Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was followed to his car Saturday by protesters who hurled both personal insults and political rhetoric at him while he left a Kentucky restaurant.
The encounter, which took place in a parking lot outside of a Louisville restaurant, was captured on camera by one of the protesters. In the video, you can hear the group of protesters chanting "vote you out!" and "abolish ICE!" to the Republican senator from Kentucky. One man can be heard calling the senator "turtle head" and repeatedly saying "we know where you live" as the senator and two dining companions climb into their parked vehicle.
McConnell did not respond to the protesters' comments. The Washington Post was first to report the video Sunday.
The encounter was the second one to occur to McConnell in the last two weeks. In late June, the senator and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, were confronted by protesters in Washington, DC, while leaving an event at Georgetown University.
According to the Post, hundreds of people were protesting Saturday outside Louisville's Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office, just a few miles from the restaurant. Among the protesters were members of the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. When someone noticed McConnell at the restaurant, they called on the protesters to confront the senator.
"If the Leader comments on being called a fascist and a supporter of ICE by a small handful of extremist protesters then I will let you know," McConnell's spokesman, David Popp, told the Post after the incident
easily lot of people cause the liberal party is fucking stupid and didn't learn from their mistakes. but I don't think running into the arms of nazis is wise idea for amerimutts. whole country will implode if they start doing dna tests. trump will have to suicide for not being a purebred american
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Mason Evans
fuck off christ cuck. you persecute non christcucks way more then they persecute you. for example I cooked a nice steak dinner with corn and potatoes for a couple the other day. My thanks? They call me the living dead; a collective term for ANYONE who does not believe in a abrahamic religion. You folks literally think you are superior to every non believers; secularist humanists are not sheep and Christians are not shepherds so both you and your entire flock can screw off.
Carson Myers
Christfags are literally sheep, and proudly so.
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Michael James
I DIDN'T DO NOTHING WRONG!!! WHY WON'T ANYONE BELIEVE ME?!?!?
Remember what it was like before trump when the majority of people would have their eyes glaze over at a political conversation? Remember telling people they need to see what really going on and get involved?
Hudson Wilson
they still do that
Christian Wright
I'd be angry but it's mostly just disappointing.
Chase Stewart
I hope it all falls apart and we get a holdomor. I want to stalk people and eat them