Ex-cop Clay Higgins saves the day when a punk leftist tries to ambush Lauren Boebert.

Far-Left Activist Tries to Troll Republicans, Gets Removed from Press Conference

Jake Burdett, the self-proclaimed far-left activist, got more than he bargained for when he tried to interrupt a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington regarding the World Health Organization.

After being given the opportunity to stick around by Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins, Burdett was shocked that 1) Higgins forcibly removed him from an event that he only intended to troll and 2) he was the one being detained.

“I am currently being detained by DC Police for asking tough questions to far-right extremist Congressmen @RepGosar and @laurenboebert at a press conference. Rep Clay Higgins proceeded to assault/physically remove me from the press conference. For this, the cops detained me, not him,” Burdett said in a tweet Wednesday after the encounter.

According to The Hill, Burdett was visiting Capitol Hill with the Maryland Progressive Healthcare Coalition to support the reintroduction of the moribund Medicare for All Act.

Kristy Fogle, founder of the coalition, told the outlet that Burdett said he wanted to ask Boebert a “tough question” after they happened upon the news briefing.

Video posted by the protester himself shows him first approaching Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, whom he asked about appearing at a conference hosted by far-right fringe figure Nick Fuentes and about an ad released during the 2020 election cycle in which members of Gosar’s family came out against him.

During the video, Higgins approached Burdett and said, “I’m a congressman. I’ll make you a deal. Listen, let this man talk, and then I’ll come talk to you privately.”

“All I’m asking you to do is just peacefully stand by with your camera, and I promise you — look at me — I’ll come talk to you straight up and answer all your questions.” Suffice it to say, that’s not what happened.

Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado got up next; Burdett, seemingly undeterred, again stepped forward and asked Boebert about her recent filing for divorce.

“Did it have anything to do with giving food poisoning to Shooters Bar and Grill?” he said, referencing a 2020 incident in which pork sliders from Boebert’s restaurant were involved in a food-poisoning incident at a local rodeo, according to Salon.

At that point, Higgins, a former sheriff, stepped in and sidelined what was clearly an unbalanced troll act.

“You’re out, you’re out,” he can be heard saying in the video.

Thankfully, no one appears to have been hurt in the incident.

On Twitter, Boebert thanked Higgins for defending her “as a radical socialist attempted to disrupt me during a press conference.”

Also on Twitter, Higgins said that Burdett was “a 103M” — police code for “disturbance by a mental person.”

“One agitator activist protester became very disruptive and threatening in violation of the law,” the text in the accompanying video said. “Congressman Higgins successfully de-escalated the situation.”

Higgons said he turned Burdett over to the Capitol Police, and Fogle said they interviewed the activist. Meanwhile, Burdett claimed to have been detained by “DC police” — which would generally refer to a different body, the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department. It’s unknown which of these is true.

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