'Who gave them tickets?' Lawmaker says 'crazies' were invited to derail Hegseth hearing

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) made clear on Tuesday who she thinks was behind a series of demonstrators who interrupted the opening day of Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation hearing – the senators themselves.

The far-right Florida lawmaker floated her new conspiracy theory during an appearance on the Benny Johnson Show, where she called protesters “crazies” and “no-Christian jihad[ist].” She told Johnson she was not only at today’s hearings, but she had her own sign taunting Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), which she complained she was barred from displaying.

“What’s interesting is those people actually were sitting in some of the Senate designated guest seats,” Luna said Tuesday. “And so, it’s interesting – who gave them tickets? But then also too, I had actually brought in a poster…that had Elizabeth Warren’s college application that checked her as being Native American and they would not allow me to bring that in.”

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Luna continued to criticize the demonstrators, who she said were “literally allowed to stand there, hold up their sign[s],” and keep them displayed, while she was blocked from holding up her poster.

“Which my poster was way better,” she told Johnson. “But they allowed these crazy, you know, no-Christian jihad, I mean my goodness, these people were screaming, ‘We want peace in the Middle East!’ which who doesn’t want peace? But then they’re also advocating against Pete Hegseth and then invited in by senators to hold signs and disrupt, so the whole thing as you can see was political propaganda.”

Luna also launched into a supposed media conspiracy that refused to cover what she said were over 500 veterans on Capitol Hill to support Hegseth’s nomination to be the country’s next defense secretary.

“Unless it was a conservative outlet, they didn’t want to cover that,” Luna said. “There was Navy SEALS, there was Green Berets, there was female veterans supporting Hegseth but they didn’t want to cover that, they wanted to cover the crazies.”

Watch the clip below or at this link.