During a Friday appearance on CNN, Christine Pelosi said that her family was “probably one of the few families in America who did not talk about impeachment at the Christmas dinner table.” The Nancy Pelosi Way author said the Pelosi family doesn’t speak about politics over dinner. “We talk sports and movies, and mostly, she wants to know how her grandchildren were doing. So, we had a wonderful time with our parents,” she said. “Basically, we’ve just been having some family time.”
Pelosi said that the House Speaker thinks it’s important to “put politics on the shelf” and not to “obsess about things 24/7.” She stressed the importance of “recharg[ing] and rejuvenat[ing], and most importantly, be[ing] with your family.” “If you don’t build a life with your family, then you don’t have a quality of life you can be out there defending when you get back to work,” she said.
“I would add that having quality time with people who love you is essential to longevity and stamina,” Christine Pelosi added in an interview with Newsweek. “I don’t interrupt that time to bring personal or political vitriol into a holiday that is about hope and positivity. I want my daughter Bella to remember the holidays as being magical not malicious.”
A spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi did not immediately respond to request for comment.
On CNN, Christine Pelosi said that while the speaker shied away from politics, she nevertheless “offhandedly mentioned that things might have been happening on social media,” one of which was Trump’s Twitter tirade against Pelosi.
In a thread on Wednesday, Trump tweeted disparaging remarks about Pelosi and the impeachment. “Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the House, be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States?” he wrote. “She said it must be ‘bipartisan & overwhelming,’ but this Scam Impeachment was neither.”
Trump also called Pelosi and Democrats hypocrites. “Now Pelosi is demanding everything the Republicans weren’t allowed to have in the House,” he tweeted. “Dems want to run majority Republican Senate. Hypocrites!”
The president also asserted his innocence in offering a quid pro quo to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, where he threatened to withhold military aid unless Zelenskiy investigated former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. “Got ZERO Republican votes, there was no crime, the call with Ukraine was perfect, with ’no pressure,’” he tweeted. Trump also called the impeachment “very unfair with no Due Process, proper representation, or witnesses.”
The White House and the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to Newsweek’s requests for comment.
