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 DC Daily Journal: ... The mainstream media’s outrage machine roared to life when Democratic California Senator Alex Padilla was removed from a press conference led by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, during her Friday appearance on the podcast Pod Save America, called it “one of the bleakest days” of her anchoring career. Yet, the same media outlets, including Wallace’s own network, have remained eerily silent about a far more egregious event: the unprecedented arrest and home raid of then-former President Donald Trump during Joe Biden’s tenure. This selective indignation exposes a troubling double standard. Wallace’s dismay centered on Padilla’s brief scuffle with security after he disrupted Noem’s remarks about the Los Angeles riots. “This was one of the bleakest days of anchoring that I’ve ever had in the job,” she said, framing the incident as a sign of Trump’s supposed authoritarianism. She even compared Trump unfavorably to Hung...