All week, Trump administration officials acclaimed the images of protests against their deportation campaign in Los Angeles, saying that their opponents were playing directly in their hands.
But on Thursday, the administration became defensive.
A video by Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, forced to the ground and handcuffed after the National Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem interrupted at a press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, immediately bounced on social media platforms and cable news, changing the narration to warnings about exaggerating the White House.
He covered a week when the Democratic party finally seemed to find his voice, in large and small forms, to retreat against the administration. From the acuity of the president of the governor of California Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump, Padilla’s move to interrupt Noem until mini revelations that are played in the capital of the nation, the Democrats began to break the control that Trump usually has in the news cycle.
It occurs after months of democratic introduction that is disputed on how to advance after a bitter defeat in the presidential elections. At that time, the Democrats have not been able to create consistent and unified messages to refute Trump and, instead, they have been involved in fighting for issues as if activist David Hogg should continue to be part of the National Democratic Committee and that he was guilty of Joe Biden’s refusal to move away from the Democratic presidential nomination before his mental decrease.
Last week, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., told NBC News that he was using a flooding strategy with messages and urging other members to do the same.
And this week, the DNC voted overwhelmingly to celebrate a new choice for the position of Vice President of Hogg, which led him to quickly announce that he would move away from the position.
A strategist said that Trump resistance was a necessity after events in Los Angeles, which the Democrats say the administration is overreach.
“Voters have been looking for this, and circumstances have come,” said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist. “And although many people will say that it should have happened before, given the series of events, only this week, everyone had to step forward. There was no other option.”
National protests planned for Saturday also threaten to eclipse the next Trump military parade in Washington.
On Thursday, Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MASS. When the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican of the la-la., He stood up before the cameras in the Capitol to call the actions of Padilla “tremendously inappropriate”, shouts were heard interrupting it: “That is a lie!”
At an audience on Thursday of the House Supervision Committee, where three Democratic governors of the so-called Sanctuary states were transported before the Panel, New York Governor, Kathy Hochul, became salty at a time with the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA.
“Did you say you are a proud registered Democrat?” Greene asked.
“Yes, I did,” Hochul replied. “Is that also illegal now, in your country?”
At another time of the audience, the representative Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., He interrupted and asked repeatedly if the Republicans would quote Noem. He irritated the president of the James Eating committee, R-Ky. To the point that eating broke: “Shut up!”
All this followed a relentless rejection of Newsom since last week. Newsom made his own messaging campaign to refute an flood of insults that Trump and his deputy director of Cabinet and Key Immigration official Stephen Miller has already shot him already his California.
Trump federalized the National Guard and deployed the Marines in California after protests broke out in response to arrests by immigration and the application of customs. The White House repeatedly pointed to the cars and the protesters throwing rocks as impulse to send troops to the state, and Trump proclaimed that if he did not, the angels would be “burning to the ground.”
Most of the protests, however, have taken place only in a few blocks in the center. The Los Angeles police chief said this week that the force was equipped and with experience enough to handle events in the city alone and did not request help from the National Guard.
Democrats have pointed out Trump’s deployments as a great overreach of presidential powers and an attempt to militarize blue cities.
In the midst of agitation, Newsom spoke comments this week saying that Trump was trying to install an authoritarian regime. He has taken podcasts and sat for innumerable news interviews while he and his office regularly refute the statements of the Trump administration in X.
On Thursday, he went further, raising concerns about Trump’s mental sharpness.
In an interview in the Podcast of the New York Times “The Daily”, Newsom accused Trump “begins to invent all these things that he said he told me, which honestly begins to bother me at a different level.” He referred to Trump’s comments that he had a phone call on Monday with Newsom that Newsom said it did not happen.
“Maybe I really thought he said those things and that everything is there. I say it seriously,” Newsom added.
The White House spokesman Steven Cheung shot in a statement: “The attacks against President Trump are rich, from Gavin Newsom, who in the previous elections tried to Gaslight and lied to the US audience about the decline of Joe Biden. Gavin Newsom will never be president, even while trying to pedict these lies.”
Noem and others in the administration said they didn’t know who Padilla was during the press conference and thought a stranger was throwing himself while talking. Noem argued that Padilla did not identify, but the video showed otherwise.
“I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” Padilla shouted, interrupting Noem. Padilla was removed by force from the room, and video showed that she was forced on her stomach and handcuff.
“If this is how the Department of National Security answers a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they are doing to agricultural workers, chefs, daily workers in the community of Los Angeles and in all California and throughout the country,” Padilla told reporters. “We will take responsibility for this administration.”
From the Senate floor, Warren tried to make a larger point about the incident.
“Every day, DHS agents are throwing people to the ground as long as they do not resist,” Warren said. “Every day, Donald Trump is making this nation look more and more as a fascist state … we all have to ask: how far will they get? How violent will they wear?”
