White House Communications Director Steven Cheung: Senator Padilla was 'acting like an unhinged bitch'

[Celerity]

https://www.notus.org/newsletters/brave-senator-or-unhinged

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.

This administration has its story, and they’re sticking to it. “Senator Padilla chose disrespectful political theatre,” the Department of Homeland Security posted on its official X account. Secretary Kristi Noem said she exchanged numbers with the Democrat (presumably after his hands were again free to reach his phone) and had a productive 15-minute conversation with him. “I wish he would’ve acted that way in the beginning rather than creating a scene,” she posted on X.

In the House? A shared GOP reality. “Play stupid games, get stupid prizes,” Rep. Rich McCormick told the NOTUS Hill team. Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that Padilla’s actions “rise to the level of censure.” One Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden, told Axios that he lives in this reality, too. “I don’t think politics as theater is what our job is here,” he said, though he added, “I think that it’s never good when a senator or member of Congress gets roughed up by law enforcement.”

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Steven Cheung:

[sakabatou]

1. Hey, Cheung! Turn around and look at your Dear Leader

There's your fucking "bitch".

[BOSSHOG]

2. Blame your enemies for what you do. Nazi plan

Political theatre indeed. The Republican outrage is evidence they know this is bad on them. Members of the party of responsibility never take it. Punks. They always take the easy way out. Avoid the truth loudly and often.

[rzemanfl]

3. Someone needs to slap that POS. n/t

[CousinIT]

4. Gaslighting and projection.

Sounds like Steven Cheung needs some Valium.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Or Midol since he wants to make sexist comments

[elleng]

5. cheung sounds unhinged.

[GenThePerservering]

6. He always sounds unhinged

the gus is a pus-filled hate machine.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. No, that was Tumpie.

[tishaLA]

8. cool way to tone down the rhetoric nt

[CatWoman]

10. Odd Job looks unhinged

[allegorical oracle]

11. Hope that dude doesn't get around horses. He'll scare the sh-t out of them.

[RussBLib]

12. and Cheung looks like a Mafia-loving, fat piece of shit

...whose Chinese parents perhaps ought to be deported.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[SSJVegeta]

13. Communications director isnt supposed to be the anger translator for the most openly angry admin

...in history.

[struggle4progress]

14. Steve's light flickers like his bulb ain't screwed on tight