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Lloyd Green

The Art of Power review – Pelosi takes swipe at Trump

Nancy Pelosi in Washington in 2019.
Nancy Pelosi in Washington in 2019. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

As speaker of the US House, Nancy Pelosi bested Donald Trump in budget battles, mocked him at the State of the Union and won an outsized place in his brain. The self-proclaimed “very stable genius” taunted her as “crazy Nancy” while she scorched him as a “psychopathic nut”. A mother of five, grandmother to 10, she knew a bit about unruly children.

Hakeem Jeffries now leads House Democrats but Pelosi, 84, still has clout. Ask Joe Biden. Pelosi recently helped engineer his exit from the presidential race.

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