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Taylor Odisho

Democrat Rips Into Fellow Party Member After He Was Detained During Kristi Noem Press Conference: 'Theater'

Maine Representative Jared Golden criticized his fellow Democrat for being tackled by DHS agents on Thursday. (Credit: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Congressman Jared Golden broke with the Democratic Party to publicly chastise fellow lawmaker Alex Padilla, who was arrested Thursday while attempting to question Kristi Noem during a press conference in California.

While some lawmakers in his party bought liability insurance after California Senator Padilla was manhandled by federal agents, Golden, a centrist Democrat representing Maine, parroted what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said about the incident.

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