Pelosi claims she 'fell for a SET UP' when she was caught getting a wash and blow dry in defiance of COVID lockdown rules and demands an APOLOGY from the salon after Trump mocked her

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she fell for a 'set up'  by the salon where she was caught on camera having her hair done without wearing a face mask and added the salon owes her an apology.

Pelosi held a press conference in San Francisco to address her controversial visit after a report from Fox News revealed had visited the eSalon in her district on Monday for a wash and blow-out.

She was seen on the salon's security footage walking around without a mask, an image that went viral on social media and resulted in her getting mocked by many people, including President Donald Trump.

'I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighborhood salon I've been to over the years many times, and when they said we're able to accommodate people, one person at a time, and that we can set up that time, I trusted that. As it turns out, it was a setup,' she said. 

'It was a set up, and I take responsibility for falling for a setup,' she added.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she fell for a 'set up' by the salon where she had her hair done and that it owes her an apology

Speaker Pelosi said 'there's more' to the situation and it 'was clearly a set up'

The eSalon in San Francisco where the speaker had her hair washed and blown dry

She then turned to blast the eSalon owners, saying they owe her an apology. And, she threatened, there could be more to the situation than the camera revealed.

''There's more to this that I'm not going to ask to the motivation for a salon to say to me, 'Yes, come in' and then they go for me. It was clearly a set up,' she said. 

'I think that this salon owes me an apology, for setting me up,' she added. 

And she said she wasn't wearing a face mask because she just had her hair washed, asking the reporters questioning her if they wore a face mask when washing their hair.

'I just had my hair washed. I don't wear a mask when I'm washing my hair. Do you wear a mask when you're washing your hair? I always wear a mask,' she said. 'And that picture is when I just came out of the bowl.' 

President Trump mocked her on Wednesday morning  for getting caught mask-less at the beauty salon, flaunting San Francisco COVID-19 rules.  

'The Beauty Parlor owner must really dislike Crazy Nancy Pelosi. Turning her in, on tape, is a really big deal,' Trump tweeted. 'She probably treats him like she treats everyone else...And she strongly supported a Kennedy who just lost in, of all places, Massachusetts!' 

In another tweet on the topic, Trump boasted 'we will almost certainly take back the House.'  

Fox News reported her visit and included footage from a camera inside the hair salon.

President Donald Trump mocked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Tuesday morning for getting caught mask-less and inside a San Francisco beauty salon, flaunting the city's COVID-19 rules

 

Fox News broke the story Tuesday that the House speaker had infuriated a salon owner for getting her hair done inside by one of the stylists who's an independent contractor 

San Francisco beauty parlors weren't supposed to open until September 1, the next day, and services were to be done outside only. 

Pelosi's Deputy Chief of Staff Drew Hammill said in a statement Tuesday that 'the speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements.' 

He added that the speaker followed the rules as they were presented to her by the stylist.

'This business offered for the speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business,' Hammill told Fox News. 'The speaker complies with the rules as presented to her by this establishment.'    

Salon owner Erica Kious called Pelosi's visit a 'slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feel that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can't work.' 

Kious also explained what happened. 

The owner rents out chairs to different stylists and one of the stylists took on Pelosi as a client when the House speaker's normal stylist was unavailable. 

The stylist reached out to Kious Sunday night.  

'I was like, are you kidding me right now? Do I let this happen? What do I do? Kious told Fox News, adding that she 'can't control' what her individual stylists do.    

'We have been shut down for so long, not just me, but most of the small businesses and I just can't - it's a feeling - a feeling of being deflated, helpless and honestly beaten down,' the salon owner said. 'I have been fighting for six months for a business that took me 12 years to build to reopen. I am a single mom, I have two small children and I have no income.'   

 'The fact that they did this, and she came in, it's like a slap in the face,' Kious added.          

Trump's shaming of Pelosi comes less than a week after he hosted 1,500 supporters on the White House lawn and didn't require them to wear masks. Attendees' chairs were also not spread six feet apart as they watched Trump deliver his Republican National Convention address.  

And while Trump's campaign has urged mask-wearing at his rallies, in New Hampshire on Friday an audience of supporters booed when they were told to put on their masks.