Tillis gives cover to Dem senator’s screaming attack on Homeland Security Secretary Noem
In the real world, somebody like Thom Tillis would be quietly escorted out the front door of his workplace by security with his belongings in a bank box. Tillis originally ran as a member of the conservative party, but has spent the last twelve years thumbing his nose at anything and everything conservative. (Recent voting record analyses found Tillis voting to the left of socialist Bernie Sanders.)
Sadly, it looks like North Carolina Republicans are falling all over themselves to renominate and reelect this clown. He’s clearly not backing his party. He’s clearly made a point of jabbing Donald Trump at every turn. Soooooo — WTH?
Now, it appears Tillis is joining Democrat efforts to bash federal agents for using force against senator Alex Padilla (D) to foil his attempt to ambush Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem during a press conference.:
[…] During his time on Capitol Hill, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., has garnered a reputation for helping Democrats advance their preferred narratives and policies. So, it wasn’t exactly shocking when the Tarheel State’s senior senator gifted his leftist colleagues a talking point to defend the childish antics of Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif.
Speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, Tillis mentioned last week’s incident involving Padilla, in which the California Democrat is shown abruptly rushing towards Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during the latter’s press conference. As The Federalist’s Eddie Scarry reported, Padilla did not announce himself until after being intercepted by security, who subsequently escorted him from the room and “forced [him] to the ground where he was handcuffed.”
In his remarks, Tillis said he considers Padilla to be “a friend,” and that “his emotions were at a 10 because some of the things that he’s seen occurring in terms of ICE detention, ICE raids.” The North Carolina Republican added that he “agrees and disagrees” with his Democrat colleague “on some of the policy,” but did not offer specifics. He then gently criticized Padilla’s actions.
“We’ve got to get to a point where elected officials have to take some responsibility for their actions,” Tillis said. “I wonder if we’re actually saying it’s OK for me to run out here and interrupt Sen. Schumer while he’s giving his opening statements to a presser to ask him a question. … I think that that’s inappropriate. I think it would be inappropriate to do it to my Democrat colleagues up in the press room …”
But Tillis wasn’t done. In a sheer act of stupidity, the Tarheel State senator had the gall to blame “both sides” for the incident, claiming they both “own some responsibility for what happened.”
“Sen. Padilla should have found a better way to elevate his concerns to the secretary of homeland security rather than going in there and having that dust-up. Having said that, there were clearly people in that building that knew he was a U.S. senator,” Tillis said. “So, the minute that he was removed from that situation in that briefing room, then they should have treated him with respect and allowed him to disperse. It was disgusting to me to see somebody wrestled to the floor, anybody, but particularly a U.S. senator that’s in a federal building.”
“If you want to make a difference, then come to the Senate floor and try to figure out how to get your policies through. That’s how this place should work,” he added.
Sorry, but in exactly what world is Tillis living in where Noem’s security team is to blame for this charade?
It was Padilla who made the dumb decision to aggressively approach a cabinet member unannounced — and during a time of leftist-led assassination attempts, threats, and violence, no less. Noem’s security guards were simply doing the job they were hired to do and reacted accordingly.
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino agreed wholeheartedly with that last sentence:
As a sitting US senator, Padilla has extraordinary access to the president, the VP, cabinet officials, and all kinds of agency heads that we don’t. THIS was all about putting on a show that would, hopefully, earn him some publicity and score points with his base. Unfortunately for Padilla, it wasn’t the kind of publicity he anticipated.
Here’s the video of the incident in question:
Most people don’t recognize all the senators and congress members by sight. That’s one of the reasons they wear ID pins. In this current crazy, violent environment we’re in, you’d expect security to be on pins-and-needles and ready to jump at a split second’s notice.
It wasn’t long ago that Thommy Boy was crying to the media about alleged death threats against himself and other officials. He ought to be glad that security is so diligent in dealing with screaming lunatics who pop up out of nowhere.
