Article snippet: Senior aides to MORE (D-Calif.) after she suggested the president might not leave office if he were only narrowly defeated in the 2020 election. MORE told The Hill that Pelosi’s argument was “ironic and tone-deaf.” Conway, who was Trump’s third and final campaign manager in 2016 and is now a top White House adviser, blasted “the inability of [Pelosi’s] party and her party’s failed nominee [MORE] to accept the election results of 2016.” Tim Murtaugh, director of communications for Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, called Pelosi’s comments “ridiculous” and “warrantless fear-mongering to rile up her fringe base and the media.” Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is part of Trump's legal team, said that Democrats, including Pelosi, are “really getting to the point of being malicious. They're trying to suggest he's some kind of monster. They should stop.” The ferocity of the response to Pelosi is standard political jousting but the feelings run deep on both sides. Trump loyalists believe Democrats have been engaged in a long effort to delegitimize the president’s 2016 victory — especially through allegations of collusion with Russia. Democrats, for their part, say there is ample evidence that Trump does not respect political norms. Trump tweeted on Sunday evening that two years of his presidency had been “stolen” by the investigation led by special counsel MORE. Earlier, the president had retweeted a fervent supporter, Jerry Falwell Jr. — son of the famo... Link to the full article to read more
The Memo: Pelosi's 'tone-deaf' remarks raise ire of Team Trump | TheHill
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