Nancy Pelosi’s teeth have caught Donald Trump’s attention
- The US president has frequently jeered at his political rivals, often resorting to jabs about people’s appearance
US President Donald Trump opened a new, dental front in his periodic feuding with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, suggesting on Twitter that her teeth were falling out as she answered a reporter’s question about why bribery was not made an article of impeachment.
The jab comes days before the House is expected to impeach Trump. Late last week, the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment charging the president with misconduct: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
That would set up a trial in the Senate, which is unlikely to vote to remove the Republican president from office.
Democrat Pelosi has described Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine’s president into announcing politically advantageous investigations as “bribery”, but bribery – a somewhat legally unwieldy definition – was not included among the charges, even if House Democrats believe Trump’s actions can be described as such in lay speech.
“This was a decision that was recommended by working together with our committee chairs, our attorneys and the rest,” Pelosi said last week, when a reporter asked her about it.