Mitch McConnell’s wife confronts angry crowd outside Georgetown University

United States Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao came face to face with a small group of protesters harassing her husband in Washington, D.C. on Monday.

Chao was caught on video calling out immigration protesters while she and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell departed an event at Georgetown University.

She was heard yelling out, while pointing a finger at the group: ‘Why don’t you leave my husband alone?!,’ she said, adding again: ‘Why don’t you leave my husband alone?!’

One male protester initially was heard asking the Kentucky politician: ‘Why are you separating families?’

The group was then seen inching closer to the pair, when Chao fearlessly got in their face.

The protesters continued to repeat the question, and she replied: ‘He is not… you leave him alone.’

Video courtesy of Twitter user @Roberto62543651 

United States Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao came face to face with a small group of protesters harassing her husband in Washington, D.C. on Monday

Chao was heard yelling out to the group: 'Why don't you leave my husband alone?!'

Chao was heard yelling out to the group: ‘Why don’t you leave my husband alone?!’

Protesters were heard asking the Kentucky politician: ‘Why are you separating families?’

Shortly after the altercation, Connell and Chao departed the scene in a black SUV.

Connell was not heard speaking in the video.

The verbal attack came a day before the Senate Republican leader said Tuesday the Trump administration ‘finally got it right.’

He was speaking of the Supreme Court decision to uphold the travel ban on citizens from certain majority-Muslim countries.  

The Supreme Court weighed in on the third version of the ban.

‘There were several earlier iterations of the so-called travel ban. I think the administration finally got it right,’ Connell said.

‘The Supreme Court agreed with that, and I think this is a decision the president should feel good about and I’m comfortable with. 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his wife Elaine Chao, address the crowd during a party for Kentucky Republicans in Louisville, Ky., November 4, 2014

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his wife Elaine Chao, address the crowd during a party for Kentucky Republicans in Louisville, Ky., November 4, 2014

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, speaks during a news conference following a Senate weekly luncheon meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, speaks during a news conference following a Senate weekly luncheon meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 19, 2018

‘I didn’t care for the earlier versions,’ McConnell added.

Trump on Monday expressed frustration at U.S. immigration laws and reiterated that people should be turned away at the border. 

Democrats have accused him of wanting to circumvent the U.S. constitution’s guarantee of due process for those accused of crimes.

‘We want a system where, when people come in illegally, they have to go out. And a nice simple system that works,’ Trump said.

Lawmakers Maxine Waters told a crowd in her home state of California on Sunday that a Virginia restaurant’s refusal to serve White House press secretary Sarah Sanders should be a model for resisting Trump

The immigration crisis has triggered new political tension, and Trump lashed out at a Democratic congresswoman who had urged Americans to confront members of his inner circle in public places.

The lawmaker, Maxine Waters, told a crowd in her home state of California on Sunday that a Virginia restaurant’s refusal to serve White House press secretary Sarah Sanders should be a model for resisting Trump.

‘If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd,’ Waters said.

‘And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere. We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents.’

Trump fired back on Monday, calling Waters ‘an extraordinarily low IQ person.’ 



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