Social media users shared reports online that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it would be a “cold day in hell” before former President Donald J. Trump is acquitted for the second time. This quote was produced.
Examples can be seen here, here and here.
One report here reads: “The blame for Nancy Pelosi. She said: “It will be a cold day in hell before Trump is acquitted again.” True story. “
The posts do not give a date or place where Pelosi is allegedly quoted.
The US Senate acquitted Donald Trump on February 13, 2021 of inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol last month, saving him in his second indictment in a year of conviction, despite broad condemnation of his role in the deadly siege (here) to arouse.
Reuters could not find a record of Pelosi saying the quote in the claim. A statement of this kind by the Speaker of the House would probably be widely reported by news organizations.
The quote does not exist on Pelosi’s Twitter page twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi or in ProPublica’s “Politwoops” archive, which follows deleted tweets by public officials (here).
Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill confirmed to Reuters that the quote had been fabricated.
Pelosi’s reaction to Trump’s acquittal can be seen in a video in C-SPAN here.
VERDICT
Untrue. Nancy Pelosi did not say “It will be a cold day in hell before Trump is acquitted again.”
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here.