The day after federal agents forced restrictions and put on and put on and put on and put on and put on U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, leaders of two political parties in the country responded in a predictable way – Diameter against the incident.
Padilla's fellow Democrats called for an investigation, perhaps even the resignation of the Senator's hater, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, because they are talking about unprecedented people for the U.S. senator, who is just trying to ask a public official.
Noem and fellow Republicans continue to portray Padilla as a genius, and when she attempts to talk to journalists at the federal building in Westwood, she appears to represent a threat.
Republicans continued to punish Padilla on Friday with words like “launch,” “bow and “tramp,” to describe Padilla’s behavior as he began asking Norm a question at a press conference Thursday.
Trump administration officials, just minutes after meeting with reporters, moved surely from one side of the room, grabbed an era photographer as he moved to speak more directly to Noem. He didn't sting at Noem, and he was still far from her pace when her safety details caught the Senator.
Padilla and his staff described how the senior councillor passed through safely and was escorted to the room where the press conference was held by FBI employees, saying that it was ridiculous for him to raise a threat.
Padilla spoke after the secretary asserted that her homeland security personnel came to Los Angeles to “liberate the city from the hands of the socialists and that the governor and mayor under the heavy leadership of the country.”
The former South Dakota governor has reason to acknowledge Padilla because he questioned her during a Senate confirmation hearing. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security did not answer whether Noem acknowledged Padilla when he arrived at the press conference.
Just as it has become the norm for American political discourse, Republicans and Democrats talked about Friday’s confrontation, as if they had observed two completely different events.
Senator Ben Ray Lujan (DN.M.) said Nom “should resign”, adding: “It’s ridiculous. She continues to lie about the incident. It’s wrong.”
Luyan urged his Republican colleagues to support Democrats’ demand for a “full investigation.”
“It's a bad thing. It's a precedent,” Lujan told MSNBC. “And I certainly hope that the leaders of the Senate, my Republican leaders, my friends, they just look inside. Pray. That's a few I told them last night. Pray that, do the right thing.”
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus went to Speaker Mike Johnson's office to protest Padilla's treatment.
Senator Cory Booker (DN.J.) spoke on the floor of X and the Senate. He said the incident fits “the Trump administration's behavior pattern. There is no reason for this abuse of authority…. There is no reason to see the senator bent on his knees.”
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) continued X's repeated investigation calls and said: “Republican leaders conspired to make the country's growing authoritarianism.”
Most Republicans remain silent or accused Padilla of being a provocateur.
“I think the Senator’s actions are, that’s very inappropriate,” House Speaker Johnson said. “You don’t charge guests’ cabinet secretary.”
Johnson added that it was Padilla who should face some sanctions. “At least…… [it] Elevate to the level of condemnation. …I think the whole body needs to have a message, that's not what we have to do, that's not the way we have to act. ”
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove) Zing Padilla on X with some “useful tips”. “1. Don't destroy other people's press conferences. Hold your own press.
Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-big Bear Lake) also tried to strengthen the notion that the agents who protected Norm felt the real threat and could not know that Padilla was what he said was him.
The congressman said on the Fox business that Padilla got the “the result they wanted. Now they have a conversation.”
There was not a single official in the room, several of whom knew Padilla to prevent the agents from acting, and they eventually pushed the senator downward, downward, and pushed it to the ground before handcuffing.
Nom did not back down on her previous statement that Padilla had “exploded” the room.
“Senator Padilla chose a disrespectful political theater and interrupted the live press conference without determining himself or the Senate's security pins because he paid tribute to Noem,” Assistant Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Friday.
McLaughlin also said Padilla “repeatedly told Padilla not to comply with the officer’s repeated orders”, although such videos were made public Friday before Padilla’s first statement.
Senator staff said he received private attention from several Republican colleagues, including Senator Tim Hirsch (R-Mont).
Speaking publicly, only one Republican lawmaker was bothered by the incident.
“I've seen a clip. It's horrible,” said Senator Lisa Murkowski. “It's shocking on every level. This is not the United States I know.”
Padilla told Tommy Vietor's “Pod Save America” podcast that Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown was an attempt to distract many other failed — the persistent instability of the economy, the lack of peace in Ukraine and Gaza, and the federal budget plan, which proved unpopularity with many Americans.
Padilla said: “He always finds distractions and when everything else fails, he returns to demonization and alternative immigration.
Padilla repeatedly said that if forces working for the Trump administration are allowed to “solve” U.S. senators raise questions in public buildings, Americans should worry about how to treat everyday citizens.
He sent a massive email Friday afternoon urging his voters to sign up for a protest scheduled Saturday in an effort to oppose Trump’s military parade in Washington. “Please show up and oppose what is going on,” Padilla wrote. “We cannot allow the Trump administration to intimidate us to remain silent.”
