Nancy Pelosi appeared on 60 Minutes and denied any involvement in the effort to remove Joe Biden from the 2024 race. In the same interview, she insisted she had seen no signs of Biden’s mental decline. Pelosi then argued that Joe Biden should be on Mount Rushmore, possibly due to his political stances.
Lesley Stahl questioned Pelosi in a typical fluff piece. It’s not clear when Pelosi received the questions.
STAHL: Please tell us what you told President Biden to persuade him to step aside.
PELOSI: Well, I’ve never shared any conversations with the president of the United States publicly. No.
STAHL: It said that he’s furious at you. Is he?
PELOSI: Well, he knows that I love him very much.
STAHL: I understand that you don’t want to own this. But it is so well reported, you know, that you were the leader of a pressure campaign.
PELOSI: No, I wasn’t leader of any pressure…well, let me say things that I didn’t do. I didn’t call one person. I did not call one person. I could always say to him, I never called anybody. What I’m saying is, I had confidence that the president would make the proper choice for our country, whatever that would be. And I said that whatever that is, we’ll go with.
STAHL: Had you seen a decline in Joe Biden, and did you think he needed to step aside?
PELOSI: No. My whole point was whatever he decides. But we have to have a more aggressive campaign.
STAHL: She mentioned his many accomplishments, including his forceful leadership of the NATO summit with other Western heads of state.
PELOSI: So he was in a good place to make whatever decision, top of his game. Such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of president of the United States. I want to know what comes next.
STAHL: You think that he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore. Lincoln and Joe Biden.
PELOSI: But you got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and he’s wonderful. I don’t say take him down, but you can add Biden.
Nancy Pelosi, after helping to lead a coup to remove cognitively compromised Joe Biden from the Democrat ticket, denies her role and declares:
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 4, 2024
“He was at the top of his game, a Mount Rushmore kind of President."
Buckle up for this spin: Biden was sharp as a tack, Democrats were… pic.twitter.com/X1UI8C6Pky
