GOP lawmakers are standing with the federal legislation enforcement officers who roughed up and detained Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California on Thursday, after he tried to ask Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem a query at a information convention in his dwelling state.
Division of Homeland Safety officers and the White Home have patently lied about what went down, when even Corey Lewandowski, a detailed ally of President Donald Trump who was as soon as charged with assault, tried to cease legislation enforcement from dealing with Padilla so harshly.
And Republicans appear pleased to simply accept the White Home’s lies and assault Padilla.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson, slightly than criticize the brokers who forcibly pushed Padilla out of the room and pinned him to the bottom for vocally interrupting a information convention to ask a reputable query, stated Padilla deserves to be punished.
“That behavior, at a minimum, it rises to the level of a censure,” Johnson advised reporters on Capitol Hill, saying it will ship a “message” that this isn’t how senators ought to act.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama repeated the lie advised by DHS that Padilla did not establish himself when attempting to ask Noem a query, regardless of video proof exhibiting Padilla figuring out himself.
“You can’t show up without your pin, refuse to announce yourself, and lunge at a cabinet secretary. It doesn’t matter who you are,” Tuberville wrote in a put up on X. “If Senator Padilla wanted to speak with Secretary Noem, he could have set up a meeting like everyone else. But this wasn’t about that. Senator Padilla wanted to cause a scene…and then to cry wolf when he got it.”
Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin, whose declare to fame is berating youngsters for taking pictures within the Capitol Rotunda, additionally cheered on the best way Padilla was handled.
“No one is above the law,” Van Orden stated, despite the fact that Padilla was not breaking the legislation.
Rep. Greg Steube, Republican of Florida, went so far as to name for Padilla to be arrested. “Hopefully @TheJusticeDept will charge you,” Steube wrote in a put up on X.
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, in the meantime, tried to play the whataboutism recreation, writing in a put up on X, “Imagine the headlines if a Republican Senator aggressively charged a Democrat official during a press conference…”
We have now one other whataboutism to supply: Think about if former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas held a information convention wherein he declared the Biden administration would “liberate” a pink state from its politicians and protestors—as Noem stated throughout Thursday’s information convention—after which allowed his safety to tough up a GOP senator who objected.
In the end, only some Republicans have spoken up in opposition to legislation enforcement officers slamming a U.S. senator to the bottom.
“I’ve seen that one clip. It’s horrible. It’s surprising at each stage. It’s not the America I do know,” stated Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska.
And Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine known as the incident “disturbing.”
In the meantime, Senate Majority Chief John Thune did not denounce the incident however did say he’ll conduct an investigation.
“We want to get the full scope of what happened, and do what we would do on any incident like this involving a senator, which is to try to gather all the relevant information,” Thune advised CNN.
How courageous.
