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MOVE OVER J6! Nicole Wallace Calls Padilla's Removal 'One of the Bleakest Days' of Her Career [WATCH]

posted by Hannity Staff - 6.13.25

Dems’ new “bleakest day” just dropped…

During a podcast recording on Friday, MSNBC anchor Nicole Wallace said Alex Padilla’s Thursday removal from a press conference held by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem was “one of the bleakest days” of her entire anchoring career.

Wallace made the comments on Pod Save America.

“This was one of the bleakest days of anchoring that I’ve ever had in the job. I mean, we, I think, were prepared, on the losing side of the November contest, for Trump to do things that we warned he would do — and his embrace of autocracy and [Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor] Orbán and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and others,” Wallace said. “But … I mean, Orbán hasn’t done this … he’s to the autocratic right of Orbán. And to be doing what they’re doing in full view of the cameras really does make the mind expand in new directions in terms of wondering what they’re doing to people … who aren’t one of a body of 100, and where there aren’t cameras rolling.”

Really, Nicole?

“I think it’s a chilling moment, both in the treatment of someone from the other political party, but I think it’s also a really ominous sign of what they’re willing to use DHS — and those were FBI agents who had the senator on the ground — [FBI Deputy Director] Dan Bongino confirmed that in a statement,” she continued. “And it’s a real ‘what the fuck are we doing?’ moment, I think, for the whole country.”

Watch the clip below:

Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin blasted Padilla’s behavior in an X post after the incident, saying he was “disrespectful” and “lunged toward Secretary Noem” while neglecting to identify himself as a senator.

“Mr. Padilla was told repeatedly to back away and did not comply with officers’ repeated commands,” McLaughlin wrote. “@SecretService thought he was an attacker and officers acted appropriately.”

Padilla is already fundraising off the event.