Welcome to Trump’s America, where critical press are not allowed at press conferences, and sitting US Senators are shoved out for asking questions.

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DHS claims Padilla ‘lunged’ toward Noem ‘without identifying himself’ – despite footage showing he identified himself

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, has claimed the senator Alex Padilla “lunged” toward Kristi Noem during the press conference “without identifying himself” despite being told to back away.

She also claims that the Secret Service “thought he was an attacker”.

In the video footage of the moment, Padilla can be heard clearly identifying himself, saying: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla” and trying to ask Noem a question.

Not only did he identify himself, I didn’t see anything I’d call a ‘lunge’. Here’s more:

Asked why the response was to forcibly remove Padilla, Noem deferred questions to law enforcement and doubled down on the claim that Padilla didn’t identify himself first (again, he did):

• “But I will say that it’s – people need to identify themselves before they start lunging at people during press conferences.”

MSNBC reminds us of Biden’s State of the Union when Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Greene started acting up and yelling and no one threw them out. Commentor wants to know why Noem didn’t call off the guards as soon as he identified himself.