Surveillance cameras, installed by the salon’s owner a few years ago, captured the third most important political figure in the American nation, in a bathrobe and without a mask, going through a door after washing her hair, followed by a man in a mask.
The next day, the visit to the hairdresser of one of the most powerful women in the Democratic Party was news across the country after the images were broadcast on Fox News.
Leaving aside the multiples memes about Pelosi’s hair, which immediately filled the social networks, the case was serious. In the middle of a pandemic, and when orders from the California Government compel small businesses, including hairdressers, to keep their doors closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the exception made for Nancy, who is a representative of the State of California, lit up a fuse.The fact that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, one of the biggest supporters of the use of masks and social distance, was seen to disrespect both recommendations, only reinforced accusations of hypocrisy and preferential treatment while the local economy is in agony.
Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi tried to defend herself.
She remembered that no one washes hair in a mask, who has been going to that hairdresser for years, who when she called to make an appointment assured that this procedure was usual and that she would be alone in the salon. Finally, accused the owner of the hairdresser, Erica Kious, of setting him “a trap” and demanded an apology.
About the violation of several impositions in a pandemic scenario, including having crossed the line from the State of Washington to go to San Francisco and gone to fix your hair in a place closed by state orders, not a word.
Apology
In his self-defense, Pelosi shot himself in the foot again. It attacked someone at the opposite pole of the power line, much weaker and in stark contrast to itself.
Erica Kious is not only a woman and single mother of two children, without any political experience, an ordinary person, but also a small businesswoman in extreme difficulties, due to the closure of their establishment since the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We are almost finished. We have lost at least 60 percent of our customers. I have lost most of my employees,” said Kious, in one of his multiple interviews after being unwittingly catapulted to the celebrity. “Six months is a long time to go.”
In defending herself against Pelosi’s accusations, in a statement read and broadcast on YouTube, Erica Kious clarified that she was not the one who made the appointment, but a hairdresser, Jonathan, to whom she rents a chair and workspace in the salon.
This same confirmed, says Kious, who spoke with the president of the House of Representatives about the need to reopen the hairdressers or, at least, authorize the person-to-person service, just as he was doing with her. “Nobody plotted it,” he said, criticizing the way Pelosi presented himself as a victim.
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“I owe no apology to anyone”, he said, after telling Fox News microphones that he was on a plane when the visit took place and that it was only after landing that he saw the video of Pelosi, in a bathrobe and without a mask.
“Who owes an apology to the entire country is Mrs. Pelosi,” added Kious.
The salon owner also explained that the reason for publishing the video was indignation to see Pelosi violating sanitary orders when so many beauty salons and barbers who obey the rules are struggling to survive. “I wanted to help other designers, like me and Jonathan,” he said.
If Pelosi, 80 and a member of a high-risk group if he contracts Covid-19, is comfortable going to a hairdresser in San Francisco, and can be responsible and careful, other Americans should be able to do the same, Kious argued. “That was my goal,” he said in his statement, almost in tears.
Death threats vs dear girl
Nancy Pelosi will be having a difficult week. Erica Kious is having a real nightmare. He became an outcast in the city where he lives and among supporters of the Democratic Party. He even received threats of death and persecution.
“The worst thing about all this is that I have lived in that community for 12 years and, since this happened, I’ve only been an object of hatred – text messages, death threats, will set my salon on fire. My Yelp page looks incredible from negative reviews“he lamented in an interview Wednesday night.”It’s a shame that my community does this, say that I screwed it when I didn’t … I don’t think I can do anything else here “.
In contrast, Kious instantly became the Republicans’ beloved girl.
From all over the United States, they donated more than $ 100,000 in a GoFundMe campaign initiated by former Nevada Republican Party President Amy Tarkanian to help her leave San Francisco with her family. The Republican, South Dakota governor invited her to settle in the state.
“As a former small business owner, I can’t imagine how overwhelming these past months must have been,” tweetou Kristi iNoem. “And now this? Erika, if you want to run your salon in a state that respects freedom and will not close its doors, South Dakota is waiting for you.”
Prenda a Trump
Meanwhile, images of Nancy in bathrobe and without mask, with wet hair, opened the White House press conference Thursday, an initiative at least surprising.
The video went on loop while President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman, Kaileigh McEnany, denounced Nancy Pelosi as a hypocrite, who considers herself not only above the law but above other Americans, who she conducts to conduct that she herself does not respect.
Worse, Pelosi, instead of working for the country and defending those same small entrepreneurs, like hairdressers, has been doing everything in recent months to block the economy support programs launched by the President, McEnany accused, giving several examples.
Pelosi’s conduct in his visit to the hairdresser has been the subject of perplexing analysis by many American commentators.
“Pelosi knows that the Trump campaign will not give him the benefit of the doubt. Never. And that they are always on the lookout for evidence that liberal leaders [do Partido Democrata] really have two weights: one for them and one for everyone else “, wrote CNN analyst Chris Cilliza, in a titled article Nancy Pelosi gave Trump a campaign gift.
“With all this, it is hard to imagine the reasons that led her to make such a mistake“wrote Cillizza.
Nancy Pelosi, as Donald Trump has already pointed out, is the country’s third figure. If the November elections do not produce a clear winner and if there is an impasse due to the need for possible recounts and charges of fraud, due, for example, to complications with the postal vote, it will be she, as President of the House of Representatives, to assume the Presidency of the United States.
Trump has already asked Americans if this is what they want. And the case of the hairdresser, or Pelosigate, as it is already called, could become one of its greatest assets, if Nancy does not prefer to resign.
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