Rep. Nancy Pelosi (R-CA) scoffed at the idea that she set an impeachment precedent.

Back in 2019, while acting as Speaker of the House, Pelosi announced then-President Donald Trump‘s first impeachment inquiry before calling for a vote. On Tuesday, Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) followed suit and announced an inquiry against President Joe Biden before a vote. At the time, McCarthy cited what he called Pelosi’s “precedent” as the reason he did so.

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“I say that that’s hogwash. I mean, it’s ridiculous. And I don’t know why the press keeps repeating it,” Pelosi said during a televised interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “The fact is, we said we were going to — I assigned my committee chairs, six of them, to develop the facts, because you have to act upon the facts. That’s a strange thing to say maybe around here, but you have to act upon the facts.”

At the time, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, was hand-picked by Pelosi to run it, thus passing over Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which was the normal path for impeachments.

Pelosi advised that an impeachment inquiry be handled “with care and not on impulse.” She claimed she had the case against Trump ready when she made her 2019 announcement. According to Pelosi, the House Republicans are launching this latest inquiry “on the basis of nothing.”

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“Don’t blame it on me,” Pelosi said. “Just take responsibility for what you were doing there, and don’t misrepresent the care that we took, the respect that we had for the institution to go forward in a way that really addressed the high crimes and misdemeanors of Donald Trump.”

The impeachment inquiry that McCarthy launched will examine Biden’s business dealings with his son Hunter Biden and other Biden family members.