Kristi Noem’s Goons Just Roughed Up A Sitting U.S. Senator And Called It A Slow Thursday
Senator Padilla showed up at a DHS press conference and got thrown to the ground for doing his job. The post Kristi Noem’s Goons Just Roughed Up A Sitting U.S. Senator And Called It A Slow Thursday appeared first on Above the Law.
For those following the fascism thermometer, we’ve gone from mayors to representatives and have just now reached senators. Congratulations, everybody!
Senator Alex Padilla showed up to a DHS press conference held by Gestapo Barbie Kristi Noem, a perfectly reasonable thing for a California senator to do while Noem explained that the administration intends to “liberate the city from the socialists.” Tenth Amendment schmenth amendment. For his trouble, Noem had some of her stormtroopers manhandle Padilla, shoving him out of the room and then shoving him on the ground and handcuffing him.
She treated a sitting U.S. senator little better than a dog, which I guess we should be thankful for considering we’re talking about known puppy murderer Noem.
When the administration decided to gin up some charges against Representative McIver, they cited her for forcibly impeding federal officers while they tried to make (an illegal) arrest. Hard to imagine what they can come up with here when a U.S. Senator just shows up and politely announces that he plans to ask questions of a cabinet secretary. But I’m sure this administration has enough creative writing majors in the DOJ to come up with something.
That video ends with the cosplay cops taking Padilla around a corner, presumably in an effort to avoid all those media outlets catching what they planned to do next. However, a second video captures what they did.
It’s hard to believe anyone actually in the FBI would so egregiously violate their oath of office. As a former white-collar defense lawyer, I worked with several FBI agents over the years and even on the other side, they always exhibited the height of professionalism.
This is thug behavior and they should know it.
OK, now I’m really incredulous. “FBI Rights”? What the hell is that? That’s not even TRYING to sound official. Just say, “no recording per 69 USC Section 420,” it’s just as nonsensical but sounds more believable.
Though Noem’s office is claiming this is the Secret Service — who REALLY should know how to identify a senator — but maybe they’re just randomly making up what to call their bodyguards these days.
This is a lie of course because the video shows him repeatedly identifying himself and doing nothing remotely threatening. Also, if the Secret Service (or FBI or ICE or whoever they really were) didn’t know who Padilla was, there was one person in the room who definitely did:
KRISTI FUCKING NOEM!
Alex Padilla is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety… a committee that tends to matter to the cabinet department in charge of Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety. She could have stopped this from the podium at any time.
Expect Grand Moff Noem to announce that the Emperor has dissolved the Senate entirely next week.
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