What Wilson did was nothing compared to Pelosi tearing up Trump’s speech. Did Pelosi ever apologize?
In September 2006, Florida Representative Mark Foley was accused of making sexual advances to underage male pages in the House. Foley denied the charges.
Foley later admitted to texting sexually explicit message to some male pages, but declared that they were all over 18 years old when he did that.
Then minority leader Nancy Pelosi seized on this and began a last-minute campaign of "For the children..." to take back the House. In that short six-week period, Pelosi ginned up a campaign to demonize Republicans as threats to children and engineered a 31-seat gain for Democrats by November.
Pelosi became Speaker of the House, and has had an iron grasp on the Democrat party since then.
What is remarkable today is that Democrats no longer are "for the children," given their stance on trans issues and men in women's sports, proving once again that Democrats only say and do what is necessary in the moment to gain and keep power.
-PJ