Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday accused Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) of “political theater” for trying to ask questions at a press convention.
“Nobody knew who he was, he didn’t say who he was,” Noem claimed throughout a Fox News interview, regardless of footage displaying Padilla clearly figuring out himself through the encounter. “I would have loved to have sat down and had a conversation with him, that coming into a press conference like this is political theater.”
Her company despatched an analogous message on her behalf by way of Twitter, additionally calling it “political theatre,” utilizing the British spelling of the phrase.
Her critics fired again on X with some photographic proof:
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