Nancy Pelosi went off like a bottle rocket and pounded on the podium during her weekly press conference on Thursday when reporter CNN reporter Manu Raju suggested that her childish tantrum of tearing up her copy of Trump’s SOTU speech backfired on her. She told him, “I don’t need a lesson from anybody!” No one in their right mind would think this petulant act by Pelosi would be a good thing.
True, the Democrats gave her a standing ovation, but I did say anyone in their right mind. Her antics were so egregius that even liberal constitutional law professor, Jonathan Turley of george washington University suggested that she resign over her behavior and he is certainly no fan of the president, with whom he disagrees with 98% of the time.
Pelosi tried to say that tearing up the speech was purely spontaneous but a video has emerged that showed her pre-tearing the speech twenty minutes before she actually did it to make sure she would have no trouble when the time came and the cameras were on her.
Video confirms Nancy Pelosi ripping up the #SOTU speech was PREMEDITATED:
9:49 PM: Pelosi makes small tears to the paper after POTUS mentions "new cures for childhood cancer" and eradicating AIDS.
10:24 PM: Pelosi holds up the already torn paper and finishes ripping it in half. pic.twitter.com/IR2y9CeYVo
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) February 5, 2020
Pelosi slammed her hand on the lectern several times as she yelled, “I don’t need a lesson from anybody!”
“Did you step on that message [taking the high ground] by tearing up the State of the Union?” Manu Raju asked.
“No I did not! No I did not!” Pelosi responded.
“I tore up a manifesto of mistruths. It’s very hard for us to get you to talk about the issues that we are working on,” Pelosi said slamming her hand on the lectern.
“It was necessary to get the attention of the American people, to say this is not true…And I don’t need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the United States, about dignity.”