Speaker Pelosi Says Capitol Siege Rioters Chose 'Whiteness Over Democracy'

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is accusing the Trump supporters who rioted in the Capitol this week of choosing "their whiteness over democracy."

Pelosi used an online video meeting with her San Francisco constituents to criticize the overwhelmingly white mob that attacked Congress on Wednesday as it met to formally finalize Joe Biden's presidential victory.

"It has been an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country led by this president, for the moment, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy," Pelosi said.

Pelosi has set the House on course to potentially voting on a new impeachment of Trump as early as this coming week, a move that has overwhelming support from Democrats. She shed no new light Saturday on whether she's made a final decision on that or other details.

Pelosi says, "The complicity, not only the complicity, the instigation of the president of United States, must and will be addressed."