Revealed: Nancy Pelosi was emptying her dishwasher when she called to ask Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment against Trump

Vice President Mike Pence snubbed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi erstwhile she called him aft January 6 to talk astir invoking nan 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump. 

Pelosi wrote astir nan acquisition successful her forthcoming memoir, The Art of Power: My Story arsenic America's First Woman Speaker of nan House, which will beryllium released Tuesday.

She recalled really aft nan January 6 Capitol attack, 'the Democratic activity discussed asking nan vice president to invoke nan 25th Amendment to nan Constitution, which allows for nan vice president and a mostly of Cabinet members to certify that a president is incapable to discharge nan duties of nan office.' 

She and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer 'placed a telephone to Vice President Pence astir this possibility,' Pelosi's book reveals, according to nan Guardian. 

'The vice president's agency kept america connected clasp for 20 minutes,' Pelosi wrote, adding that she was 'thankfully' astatine location 'so I could quiet nan dishwasher and put successful a load of laundry.'

'Ultimately, Vice President Pence ne'er sewage connected nan telephone pinch america aliases returned our call,' she said. 

Throughout nan book, Pelosi pushes that Trump is mentally unwell.

She said that by January 6, 'I knew Donald Trump's intelligence imbalance.'

'I had seen it up close,' Pelosi continued. 'His denial and past delays erstwhile nan COVID pandemic struck, his penchant for many times stomping retired of meetings, his foul mouth, his pounding connected tables, his temper tantrums, his disrespect for our nation's patriots, and his full separation from reality and existent events.'

'His repeated, ridiculous insistence that he was nan top of each time,' nan House Speaker added. 

Pelosi reveals she would get calls from Trump, often precocious astatine night. 

In 1 specified call, Trump blamed erstwhile President Barack Obama for nan rocket strikes successful Syria that he had conscionable ordered. 

Eventually Pelosi told nan president it was clip to spell to bed. 

'It's midnight. I deliberation you should spell to sleep,' Pelosi said. 

She besides recalled being told astatine a 2019 memorial service for a salient psychiatrist by 'doctors and different intelligence wellness professionals' that they were 'deeply concerned that location was thing earnestly wrong' pinch Trump. 

'And that his intelligence and psychological wellness was successful decline,' Pelosi recalled.