After his fiery appearance last week before the House Oversight Committee, former ICE Director Tom Homan defended his impassioned interjections to Democratic lawmakers who refused to let him speak, saying, "They wanted a fight; I gave 'em one."
"They didn't want to hear the truth; this was political theater," Homan told Fox News' "Fox & Friends." "They wanted to push their narrative and not let me speak. . . . I say 'enough. I'm going to interrupt. I'm going to interject, and they can throw me out if they want.'
"But what they wanted by the personal attacks on me and the men and women of Border Patrol, they wanted me to get up and walk out, and I wasn't gonna give that to them."
When Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., spent his time talking and not allowing Homan to speak, the former ICE director took a stand against being attacked and also silenced at a hearing he was invited to by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to speak "on his time" as a former member of the administration.
"He spent five minutes berating the heroes, and the Border Patrol and ICE, and myself, and I wasn't allowed to talk because he wanted someone who agreed with his comments," Homan said. "That's what this hearing's all about, pushing a false narrative."
Homan said Rep. Jesus Garcia, D-Ill., calling him a "racist" and saying he "didn't care about dying children" got him incensed, because he was the man who has knelt and prayed for dead men, women, and children in a back of a semi that was trafficking migrants to the United States.
"I thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right in the middle of the room because when you tell someone who has spent their career saving lives that I don't care about dying children and I'm a racist, that's where I broke," said Homan, who added he and his people were enforcing laws that Congress has not acted on to change, imploring them to "fix it."
". . . Even the audience did not want me to speak. This was nothing but political theater to push a false narrative against this president, this administration, the heroes in ICE and Border Patrol, and I wasn't going to be silenced. They wanted a fight; I gave 'em one."
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