
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla. (Photo: SOS youtube)
Senator Scott Wiener: ‘Fascists’ and ‘Thugs’ ‘Physically Assaulted Fellow Victim Alex Padilla
Alex Padilla is no victim: Toxic people play the victim
By Katy Grimes, June 13, 2025 5:25 pm
Following the ridiculous and really bad political performance art Thursday by U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), the Democrat fundraising began.
Padilla, who no one really knows, was forcibly removed and handcuffed at a press conference for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles after barging in and causing a melee attempting to question the secretary.
Predictably, California State Senator Wiener jumped on the bandwagon. And while he wasn’t fundraising (yet), he called what happened to Sen. Padilla “fascism,” and referred to law enforcement officers as “thugs”:
“This is where we’re at as a country: Federal thugs detaining and roughing up a United States Senator for trying to speak to a cabinet secretary and question administration policy. They’re doing this as they criminally prosecute a member of the House of Representatives, create a police state, and deploy the military on the streets of Los Angeles.
“Anyone who continues to doubt whether this is fascism is living in an alternate reality. We must mobilize and put a stop to this frontal assault on our democracy and our most basic liberties.”
Katy,
Yesterday, at a Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security press conference, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed, roughed up, and handcuffed by federal thugs.
Notably, Senator Wiener fails to mention that Senator Padilla barged his way into Secretary Noem’s press conference without his official Senate pin visible…

Let that sink in: A sitting United States Senator was physically assaulted for doing his job – for daring to stand up for his constituents and question this administration.
Katy, this is what fascism looks like in America.
Still think “it can’t happen here”? It already has. While Trump’s militarized crackdown continues in Los Angeles, ICE is escalating its terror campaign across the country – including right here in San Francisco. Our neighbors are being harassed, detained, and disappeared.
We must protect each other. I urge you to know your rights and share these resources widely: https://www.aclunc.org/our-
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we’re deep in the red zone for our constitution and our democracy. But we are not powerless.
Peaceful, sustained, mass mobilization is what has stopped fascist regimes before – and it’s what will stop this one now. When we rise up together – in protest, in solidarity, in defense of one another – we win.
This is not normal. This is not acceptable. And we will not let it stand.
In solidarity,
Senator Scott Wiener
That tome was worthy of an airsick bag.
On X Sen. Wiener said, “The physical assault of a United States Senator by federal law enforcement — for simply questioning a cabinet secretary — is a big test. The Senate can either assert itself as a co-equal branch of government & demand accountability or it can be docile & fade into the background.”
Sen. Scott Wiener has already defined himself as a hyperbolic partisan who lives in an alternate universe. But more importantly, in his alternate universe, the law only applies when he deems it so… rather than “lady justice is blind,” and rules are rules.
Senator Padilla pulled a ridiculous stunt Thursday which could have gone very badly if not for law enforcement doing their job by the book.
Padilla’s stunt was coordinated as Democrats across the country were ready with the press and social media statements as soon as he was removed from the press conference.
Perhaps my favorite comment about this absurd caper is from Lance Christensen on X:
“I’ve known Alex since his days as a CA State Legislator. His political savvy helped his meteoric rise in CA Dem circles with deep LA & Sacramento connections. After narrowly beating my friend, @Pete4CA, to become Sec of State, he oversaw the motor voter program that allowed illegal immigrants to vote. It makes sense why he’s so mad here.”
I too have been covering Alex Padilla since his days in the California Legislature, and when he ushered in the catastrophic Motor Voter program, with the false assurances that illegal aliens would not be eligible for California drivers licenses, nor would they be registered to vote.
In 2019, the Globe reported on a lawsuit alleging that then-California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has “forsaken his duty to ensure that non-citizens” are kept off voter rolls. The lawsuit alleged that the State of California violated the National Voter Registration Act by failing to verify citizenship before placing voters on the voter rolls:
California is violating federal law by failing to verify citizenship before placing voters on the voter rolls, according to attorneys Harmeet Dhillon and Mark Meuser. They say this compromises the integrity of our election system.
