'Time To Wake Up': Dem Senator Has A Warning For Americans Who Think They're Safe From Trump
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Sen. Alex Padilla was manhandled, handcuffed and forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference last week.
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) called on Republicans and everyday Americans to “wake up,” warning that while Donald Trump is currently scapegoating immigrants to distract from negative headlines, no one is safe from his “power grabs.”
Padilla, who was manhandled, handcuffed forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s presser in Los Angeles last week after probing the Trump official’s statements, despite promptly identifying himself as a U.S. senator, in a New York Times op-ed published Thursday, said his case demonstrates how far the Trump administration is prepared to go to silence dissent.
The senator cited the arrest of New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander who was led away by masked agents at immigration court on Tuesday.
“Like me, Mr. Lander had the audacity to question the legitimacy of federal actions, only to find himself pushed against a wall and detained,” Padilla wrote. “If you watched what happened to me or Mr. Lander these past few days and thought this was about any one politician or altercation, you are missing the point.”
Padilla said it was entirely predictable that Trump would ratchet up his anti-immigrant rhetoric as a way to distract Americans from the negative headlines about his trade wars and his nasty feud with billionaire Elon Musk, among other things.
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