Rep. Pramila Jayapal Defends SOTU Absence, Calls Trump’s Speech ‘Lies’
With that line, Rep. Pramila Jayapal is defending her decision to skip Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, calling his speech “nearly two hours of lies.” For her, not attending was a form of protest and accountability a way to say that respecting the rule of law and the Constitution matters more than showing up for the optics of unity.