Calling this “Judicial Watch 2.0,” Dhillon and Meuser filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Plaintiffs Roxanne Beckford Hoge, Ali Mazarei, and Corrin Rankin against Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State, and Steve Gordon, Director of California Department of Motor Vehicles for violations of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
The lawsuit alleges that the state is neglecting two of its three duties as outlined by the voter act. Judicial Watch already filed a federal lawsuit against Los Angeles County and the State of California over their failure to clean their voter rolls and to produce election-related records as required by the federal National Voter Registration Act. “Eleven of California’s 58 counties have registration rates exceeding 100% of the age-eligible citizenry,” Judicial Watch said. “California has the highest rate of inactive registrations of any state in the country. Los Angeles County has the highest number of inactive registrations of any single county in the country.”
“The National Voter Registration Act says three things,” attorney Mark Meuser said in an interview. “Number 1, is that the state shall determine eligibility. Eligibility and citizenship go hand in hand,” Meuser said. “All they are doing is looking at state records for felons or duplicate registrations.”
Meuser said the United States Supreme Court says state records can be used for citizenship verification. But California is picking and choosing which records to use, rather than using all three qualifying issues.
This is who Alex Padilla is – a deep state Democrat:
A 2018 state audit found the California DMV’s “motor voter” program only recently implemented, was riddled with technical problems that led to hundreds of thousands of discrepancies in voter registrations. Last September, the DMV sent out 23,000 “erroneous” voter registrations they blamed on “technical errors,” Last September, the DMV sent out 23,000 “erroneous” voter registrations they blamed on ‘technical errors,’” California Globe reported. “Padilla proclaimed himself ‘extremely disappointed and deeply frustrated,’” but nothing changed.
The lawsuit alleges that SOS Padilla has “forsaken his duty to ensure that non-citizens” are kept off voter rolls.
“In direct violation of his duties to ensure that only eligible voters are placed on the voter rolls, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has established a pattern and practice of doing nothing to verify that a potential voter is a United States citizen, thus causing non-citizens to be placed on the voter rolls,” the lawsuit says.
Read more on the lawsuit here. Alex Padilla is no victim – he’s much more of a perpetrator.
This is EPIC from Katy Grimes. So much excellent information —- that she personally dug up and reported on at the time it happened —- explaining the particulars of WHY Sen Alex Padilla is and always has been so contemptible and destructive to California and any remnant of election integrity we may have hoped we had.
Then Scott Wiener predictably weighing in to disingenuously cry the blues and bolster the “let’s play victim” narrative to rouse the base and boost the effort to make some serious money on the Alex Padilla farce is the poisonous icing on the toxic cake. Sickening. But not surprising!
Our state is run by a bunch of narcissistic clowns, it’s truly embarrassing.
I once saw a photo Wiener storming out of the Senate Chambers in Sacramento, after a disappointing day. To avoid him, at least one woman was pressing herself against the front of a tall wood desk and clinging, like Ethan Hunt, to the top edge.
Alex Padilla is another prime example of how corrupt California Democrats are. This state is run like a Third World nation. It’s an embarrassment to the entire country.
Padilla is not as famous as he thinks he is, so when some big goon barges in targeting a female speaker at the podium speaking, he is assumed to be attacking her.
Since when did democrats begin intimidating women. It is time to talk to his wife and mistresses to make sure he isn’t assaulting women when the cameras are off. Mexican. culture is not on board with outspoken women. Their job is to cook, clean, and have babies.
Lastly, Padilldo was elected by ballots sent to last known address with the junk mail.
Yes, Amish Warrior. Padilla had to do something to get publicity and show that he identifies with Hispanic males since they are abandoning the Democrats in favor of the Republicans. Especially, the male Hispanics. So, he decided to barge in with his FAKE machismo:
“Machismo culture refers to a strong or exaggerated sense of masculinity that emphasizes traits like dominance, aggression, and entitlement, often leading to the belief that men are superior to women. It is prevalent in many Latin American and Spanish-speaking cultures and is associated with toxic masculinity and gender-based violence.”
Didn’t help his machismos when he was crying when he was talking to the press after.
So Democrat Senator Scott Wiener, who is a creepy member of the radical left alphabet mafia and who is obsessed with vulnerable youth, climbed out of his crypt to defend pathetic Padilla? No doubt Wiener, Padilla and the rest of the criminal Democrat thug mafia want the flow of human trafficking from the cartels to continue, and in the case of Wiener, especially they’re underage males? He probably has a dungeon in his home where all sorts of perversion is carried out?
Republican Rep. Warren Davidson from Ohio suggested Democrat Sen. Alex Padilla was supporting Mexican drug cartels when he barged into the press conference and began shouting at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Davidson said: “I didn’t know the Senate had a Cartel Caucus to protect the interests of the cartels, but maybe so.”
