Republican says he was 'assaulted' by a 'pro-Hamas' protester outside Milwaukee convention: Demonstrator is arrested as tensions run high

Rep. Derrick Van Orden said helium was 'assaulted' by an anti-Israel protester astatine the Republican National Convention (RNC) who was aboriginal arrested. 

'While lasting successful enactment to participate an lawsuit astatine the RNC today, I was assaulted by what appeared to beryllium a subordinate of the pro-Hamas radical CODEPINK,' Van Orden said.

Code Pink, the rabble-rousing wide activistic group, is simply a fixture connected Capitol Hill, these days often confronting politicians implicit Israel policy. 

The Wisconsin Republican added that a constabulary serviceman witnessed the incidental and arrested the protester.

'This appears to beryllium an incidental of governmental unit and I volition ne'er tolerate this.'

The confrontation occurred conscionable days aft erstwhile President Donald Trump was changeable astatine a Butler, Pa. rally. 

'Republicans person been intimidated and targeted for years including the attempted assassination of President Trump and we volition nary longer standby and let lawlessness,' Van Orden went on. 

Earlier Tuesday, constabulary officers shot dormant a knife-wielding man in a hail of bullets little than a mile from the convention. The incidental was not believed to beryllium related to the convention. 

Van Orden, meanwhile, is demanding the House acceptable up an exigency sheet to analyse the Trump assassination attempt, which helium blamed connected rhetoric from the media and Democrats. 

'I anticipation [the shooting] changes the temper with the press,' Van Orden said successful an interrogation with DailyMail.com astatine the Republican National Convention (RNC) successful his location authorities of Milwaukee. 

'For implicit a decade, the property successful collusion with the Democrat Party utilized to beryllium the near helping Democrats present became mainstream. For implicit a decennary they've been saying that Trump is simply a Nazi. He's Hitler. He is fascist, he's gonna destruct democracy. He's against each American values. President Biden said it's clip to enactment a bullseye connected President Trump.'

Van Orden went on: 'Put yourself successful the shoes of that that 20-year-old trying to termination him. Since the clip helium was 11 oregon 12, helium has been proceeding each those vitriolic lies astir the president.' 

'What other would marque a 20-year-old ascent a extortion the extortion knowing that for definite he's gonna get killed by taking a changeable astatine the president different than the information that helium had been radicalized by the near helping portion of the Democrat enactment that turned mainstream and has been projected to him since helium was 11 by the media?' 

While the shooting prompted bipartisan condemnation and calls to code down rhetoric, immoderate Republicans were speedy to constituent fingers astatine wide hyperbole astir Trump. 

'Democrats and liberals successful the media person called Trump a fascist. They've compared him to Hitler,' Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., posted connected X. 

'This isn't immoderate unfortunate incident,' Scott's station continued. 'This was an assassination effort by a madman inspired by the rhetoric of the extremist left.' 

The now-deceased gunman was a 20-year-old Pennsylvania local. He was a registered Republican who had made a tiny donation to the Biden campaign. 

Van Orden said the Secret Service had 'failed' that time successful Butler, Pa., but refrained from calling for anyone to beryllium fired. 

'When your 1 occupation is to marque definite the erstwhile president does not get shot, and the erstwhile president gets shot, there's intelligibly a occupation - you person failed your superior mission.'

Van Orden said he's implored Speaker Mike Johnson to 'not grip this the mode Congress usually handles things.'

'There's really 4 antithetic committees that person jurisdiction. I don't privation a full clump of committees doing their ain small thing.'  

'We person to person a peculiar committee that's comprised of members of those committees and different members with taxable matter. expertise. We request to get this unneurotic precise soon. And it needs to beryllium wholly completely open. Meaning the American radical person to spot everything we're doing each idiosyncratic we're talking to each portion of accusation that we have, truthful that they recognize what the heck is going on.'