> “Padilla didn’t want answers; he wanted attention,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said. “It’s telling that Democrats are more riled up about Padilla than they are about the violent riots and assaults on law enforcement in LA.”

Even if this was true, the pot is calling the kettle black. But that's kind of giving them the benefit of the doubt here:

- They were in his district uninvited

- Why even hold a local press conference if you don't allow questions?

- In a room full of cameras, how is there not a single video of the supposed "lunge?

- He is literally on the Senate committee that is supposed to oversee border security. Noem not knowing who he is is either incompetence or an outright lie