{"id":16712,"date":"2024-03-09T00:46:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T00:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/watch-gop-lawmakers-confront-leftist-protesters-who-interrupt-anti-communism-event\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T00:46:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T00:46:19","slug":"watch-gop-lawmakers-confront-leftist-protesters-who-interrupt-anti-communism-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/watch-gop-lawmakers-confront-leftist-protesters-who-interrupt-anti-communism-event\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: GOP lawmakers confront leftist protesters who interrupt anti-communism event"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Republican lawmakers confronted a small group of leftist protesters on Thursday after the activists attempted to interrupt their press conference urging President Biden to keep Cuba\u2019s terror designation in place.<\/p>\n

Four Cuban-American lawmakers \u2013 Reps. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., and Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla. \u2013 were just minutes into their press conference outside the U.S. Capitol when two members of the group Code Pink and one other person abruptly stepped in front.<\/p>\n

The protesters were holding signs that said, \u2018Take Cuba off Terror List\u2019 and refused to move from the area in front of the lawmakers\u2019 display when asked.<\/p>\n

\u2018I wish the average Cuban could have the same privilege that you\u2019re having right now,\u2019 Salazar told the activists. One shot back, \u2018Well, thank you for giving us the privilege.\u2019<\/p>\n

Salazar continued, \u2018You know, I love this, because if we traveled to Cuba now, and you and I go \u2026 you will not be able to come close this close to the Capitol and speak your mind and have a dialogue like we could be having right now, because they will either put you in jail or put you back on a plane back to Miami.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Isn\u2019t it beautiful over there?\u2019 the protester replied.<\/p>\n

Code Pink is an antiwar group that has staged several demonstrations in and around the U.S. Capitol complex in the wake of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Malliotakis, whose mother is a Cuban refugee, pointed out that Cuba has close ties to Iran, which backs groups like Hamas.<\/p>\n

\u2018Instead of standing here protesting our press conference, you should be at the southern border, or maybe standing at the other side of the ocean where we\u2019re seeing Cubans fleeing in makeshift rafts,\u2019 she said. \u2018And maybe you can learn about what\u2019s actually happening in communist Cuba, because you\u2019re using a privilege that we only have here in the United States and the Cuban people do not have.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018You will be jailed, you will be beaten, you will be killed, if you do what you\u2019re doing right here, protesting in freedom, if you do it in Cuba. . . . It\u2019s ironic that we stand here with signs supporting a communist regime that does all those things.\u2019<\/p>\n

At one point, another protester holding a Spanish-language sign got close to lawmakers, prompting police officers to attempt to intervene. The House Republicans stopped her from being taken away and instead asked her to move to a space that didn\u2019t raise security concerns.<\/p>\n

The demonstrators did not move for the duration of the press conference.<\/p>\n

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At least one of them appeared to be Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who has been seen in the halls of Congress in recent weeks participating in various protests, including a Gaza ceasefire demonstration with progressive activist and actress Susan Sarandon.<\/p>\n

Malliotakis called her a \u2018professional agitator.\u2019<\/p>\n

Benjamin confirmed her attendance at the event and said in a statement to Fox News Digital: \u2018Politicians like these have been pushing the same tired position for over 70 years, and the only result has been impoverishment of the Cuban people. If they really cared a whit about Cuban families, they would call for measures to ease shortages, including lifting sanctions and taking Cuba off the terror list.\u2019<\/p>\n

Cuba was designated as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1982 \u2018because of its long history of providing advice, safe haven, communications, training, and financial support to guerrilla groups and individual terrorists,\u2019 according to the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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