"Because Speaker Pelosi’s copy is not a government record, she did not violate the law by ripping it up," said Professor Douglas Cox.
WASHINGTON – Departing the White House Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump asserted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi"broke the law" in tearing up her copy of his State of Union address after he concluded his remarks Tuesday.
BREAKING: I'm filing an ethics complaint against @SpeakerPelosi for destroying @realDonaldTrump's State of the Union speech.Nobody is above the law. She must be held accountable. pic.twitter.com/dXPPWQNtI8If Trump broke this law the Democrats would try to impeach him... https://t.co/X5PQNDN7usThe law both Gaetz and Donald Trump Jr.
They do not apply to "printouts or widely circulated documents" like copies of the State of the Union, she said. More: Nancy Pelosi says tearing up Trump speech 'entirely appropriate,' says president seemed 'sedated' at SOTU "Because Speaker Pelosi’s copy is not a government record, she did not violate the law by ripping it up," he said. Kel McClanahan, an attorney specializing in national security law and information and privacy law and the executive director of public interest law firm National Security Counselors, told USA TODAY the idea that the law was broken"needs to die."
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