding her failures in Capitol security.
“We have totally failed. We have to take some responsibility for not holding the security accountable for what could have happened,” the congresswoman raged at one point.
“Oh my god, I cannot believe the stupidity of this. And I take the full responsibility,” Pelosi added.
In another clip, Pelosi berated an aide for belatedly asking about the Guard amid the breach.
“You’re gonna ask me in the middle of the thing, when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff, ‘Should we call the Capitol Police?’ I mean the National Guard. Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?” Pelosi said.
When informed the Guard claimed “sufficient resources,” she fired back: “It’s not a question of how they had … they don’t know! They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.”
Fresh Probe Targets Security Lapses
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) now chairs a House Judiciary subcommittee revisiting the riot’s shortcomings.
“While Dems seem keen on playing political games and doubling down on the predetermined political narrative of Pelosi’s former committee, Republicans will continue to pursue the facts in an objective manner no matter where they lead,” Loudermilk said in a statement.
“The American people deserve a complete and accurate account of the security failures that occurred on January 6, so this level of security failure never happens again.”
Pelosi’s original select committee delivered an 814-page report in December 2022, after 18 months, accusing President Trump of a criminal “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the 2020 election.
