Nancy Pelosi Mocked for Erroneous Tweet Saying Trump Must Prove His Innocence at Trial

The former House speaker is being compared to the Queen of Hearts in ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,’ who famously said ‘sentence first, verdict afterwards.’

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Sir John Tenniel's illustration of 'The Queen's Croquet-Ground' in ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,’ detail. Via Wikimedia Commons

A former Democratic speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, turned the presumption of innocence on its head in a recent tweet about President Trump. She is now earning a rebuke from Twitter and providing a warning about letting passions rule rather than the law.

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