On Thursday, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reprimanded Lindell TV reporter Alison Steinberg for repeatedly “spouting untruths.”
Steinberg approached the former House Speaker on the Hill, asking her about why she blocked the National Guard from intervening at the Capitol during the Jan. 6.
As she pressed the congresswoman about the last time Steinberg questioned her regarding the National Guard—specifically, when Pelosi told her to “shut up”—Pelosi interjected, countering Steinberg’s claims in a heated exchange.
During the altercation, the congresswoman told the reporter to “get away from me” while also criticizing her employer, Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow.
Here’s the exchange:
STEINBERG: Last time I asked you about January 6, why you turned the National Guard away on January 6, you told me to shut up and that I was repeating Republican talking points.
PELOSI: And I’ll tell you to shut up again because you’re speaking lies, and I don’t have anything to do with it.
STEINBERG: You’re here, right here, on record saying, “I’ll admit it.”
PELOSI: No, I did not admit it. The president never sent– would agree to send the National Guard. Don’t waste your time or mine on you.
STEINBERG: Why was your daughter filming you on January 6?
PELOSI: Why don’t you get away?
STEINBERG: These are just questions the American people want answers to–
PELOSI: You know what, I don’t even think you’re a real journalist. You work for Mike, pillow man?
STEINBERG: Actually, I do, and we’re very proud–
PELOSI: Yeah, I don’t consider that journalism. Mike the pillow man, that’s not journalism. I don’t have any reason to talk to you.
STEINBERG: He’d love to give you a free pillow.
PELOSI: You should record this. I want people to know that you’re not a real journalist. You work for Mike the pillow man, and all you do is spout untruths. Get away from me.
STEINBERG: You can insult me all you want, but–
PELOSI: Get away from me.
Last summer, Pelosi got a very public “fact check” from the man who was in charge of Capitol security on January 6 — and it’s not a good look for the former House Speaker.
The California Democrat had unloaded on President Donald Trump after he announced a sweeping federal crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., taking direct control of the Metropolitan Police Department and activating the D.C. National Guard to patrol the streets.
“Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake,” Pelosi fumed.
“Now, he’s activating the D.C. Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education and immigration — just to name a few blunders,” she claimed.
It didn’t take long for former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund — who resigned after the Jan. 6 riot — to hit back, and hard.
“Ma’am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people,” Sund said in a scathing statement.
He then recounted how on January 3, 2021, just three days before the riot, he formally requested National Guard support.
That request, he says, was shot down by Pelosi’s own Sergeant at Arms.
“Under federal law (2 U.S.C. §1970), I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval,” Sund explained.
“That same day, Carol Corbin at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal authority,” he added.
When January 6 chaos erupted, Sund said he begged again for the Guard — and was stalled for over an hour.
“While the Capitol was under attack and despite my repeated calls, your Sergeant at Arms again denied my urgent requests for over 70 agonizing minutes, ‘running it up the chain’ for your approval,” Sund wrote.
He then accused Pelosi of hypocrisy: “When I needed assistance, it was denied. Yet when it suited you, you ordered fencing topped with concertina wire and surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National Guard troops.”
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