Pelosi calls Hillary Clinton ‘president’ and says Putin ‘feared’ her most

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi accidentally called former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton “President” at an event in New York on Monday night.

Pelosi, now dubbed the “speaker emerita,” and Clinton, the former secretary of state, US senator and first lady, interviewed each other at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Clinton asked Pelosi what she saw as the “greatest threats and challenges to our democracy.”

“Well, I appreciate that question, but I also appreciate your leadership in this regard as president,” Pelosi said.

Pelosi made a gesture to indicate that she immediately realized her slip of the tongue by placing her hand over her heart. “My hope,” she remarked.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) mistakenly called former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton (right) “President” at an event in New York Monday night

“But when Secretary Clinton was in the Senate and first lady, but especially as Secretary of State in more recent times — she’s done a lot of things and implemented in that time that show America’s support for democracy.”

Pelosi said this turned Clinton into an enemy of Russian President Vladimir Putin – who meddled in the 2016 election in an attempt to boost current former President Donald Trump.

“It was her clarity and position towards the current – ​​Putin – current occupation leader of Russia that turned him around and caused him to illegally speak out against her in her campaign and interference in our democracy by Vladimir Putin, because Hillary Clinton was the person he feared most because of his lack of democracy in Russia,” Pelosi said. “It goes without saying, I think, so thank you for what you’ve done.”

Democrats insisted that Putin wanted Trump to win the 2016 election because he was a chaos candidate and would destabilize the United States and NATO.

Trump allies have argued that Putin did not invade Ukraine – or other neighboring countries – while the Republican was in the White House because he exuded strength.

The two women also discussed how the Supreme Court, which overturned Roe v. Wade last June, has upended some American notions of democracy.

Clinton (left), the former secretary of state, US senator and first lady, and Pelosi (right), the speaker emerita, interviewed each other at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Clinton said that some people “may have taken democracy for granted, may have misunderstood that in politics no victory or defeat is permanent,” explaining that she believed “that we pose a serious and continuing threat to democracy through freedom really take away’.

‘How can you have freedom if you have no right to privacy?’ she mused.

In the Dobbs decision, the conservative Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-appointed justices, said the Constitution does not include an implied right to privacy, reversing 50 years of precedent.

Pelosi scoffed at this saying that for women, the Supreme Court ruled that “the most personal decisions are not up to them.”

The California Democrat also seemed perplexed that any American would vote Republican, which she portrayed as the anti-Democratic side.

“Do you know really great people?” asked Pelosi. “Who are great, they’re successful, nice people and all that and voom — they’re way on the other side of our democracy in our own country.”

‘Why?’ she continued. Because they don’t want to pay more taxes? Because they believe a misrepresentation of what is going on? We must be vigilant in our country,” the former speaker warned.