House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Feb. 6 provided a detailed rationale for why she tore up a copy of President Donald Trump’s prepared State of the Union remarks, alleging that the president lied to the American people on a number of major topics.
“It was, in my view, a manifesto of mistruths, of falsehoods, blatantly, really dangerous to the well-being of the American people if they believed in what he said,” Pelosi told reporters during her weekly press conference. “So again, we do not want the chamber of the House of Representatives to be used as a backdrop of his reality shows with unreality in his presentation.”
