Morning Mix Rep. Matt Gaetz demands criminal probe of Pelosi for mutilating Trump speech. 'This is c
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Morning Mix
Rep. Matt Gaetz demands criminal probe of Pelosi for mutilating Trump speech. This is cute, responds Laura Ingraham.
It fell to a Fox News host on Wednesday to inform an excited Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) that no, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) cant be prosecuted and sent to prison or fined for ripping up a copy of President Trumps State of the Union address.
This, after Gaetz called for a House Ethics Committee investigation of Pelosi and a referral of her action to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation. Gaetz cited a law that makes it a crime for anyone having custody of certain federal records to mutilate, obliterate or destroy them.
There is no question that Speaker Pelosi mutilated, obliterated, or destroyed the copy of the Presidents address provided to her, said a letter to the House Ethics Committee signed by Gaetz, a staunch and sometimes boisterous defender of Trump.
The video evidence is clear and abundant, and the Speaker herself told reporters that she tore up the document, the letter said. Nobody is above the law, Gaetz declared in a tweet accompanying the letter.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/06/gaetz-complaint-pelosi-speech/?itid=hp_hp-morning-mix-for-right-rail_mm-gaetz%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
TEB
(12,842 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Matt does not come up to that level.
TEB
(12,842 posts)I love your posts...so you are so easily forgiven cuz I do love what you say!
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)What does he not understand?
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)PatrickforO
(14,574 posts)He, Louis Gohmert and several others are really far too hate-filled and stupid to represent any Americans.
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)From top to bottom.
marble falls
(57,083 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,170 posts)He is equating the poorly worded and rambling speech with the bible or quoran, as if it is sacred.
Off with their heads, how dare you deface a piece of paper with the king's words. To the dungeons for daring to disapprove of the sacred words of king Trump. All Bow Down to him, his Slovenian sex worker and the daughter he has sex in common with. You will kowtow, like the Senate.
Ferretherder
(1,446 posts)... says the guy who just help place the orange baboon whom he regularly fellates PERMANENTLY above the law!
...jesus christ on the cover of the Rolling Stone, these guys are trying their damndest to redefine hypocrisy!!
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)dchill
(38,492 posts)hay rick
(7,612 posts)iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)dalton99a
(81,486 posts)Fucking moron
geralmar
(2,138 posts)Dictate that the Speaker of the House send a written invitation to the President to deliver the address in the House Chamber before the two Houses of Congress, justices of the Supreme Court, and members of the President's cabinet and diplomatic corps. In deliberately and publicly snubbing the House Speaker, the president was, literally, a rude House guest-- and the public rebuke by the House Speaker was entirely justified.
I trust the Speaker's torn up copy of the address has been delivered to the National Archives.
Holy sh*t, Pelosi's sharp! Instead of trump's childish snub and dumb ass speech, everyone's talking about the House Speaker.
Chemisse
(30,811 posts)It's just delicious.
RAB910
(3,501 posts)gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,446 posts)charged too?
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)How else can you explain this nonsense.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)And this clown has the nerve to invoke destruction of records for tearing up a paper *copy* of a speech?
We're truly through the motherfucking looking glass.
kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)TlalocW
(15,382 posts)That every representative and senator must keep physical copies of everyone's speeches (if handed out)? I'm sure that whatever record-keeping body that handles this kind of stuff has handled it. Nancy should demand that he prove he's kept all of Obama's SOTU speeches.
TlalocW
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Call his bluff. Pelosi should let him do it... with him in charge.
And maybe nothing but republicans in his posse?
How many would really want their name on it?
CRK7376
(2,199 posts)be sooooo Proud of their village IDIOT!!! tearing up a copy of a speech vs witholding aid to an ally ....Florida has Gaetz...we in NC have Mark Meadows....the horror!!!!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,632 posts)Dupe. See the earlier post here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142429476