Washington — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, in accordance with her spokesperson.
Pelosi led House Democrats through the first Trump administration and attended his inauguration in 2017. She turned one in all Trump’s chief antagonists, overseeing each impeachments in opposition to him as speaker.
A spokesperson didn’t present a cause for her deliberate absence from the president-elect’s second inauguration. ABC News first reported on her plans.
Pelosi fell and injured her hip throughout an abroad journey to Luxembourg in December, and required hip replacement surgery earlier than returning to the U.S. She was seen utilizing a walker within the Capitol when the brand new Congress convened earlier this month.
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Pelosi, who stepped down from management after the 2022 midterm elections, has been vocal about her opposition to Trump as he prepares to return to workplace. A frequent recipient of Republican ire, Pelosi was among the many targets of a number of the rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to delay the counting of electoral votes.
The California Democrat accused Trump earlier this month of stoking continued violence within the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol, together with in opposition to her husband.
“He known as out to those individuals to proceed their violence, my husband being a sufferer of all of that,” Pelosi mentioned on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” noting that her husband nonetheless suffers from a head damage after a person broke into their San Francisco residence and bludgeoned him with a hammer in October 2022.
Former first girl Michelle Obama additionally plans to skip Trump’s inauguration, although her husband, former President Barack Obama, is predicted to be on the swearing in ceremony.
Trump skipped President Biden’s inauguration in 2021, two weeks after the assault on the Capitol.
