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Padilla: Republicans can't deny ‘No Kings' protest numbers
Padilla: Republicans can't deny ‘No Kings' protest numbers

The Hill

time3 days ago

  • Politics
  • The Hill

Padilla: Republicans can't deny ‘No Kings' protest numbers

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that Republicans cannot deny the numbers of the recent 'No Kings' protests. 'One of the best things that has happened over the last several days is that millions of people who came out across the country on Saturday, by and large, very, very peaceful, but you can't deny the numbers,' Padilla said on MSNBC's 'The Weeknight' 'My colleagues on the other side of the aisle cannot deny the numbers,' he added. The No Kings organization's 'national day of action' against the Trump administration turned out an estimated five million protesters in over 2,000 cities and towns across the U.S. The marches took place as a parade celebrating the Army took place in the nation's capital on President Trump's birthday. On Thursday, Trump was asked to respond to the 'No Kings' demonstrations, to which he replied that he doesn't 'feel like a king; I have to go through hell to get stuff approved.' Padilla's comments follow his forcible removal and handcuffing at a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week, which flared tempers among Democrats. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday called Padilla's handcuffing 'atrocious' on NBC's 'Meet the Press.' 'To see him mistreated that way and tackled to the ground and shackled that way and in the midst of what we're seeing more broadly in Los Angeles is just atrocious,' Schiff said Sunday. The White House has argued that Padilla was looking for the confrontation and did not adequately indicate he was a U.S. senator, though the Californian identified himself as he was being detained.

Michael Steele Slams Trump, Mike Lee With Damning Questions About Minnesota Remarks
Michael Steele Slams Trump, Mike Lee With Damning Questions About Minnesota Remarks

Yahoo

time3 days ago

  • Politics
  • Yahoo

Michael Steele Slams Trump, Mike Lee With Damning Questions About Minnesota Remarks

MSNBC host Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee, excoriated President Donald Trump and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Tuesday over their 'astounding' insensitivity following the assassination of Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband over the weekend. 'It just is astounding to me, the level of immaturity, insensitivity and lack of empathy between Senator Lee and, of course, President Trump, who said, 'I don't need to talk to … [Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz], he's a mess,'' Steele said on 'The Weeknight.' 'Who do these people represent?' he added. 'Is this who we are in this country now?' When reporters asked the president Tuesday if he had called Walz yet to discuss the incident, he said the Democrat is 'slick' and 'whacked out.' Trump, who vowed last year to be president 'for all of America, not half of America,' then plainly refused. 'I'm not calling him,' he said aboard Air Force One. The Hortmans were fatally shot early Saturday at their Minnesota home by a gunman impersonating a police officer. Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman (D) and his wife, Yvette, were also shot multiple times at their home. The latter couple has since undergone surgery. A suspect wanted in the attack was later identified as 57-year-old Vance Boelter and was arrested Sunday after a manhunt. Lee had shared several social media posts in the meantime, baselessly suggesting Boelter was into 'Marxism' and part of the political left. 'Is this what we do?' Steele asked Tuesday about Lee's and Trump's comments. 'We've gone through 9/11. We've gone through COVID. We've gone through trials and tribulations as a country. We've watched individuals suffer, and we've rallied to them in the past.' Lee had also shared an image of the suspect at a victim's door, writing: 'Nightmare on Waltz Street.' Boelter was appointed in 2019 by Walz's office to the Governor's Workforce Development Board, but was also an apparent conservative who attended Trump rallies. 'I don't understand what this says now,' Steele said during Tuesday's discussion. 'What are we saying about ourselves, when our leaders — a United States senator and a president of the United States — act like a damn 2-year-old?' Steele went on to wager that the Republicans in question are plain 'insensitive, just not realizing what their words mean and the impact that they're having,' and 'really don't seem to care.' One of his co-hosts went even further with Steele's prior point about immaturity. 'I think there are some 2-year-olds that actually have more decency than the president of the United States and the senator from Utah have exhibited in this moment,' said Symone Sanders Townsend. Lee has since deleted many of the social media posts. Tina Smith's Face-To-Face With 'Shocked' Mike Lee Is A Proven Way To Confront A Bully Sen. Mike Lee Backtracks After Deranged Tweets About Minnesota Assassination 'What The F**k Is Wrong With That Guy?': Jon Stewart Shames Senator For 'Depravity'

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