The Alex Padilla altercation was captured on video but still seen through a political lens
One day after the forced restriction and handcuffs of Federal Agents at a Los Angeles news conference, the leaders of the country’s two political parties responded in a predictable manner – they take over the opposite event.
The resignation of Padilla’s democrats, the investigation and perhaps the enemy of the Senator, the resignation of the Internal Security Secretary NOEM, wanted to ask questions about only one public official because they described it as an unprecedented fibers.
NOEM and the Republicans continued to portray Padilla as a grandchild, and at the Noem’s news conference, the unexpected appearance of the news conference was similar to security detail to represent a threat while trying to talk to journalists in the Federal building in Westwood.
The Republicans continued to continue Padilla on Friday using words such as “launch”.moveAt the news conference of Thursday, while trying to ask Noem questions, to describe Padilla’s behavior “and“ Bum Rush ”.
The Trump Management Officer is only a few minutes left for him Meeting with journalists When Padilla moved by the room ambitiously, he passed the photographer once as he moved directly to Noem. He didn’t flow to Noem and he still walked away from him when he caught the senator.
Padilla and his staff said that the senior deputy passed from security and that a FBI employee was accompanied by the room where the press conference was held and offered a threat.
Padilla, the secretary, claimed that the homeland security agents came to La to save the city from socialists and to save the head of the governor and the mayor’s burdensed leadership to this country ”.
The former South Dakota governor would have a reason to recognize Padilla because he questioned him during the Senate approval hearing. The internal security department spokesman did not answer the question of whether NOEM recognized Padilla when he arrived at a press conference.
As the country became a norm in the political discourse of the country, the Republicans and the Democrats spoke as if they were observing two completely separate events before they confronted on Friday.
Senator I Ray Lujan (DN.M.) said Noem should “resign”: “This is ridiculous. And he continues to lie about this event. This is wrong.”
Lujan called on Republican colleagues to support the democrats to ask for a “complete investigation ..
“This is bad. This precedent determination,” he said to MSNBC. “And I hope definitely, the leadership of the Senate, my republican leaders, my friends, just looked into it. Pray. I told you a few last night. Pray for it and do the right thing.”
Congress Hispanic Caucus members went to Mike Johnson’s office to protest Padilla’s treatment.
Senator Cory Booker (DN.J.) spoke on X and the Senate Floor. The department “a pattern of behavior by the Trump administration.
Representative Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) went to X to repeat a call for an investigation and to say that the Republican leadership was a criminal partner in providing growing authoritarianism in this country ”.
Open to the public, only a Republican deputy heard a distress note about the department.
“He saw a clip. Terrible,” he said. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). “Shocking at every level. Not America I know.”
However, most Republican remained silent or accused Padilla of being a provocateur.
“The actions of the senator, my opinion, was crazy,” he said. “You don’t charge the seating cabinet secretary.”
Johnson added that he was a sultan who had to face some sanctions. “At least … [it] It rises to a censorship level. … I think it needs to be a message sent by the body as a whole, which is not what we do, we will act in this way. “
Representative Tom McClintock, (R-Elk Grove) Zinged Padilla on Xwith some “useful tips”. “1. Do not break the press conferences of others. Keep it yourself. 2. Do not break a podium without visible identity. … 3. Do not resist or attack the secret service. It will not end well.”
Representative Jay Obernolte (R-Big Bear Lake) tried to strengthen the idea that agents protecting NOEM, who had no way to know that Padilla was the person he said, felt a real threat.
Congressman He said in Fox business Padilla had achieved the result they wanted. Now there is a speech point. ”
None of the officials in the room, many of them recognizing Padilla, the senator, before handcuffing him, the senator, face -to -face, pushed the ground to intervene to prevent the action of the agents.
Noem did not withdraw his previous statement about Padilla’s “exploding” in the room.
“Senator Padilla Padilla has chosen a respected political theater and cut a live press conference while he was flocked to Secretary Noem,” Senator Padilla Padilla Padilla Padilla Padilla Padilla Padilla has chosen a disrespectful political theater. ” He said.
McLawhlin also told Padilla to “withdraw back and repeatedly and did not comply with the repeated commands of the civil servants, but the video, which was open to the public on Friday, did not show such warnings before Padilla’s first statement.
Senator staff, Senator Tim Shehy (R-Mont.), Including several Republican colleagues, said he received special concern messages.
Padilla “Pod Save America” told Tommy Vietor from Podcast Trump’s aggressive migration pressure is the attempt to distract many other failures – with the economy, constant instability with the economy, lack of peace in Ukraine and Gaza, and a non -popular federal budget plan with many Americans.
“He always finds a distraction of attention, Pad Padilla said,“ And when everything fails, he returns to the demons of immigrants and to the scapegoat.
Padilla, Trump administration forces working in a public building in a public building, a US senator “struggle” is allowed, Americans should be concerned about how to treat daily citizens, he said.
In the afternoon Friday, he sent a mass E -Post inviting voters to sign up for the scheduled protests on Saturday, and opposed the military parade in Washington in Washington. Padilla, “Please appear and talk against what happened,” Padilla wrote. “We can’t let the Trump administration scare us in silence.”
