Sen. Josh Hawley’s presentation on China and Ukraine was interrupted by a climate crisis advocate on Thursday. A woman took security by surprise when she walked on stage in the middle of Hawley’s speech, stating that America should not support Taiwan or Ukraine and that the primary threat to America is the climate crisis — a position President Joe Biden embraced as recently as this month’s State of the Union address.
The Missouri senator was speaking at the Heritage Foundation — noting the probability of China invading Taiwan when the female protester stepped onto the stage, holding a sign reading “war and aggression” and “CODEPINK,” a reference to a “woman-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism,” according to the Daily Caller.
Security removed her from the stage. She resisted and shouted her concerns as staff forcibly escorted her from the room.
Directing a comment to Hawley, she shouted: “We have the largest military in the world,” adding that America spends “over one trillion dollars every year, [while in] your state of Missouri, over half the people are in poverty.”
Hawley continued to stand at the podium as the spectacle unfolded and she shouted, “China is not our enemy — climate change is the enemy.”
When the protester was out of the room the senator said: “It’s interesting, this administration wants to use the climate crisis as a justification for its agenda in Ukraine and elsewhere. Maybe they oughta visit with that gal.”
The fiscally conservative Hawley then announced the need for “a new burden-sharing relationship with NATO,” arguing that it is “time to tell our NATO allies the hard truth, which is: They must take first obligation, first responsibility in the defense of Ukraine and encountering Russia. We should say that to them. Directly.”
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