Sen. Alex Padilla, in an interview with Pod Save America, spoke about being violently kicked out of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference yesterday in LA. Padilla said a briefing he planned to attend was delayed with the secretary arrived. “So as we’re waiting, waiting, I say, ‘Well, they haven’t been responding to our inquiries and our letters. Maybe we’ll go listen in and see if they have anything new to say.” They open the door for me. I’m standing in the back. Trying to listen. 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 are here to ‘liberate’ the people of Los Angeles from the governor and from the mayor – that’s when I spoke up, right? I had a question to ask. I wanna call ’em out on their misinformation, Padilla said. Anybody who’s seen the video knows that I repeatedly introduced myself. 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,” he added. It took all of maybe half a second for multiple agents to be on me,” he said, “They shoved out the door and before I knew it, I’m on my knees, I’m on the ground getting in handcuffs.” “When all else fails, Trump goes back to demonizing and scapegoating immigrants.”
RealClearPolitics Videos