Washington Resistance Army wrote:Ifreann wrote:Before you all lose the run of yourselves badgering Vass, people aren't allowed to do that. Over 70 people were arrested, as was reported two lines below the line you just quoted. Trump is objectively wrong here. And you should really all know better than to believe him when he has been lying pretty much incessantly for years now.
Trump is wrong in the vein that yes they aren't "allowed" to do it, but we allow it to happen by letting in random morons and it's embarrassing.
If you find it embarrassing that the general public is allowed to view government proceedings, well, bully for you, but you aren't Donald Trump. Does Trump find it embarrassing that the public is allowed into the public gallery? He doesn't say that. He says it's embarrassing that people are allowed to interrupt the Senate and scream and protest. Which they are not allowed to do and were arrested for doing. No amount of scare quotes can make Trump right here.
Telconi wrote:Ifreann wrote:Before you all lose the run of yourselves badgering Vass, people aren't allowed to do that. Over 70 people were arrested, as was reported two lines below the line you just quoted. Trump is objectively wrong here. And you should really all know better than to believe him when he has been lying pretty much incessantly for years now.
They were allowed in were they not?
Yes Telconi, the public is allowed into the public gallery of the Senate. Trump wasn't calling that an embarrassment. Gravlen's already posted the transcript of his interview with the Daily Caller.
I’m amazed that people allow the interruption to continue. You know, there are some people that just keep screaming at the same people. In the old days we used to throw them out. Today I guess they just keep screaming. I thought Sen. Hatch was good because he was very indignant at the interruptions by a woman that was up there that just kept going on and on. I don’t know why they don’t, why they don’t take care of a situation like that because it’s terrible. I think it’s embarrassing for the country to allow protesters, you don’t even know which side the protesters were on. But to allow someone to stand up and scream from the top of their lungs and nobody does anything about it is frankly — I think it’s an embarrassment.
But he's wrong. They, the staff of the Sergeant-at-arms who provide security in and around the Senate, who I presume to be the relevant authorities here, don't allow that. They arrested over 70 people for that.