On Thursday, the liberal media rushed to enflame the removal of far-left Senator Alex Padilla from a DHS press conference after he namelessly rushed at Secretary Noem and fought with security. Doing his part on CNN’s The Lead, Jake Tapper refused to fact-check powerful Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth (IL) after she (twice) falsely claimed Padilla immediately identified himself; something that directly contradicted the account of Tapper’s CNN colleague he spoke to just minutes prior.
Early in the show, Tapper spoke with CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam, who was in the room, to get the chronology of what transpired. According to Elam, Noem had already began her press conference when Padilla entered the room and started shouting at her, and it was only after her security detail intercepted him and began to remove him, did he identify himself (without the appropriate credentials, it should be noted):
Now, her press conference had started. She was in the middle of talking when he did just start talking. And that's the other key point. He started talking first. And when he started talking, he took a couple of steps. It was not a lunge as it's been characterized. And then there were immediately hands on him from her detailed people pushing him away and back and moving him away from – then during that time, is when he identified himself. So, he did not identify himself first when he was asking the question and interrupting her.
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