Padilla and his “wife” are really big supporters of the leftist alphabet rainbow mafia and it makes one wonder if she is his beard?
(https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/news-coverage/la-blade-alex-padilla-wife-angela-talk-lgbtq-mental-health/)
Yes, TJ. Wiener is “obsessed with vulnerable youth” but only in a way that would land him/she/it in prison for being a sexual predator.
Watching a NK protest in Chicago and saw a sign I can agree with.
DON’T PADILLA ME
It’s great to see vets putting their hands on familiar battlefield assets in Washington D.C.. Have a memorable Army Anniversary, soldiers.
Salute!
The Democrat party has become totally UNHINGED. The former speaker of the Minnesota house was just killed today because she apparently COMPROMISED with Republicans on an immigration bill. So, a Democrat compromising with Republicans will now result in death by assassination……. suspect is Vance Luther Boelter
https://x.com/CultureWar2020/status/1933934216791650702
Interesting that the suspect Boelter was appointed by Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz to one of the governor’s boards? The DNC and their mainstream mockingbird propaganda media is going to have one hell of a time spin this one?
(https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1933932043471102348)
Yes, TJ. MSM and Dems are already trying to make Boelter out to be a right-wing anti-abortion extremist because he had 70 names and organizations on his so-called “hit list” and manifesto including “abortion providers and advocates”. The list supposedly also includes Tim Walz and ILhan Omar among many others. So, I would question whether this is a real hit list. Perhaps just a list of everyone and everything he’s been pissed off at, for one reason or another at one time or another. His graduate degree is from a defunct Catholic college – Cardinal Stritch University. This would explain the anti-abortion part. So I am wondering if with all of the “No Kings” protests today, if he just lost it and decided to end everything by taking out two convenient political targets – He would have their addresses as a political insider and his security professional business. All speculation of course. Hopefully, he will surrender to law enforcement……although he texted his rental house mates that he may be dead soon.
Padilla should have identified himself when he entered the room!! (He didn’t) If it was that important for him to ask questions, he could have scheduled a meeting. (He didn’t) he chose to force his way up to the front of the camera’s just to create a fake problem to get treated the way he did. Suddenly all this is President Trumps fault???
This is why I have No respect for any of the current
California state Democratic legislature, or the Democrats who currently reside in both houses of Congress. Justice is coming soon in the next election cycle!!!! And all that garbage you all have forced down our throats is going to end up on your front door step. The Red wave is going to kick all of you out of office and strip you of all your political power.
AMEN
Padilla wasn’t dressed like a senator, didn’t act like a senator (rushed the podium) and nobody recognized him as he is a un-elected Senator from California. He is lucky that security treated him with kid gloves.
Your out of town for a week in the Sierras with no internet and you comeback and the world is on fire. It looks like Gavin Newsom’s California values are under attack on multiple fronts and he is losing. I don’t believe that Newsom can sustain a multiple front attack for very long without everything collapsing in on him. This is getting very interesting.
Hal,
Hope your week in the Sierra’s was a good one.
Thanks, it was great. The weather was awesome, and we had an overall excellent trip.
I have seen a photo of Padilla wearing a Senate lapel pin. Perhaps he wasn’t wearing it to avoid the possibility that a California taxpayer citizen may ask, THEIR SENIOR SENATOR, one simple question like, Why are you supporting an illegal and unjust sactuary?
These people are transparent. We all knew this was a stunt from the very start to create an Astroturfed narrative that they could then feed the press in order to fire up the useful idiots. Fortunately, more and more people are on to them and while almost nobody before this incident knew who Alex Padilia even was, they now know him as “the idiot that tried to storm a press conference and got shown the door”. Also, they go on and on about “fascism this” and “my democracy that.” Well, you know what is democracy and what is fascism in action? Voting in people who will end stupid things like “EV Mandates” and then having Gov. Hairdo say “we don’t care about what you think, we are going to force you to do what we want no matter what”.
So what would happen if a Republican sitting member of the state legislature came into a hearing being conducted by Wiener like Padilla did in this case? The number one trait of a progressive is hypocrisy!
Alex Padilla barged into the press conference and was acting like a king. He was acting just like Newsom who also thinks he’s a king.
Also Scott Wiener: “The fascist dictators at Starbucks are forcing their employees to wear a uniform.”
Why would I care what a freak like Wiener says about anything?