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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also paid tribute to the late Barney Frank. She revealed he had called her last month to inform her he had begun undergoing hospice care.
“He has been about idealism and pragmatism to get the job done,” Pelosi told NBC. “He was a real mentor to so many of us here.”
Barney Frank spent his final weeks in hospice care. During that time, he spoke to media outlets about his life and hopes for the future of politics, in which he made a bombshell claim about President Donald Trump.
During an interview with Politico in his home in Maine, Barney Frank said one of his regrets was that congestive heart failure would take his life before he could see the fall of Donald Trump.
“One of my regrets is that I won’t see the continued implosion of Donald Trump.”
Bombshell claim about Donald Trump on his deathbed
He spoke further about Trump in an interview with Boston-area radio station WBUR, calling the president an “idiot savant.”
“As to Trump, I have developed my theory about him: It’s not just that he’s bad on all these values, but he is an idiot savant,” Barney Frank said. “He has just one talent: an ability to exploit anger that got him into power. But having gotten into power, he’s got nothing left, and that’s why now he’s just floundering.”
“I can’t think of an issue on which he’s popular. The Iran war, the fight with the Pope, the economy, even immigration, where the left was dead wrong in its excessive openness, he’s managed to make himself more unpopular,” the now-late politician continued. “His anger, his narcissism, all of the negative parts of his personality have asserted themselves, and he really doesn’t have much of a positive vision of things to offset that.”
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