Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been slammed for insisting that President Biden “should have said undocumented” when he referred to Laken Riley’s alleged killer as an “illegal” at his State of the Union address.
The California Democrat made the eyebrow-raising remark during an interview on CNN after the president’s fiery speech.
“Madam speaker, one of the clearly ad-libbed moments was during the section about immigration,” CNN anchor Dana Bash said before playing a clip of Biden’s remarks.
The president referred to the slain 22-year-old nursing student as “Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal,” botching her first name.
“Now he should have said undocumented, but that’s not a big thing, OK? What’s the big thing?” Pelosi said in response.
Bash said she wasn’t going to ask about the term “illegal,” which is considered politically incorrect by progressive lawmakers, but rather about the crime.
“Well, we usually say ‘undocumented.’ He said ‘illegal.’ I don’t think it’s a big deal. I don’t think it’s a big deal because I think his focus was on the sympathy for the family. It’s a terrible tragedy,” Pelosi said, harping on the matter.
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