Rep. Matt Gaetz said he will be working to get an investigation going into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because she tore up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address.
“I will be filing charges against Nancy Pelosi in the House Ethics Committee,” the Florida Republican told Laura Ingraham on Fox News. “She disgraced the House of Representatives, she embarrassed our country, and she destroyed official records.”
“The law does not allow the speaker of the House to destroy the records of the House, and the rules of the House do not permit some little temper tantrum just because you don’t like what the president of the United States says,” he added, noting that he would be working with Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York to penalize the speaker.
Gaetz said Republicans are “sick of the double standard” and pointed out Democratic anger when Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted, “You lie!” to President Barack Obama during a speech to a joint session of Congress.
“We ought to apply the same standards to the Democrats that they want to apply to us, and there will be an ethics investigation of Nancy Pelosi, and we will start the ball rolling to have her censured, and the first act begins tomorrow,” he said.
Despite his claim that Pelosi’s act represented destruction of official documents, Ingraham pointed out that Republicans don’t have a majority in the House and that it is not an official record because it was simply a copy of Trump’s speech.
GOP Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, the congressman who represents Kayla Mueller’s parents, said Wednesday he plans to introduce a resolution censuring Pelosi for the stunt.
“In a new low, she violated the Code of Official Conduct requiring members ‘behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House,’” Gosar said.
