Kristi Noem's remarks that preceded Alex Padilla interrupting her
Videos of Alex Padilla being hustled out of Kristi Noem's press conference are now all over the Internet.
Showing what preceded that is not so ubiquitous.
This video shows the larger context for what happened:
Padilla's interruption is at about 7m40s.
Senator Padilla gives his side of the story in this video:
https://youtu.be/8M4zy7qvs1E
A former FBI special agent, Josh Campbell, gives his view on the actions of the security detail:
https://nypost.com/2025/06/13/media/cnn-analyst-defends-kristi-noem-federal-agents-for-removing-padilla
“First, you have the DHS secretary who was addressing the press.
This was not a Q&A period, and she was interrupted.
She was interrupted by someone who was speaking very loudly,”
the CNN analyst said.
Andrew C. McCarthy discusses the situation here:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-padilla-incident-and-the-greater-peril/
"I do know that the videos thus far available provide scant reason to believe the agents knew Padilla was a U.S. senator.
The fact that, in the heat of the moment, he announced himself as a senator is irrelevant;
security agents never take such proclamations at face value —
and would not do so here, under circumstances in which Padilla sure wasn’t acting like a senator ..."
Politico reports (part of) the story here:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/12/california-sen-alex-padilla-handcuffed-at-noem-presser-00403253
posted by KHarbaugh at 13:27
