Posted on 01/31/2018 5:20:13 PM PST by markomalley
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Wednesday hit back at reports he "stormed out" of President Trump's inaugural State of the Union address, labelling them as "completely false" and "spin."
"There is a story going around that I 'stormed out' of the President’s speech last night which is completely false. That I boycotted the speech or protested by leaving during an applause break is just someone’s spin," Gutierrez wrote on Twitter.
"I was due on TV for an interview and the speech was running late. I waited until the President stopped talking and walked to the back and watched the last 90-seconds on TV (after sitting for 80 minutes). Then went to my interview. Those are the facts," he added.
Gutierrez did appear on MSNBC after Trump's State of the Union.
Following his departure from the House of Representatives chamber, where a joint session of Congress is traditionally convened, Gutierrez also released a statement saying he had been "hoping to get through my life without having to witness an outwardly, explicitly racist American President.”
“My luck ran out,” he wrote.
Democrats have been criticized for their response to Trump's address, deemed by many pundits as a call for bipartisanship in Washington, D.C.
For example, Trump's speech was interrupted with "boos" when he broached the topic of chain migration.
In addition, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Wednesday that Democrats were wrong to sit sullenly for most of the State of the Union, adding that mild protest showed a lack of respect to the presidency.
BS
‘Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes??’
Caught short ,bad Taco
busha... perfect timing lying scum bag
You stormed out, dickweed, I watched you. It was on live television.
Someone got their pee-pee smacked.
Mexico’s 2nd most effective member of the US Congress is this Puerto Rican from what he calls Mexico’s third largest city, Chicago.
That is why the other democrat hand to put his hand out in comfort and support while he was leaving
Comey calls out his seditious troops,
and the DNC waits:
“Miraculously, with ROADS CLOSED, a garbage truck
Suddenly appears with the hit showing an oncoming planned attack
From the SIDE.
And of course, Bill Kristol posted about the accident before it happened:
I call caca de toro
This had better be one damned important interview. Do we have evidence of this interview ? Was he seen on TV after the SOTU ?
Or was this for a Star Wars podcast ?
Luis is probably right. I don’t think he “stormed” out. It was more like slinking or sulking.
Just couldn’t handle the sound (hateful to his ears) of people chanting USA, USA, USA...
Methinks luis gutierrez doth protest overmuch.
interviewed by WHO??? so you're saying you're simply not important enough to wait a couple minutes for, is that it?
“Uh....I was testing my shoes.....yeah.....that’s it.”
He lies here . He lies about everything. He doesn’t want history to report he stormed out of the greatest SITU speech in history!! He looked SOOOOOO BAAAAAD!!He is ruined.
The Jew hating, cop hating, America hating Commie left because he HATES America, plain and simple..hearing USA is like kryptonite to Communists
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