Donald Trump mentioned Democrat Senator Alex Padilla ‘regarded like an unlawful,’ claims biographer

Jun 14, 2025 11:02 PM IST

Donald Trump’s biographer Michael Wolff claimed that the US President mentioned that Alex Padilla was not well-known.

US President Donald Trump has tried to justify the compelled removing of California Senator Alex Padilla from a press convention by federal brokers. The Democrat chief was thrown to the bottom and handcuffed by officers after he requested  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a query at her press convention in Los Angeles. Noem was in LA amid the protests in opposition to raids by immigration officers. According to Michael Wolff, Trump’s biographer, the forty seventh President tried to justify the incident by saying that Padilla “looked like an illegal,” the Daily Beast reported.

US President Donald Trump.(Bloomberg)

What Trump mentioned on Alex Padilla

On the Daily Beast podcast, Michael Wolff claimed that Trump tried to dismiss the incident by saying that Alex Padilla was not well-known. Wolff defined Trump’s rationale saying, “This is just his visceral response: Nobody’s ever heard of him. We can take the blame off the ICE agents because they haven’t heard about this guy.”

The biographer added that Trump was a “little unsettled” by Padilla’s forcible removing and is making an attempt to downplay the state of affairs. 

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Minnesota capturing: Trump expresses condolences

State Representative Melissa Hortman, State Senator John Hoffman and their companions had been shot on Saturday, June 14. Donald Trump expressed his condolences on the matter and mentioned it could have been a “targeted attack,” AFP reported. He additionally claimed that such violent incidents wouldn’t be focused within the US.

Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark handed away within the capturing, whereas Hoffman and his spouse Yvette have survived and are present process remedy. According to ABC News, the lawmakers had been focused at their houses, which had been about eight miles away from one another north of Minneapolis. A manhunt is underway to nab the perpetrator.

 FAQs

1 What is a Senator?

A member of the Senate is known as a Senator. In the US, each state elects two Senators.

2 Who are the present US Senators?

There are presently 100 Senators together with Tom Cotton (Arkansas), Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota) and Alex Padilla (California).

3 Who are the well-known 5 Senators?

 Henry Clay (KY), John C. Calhoun (SC), Daniel Webster (MA), Robert Taft (OH), and Robert La Follette, Sr. (WI) had been the 5 well-known Senators to be inducted right into a corridor of fame by the John F. Kennedy administration.

4 Who is one among California’s Senators now?

Alex Padilla is a Democrat Senator from California.