Pelosi Defends Ripping Trump’s Speech: ‘You Have to Get Attention’

Pelosi Defends Ripping Trump’s Speech: ‘You Have to Get Attention’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rips up the speech of President Donald Trump after his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 4, 2020. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she ripped President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this month to get the media’s attention because “we have very little press” on a number of issues that she feels are important to Americans.

“I had no intention of doing that when we went into the State of the Union,“ she said during a Saturday interview. But when she read the speech, she ”made a nitch on a couple of pages, thinking I ought to remember what’s on this page, on this page,” Pelosi remarked.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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