{"id":67645,"date":"2017-03-05T18:19:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T22:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67645"},"modified":"2017-03-05T18:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T22:19:42","slug":"twitter-fight-round-2-trump-trolls-lying-pelosi-with-pic-of-her-and-medvedev-pelosi-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67645","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Fight Round 2: Trump Trolls &#8220;Lying&#8221; Pelosi With Pic Of Her And Medvedev; Pelosi Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Trump seems to be having himself a fun Friday afternoon trolling Democratic Congressional leaders on Twitter.\u00a0 Just a couple of hours ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-03-03\/trump-tweet-mocks-schumer-over-past-putin-meetings-total-hypocrite\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> received Trump&#8217;s first &#8216;shot across the bow&#8217; and now he&#8217;s turned his focus to Nancy Pelosi for having <strong>&#8220;close ties to Russia, and lying about it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\">\u00a0<strong>&#8220;I hearby demand a second investigation, after Schumer, of Pelosi for her close ties to Russia, and lying about it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I hereby demand a second investigation, after Schumer, of Pelosi for her close ties to Russia, and lying about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qCDljfF3wN\">https:\/\/t.co\/qCDljfF3wN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837770149767827456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This most recent Trump tweet was apparently derived from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/03\/nancy-pelosi-sergey-kislyak-meeting-235653\">Politico<\/a> article posted earlier today which revealed a picture of Pelosi in a meeting with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak just after she had denied ever meeting him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\">\u00a0<strong>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that she&#8217;s never met with the current Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Not with this Russian ambassador, no,&#8221;<\/strong> Pelosi told POLITICO&#8217;s Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer during a Playbook interview, when asked if she&#8217;d ever met with the Russian envoy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But a file photo from Pelosi&#8217;s 2010 meeting with Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev shows Kislyak at the table across from Pelosi<\/strong> \u2014 then House speaker \u2014 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pelosi&#8217;s team scrambled to correct the record saying that Nancy made a simple mistake and meant that she had never had a &#8216;solo&#8217; meeting with Kislyak.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\">\u00a0Asked to square Pelosi&#8217;s comments with the photo of the meeting, a spokesman said that <strong>Pelosi had simply meant she never had a solo meeting with Kislyak.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Of course, that&#8217;s what she meant,&#8221;<\/strong> said the spokesman, Drew Hammill. <strong>&#8220;She has never had a private one-on-one with him.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, just yesterday Pelosi called for Sessions&#8217; resignation saying <strong>&#8220;anything less than resignation or removal from office is unacceptable.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are far past recusal. Jeff <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sessions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sessions<\/a> lied under oath. Anything less than resignation or removal from office is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi\/status\/837299682309259265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And right on cue, we get Nancy&#8217;s response:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> doesn&#39;t know difference between official mtg photographed by press &amp; closed secret mtg his AG lied about under oath. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YRFCuJkjLA\">https:\/\/t.co\/YRFCuJkjLA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi\/status\/837776774691979270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-03-03\/twitter-fight-round-2-trump-trolls-lying-pelosi-pic-her-and-medvedev\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-03-03\/twitter-fight-round-2-trump-trolls-lying-pelosi-pic-her-and-medvedev<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZeroHedge.com Trump seems to be having himself a fun Friday afternoon trolling Democratic Congressional leaders on Twitter.\u00a0 Just a couple of hours ago Chuck Schumer received Trump&#8217;s first &#8216;shot across the bow&#8217; and now he&#8217;s turned his focus to Nancy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}