Senator Manhandled by DHS Agents Says 'Of All People, Corey Lewandowski' Told Them to Stop

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Jun 13th, 2025, 10:57 pm


Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) said Friday that former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski intervened after federal agents removed him him during a press conference in what he called one of the most “surreal” moments of his life. Padilla was forcibly escorted away from a Department of Homeland Security news conference in California on Thursday.

Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem was delivering remarks about ICE raids in Los Angeles when Padilla interrupted, identified himself as “Senator Padilla,” and said he had questions. Agents brought him into a hallway, put him on the ground, and placed him in handcuffs. The senator was briefly detained and accused of not identifying himself as a member of his state’s congressional delegation.

According to Padilla, agents with DHS manhandled him as he approached the podium, pushing him aside and grabbing his arm. Speaking to The Bulwark on Friday, Padilla said the agents relented only after Lewandowski, a longtime Trump ally, intervened and told them to stand down.

“Of all people, Corey Lewandowski,” Padilla told The Bulwark. “He’s the one trying to rein in the agents telling them to stop, to release me, to remove the handcuffs, offering me a cup of coffee.” It was, he added, “one of the most surreal things that’s ever happened in my life.”

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Full headline: Senator Manhandled by DHS Agents Says ‘Of All People, Corey Lewandowski’ Told Them to Stop: ‘One of the Most Surreal Things’

[tanyev]

1. Wow. Did not see that coming.

I guess Corey likes to play good cop and Kristi likes to play bad cop.

[Hugin]

3. Yeah, so lacking any sort of official position in the US Government...

He can order Federal Agents to stand down and a sitting US Senator can’t?

Irretrievably broken.

[bcbink]

16. Lewandowski was known to the agents?

[Native]

17. He was hired as a special employee (like Musk) as acts as Noem's chief of staff.

[travelingthrulife]

18. He's boinking Noem. Special assignment to the frail Princess.

[Native]

19. That would be my guess too.

[CentralMass]

27. Never sleep with a woman who would shoot her own dog.

[IronLionZion]

30. One day she might decide Corey is a dog

and put him down

[ret5hd]

35. she would be right...

but that would still be wrong.

[Hugin]

21. I had read that so-called special employees are time limited at that level...

To somewhere around 100 days. So, the clock on Noem's boy toy has to have run out.

I'd still need to see proof of his appointment. Y'know, because they lie.

[Native]

26. No more than 130 days within a 365 day period

im sure he'll continue in some other capacity

[vanlassie]

28. Well after all, as the Pretend King said:

“HE LOOKED LIKE AN ILLEGAL.”

[Cha]

34. Yeah, the Preetnd "king" with the Rotted brain matter.

[markie]

8. good one....

[BonnieJW]

10. Kristi doesn't have the brains to play anything

Her filler has migrated to her brain.

[Hugin]

2. Soft pedaling barely begins to describe this weak water passage from the article...

“Agents brought him into a hallway, put him on the ground, and placed him in handcuffs. The senator was briefly detained…”

[Irish_Dem]

4. The video clip showed a much rougher event than this statement.

[Hugin]

5. Even Sen Padilla's statement on the event in the same article contradicts it.

Quite the contrast.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Sen Padilla is a strong, mature, powerful male and he looked quite rattled and shocked after the event.

[slightlv]

12. I'm just amazed he managed to hold his emotions and actions

in check. After this many years on earth, I know myself well enough to know I wouldn't have been so well behaved. I'd have fought for my very life (which is what it would have felt like to me). The pansy statement in the article should be marked up and sent back to the paper and whoever's byline it is. I'd be ashamed to put my name on it.

[Irish_Dem]

13. I like how he tried to fight back initially. But then he was overpowered.

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Same here, I would fight for my life.
Padilla has more sense than I do.

[Kali999]

6. Noems squeeze

to the rescue. Crikey

[johnnyfins]

9. Screw that. Corey knew the optics of the

Situation. He was doing preemptive cya.

[littlemissmartypants]

11. I imagine that it was surreal. Since ...

Corey Lewandowski is ICE Barbie's boyfriend.

[SunSeeker]

14. Match made in Hell.

[SunSeeker]

15. So the agents listen to someone with no title (Corey) but not a sitting Senator.

Unfuckingbelievable.

[Prairie Gates]

20. Is Lewandowski still schtooping Noem?

I thought he had a two-three year limit on staying with the same MAGA-ette.

[IbogaProject]

22. Yep

This one is weird even by the even lower standards of the T47 Administration.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/corey-lewandowski-kristi-noem-dhs-b2735744.html

[Marcuse]

23. The ultimate snowflakery. They can dish it out but can't take it. A weakling's' concept of strength.

[orleans]

31. what the heck is the statement of this pic trying to make and that crazy ghost hand that wasn't

photoshopped out?

just wondering

[Marcuse]

33. Republican Members of Congress who interrupted a SOTU speech were treated much better than Senator Padilla.

I thought the photo spoke for itself, but above is the video. How soon we forget.

[Hekate]

24. Surreal is right

[niyad]

25. WTAF mediaite??? Your bland, innocuous description does not match

the vicious attack the video clip showed.

[Grokenstein]

29. Send minions to cause a mess, swoop in to play hero.

Golly, we've never seen THAT before.

[orleans]

32. "WOMP WOMP" -corey lewandowski nt