On Sunday’s episode of “CBS Sunday Morning,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declared that President Biden should be added to Mount Rushmore.
A campaign to persuade President Biden to withdraw his reelection attempt was led by Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), former President Barack Obama, and other Democratic leaders last month. According to prominent Democratic Party sources, Pelosi and other supporters were in favor of using the 25th Amendment, which allows the president to be compelled to resign if his cabinet determines that he is mentally incompetent.
On Sunday, the former speaker of the House presented a quite different narrative.
“Please tell us what you told President Biden to persuade him to step aside,” asked CBS host Lesley Stahl.
“Well, I have never shared any conversations with a President of the United States publicly, so no,” Pelosi responded.
Stahl continued by quoting sources regarding Pelosi’s participation in the pressure campaign.
“I wasn’t the leader of any pressure. Let me say things 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,” Pelosi said.
“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,” she added.
She was then questioned by Stahl about whether President Biden belonged on Mount Rushmore with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Teddy Roosevelt is fantastic, and you have him up there. Pelosi shot back, “You could add Biden, but I don’t say take him down.”
