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BREAKING: Democratic Senator Alex Padilla rips apart the "BS" MAGA lies around the viral clip of fascist goons assaulting and detaining him at Kristi Noem’s press conference.
Republicans just turned this man into a political superstar…
“So as we’re waiting, waiting, I say, ‘Well, they haven’t been responding to our inquiries and our letters. Maybe we go listen in and see if they have anything new to say,’” he told the Pod Save America podcast.
Despite Republican claims that he was unruly and disruptive, Padilla explained that he was “literally being escorted” by a National Guard member and an FBI agent and was permitted to enter the room.
“They open the door for me. I’m standing in the back,” recounted the senator. “Trying to listen, you know, I don’t want to get in front of the cameras or in front of the reporters and just the rhetoric is too much.”
“Not the first time, but the second time they claim that Donald Trump and Secretary Noem is here to liberate the people of Los Angeles from the governor and from the mayor — that’s when I spoke up, right?” Padilla said. “I had a question to ask. I wanna call ’em out on their misinformation.”
“Anybody who’s seen the video knows that I repeatedly introduced myself,” he continued. “They knew who I was. I was not lunging at the secretary. I was, you know, halfway through the back of the room on one side trying to get a question out.”
“It took all of maybe half a second for multiple agents to be on me … and shoved out the door and before I know it, I’m on my knees, I’m on the ground getting in handcuffs,” said Padilla.
Trump officials claimed that the violent actions of Noem’s minions were justified because Senator Padilla failed to identify himself. In truth, the video shows that he clearly identified himself, saying “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary.”
Not only that, but he was wearing a shirt with the United States Senate logo on it.
“It says U.S. Senate. And if you watch the video, I repeatedly introduced myself. So this is all BS. It’s all spin,” said Padilla.
The senator said that after the incident, he was able to speak with Noem for the first time.
“That’s why despite being in handcuffs one minute when being offered a meeting with her, an audience with her, to the next, I said yes, because I was there to do a job, right? I’m a member of the United States Senate,” said Padilla. “I have questions. I’m requesting information. And if that’s what it took to finally get an opportunity to ask those questions and get some information, then that’s why I took it.”
"The big takeaway here is if they’re willing to — if a senator asking a question scares them so much that they’ll deploy agents to put a United States senator in handcuffs, imagine what they’re doing to people out there, maybe subject to an immigration raid, who have a question … may be requesting their lawyer but not getting that opportunity,” he continued.
“These are dangerous times for the United States of America," concluded the senator.
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