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Trump Accuses House Leader of 'Very Illegal' Act

Steve Herman

   WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump says the highest-ranking
   member of the country's legislative branch, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
   "broke the law" when she shredded a copy of the State of the Union
   speech he delivered to Congress.

   The president told reporters Friday that Pelosi's act, which was caught
   on camera just after Trump completed his address late Tuesday, was
   "disrespectful to our country, and actually very illegal."

   A Florida congressman of Trump's Republican party, Matt Gaetz, has
   filed an ethics complaint against Pelosi, accusing her of potentially
   violating federal law (18 U.S. Code §'¯2071).

   The regulation prohibits the destruction of government records, but it
   only applies to documents that have been "filed or deposited with any
   clerk or officer of any court of the United States."

   'Brilliant' or 'tasteless'

   "That's really a law about preserving official documents, such as the
   official copy that would make it to the National Archives," said Ajay
   Mehrotra, executive director and research professor at the American Bar
   Foundation "I don't think what Pelosi had was an official document."
   

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