Posted on 01/18/2019 7:50:28 AM PST by COUNTrecount
BREAKING NEWS: Nancy Pelosi says Trump is accused by his own State Department of putting lives of members of Congress and U.S. TROOPS at risk by revealing her plans to lead delegation to Afghanistan when he canceled military jet
President Trump cancelled Nancy Pelosi's government-funded trip abroad
She asked him Wednesday to postpone his Jan. 29 State of the Union
Cited security concerns amid the partial government shutdown
White House official said it had nothing to do with her demand that he give his address in the Oval Office or after the shutdown ends
Trump informed Pelosi via a letter that the White House shared publicly that he was postponing her visit to Afghanistan on Thursday
White House said he took 'immediate' action to call off her trip
Was not clear how much lead time he gave Pelosi on the order beforehand
Pelosi has been scheduled to visit Brussels and Afghanistan with lawmakers
Some lawmakers were seen waiting on a bus outside Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill when the White House made the call
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff was among the lawmakers seen on the bus leaving for the CoDel with Pelosi
Her spokesman said that the trip to Afghanistan 'included a required stop in Brussels for pilot rest' and Pelosi planned to meet with NATO commanders 'The purpose of the trip was to express appreciation & thanks to our men & women in uniform...& to obtain critical national security & intelligence briefings' White House press secretary said: 'We want to keep her in Washington' 'If she leaves, she guarantees that the second round of paychecks to 800,000 federal workers won't go out,' Sarah Sanders explained
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Just as Pelosi suggested to Trump, she could have done that in writing and skipped the appearance.
-PJ
The Empire Strikes Back......movie
The Vile Botoxian Strikes Back.....reality
Both provide great entertainment....LOL
Pelousy puts real meaning into the phrase, “grasping at straws”, LOL!
Politicians always plan these trips to include a brief “business” meeting or two stuck in between the dinners, parties, and hazardous beach duty. The meetings provide the legal justification for sticking the taxpayers with the bill.
Both parties do it.
If they were planning to fly commercially, then there would have been at least several hundred people OUTSIDE the White House who would have known about their travel plans.
Anyone who thinks these Democrats had any intention of taking a commercial flight to Brussels, let along AFGHANISTAN, is a moron.
The purpose of the trip was to express appreciation & thanks to our men & women in uniform............................
Bullshit...The only “men and women in uniform” that they will see is the unfortunate group of GI’s ordered to unload the bags from the plane and deliver them to the hotel....
Since the excursion was canceled, how was her anti-American a** endangered? Of course, logic doesn’t matter; only feelings and hatred.
Elsewhere it was said that Pelosi had scheduled a meeting with NATO leaders and EU representatives during her layover in Brussels.
How can there be danger unless he revealed a trip that was still happening? Why did she schedule this trip during the SOTU is a better question.
Yep, absolutely. No trip, no threat.
Exactly. That meeting was the justification for making it a business trip so the taxpayers had the privilege of paying for it.
She worried about being attacked in CA?
They found enough cash to pay the workers and restart the 30 day clock for State.
F off Nancy. Look in a F^^king mirror and then talk B^^CH!
How convenient! Just when you need a crisis, the Dems are sure to provide the situational description. It does not matter it lacks credibility and not reality based. The Narrative/Branding is what is important.
The State Department’s the heart of the Swamp - - ‘intelligence’ the fists...
Most people don't read past the headline on these articles so they didn't see that part and don't know that Pelosi is claiming her safety was compromised by the President canceling the flight because in doing so he said she was going to visit the troops and therefore her alternate plan to fly commercial would mean she'd be at risk with everyone knowing where she was headed. The joke being, as you pointed out, that she would fly commercial anywhere, let alone to Afghanistan.
They only have 75,000 employees over there at poor little State.
Your approach to that fine institution might seem just a little draconian (lol).
What’s funny is that the LA Times lists the Department with 24,000 employees, while State itself offer up the 75,000 figure,
Obviously no one knows.
I guess Nancy thinks she was voted into office to hog-up 24/7 TV face time by any and every means conceivable... including (but NOT limited to) infantile tantrums and incessant displays of abject lunacy!
No worries. Nancy has walls to protect her. You can bet if the military had been included in this government shutdown, Nancy would not have been visiting the troops in Afghanistan. But we would have been hearing lots more sob stories.
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