An intrepid Fox News correspondent stood his ground while being shoved by “Squad” Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after she and other party leaders refused to explain why they remained seated during some of President Donald Trump’s most bipartisan callouts Tuesday night.
Johnny Belisario, reporting from the bowels of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, doggedly chased Democrats who were caught on camera sitting stone-faced while Republicans applauded the mother of Laken Riley and Trump’s promise to keep biological men out of women’s sports.
A peppering of questions by Belisario frazzled Democratic senators and congresspersons as they scrambled for elevators and office entrances while trying to escape him. Omar, clearly the most agitated of the bunch, shoved the Fox correspondent out of the elevator doors as he attempted to ask her why she didn’t stand for the speech.
“You need to move,” said the angry congresswoman, pushing Belisario and closing the doors on him. “Have a good day! I need to go to a meeting.”
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was among the very few Democrats willing to pause and speak about Tuesday night’s escapades, calling the optics not “the best look” for his party.
For the most part, interviewees like Cory