Nancy Pelosi Gets Flustered With CNN When Asked | Political News
California Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi undoubtedly did not like CNN’s Jake Tapper’s line of questions about Congressional insider trading and received visibly flustered with the host when requested her response to a potential investigation into her stock portfolio.
In a clip shared by our sister web site Townhall.com, Tapper was interviewing Pelosi about President Donald Trump’s remark that the previous House Speaker must be investigated because Trump mentioned she has the “highest return of anybody, practically in the history of Wall Street, save a few.”
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Nancy Pelosi panics after Jake Tapper reads President Trump’s feedback calling for an investigation into her suspicious stock portfolio. pic.twitter.com/31vlEbaBRl
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 30, 2025
Tapper mentioned, “Let me just read what he said,” as Pelosi talked over him.Â
The CNN host continued studying Trump’s phrases, “Nancy Pelosi became rich….” but she interjected and wouldn’t let him end.
“Why do you have to read that?” Pelosi exclaimed. “We’re here to talk about the 60th Anniversary of Medicaid. That’s what I agreed to come on to talk about. And what that means in the election.”
Tapper agreed but mentioned he just wished to give her a likelihood to react to Trump, who accused her of insider trading.
“That’s ridiculous,” Pelosi mentioned. “In fact, I very much support the trading of members of Congress. Not that I think anybody is doing anything wrong. If they are, they are prosecuted and go to jail.”
“But I have no concern about the obvious investment that have been made over time,” she added. “I’m not into it, my husband is. But it isn’t anything to do with anything insider.”Â
The CNN interview adopted President Trump’s feedback at a signing at the White House earlier in the day, when Trump was requested about the Pelosi Act clearing a committee with an 8-7 vote, with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) becoming a member of the Democrats to get it through.
.@POTUS: “Nancy Pelosi became rich by having inside [trading] information. She made a fortune with her husband — and I think that’s disgraceful … She ought to be investigated.” pic.twitter.com/N8ydC2jGhF
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 30, 2025
“Nancy Pelosi became rich by having inside [trading] information,” Trump mentioned. “She made a fortune with her husband — and I think that’s disgraceful … She ought to be investigated.”
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As my RedState colleague Ward Clark reported, in April, Sen. Hawley launched the aptly named PELOSI Act (Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act) to forestall lawmakers and their spouses from trading. It comes after Pelosi and her husband magically managed to make a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in stock trading.
The report learn:
Everyone who watches American politics, and who hasn’t been residing under a flat rock for the previous few many years, is conscious of that mysterious course of by which elected officers in the House of Representatives and the Senate grow monstrously wealthy on their modest salaries.
It is (and for instance this quietly) referred to as “graft.”
Rather a lot of this comes from members of Congress being made conscious of info that might have an effect on numerous publicly traded firms, info that will not be accessible to the final public. They then act on that info and rating.
The report famous that in every different place, but Congress, this known as “insider trading” and it is against the law. But Hawley hopes to rectify that with the Pelosi Act.
He broke down the Act to notice the next:
Hawley’s ban would prohibit lawmakers and their spouses from holding, buying or promoting shares for the period of the lawmaker’s time in workplace. Lawmakers could be allowed to invest in diversified mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, or U.S. Treasury bonds while in workplace.
If handed, present lawmakers would have 180 days to comply with the laws. Likewise, newly elected lawmakers should obtain compliance within 180 days of coming into workplace.
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