(AP) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she feels “very liberated” by ripping up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech on live television, behind his back.

It’s the latest example of the California Democrat unburdening herself as she steers the House out of the shadow of impeachment, through regular legislative business and toward Election Day in November.

On Wednesday as Republicans condemned her conduct and called her unfit to serve, Pelosi was unapologetic. “I felt very liberated last night,” she told Democrats in a private meeting, adding, “I tried to find one page I could spare that didn’t have a lie on it.”