Nancy Pelosi lost it on live TV—and honestly, it was about time someone pressed her on the swampiest issue in D.C.: insider trading by members of Congress. The meltdown happened during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, who dared to stray off-script and ask Pelosi about Senator Josh Hawley’s bill to ban lawmakers, presidents, and vice presidents from trading stocks while in office. Let’s just say Pelosi didn’t take it well.
She was there to talk about the 60th anniversary of Medicaid, which is probably the least controversial topic Pelosi’s touched in years. But when Tapper brought up President Trump’s comment that “Nancy Pelosi became rich” through questionable trades, the former Speaker instantly bristled, snapping, “Why do you have to talk about that?” She accused Tapper of pulling a bait-and-switch and tried to steer things back to her safe zone—Medicaid and campaign talking points.
Tapper pressed on, and that’s when things went off the rails. Pelosi launched into a verbal mess, claiming she supports bans on congressional trading “not that I think anybody’s doing anything wrong,” followed by something about public confidence and how her husband handles their investments. Because nothing says “totally not suspicious” like “I’m not into it. My husband is.”
She flat-out denied any insider trading—then quickly pivoted to attacking Trump, accusing him of “projecting” and bizarrely tying it all back to the break-in at her San Francisco home. According to Pelosi, the hammer attack on her husband was somehow Trump’s fault, and that justified her refusal to answer questions about suspicious stock trades. Convenient, huh?
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Meanwhile, Senator Hawley is pushing forward with his bill—formerly named the PELOSI Act until Democrats predictably lost their minds about it. The revised bill now includes future presidents and vice presidents, likely a move to get more bipartisan buy-in. And guess what? A Senate committee just advanced it by a razor-thin 8–7 vote. All Republicans voted against it—except Hawley.
Hawley put it plainly: “We have an opportunity here today to do something that the public has wanted us to do for decades, and that is to ban members of Congress from profiting on information that, frankly, only members of Congress have.” Couldn’t have said it better.
Pelosi can scream all she wants on TV. But the American people aren’t stupid. They know exactly how these career politicians walk into Congress with modest bank accounts and walk out with tens of millions. It’s about time someone did something about it.
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