Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced her retirement after the Democrats won a series of major victories on Tuesday, November 4, and the response from the right has been to remind the public of her alleged use of insider trading to greatly build her fortune during her years in “public service.”
In fact, even CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings did as much during his commentary on the matter on Thursday, November 6, joking that President Trump should hire Rep. Pelosi to run the stock market portfolios of Americans so that they can retire thanks to her immense outperformance in the markets.
Such came when the CNN host, Kate Bolduan, claimed, alleging that Republicans respected Pelosi for her “skills” despite being made angry by her, saying, “she made them really angry. But at the end of the day, there was often grudging respect for some of the things that she skills, that she brought to the table.”
Responding, Jennings first noted that Pelosi is a political operation, saying, “Oh yeah. You know, there were people who respected her legislative ability. And, you know, being a political boss. I mean, she was the boss of her conference…and, you know, there is, you know, for political operators. A lot of respect for that.”
Continuing, he noted that Republicans have managed to make a small fortune in fundraising, saying, “I tell you this, I don’t know how much we raised over the years off of sending out fundraising appeals based on Nancy Pelosi, but it was a metric. But time, I’m telling you right now, putting Nancy Pelosi in fundraising mail or fundraising emails would always produce”
Getting to the really funny part of his spiel, Jennings joked that Pelosi has managed to do the impossible and become a leader both in the Swamp and on Wall Street, a snide reference to her alleged stock trading acumen. He said, “And by the way, it’s not often that someone can become a titan of both Washington and Wall Street.”
Adding to that, Jennings noted that Pelosi would always be remembered as one of the greatest day traders of all time, noting her huge outperformance in the markets. He said, “Republicans will remember her as one of the most successful and prolific day traders. She beat the S&P 500 by 559% in her stock portfolio.”
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Concluding his big, Jennings said that Wall Street is taking a major blow now that it can’t find Pelosi’s stock trading moves, saying, “She’s worth a lot of money. She did an amazing job. So what a blow for the financial houses today on Wall Street. I’m sure their morning just getting in an album, right?”
Then, after some commentary from the other panelists and jokes about his joke, Jennings said that he thinks the president should put her in charge of running Social Security so that we can all retire, saying, “I want Trump to put her in charge of the Social Security Administration. We could all retire in six months if we let this lady manage our portfolios.”
Watch him here:
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