Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was wearing “very high” heels when she broke her hip. Terrible fall on marble stairs At a World War II battle site in Luxembourg last Friday – then moved by pain to pose for a group photo.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who helped Pelosi to her feet after a fall at the Grand Ducal Palace, described Tuesday how the 84-year-old Democrat became injured during the bipartisan visit.
“I was right next to him. She likes to wear high heels – very high. She was on one of her last steps on this marble staircase that had no railing and she slipped and fell to the ground.” 62-year-old McCall told reporters,
“I immediately helped her up. And we took a picture of it. You can see me holding his hand and soon after that, a vehicle came and took him to the hospital.
Eagle-eyed observers had previously noted Pelosi’s firm grip on McCaul’s hand in a photo of the delegation on the stairs at the palace.
Pelosi was part of a bipartisan delegation to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in the small Western European country nestled between France, Germany and Belgium.
In the image, she had her left hand on her hip and some speculated that she seemed to be hiding discomfort.
After that photo was taken, Pelosi was flown from Luxembourg to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, which is near U.S. Ramstein Air Base in Germany, McCaul confirmed.
Pelosi has since Had hip replacement surgeryAccording to his spokesperson.
“She is 84 years old, but when I spoke to her on the phone, she had a lot of energy. Very courageous. She wants to get out of there, she wants to go back home to the United States,” McCall said. “Overall, he is in good spirits.”
The Post contacted Pelosi’s spokesperson for confirmation that she posed for the photo after suffering a broken hip.
Due to term limits, McCaul is set to hand over his chairmanship of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), who will take over in the next Congress, which will be sworn in next month.
Pelosi is in her 19th term in the House of Representatives. Despite handing over the leadership reins to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries two years ago, he still wields pronounced influence within the party.
The San Francisco Democrat is widely speculated to have played a key role in boosting the pressure campaign against President Biden to drop out of the 2024 race. After the rebellion the two remained without speaking for several months.
More recently, Pelosi reportedly rebuked members against the bid of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to serve as the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, instead nominating Representative Gerry for that role. Connolly (D-Va.).
Pelosi is the fifth oldest member of the lower house. Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.) is the oldest, at 88.
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