'Leave my husband alone': Sen. McConnell, Elaine Chao confronted by immigration protesters
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Demonstrators decrying the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown were arrested Tuesday at a rally ahead of a Los Angeles appearance by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (June 26)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, were confronted by protesters as they left Georgetown University on Tuesday night in an incident that was captured on video and shared on social media.
The small group of protesters loudly questioned McConnell as he got into a waiting SUV about his support of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
One protester, just inches from Chao, repeatedly shouted, “How do you sleep at night?” Another asked McConnell why he was separating families, to which Chao said, “He’s not.”
Chao also pointed her finger at the protesters, saying several times, “You leave my husband alone. Leave my husband alone.”
In a video posted by The Hill, a female security guard can be seen shoving a protester away.
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McConnell spokesman David Popp declined to comment when reached by the Courier Journal. “We do not comment on protesters,” he said.
This incident is the latest in a string of occurrences involving members of the Trump administration. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was confronted by protesters at a Mexican restaurant last week, while a restaurant owner in Lexington, Va., asked press secretary Sarah Sanders to leave on Friday night.Â
It also comes just days after Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., praised the “no peace, no sleep” protests and called for stepping up confrontations with Trump officials in public places.
“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up, and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station,†she told a throng of cheering supporters, “you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Republicans and Democrats in Congress have denounced that statement. On Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., called for Waters to apologize.
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