(PJ Media)—Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), whom most people couldn’t pick out of a line-up before last week, wants America to believe his little performance during a Homeland Security press conference was totally spontaneous. Just an organic moment of righteous frustration, he claims. But we know better—his whole stunt reeked of a desperate cry for attention, and the more he tries to explain it away, the more obvious that becomes.
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Padilla tried spinning his headline-grabbing antics as an innocent attempt to get information. “You can’t script this in Hollywood,” he said with dramatic flair, insisting he just happened to be near the press conference while waiting for a briefing and spontaneously decided to pop in, wearing plain clothes and lacking his Senate Security pin. He was apparently stunned—stunned!—that the press conference didn’t meet his expectations: “Surprise, surprise, no substance came from that press conference, just political attacks.”
Then, naturally, he says he had to speak up. Not for the cameras, of course. Not to score a viral moment. No, no. Just to ask a question and, you know, charge the dais where a Secret Service-protected cabinet official was speaking. “I needed to speak up,” Padilla declared. “I needed to try to get the information from the secretary that they have refused to provide.”
But within seconds of opening his mouth, he charged the dais, and the Secret Service agents protecting Kristi Noem moved in. “I couldn’t get a couple of words out before obviously you saw agents respond, hands on me pretty much immediately.”
Yeah, that’s what her security is supposed to do.
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