CNN
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on Jan. 6, 2021, that if then-President Donald Trump came to the Capitol following his “Stop the Steal” speech, she was “going to punch him out,” according to footage from an upcoming HBO documentary that CNN aired Thursday.
After an aide informed Pelosi that the Secret Service talked Trump out of arriving on the scene of the Electoral College certification as thousands of Trump supporters made their way toward the U.S. Capitol, she said, “I hope he comes. I want to punch him out.”
“I’ve been waiting for this,” Pelosi said while being filmed by her daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi. “For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I’m going to punch him out, and I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.”