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Boy, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is one rugged gal. Based on the
latest January 6 footage, she is such a brawler that she must think she
is a regular Robert De Niro.

On Friday, The Daily Wire reported that Pelosi was recorded by her
daughter — who for some reason was filming the entire day at the
Capitol — threatening to give former President Donald J. Trump a
knuckle sandwich if he even dared approach the building.

“I hope he comes, I’m going to punch him out,” Pelosi said. “I’ve been
waiting for this. 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.”

“I hope he comes, I’m going to punch him out … I’m going to
punch him out, I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be
happy.”

— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s just-revealed response to the
prospect of former President Trump potentially marching to
the Capitol on January 6th. pic.twitter.com/XePdjploDg

— The Recount (@therecount) October 14, 2022

Pelosi’s comments were reminiscent of one of the greatest American
actors in the last 50 years — the aforementioned De Niro.

In 2016, before Trump even won the election, the two-time Academy Award
winner released a monologue making disparaging comments about the
then-GOP nominee and expressing his desire to knock his lights out.

“I mean he’s so blatantly stupid,” the “Raging Bull” star said. “He’s a
punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. He’s a con, a bulls*** artist, a mutt who
doesn’t know what he’s talking about, doesn’t do his homework, doesn’t
care … he’s an idiot.”

Then — just as Pelosi said more than four years later — the Hollywood
actor claimed he wanted to throw a haymaker at Trump’s mean mug.

“It makes me so angry that this country has gotten to this point that
this fool, this bozo has wound up where he has. He talks how he wants
to punch people in the face,” De Niro claimed. “Well, I’d like to punch
him in the face.”

https://youtu.be/55fJ0FgPSQk

De Niro, of course, pretends to be a fighter in the movies. Pelosi
pretends to be one in D.C.

De Niro is widely respected and wields power in his field. Pelosi has a stranglehold on the Democratic Party and is a skillful politician —
even if her policies don’t benefit the American people.

While they both might be — objectively speaking — good at their jobs
and advancing their own interests, that doesn’t actually make them the
tough guys they play on the big screen.

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