US Politics

Exclusive interview: Nancy Pelosi on Ireland, standing up to Trump and her love of U2

The Democratic stalwart sits down with our US correspondent Marion McKeone for a wide-ranging interview as the presidential election kicks off

Nancy Pelosi on Donald Trump: ‘This is a very sick person who needs an intervention from his family or from his advisers.’ Picture: Getty

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emeriti of the House of Representatives, has a famously packed schedule. By midday she’s already been on the House Floor, speaking in support of the bill to force TikTok’s Chinese owners to divest its US assets. Before that, a sizeable portion of her morning was consumed by meetings with House and Senate’s 97 military veterans – part of her battle to get Biden’s stalled funding package for Ukraine back on track. Then ...