'Leave my husband alone': Elaine Chao clashes with immigration protesters
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Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao clashed with immigration protesters and demanded they leave her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, alone, as seen in a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday.
Chao confronted the protesters, who stood outside her car playing audio of migrant children crying in a detention center on the U.S. border. She was leaving an event on the Georgetown University campus when several students approached her, according to the Twitter user who posted the video.
Why are you separating families?” the protesters yelled. “How does he sleep at night?”
“You leave him alone,” Chao said, pointing her finger. “You leave my husband alone.”
The majority leader is among high-ranking Republicans who have come under fire over an immigration policy that resulted in the separation of migrant children from their parents who crossed the U.S. border illegally. President Donald Trump reversed his policy via an executive order last week, but officials said on Tuesday that more than 2,000 children remained in limbo, separated from their parents.
“We confronted @SenateMajLdr and @SecElaineChao with @ProPublica audio of children separated from their families at the border while leaving a @Georgetown event,” the tweet said. “We must #AbolishICE & #AbolishCBP! #FreedomforImmigrants.”
The video shows approximately five people surrounding Chao as she exits a building and heads into a car. Another person calls for protesters to stand back as Chao walks toward the vehicle. The video was taken Monday at around 8:30 p.m., according to the Twitter user who posted it. The user declined to give his last name.
Protesters played a secretly recorded audiotape published by ProPublica.
The confrontation comes at a time when members of the Trump administration are calling for Democrats to show more civility and respect to government officials. The controversy has opened a debate about whether civility is a tool to protect the status quo and powerful officials.
The civility conversation picked up momentum when Trump dubbed Rep. Maxine Waters of California the “face of the Democrats” after she encouraged her supporters to protest his Cabinet members whenever they see them.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders grabbed headlines over the weekend when she was asked to leave a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, because she works for Trump. And last week, protesters drove Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant as furor over the separation of migrant families came to a boil.
A spokesperson for McConnell said on Tuesday that he did not have a statement on the protesters, and a representative for Chao did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Is there any doubt that all this intimidation of Trump officials isn't planned and coordinated?
We do know by now how progressives like to sit down & plan things, which leaves the impression to the casual observer of a kind of group-think or mob mentality. Iv'e got Maxine Waters and ProPublica figured into the mix.
I wonder if Chao knows that her husband is a huge hypocrite?
There is nothing wrong with protesting members of the Trump administration or his co conspirators and enablers in the Republican congressional leadership.
There should be no violence, but yelling at them? Be my guest.
Donald Trump is the most uncivil president in American history. Just how did you expect that his opponents would react to him Vic?
All this hand wringing by deplorables about civility is a riot.
hate to break it to ya.. but outside of family and friends no one actually cares about any of our feelings... the world could not give a shit. don't expect that to change.
if secure borders, more jobs, lower taxes and better trade deals, hurts someones feelings?
that is just funny, that is all it is.
Intimidation is not protest. If it was coming from the other direction, you'd be going crazy calling it gestapo tactics.
BTW, I never agreed with Sam Donaldson, when he used to say "My rights end where your nose begins". That is way too close and is right where the left wants to be.
I hope it is. It will show the opposition is getting their shit together.
It only shows that the progressives are still the same over the top, violent gang trying to impose it's will over the majority. Those days are over. We are ready for ya!
It's the bully in chief who started this when he started criminalizing migration. When it didn't work out his supporters have shown who the real snowflakes are.
Migration? Oh, man, you believe in open borders. Illegal immigration is just that. The only reason we are enduring this assault on the country is because are laws are designed to allow it. The demand for cheap labor is part of the reason and the democrats looking for votes is a huge pert of it.
What we saw here was a strong conservative woman taking on liberal "males", and handing them their ass as it should have been.
On the other side, we see liberal "males" harassing and intimidating women simply because they work for someone they don't like.
Why are liberal "males" such pussies?
Doesn't say anybody touched her. She is a high official in Trump's cabinet. The administration she works for is a national disgrace. If she doesn't want pushback don't work for the asshole.
As long as there is no physical contact anyone in his administration is fair game.
You don't have to be physically assaulted to have your ass handed to you. You get your ass handed to you here every day, and no one has ever laid a hand on you.
The COC prohibits me from dealing with you properly. Send Perrie a thank you note.
Dealing with me properly?????? Is that a threat?
The only ass she handles is the turtles.
Tough shit. Get used to it trumpsters.
We are starting to see more and more calls for mass protests on the scale of what happened the day after the inauguration and at the airports when Trump first tried to impose the travel ban.
If it takes mass protests than that is what it takes.
ya'll can protest until your blue in the face. it will not change a thing
have fun