ABC Hails Pelosi’s ‘Bold’ SOTU ‘Power Play’: Blocking Trump from Speaking

Nicholas Fondacaro | January 16, 2019
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The latest pettiness in American politics was Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (CA-D) Wednesday suggestions to President Trump that since the government was shut down he should postpone his State of the Union address or find another venue. Being the Democratic Party cheerleaders that they were, ABC’s World News Tonight praise it as Pelosi’s “bold power play” against a Republican president.

Of course, ABC congressional and anti-GOP correspondent Mary Bruce was the one to file this Pelosi love letter of a report. “In a bold power play, the Speaker of the House tonight is sending a pointed message to President Trump, suggesting no deal to reopen the government, no State of the Union,” she boasted.

“In her surprise letter, the Speaker writing: ‘Dear Mr. President, … Sadly, given the security concerns, and unless government reopens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date,’” Bruce gushed. “Pelosi's other suggestion, ‘Consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing.’”

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