![]() Pelosi responded with her own bit of theater in turn. The president gave Pelosi a copy of his address as a memento of sorts. He didn’t file this copy with any official-clerk or otherwise-whose job it is to make sure such documents are collected, recorded and physically and legally protected. Trump handed Pelosi a copy of the speech. That’s because the document itself is not covered by the statute at all. Pay attention to the italics and it’s easy enough to understand why Pelosi’s personal shredding gesture would not rise to the behavior prohibited by the statute-and why people like Higbie and Kirk intentionally omitted the language. Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. Let’s take a look at the actual statute here. If Trump broke this law the Democrats would try to impeach him… The echo chamber primed and ready for its daily deluge of venom, other luminaries, pundits and presidential children chimed in-sticking to the script. “ FYI destroyed an official government document,” he tweeted-citing an extremely misleading and edited snippet of the language from the law in question. He is, of course, totally wrong-but Kirk wasn’t alone in feigning outrage coupled with misinformation by citing the statute in question.įormer failed GOP congressional candidate and current commentator Carl Higbiealso reached for the fainting pearls. Kirk also mused about Pelosi’s alleged “violation” being “punishable by up to three years in prison.” § 2071, Section 2071 (a) when she ripped up President Trump’s State of the Union address.” “Nancy Pelosi may have just committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. “US Code prohibits the destruction of government records,” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk tweeted. Right-wing critics of the San Francisco liberal icon were quick to trot out their own performative outrage by lying about the application of the law. gif of performative outrage for the #Resistance by ripping up a copy of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening after he rejected her “handshake of friendship.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) produced a great. ![]()
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