Newsmax host says Sen. Alex Padilla was “barking like a random, unstable guy that just jumped in off the street wearing street clothes”
Rob Schmitt: “Padilla knew full well he was going to be restrained. He knew exactly what he was doing.”
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From the June 12, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT (HOST): You know, Washington was embarrassing enough. We really didn't need this one. But a stunt so stupid today, it's becoming impossible to believe that the Democrat Party actually has any real organic support today.
Today, Alex Padilla, a dimwitted first term senator from California, decided to burst into the middle of Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference when she was live on national television, literally as she was speaking, and have himself a viral moment. Padilla knew full well he was going to be restrained. He knew exactly what he was doing. He is a mediocre, relatively unknown politician who was not wearing a suit, who burst into a room aggressively and started yelling at the secretary of Homeland Security, barking like a random, unstable guy that just jumped in off the street wearing street clothes too. He's not wearing a suit. His full intention was to be accosted by security, as you can see here, and to go viral. We're going to play it out for you so you can enjoy the entire thing uninterrupted.
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SCHMITT: This nimrod is on every cable channel tonight. He's doing an interview right now on MSNBC. Of course he is. You see him fighting with the guards, pushing back, shoving his way through. He knew he needed to find a way to get detained because that was the key to getting on MSNBC tonight. After he was tackled and then verified to actually be a U.S. senator — because he could have been lying. He could have been somebody there to kill Kristi Noem. After all of that, he actually still got a 15 minute meeting with the secretary of Homeland Security. After such a ridiculous stunt, she still met with him. A credit to her. Right? And then right after that meeting, what did he do? Well, he ran outside, jumped on TV and literally cried, portraying himself as the victim of an unconscionable assault by a fascist regime.
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SCHMITT: I was just there to ask a question. So like any normal person, I just burst into the room and ran straight towards the Homeland Security secretary screaming, because that's what normal people do when they have a question for somebody. They just burst into the room when they're on TV and start screaming. And then I was handcuffed. Losers. He's such a loser. From the L.A. Times — this is how the media is going to spin this, by the way. They're going to turn this into the greatest tragedy you've ever seen. The L.A. Times — first they came for the immigrants, then they took down our Latino senator. This is how fake it is. We are living in The Twilight Zone.
Democrats, of course, exploded getting together to march for Padilla at the Capitol. Quote, we're marching to Senator Thune's office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a U.S. Senator. This is not normal. That's from Congressman Maxwell Frost, a guy who couldn't even get an apartment in Washington because his credit was so bad. So these are the kinds of people and the quality of people that are going to stir this up. And of course, the media is going to play along perfectly. You're going to be hearing about this forever. Maxwell Frost couldn't wait to jump on the bandwagon for this publicity stunt, demanding accountability for the detainment of a senator. That's what he said. Just one problem - even Padilla says he wasn't detained.