House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks about House matters during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, July 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. Commenting on Trump's transgender military ban, Pelosi said it was 'disgusting" to see members of the LGBT community "devalued for a hateful political agenda."
House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi officially condemned violence from Antifa on Tuesday after months of attacks on Trump supporters and free speech protesters.

The statement from Pelosi was in response to the acts of violence over the weekend in Berkeley, which led to the arrests of 13 suspects connected to Antifa's violence.

"Our democracy has no room for inciting violence or endangering the public, no matter the ideology of those who commit such acts," Pelosi wrote. "The violent actions of people calling themselves antifa in Berkeley this weekend deserve unequivocal condemnation, and the perpetrators should be arrested and prosecuted."

This marks the first-time Pelosi has condemned Antifa and is quite possibly the first time she has acknowledged the group's existence. A keyword search of her website and her Twitter account revealed no other instances in which she used the word.

A spokesman for Pelosi told the Washington Times in an email late on Monday night that Pelosi "emphasizes" the importance of "peaceful" protests and demonstrations, while not mentioning Antifa and other leftist groups behind the violence.

Pelosi also reiterated the need for peaceful dissent and free speech in her press statement on Tuesday by saying hate must not be used to fight hate.

"In California, as across all of our great nation, we have deep reverence for the Constitutional right to peaceful dissent and free speech," Pelosi continued. "Non-violence is fundamental to that right. Let us use this sad event to reaffirm that we must never fight hate with hate, and to remember the values of peace, openness and justice that represent the best of America."

Comment: Not the first time Pelosi has changed her tune to match public opinion.

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oddly, I think it is the first most have heard of Antifa, certainly the very first time they started being mentioned on Mingle2,
surprisingly

when a nationlist ended up killing someone, and the counter was 'why not condemn Antifa too'...


IT reminds me of kids when they get in trouble and one says 'he started it',,,,,

SOMEONE DIED,, and yeah, violence is wrong from anyone

but SOMEONE DIED

someone who should have planned, did their paperwork, and organized it with the city properiy... she did none of those things... I'm also not so sure the guy who ran her over wasn't a liberal in disguise, just to make white people look bad.

she who?

what has that to do with someone ELSES decision to try and kill strangers?

Midterm and Presidential Elections 2020 might have persuaded her to do the Crawdad-Walk!


Can't afford to get caught with the Hand in the Cookie-Jar again!

yet she passed them for thirty years without batting an Eye!

SOMEONE... geez, did you stop thinking now?

as did all the leaders that jumped on board...

The best way to shut pelosi up is to tie her hands together. What's worse than hearing her speak? Watching her speak. She acts and talks like a demented lunatic. She should be condemned !

Antifa is no better than a terrorist group and it's about time they are being held accountable for their actions. Nancy Polosi should be made to undo all her self serving legislation. ( I'm a master legislator).

I forgot to add: and then fired!