‘My Blood Is Boiling’: Dem Strategist Melts Down Over Alex Padilla Getting Booted From Noem Presser

Former CNN host Jim Acosta and Democratic strategist Maria Cardona expressed outrage on Thursday after Democratic California Sen. Alex Padilla’s removal from a press conference held by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem.

Padilla interrupted Noem’s remarks, prompting security to forcibly eject him from the conference room, with the senator ending up face down on the ground in handcuffs just outside. Acosta and Cardona reacted to the incident on “The Jim Acosta Show” immediately after it occurred, calling it “outrageous” and launching into profanity-laced rants.

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“You know, Jim, I don’t normally cuss in public, but this is fucking outrageous. I am sorry. My blood is boiling right now and I was so happy to see your note about how you wanted to go live because it literally happened seconds ago,” Cardona said. “And you know how I’m on a ton of group chats with leadership and activists and strategists and local electeds that are in the Latino community nationally — everyone is up in arms. And it’s not just Latinos. It’s everyone who understands what this means in terms of our democracy. It means we might not have one anymore, Jim. This is a literal dissension before our eyes into fascism.”

“A senator of the United States of America who was asking the Secretary of Homeland Security a question. He was not being aggressive. He was not somewhere where he was not supposed to be. It was a press conference,” she continued. “It was public. That’s where people go to ask questions. And the law enforcement officers grabbed him. Didn’t just take him outside of that room — forcibly, Jim. There is now video of him being forced to the ground, handcuffed and people telling him, ‘Stay on the ground. Stay on the ground.’ A United States senator, Jim.”