In a new interview on CNN highlighted by a rapid response team associated with the Biden campaign, Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) deemed Donald Trump the kind of guy who you wouldn’t even let into your house.
She was speaking not long after Trump secured the convention delegate total necessary to actually nab Republicans’ already expected presidential nomination for this year’s elections.
“He’s even predicting a ‘bloodbath.’ What does that mean? He’s going to exact a bloodbath?” Pelosi said. “There’s something wrong here. How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness, but how much more do they have to see from him to understand that this isn’t what our country is about? Praising Hitler, praising the Russians. Honestly. Condemning our soldiers for losing or dying in war or being captured in war. […] You wouldn’t even allow him in your house much less in the White House.”
The “bloodbath” comment came at a campaign rally in Ohio, where Trump referenced that imagined outcome as following his potential loss. “If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it,” Trump said amid a discussion at the rally of the U.S. auto industry. “It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it.” Trump and his team tried excusing the remarks as just referencing feared consequences in the auto industry, but some weren’t so sure.
“Obviously, he’s talking about a bloodbath for America. It’s laid out in the terms of it,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough told viewers. “He knew what he was doing. We’re not stupid. Americans aren’t stupid.” Trump started his discussion in the auto industry but then said the supposedly looming impacts would be “the least of it,” ultimately implicating “the country.”
Republicans remain broadly behind Trump, though a selection of public figures from that side of politics are declining to endorse him. That list includes Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, but none of it was enough to keep Trump from Republicans’ presumptive nomination for president.
