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   Leroy N. Soetoro to All   
   WATCH: Pelosi Panics on CNN When Pressed   
   01 Aug 25 00:59:59   
   
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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/30/watch-pelosi-panics-on-cnn-   
   when-pressed-about-insider-trading-n4942261   
      
   Nancy Pelosi appeared rattled and visibly annoyed during a CNN interview   
   this week when anchor Jake Tapper confronted her with Donald Trump’s   
   accusations of insider trading. The former House speaker had joined the   
   program to discuss the 60th anniversary of Medicaid, but things quickly   
   went off-script when Tapper tried to bring up Trump’s pointed remarks.   
      
   Tapper began to quote Trump, saying, “Nancy Pelosi became rich—” before   
   Pelosi abruptly cut him off. “Why—why do you have to read that?” she   
   snapped, clearly not happy with where the discussion was going.   
      
   Tapper attempted to defuse the tension, saying he just wanted to give her   
   a chance to respond to Trump's claims. But Pelosi was having none of it.   
   “We’re here to talk about the 60th anniversary of Medicaid. That’s what I   
   agreed to come to talk about,” she protested.   
      
   The tension only escalated as Tapper continued, “He accused you of insider   
   trading. What’s your response to that?”   
      
   Pelosi has long faced accusations of insider trading due to her husband   
   Paul Pelosi’s lucrative stock trades, often timed around key congressional   
   actions. Critics allege the Pelosis have profited from privileged   
   information, pointing to trades involving companies like NVIDIA, Apple,   
   and Visa that coincided with legislation affecting those industries.   
   Watchdog groups and bipartisan lawmakers have pushed for stricter   
   regulations or outright bans on congressional stock trading.   
      
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   The evidence against her is quite damning, which is probably why Pelosi   
   was clearly flustered and struggled to maintain composure while responding   
   to Tapper. “Uh, that’s r—ridiculous,” she stammered. She then tried to   
   shift the focus onto her support for reforms. “I very much support the   
   stop th—uh, the trading of members of Congress. Not that I think anybody’s   
   doing anything wrong. If they are, they are prosecuted and they go to   
   jail, but because of the, uh, confidence it instills in the American   
   people. Don’t worry about this.”   
      
   Trying to distance herself from her family’s controversial stock activity,   
   she insisted, “I have no, uh, concern about the obvious, uh, investments   
   that w—had been made, uh, over time. I’m not into it, my husband is. But   
   it isn’t anything to do with anything insider.”   
      
   But the moment that really stuck out to me came when Pelosi tried to flip   
   the accusation back on Trump himself. “The president has his own exposure,   
   so he’s always projecting. He’s always projecting,” she claimed, repeating   
   the point twice in a matter of seconds. “And let’s not give him any more   
   time on that, please.”   
      
   Rather than address the substance of the accusation—Trump’s claim that she   
   and her husband Paul Pelosi used privileged information for financial   
   gain—Pelosi attempted to pivot once more. “We are going forward here, and   
   I’m very proud of my family,” she said.   
      
   Then, in an apparent attempt to score sympathy, Pelosi referenced the 2022   
   assault on her husband during the infamous break-in at their San Francisco   
   home. “While he might make fun of us, while somebody inspired by him   
   breaks into our home and hits my hu— in a deadly fashion, hits my husband   
   over the head, and he thinks that’s a riot, I’d rather not go into some of   
   my other complaints about him right now.”   
      
   Pelosi ended her tirade by again trying to redirect the conversation back   
   to the topic she came to promote. “Rather to talk about the 60th   
   anniversary of Medicaid,” she added, in a tone that sounded more like a   
   plea than a statement.   
      
   For viewers hoping for a clear, confident denial of wrongdoing, Pelosi’s   
   erratic and defensive performance likely raised more questions than it   
   answered. Her refusal to engage substantively on the topic—and her   
   repeated attempts to change the subject—only makes it more obvious that   
   Trump’s accusation hit a nerve, and Pelosi has something to hide.   
      
      
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   forward to America being great again.   
      
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   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
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   / Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.   
      
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