Pelosi: Under the Constitution I Have as Much Authority as Trump

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Nancy Pelosi says she is Trump's equal under the constitution

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims that the U.S. Constitution grants her just as much authority and power as President Donald Trump. 

In an interview with the New York Times, Pelosi outlined why she believes the Constitution makes her President Trump’s equial.

Freebeacon.com reports: Pelosi is set to regain the speaker’s gavel after spending eight years as House minority leader.

Pelosi was the first female speaker of the House from 2007 to 2011, and she maneuvered to get the party’s votes necessary to secure the speakership again after Democrats won back the chamber in the November midterms.

In a piece with a headline declaring her an “icon of female power,” Pelosi was asked by the reporter “if she considers herself Mr. Trump’s equal.”

“The Constitution does,” she replied.

While the Presidential Succession Act names the speaker of the House second in line for the presidency after the vice president, the two positions are not equal.

Pelosi may have been referring to her stature as a leader of one of the co-equal branches of government.

Pelosi won liberal accolades last month for her Oval Office interaction with Trump where they argued over funding for the White House’s desired southern border wall. The impasse over the border has forced a partial government shutdown that’s lasted nearly two weeks.

Pelosi will be the first lawmaker to have two separate tenures as House speaker since Democrat Sam Rayburn held the gavel in three different periods (1940-1947, 1949-1953, and 1955-1961).

4 Comments

  1. she is now third in line to be the potus

    she is part of the treasonous coup in the works to remove our potus from office

    the communist left is a threat to our national security

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