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They expel Democratic congressman after protesting against the speech of President Donal Trump in the US Congress.
The Texas Democratic Representative Al Green, was expelled from the Plenary of the United States House of Representatives for interrupting the speech of President Donald Trump. (Free Press Photo: AFP)
The Democratic Congressman of Green was expelled on Tuesday from the House of Representatives for interrupting the president of the United States, Donald Trump, while he offered his first speech against Congress from his return to power.
Green, 78, got up and stirred his cane to replicate Trump, but his protest was drowned by the screams of the Republican bench. Subsequently, he was accompanied towards the exit by Chamber personnel, after being called to order by the president of that agency, Republican Mike Johnson.
Before the expulsion of the Congressman from Texas, the Democrats’ boos intermingled with the acclamations of the Republicans, who voiced “use!”, Trump’s war cry, in a tense start of the speech.
Members of the Democratic Party interrupted with boos the intervention of the US president before a joint session of the Congress, which led Johnson to ask several times order in the enclosure.
Given the repeated boos of the opposition in the first minutes of the speech, Johnson and the vice president of the United States, JD Vance, sitting behind Trump, rose from their seats to request that the interruptions cease.
The president of the House of Representatives warned about the lack of decorum and asked the attendees to maintain “the quorum in the chamber”, something that Trump thanked him.
Johnson also called the order of Deputy Green, whose protest was silenced by the shouts of the Republican bench. Finally, the congressman was escorted out of the enclosure.