WASHINGTON (VINnews) — House Judiciary Committee member Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said Wednesday that he plans to file ethics charges against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., over what he described as her “temper tantrum” following President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.
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Speaking to Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle, he added that 2 other Republicans will be joining him in filing the charges, namely Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York and Rep. Kay Granger of Texas.
“[Pelosi] 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 said, according to Fox News.
Gaetz said that he is far from the only Republican who’s had enough of the political double standards in Washington. To illustrate, Gaetz brought up Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, who was reprimanded in 2009 after yelling “You lie!” at then-President Obama when he claimed illegal immigrants would not be covered by ObamaCare.
“The Democrats really brought the heat down on him,” Gaetz said, adding: “By the way, Joe Wilson was right. We ought to apply the same standards to the Democrats that they want to apply to us and there will be an ethics investigation to Nancy Pelosi and we will start the ball rolling to have her censured.”
“From the inside out, Nancy Pelosi has been a poison,” added Zeldin, who appeared with Gaetz on the show.
“She is now poisoning the House of Representatives and Congress and our country because they start off with her getting rolled by her far left, which is basically taken over the Democratic Party.”
Gaetz concluded by addressing when he described as Pelosi’s “real impulse control problems,” a reference to Pelosi’s tearing up of Trump’s speech immediately after its conclusion at the SOTU on Tuesday.
The White House had reacted soon after Pelosi’s outburst, tweeting “Speaker Pelosi just ripped up: One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The survival of a child born at 21 weeks. The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller. A service member’s reunion with his family. That’s her legacy.”
Speaker Pelosi just ripped up:
One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.
The survival of a child born at 21 weeks.
The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller.
A service member's reunion with his family.
That's her legacy.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 5, 2020
PALOSI YOU ARE DISGRACE I WISH THEY FIRE YOU AND ALL YOUR SQAUD , GET OVER IT YOU LOST AND WALK WAY , WHATS WITH ALL THE HATRED, LIES AND DECEPTION HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
A bittereh gelechter !
SHOCKINGLY DISGRACEFUL. IMPEACH HER.
Another melting Trumpublican snowflake.
I remember when the GOP had real mean like John McCain in the senate.
I even remember when Lindsey Graham was a man.
I’m a little surprised that Pelosi would act so unprofessionally. She’s actually one of the more level-headed members of the Democratic Party. Maybe she’s afraid that the millennials backing morons like AOC and her ilk are going to get wise and try to get a younger, more radical member into Pelosi’s position. After all, she’s in her 70s and white, two things the left hates now.
This was not a “temper tantrum” or have “real impulse control problems,” this was cold and calculated. She had planned to do this, even pre-tearing the papers and to make sure she’d make the biggest impact being seen on camera. What was she even doing behind Trunp anyway? You could also see her muttering to herself throughout. She certainly is not impartial in this, it did not look like she was even of sound mind. The senile prejudiced lady should be removed from office and placed in a home.
there is no Democratic Party anymore !!!
There are 2 major Parties in America = 1) REPUBLICAN and 2) Socialist/Communist
American citizens need to VOTE REPUBLICAN ALL THE WAY even if they’re DemocRATS.
What Pelosi did is super disgraceful and disrespectful.
Yes voters need to vote republican all the way. Pelosi acted like a child who did not get her way.
She is suppose to be representing republicans and democrats as the house speaker. poor Nancy.
Rep. Clyburn of South Carolina had Rep. Joe Wilson reprimanded for shouting out “you lie” to Obama, in 2009, when Obama addressed a joint session of Congress. Yet, in addition to Pelosi tearing up the speech (not once, but four times), there were several instances of Democrats booing the President, as well as someone from the Democratic side, screaming out at Trump, when he mentioned support for the 2nd Amendment. Even Nancy Pelosi mentioned for the loudmouth to be quiet. I’m wondering if Pelosi and Clyburn are going to apply the same standard to that character, as was applied to Joe Wilson? I think not!