Former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a bizarre theory about why she thinks that President Trump is “afraid” of Vladimir Putin. Speaking to left-wing news outlet MSNBC, the former speaker said that Putin “must have something” on Trump.
During the interview with Jen Psaki on the Biden-Friendly network, Pelosi said, “What does he have on Donald Trump that he has to constantly be catering to Putin?”
Trump, she noted, has even been “encouraging” Putin to invade NATO allies who don’t pay what he thinks is enough for protection.
“What do you think? We’re all wondering this question, Speaker Pelosi, what do you think Putin has on him?” Psaki asked in reply. “I mean, it sure seems like something, as you’ve said a few times, given that he refuses to criticize him, that he seems to be a fanboy of him. Are you worried?”
“First of all, we must be sure that he does not step one foot into the White House. Not as president or not as anything. He has brought disgrace to the White House, to these presidents,” responded Pelosi before eventually getting around to answering Psaki’s query.
Pelosi then called Putin one of “the most evil people in the world” and then took a guess as to why Trump ― usually so full of bluster ― won’t say a word against the Russian leader.
“I don’t know what he has on him, but I think it’s probably financial,” she said. “Or something on the come ― something that he expects to get.”
Pelosi then threw more shade at Trump when she said that President Joe Biden and other leaders have all blamed Putin for the death last week of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. But Trump didn’t mention Putin at all in his own statement on Navalny, instead making it all about himself and attacking the United States as “a failing nation.” However, despite what Pelosi and the rest of her left-wingnuts would like to believe, Trump’s connections to Russia were investigated for years both prior to and after his election as president. Many progressives speculated that Trump might actually be a Russian agent and that his hypothetical acts treason might be motivated by blackmail. In one particularly pernicious example, the allegation in an opposition research report funded by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign suggested that there might be a tape