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A screaming pro-Palestinian protester apparently was trying to take over a town meeting assembled by U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, a Florida Republican running for governor in his state, by screaming at him for minutes.
But he had the microphone and she lost.
"What you're doing is yelling now and you're being disrespectful. You, ma'am, you are being disrespectful. And I will respect you. And I will honor the fact that you are here trying to get answers. But if you're gonna hold this thing up and be disrespectful, then it's time for you to be removed. You can leave," he said.
She was escorted out of the room, still screaming, "Free, free, Palestine!"
The woman began shouting at Donalds about the Middle East conflict. It was the terror group Hamas, from Gaza, that dispatched soldiers to invade Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. They slaughtered, often in horrific fashion, some 1,200 Israeli civilians, and took hundreds more hostage.
Since then, Israel has been pursuing the terrorists on-again, off-again depending on the nature of ceasefire negotiations, to protect its civilians and prevent future terror atrocities.
Donalds responded, "The Palestinians have voted for Hamas and they have not done anything to remove Hamas. So you want to have a shouting match with me? Let's have a shouting match on the facts. The truth is, is that Hamas held elections one time. One time. And they never held elections again. Because they would prefer to keep the Palestinian people under their boots."
According to the report, he continued, "So if you're going to ask who has blood on your hands, it is Hamas and it is the people that empower them…. That's the truth. If you want to continue to have a shouting match with me at least come with the facts. Next question."
The protester, not identified, refused, however, to let others move on their questions. Eventually, she was removed, still screaming, "Free, free, Palestine."
Donalds also was challenged because of the work being done by Elon Musk and President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.
He explained, "You can boo if you want to, but those are the facts. Because if you go back in time, back to 2009, then-President Obama famously said that he wanted to examine the efficiencies or lack thereof in the federal government. Elon Musk is doing the exact same thing."
Donalds said, "When it comes to what Elon Musk is doing, he's everything that he does right now is in the auspices of being a special employee under the presidency of Donald Trump. So how this works is the president's allowed to have special employees. Every president basically had these special employees. They're tasked with specific duties, specific responsibilities. Some of them have been tasked with going overseas, trying to negotiate climate policy. That was John Kerry when he was the climate czar under President Biden. And this instance, Elon Musk is essentially the head of the DOGE that Donald Trump has set up in his administration."
