{"id":28994,"date":"2026-01-05T03:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=28994"},"modified":"2026-01-05T03:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:41:57","slug":"pelosi-defends-impeachment-of-rogue-president-trump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=28994","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Defends Impeachment of \u2018Rogue President\u2019 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said America\u2019s founders anticipated the rise of \u201ca rogue president\u201d but not \u201ca rogue Senate,\u201d in an interview with USA Today\u2019s Susan Page, where she defended her record and again accused former President Donald Trump of \u201ccruelty and corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m really not here to talk about the incoherence, the cruelty, the corruption of the current president of the United States,\u201d Pelosi said, brushing aside questions about Trump\u2019s renewed political dominance.<\/p>\n

Pelosi, 85, who announced she will retire from Congress at the end of her term in January 2027, told USA Today her proudest legislative accomplishment was passing the Affordable Care Act, while her greatest disappointment was failing to enact gun control laws.<\/p>\n

She also revisited the Trump impeachments she oversaw, saying both were justified and grounded in constitutional duty.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe person most responsible for impeaching President Trump when I was speaker was President Trump. He gave us no choice,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cIf he crosses the border again. But that\u2019s not an incidental thing. There has to be cause. There has to be reason. We had review. This was a very serious, historic thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pelosi argued that the framers of the Constitution anticipated executive overreach \u2014 but failed to foresee a complicit upper chamber.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur founders knew that there could be a rogue president, and that\u2019s why they put impeachment in the Constitution,\u201d she said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t know there\u2019d be a rogue president at the same time a rogue Senate that didn\u2019t have the courage to do the right thing. It was bipartisan in the Senate, but it wasn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\n