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'Don't bet against Nancy Pelosi', former top aide warns Donald Trump
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2019 Jan 25, 3:17am 595 views 2 comments
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Ceffer
2019 Jan 25, 4:49am
Ceffer
2019 Jan 25, 4:49am
All Pelosi has to do is rub a dart across the oozing botox on her face, and it is more lethal than the skin poison of an Amazon jungle frog! Will she assassinate Trump for the Neocons?
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clambo
2019 Jan 25, 5:25am
Pelosi can fuck with Trump all she wants to; he's going to be around a long time. He is going to appoint a couple more judges to the supreme court starting when RBG suffles off her mortal coil.
"I learned a long time ago not to bet against Nancy Pelosi", John Lawrence told DW in a recent interview when asked to size up the coming clash between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which many observers think will shape the political landscape in the US over the next two years.
Lawrence should know. He worked for almost four decades as a senior Congressional staffer on Capitol Hill, the last eight years as chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi. And while Pelosi, who is 78, and Trump, who is 72, are peers, they are separated by a gulf of political experience.
"She has a vastly better sense of the political system than Mr. Trump", said Lawrence who worked as Pelosi's top aide from 2005 to 2011. "I think Mr. Trump — I have not worked with him — but those of us who follow politics pretty closely see in Mr. Trump somebody who fundamentally misunderstands the allocation of power in the American political system."
Despite not having won the popular vote in the presidential election, added Lawrence, Trump appears to believe that he was "anointed to have much greater power than presidents have in the modern American government."
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Trump's apparent belief in what has been called an imperial presidency first clashed with the new political reality of a divided government when Nancy Pelosi effectively postponed the president's traditional State of the Union address before Congress until the government shutdown is over. After initially vowing to give his address at a different location, the president quickly backed down and accepted Pelosi's postponement.
More: https://www.dw.com/en/dont-bet-against-nancy-pelosi-former-top-aide-warns-donald-trump/a-47224842
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