After spending almost 4 decades in public service, former House Speaker and California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi has revealed her motivation for entering politics. Pelosi has become the subject of much scrutiny due to becoming a multimillionaire during her time as a public servant.
Many of her critics speculate that the reason for this massive increase in wealth is due to using her position to gain access to information used to help pick stocks on the market.
Others believed that, perhaps, her reasoning for sticking around so long was simply to badger President Donald Trump. However, that also is not the correct answer.
Pelosi, during an interview on Jen Psaki’s “The Briefing” on MSNBC, revealed the true reason for participating in the political arena in a clip posted on social media.
“My whole mission in politics is about the children,” Pelosi said during her conversation with Psaki. The user who shared the video in the post on X wisecracked, “Her bank account would beg to differ.”
Users on the platform were quick to stick a pin in Pelosi’s bubble. One individual asked, “Does that include all of the aborted, missing, and exploited children?”
Pelosi, who claims to be a Catholic, was officially barred from receiving Holy Communion by the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2022 due to public support for abortion. In fact, the Catholic News Agency actually compiled a list of ten times she publicly supported abortion while citing her faith.
“I’ve never heard her once talk about ‘the children’ over her entire political career hahaha,” another X user mentioned.
Pelosi was raised in a political family, the youngest of seven kids who grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father once served as mayor of the city. She attended college in D.C., which is where she met her future husband, Paul Pelosi.
At first, Pelosi was a housewife and gave birth to five children in just six years. Her first steps into the political realm took place in 1976. By utilizing old family connections, she provided assistance that helped California Gov. Jerry Brown win the Maryland primary during a bid for the presidency, according to the BBC.
Years later, in the mid-1980s, Pelosi worked her way up the ranks of the Democratic Party, eventually becoming its chair. In 1987, Pelosi won a seat in Congress. And that’s where she’s been ever since, going on to become the Speaker of the House.
