New Zealand MMP Electoral System Faces Fresh Referendum Debate 
Joe Biden’s Prostate Cancer Has Spread Further, Hunter Biden Says 
Senate Majority Leader John Thune Moves to Advance Crypto Clarity Act 
US Continues Ukraine Patriot Missile Production Talks Despite Trump Doubts 
Russia Intensifies Drone and Bomb Attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia, Deepening Civilian Fear 
U.S. Unseals Charges Against Five Alleged CJNG Leaders, Raises Reward for New Cartel Chief 
US Expects Iran-Oman Hormuz Shipping Deal Soon 
Taiwan President Lai Oversees Coastal Strike Drills in Han Kuang War Games 
Mark Carney Jokes About Teleprompter, Takes Swipe at Trump 
Trump Administration Weighs Executive Order on Vaccines and Autism Research 
Rubio, UK’s Miliband Stress Stronger European Security Role in Washington Talks 
Trump Unveils $3 Billion U.S. Critical Minerals Push 
US Expands Social Media Vetting to Foreign Journalists Seeking Visas 
Trump Faces Tough Choices as Iran War Drags On 
Zelensky Urges Faster NATO Action on Air Defense Missiles 
Russian Strikes Kill Six in Eastern and Northern Ukraine, Dozens Injured 
During now-former President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech in 2020, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ripping up of Trump’s speech was one of the memorable moments. According to the author of “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,” Pelosi actually felt “liberated.”
In the upcoming book by USA Today journalist Susan Page, Pelosi’s tearing of Trump’s State of the Union address was “liberating” for the House Speaker. Page went on to reveal that the move was actually unplanned as Pelosi could not find a pen. The House Speaker’s tearing of the speech was another indication of the bitter relationship she had with the now-former president.
“She felt ‘liberated’... He was shredding the truth, she said, so she would shred his speech,” wrote Page. At the time of the speech, the House impeached Trump for what would ultimately be the first of two impeachments. Trump was impeached again in January following his incitement of the January 6 riots at the Capitol.
Page wrote that Pelosi received a copy of Trump’s upcoming speech in February 2020, which traditionally occurs, and the House Speaker began to scan through Trump’s remarks at the time. When Pelosi found a line in Trump’s address that she knew was a lie, she would mark the place in the text. However, where Pelosi was sitting in the House chamber, she could not find a pen.
“So she made a tiny tear in the margin of the paper so that she could find this untruth. Then she found another thing she thought was untrue, and another, and another. She said by the time he was through speaking, the whole speech had little tears along the margins of things he had said that she thought were false. That’s when she decided, ‘I might as well tear this up,’” Page told CNN.
Previously, not long after Pelosi invited Joe Biden to make his first address to Congress that will take place next week, House Republicans have urged Pelosi to reschedule. In a letter to the House Speaker, a group of House Republicans urged Pelosi to reschedule the address at a time when the House is in session. They added that instead of select members of Congress being present, everyone should be in attendance.
