WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. John Kennedy issued the following press release:
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) commended the law enforcement officers at the White House Correspondents' Dinner for their heroic efforts to halt the attempted assassination of President Trump in a speech on the U.S. Senate floor.
Key excerpts of the speech are below:
"An overeducated, underemployed, self-righteous punk from California who thinks he is smarter and more virtuous than the American people and who thinks if you disagree with him, you are not only in error, you are in sin and deserve to die, tried to crash the function and assassinate the president and some members of his administration."
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"I want to also say a word about security. Look, we are go...