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- US President Donald Trump has criticized Nancy Pelosi for going to a hair appointment without a mask.
- Pelosi said the salon had misled her.
- The salon owner said a stylist made a special adjustment for Pelosi.
US President Donald Trump criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday after she was caught on camera visiting a San Francisco hair salon in violation of coronavirus lockdown rules – and without the mask.
The Democrat, a black beast to Trump and his supporters, regularly harasses the Republican billionaire for his handling of the pandemic, which has killed more than 180,000 people in the United States.
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In June, he focused his procrastination instead of endorsing the use of face masks, widely seen as one of the most effective ways to control infection rates.
“Real men wear masks,” he said. Trump was not seen wearing one publicly until July.
Surveillance footage shows Pelosi walking from room to room inside the hair salon on Monday without the mask.
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Such treatments are still banned indoors in San Francisco as part of restrictions intended to contain the spread of the virus.
“Crazy Nancy Pelosi is being decimated for having a salon open, when everyone else is closed, and for not wearing a mask, despite constantly lecturing everyone else,” the president tweeted, using one of her nicknames. favorite mockers.
Pelosi suggested, however, that the salon had misled her by claiming that they were allowed to accommodate one customer at a time and she refused to apologize.
“I take responsibility to trust the word of a neighborhood salon that I have been to many times over the years,” Pelosi told reporters.
“It turns out it was a trap. So I take responsibility for falling into a trap.”
Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, said he “always wears a mask and meets local Covid requirements.”
“This business offered the Spokesperson to come on Monday and told her that the city allowed them to have one client at a time in the business. The Spokesperson complied with the rules presented to her by this establishment,” he said.
Salon owner Erica Kious told Fox News that one of the stylists who rented a chair at the store had opened it especially for Pelosi’s date.
“It was a slap in the face that he walked in, you know, that he feels like he can go and do his thing while no one else can come in, and I can’t work,” Kious said.
“We’ve been closed for so long, not just me, but most small businesses and I just can’t, it’s a feeling … of being deflated, helpless and honestly defeated.”
Kious added that he had been “fighting for six months” to reopen a business that had taken him 12 years to build.
“I’m a single mother, I have two small children and I have no income. We are supposed to look up to this woman, right? It’s just unsettling.”
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