Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Nancy Pelosi 'Blowed Out Of Her Mind,' Clip Was Digitally Slowed Down To Make Speaker Appear Drunk

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  • by: Alan Duke
Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Nancy Pelosi 'Blowed Out Of Her Mind,' Clip Was Digitally Slowed Down To Make Speaker Appear Drunk Slowed Down

Does video show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "blowed out of her mind" at a news conference? No, that's not true: The short video clip from a May 20, 2020, Capitol Hill news conference was digitally slowed down to make it appear as if Pelosi was intoxicated. The original video revealed she was speaking and acting normally.

The claim originated in a post published on August 1, 2020 by a Facebook user named "Will Allen (archived here) with following text introduction:

This is unbelievable, she is blowed out of her mind, I bet this gets took down!

This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:

Facebook screenshot

In case this video is taken down (which we expect will happen quickly,) we've saved this screenshot: