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Was Pelosi Escorted Out of White House After Showing Up 'Too Drunk to Speak'?

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by Dan Evon, Published June 25, 2019


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Claim:
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was escorted out of the White House after showing up too drunk to speak.
Rating:
False

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In March 2019, Bustatroll.org, a subsidiary of the "America's Last Line of Defense" (LLOD) network of junk news sites, published an article claiming that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been forcibly removed from the White House after appearing there too drunk to speak:

Sources inside the White House in a position to neither confirm nor deny most reports have confirmed the latest about Nancy Pelosi’s drunken excursion just minutes ago. Lawrence Darrel and his brother, Darryl, both senior aides to Lead Speech Writer Sandy Batt, say they saw Pelosi escorted out by Secret Service after showing up “so drunk she could hardly speak.”


By Dan Evon

Dan Evon is a former writer for Snopes.


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