CAPITOL VOICES_ Ripping Trump's Speech Was More Than Distasteful of Pelosi — It Was Criminal

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Ripping Trump's Speech Was More Than Distasteful of Pelosi — It Was Criminal

Congressman Matt Gaetz | Posted: Feb 07, 2020 4:22 PM




Source: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky



Temper tantrums are rude, obnoxious, and cringe-inducing, but rarely felonious.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s tantrum was.

In tearing up the President’s hand-delivered State of the Union address, the Speaker did more than show her utter derision for America — she broke the law.

A section of federal law (18 U.S.C. §2071) covers the destruction of government documents. This statute states:


(a) 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.

(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.



Several pundits — sensing the severity of Speaker Pelosi’s mistake — have suddenly taken a keen interest in 18 U.S.C. §2071. They argue that Pelosi’s copy of the State of the Union address was not “government property,” or a “government record.” Instead, they claim the document was simply a copy of a speech, and thus Pelosi’s personal property, to be disposed of in any way she wished.

These defenses fail to recognize the importance of the specific document Pelosi destroyed.

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