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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Wednesday defended bringing her son on a contemporary congressional junket to Taiwan and different Asian international locations.
The speaker was once requested by means of newshounds at a Capitol Hill press convention concerning the presence of her son, Paul Pelosi Jr., at the go back and forth.
“His role was to be my escort,” she mentioned. “Usually, we [invite] spouses, not all could come, but I was proud he was there.”
PELOSI ON WHETHER TAIWAN TRIP WAS ‘WORTH IT’: ‘ABSOLUTELY, WITHOUT ANY QUESTION’
Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, left, speaks with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she prepares to depart Taipei, Taiwan, on Aug. 3, 2022. Pelosi left Taiwan after a consult with that heightened tensions with China, pronouncing Wednesday that she and different contributors of Congress in her delegation confirmed they’ll no longer abandon their dedication to the self-governing island. (Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs by way of AP)
The speaker wired that her son had no trade dealings all the way through the go back and forth, which spanned a number of Asian international locations, together with Japan and South Korea.
Her husband, Paul Pelosi Sr., didn’t attend the go back and forth. Instead, the 82-year-old California businessman’s attorney seemed in a Napa County Superior Court ultimate week to plead no longer accountable on his behalf to fees of using below the affect.
Paul Pelosi and Nancy Pelosi attend the Bloomberg and Vanity Fair cocktail reception on the place of dwelling of the French ambassador in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2015.
(Dimitrios Kambouris/VF15/WireImage)
In past due May, a Porsche allegedly pushed by means of the speaker’s husband sustained “major collision damage” all the way through a late-night crash in Napa County. Police officials declare to have discovered Paul Pelosi Sr. within the driving force’s seat of his broken automotive.
He faces two misdemeanor fees: DUI inflicting damage and using with a blood alcohol stage of .08% inflicting damage.
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The date on which Paul Pelosi Sr.’s attorney seemed in courtroom to plead no longer accountable coincided kind of with the tip of the speaker’s consult with to Taiwan. It is unclear if this is the reason the speaker’s husband didn’t accompany her at the go back and forth.
A request for remark was once no longer in an instant returned by means of the speaker’s administrative center.
Republicans have criticized the go back and forth, telling Fox News Digital ultimate week on the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas that it best served to intensify tensions between the U.S. and China.
Rep. Ben Cline, a Republican from Virginia, talks to Fox News Digital at CPAC in Texas on Aug. 6, 2022.
(Fox News Digital/Haris Alic)
The consult with noticed communist China, which had threatened to shoot down Pelosi’s airplane at one level, adopt live-fire army workout routines close to the border of Taiwan in a display of drive.
“I am concerned that she created an international incident with what is essentially a farewell tour,” mentioned Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., who added that Republicans “will continue to stand strong for Taiwan. But we will do it in a way that doesn’t inflame tensions, and actually addresses the challenges facing that part of the world.”
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The speaker has defended the Taiwan consult with, which was once counseled by means of greater than two dozen GOP senators, as profitable and confirmed communist China that the U.S. would no longer be driven round.
