White House says Padilla is to blame

The White House knocked Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) for interrupting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s property conference, saying that the Democratic legislator wanted attention.

“Padilla stormed a property conference, without wearing his Senate pin oregon antecedently identifying himself to security, yelled, and lunged toward Secretary Noem. Padilla didn’t privation answers; helium wanted attention,” said Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson. “Padilla embarrassed himself and his constituents with this immature, theater-kid stunt — but it’s telling that Democrats are much riled up astir Padilla than they are astir the convulsive riots and assaults connected instrumentality enforcement successful LA.”

In the video, Padilla identifies himself: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I person questions for the secretary.”

Padilla was forcibly removed, and the incident, caught connected video by a Fox News reporter, progressive aggregate men restraining the legislator and moving to region him from the room.

After the incident, the legislator condemned the Trump medication for cracking down connected his escaped code rights and said helium was handcuffed but not arrested oregon detained.

“At 1 constituent I had a question. And fto maine emphasize, conscionable emphasize, the close for radical to peacefully protestation and to basal up for their First Amendment rights, for our cardinal rights. I was determination peacefully. At 1 constituent I had a question, and truthful I began to inquire a question,” helium said astatine his ain property conference.

“I was astir instantly forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the crushed and I was handcuffed.”

He besides became affectional astatine a constituent during his remarks.

“I volition accidental this: If this is however this medication responds to a legislator with a question, I tin lone ideate what they’re doing to farmworkers to cooks to time laborers retired successful the Los Angeles assemblage and passim California and passim the country,” helium said.

“We volition clasp this medication accountable.”

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson besides said connected X that Noem and Padilla met for 15 minutes and argued that the Secret Service “thought helium was an attacker.”

“Senator Padilla chose disrespectful governmental theatre and interrupted a unrecorded property league without identifying himself oregon having his Senate information pin connected arsenic helium lunged toward Secretary Noem,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin posted connected X. “Mr. Padilla was told repeatedly to backmost distant and did not comply with officers’ repeated commands.”

While the medication defended the incidental and blamed Padilla, different Democrats rushed to condemn the situation, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who said “Trump and his daze troops are retired of control,” and erstwhile Vice President Harris, who called the incidental a “shameful and stunning maltreatment of power.”