You didn’t see what you thought you saw in those videos of Sen. Alex Padilla, Republicans and the White House said in unison Thursday.
What the White House is saying: “The more and more the media plays it,” communications director Steven Cheung told NOTUS’ Jasmine Wright, “the more it shows him acting like an unhinged bitch.”
West Wings past may have gone into scramble mode if a clip of a U.S. senator being handcuffed by uniformed federal law enforcement in a federal building went viral and beyond. But Jasmine found it to be business as usual yesterday afternoon. “The unbotheredness was evident,” she notes.