Hanging Out with Nancy Pelosi in Havana, Cuba

February 7, 2020 at 8:23am

Hanging out with Nancy Pelosi in Havana, Cuba (March 2016).

I haven't spoken to her since she disgracefully and childishly tore her copy of President Trump's constitutionally-mandated State of the Union address. But if we speak again, I will tell her what a disgusting person she is.

A few people have asked me if Pelosi's destruction of Trump's written address was illegal.

As I read it, 18 USC § 2071 would be applicable only if the copy President Trump handed her was the official copy the Constitution requires the President to deliver to the House. If it was, she's guilty of a crime. But if the official copy was delivered to the House by some other means (and I have no idea how the official document is transmitted), then she is innocent.

Regardless of whether she violated any criminal statutes, it was definitely a violation of the first two clauses of House Rule XXIII, which dictates the House’s official code of conduct. But the penalty for violating those rules is imposed by the House itself, which is controlled by Democrats, so she will suffer no consequences.

That she did it is disrespectful to the Constitution. That so many Democrats have applauded it is disgraceful but not surprising.

Today's Democrats are dangerous enemies of our Republic.