https://twitter.com/MforestB/status/837765842611945473
Well, now, this is just getting embarrassing!
Looks like we can add Nancy Pelosi to the growing list of congressional Democrats suffering from Russian amb-nesia:
Photo contradicts @NancyPelosi's statement about not meeting Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak https://t.co/IU2F19MBvm pic.twitter.com/fkq30SZv4C
— POLITICO (@politico) March 3, 2017
Asked if she'd met with Kislyak, Pelosi said: "Not with this Russian ambassador, no."
A 2010 photo shows otherwise. https://t.co/sgFkvdY8A6 pic.twitter.com/RCdPLOeU4u— POLITICO (@politico) March 3, 2017
More from Politico:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that she’s never met with the current Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.
“Not with this Russian ambassador, no,” Pelosi told POLITICO’s Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer during a Playbook interview, when asked if she’d ever met with the Russian envoy.
But a file photo from Pelosi’s 2010 meeting with Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev shows Kislyak at the table across from Pelosi — then House speaker — and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Medvedev had been in the country for a meeting with President Barack Obama a day earlier and stopped in on Capitol Hill to meet with congressional leaders as well.
It’s right here in the photo, Nancy!
Pelosi: I never met with the Russian Ambassador.
Photo: He's sitting third from the top. pic.twitter.com/c1BMLN5LBU
— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) March 3, 2017
Whoops.
Womp womp https://t.co/9wEq2XcmRe
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) March 3, 2017
Wait. @NancyPelosi lied? Shocking… https://t.co/fWs2JEGlqd
— LaborUnionReport.com (@WorkPlaceRpt) March 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/837765475106959360
It’s not that Nancy doesn’t remember him … she just didn’t understand the question:
Asked to square Pelosi’s comments with the photo of the meeting, a spokesman said that Pelosi had simply meant she never had a solo meeting with Kislyak.
She's obviously in cahoots with the Russian ambassador. https://t.co/n8G8xV9rOG
— RBe (@RBPundit) March 3, 2017
Obviously.
What we're actually learning here is that lawmakers meet lots of people in the course of their jobs and often forget these things. https://t.co/0o60HeS8V8
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) March 3, 2017
That’s fair, of course. But can we also at least agree that Nancy Pelosi is awful and deserves to be mocked and/or shamed at every possible opportunity?
Speaking of Pelosi remember that time she defied the Bush administration and met with Bashar Al-Assad in Syria? pic.twitter.com/u3e33L5psi
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) March 3, 2017
Oof.
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