“After I questioned Secretary Rubio on Code Pink and their ties to the CCP, their organization followed me out, berated me, and then their head person here in DC smacked me.”
Representative Anna Paulina Luna is pressing charges after she was assaulted on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, after questioning Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the activist group Code Pink. In a post on X, Lunda said members of the far-left group followed her when she left the hearing and proceeded to berate and assault her.
TMZ released footage of the encounter, showing Code Pink's founder "touching" Luna and being instructed to walk away.
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/2062311514238022063?s=20
“After I questioned Secretary Rubio on Code Pink and their ties to the CCP, their organization followed me out, berated me, and then their head person here in DC smacked me,” Luna wrote. “I will be filing charges.”
https://twitter.com/RepLuna/status/2062239687264075892?s=20
In a follow-up post, Luna said her account was not merely an allegation and that her staff witnessed the incident.
“Btw these are not ‘allegations.’ It happened. My staff was there when it happened and wrote statements for LEO,” she explained. She also said that she had asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to ban Code Pink from congressional spaces.
Code Pink is a far-left, anti-war advocacy organization that frequently protests US foreign policy, including military aid and interventions abroad. The group has organized campaigns that focus on US policy toward China and Cuba, and has faced accusations of aligning with foreign influence efforts.
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/2062264214488797304?s=20
During Rubio’s testimony before Congress, Luna questioned him about foreign influence in US advocacy groups. Rubio acknowledged these concerns about foreign governments attempting to influence domestic organizations, including in relation to China and Cuba. Members of the group recently traveled to Cuba to protest the US embargo against the country.
“There’s no doubt that when you have people showing up with pre-printed signs 24 hours after Nicholas Maduro was arrested and extradited to the United States, that’s not an organic movement. Someone’s paying for that,” Rubio said.
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