There’s never a dull moment in the swamp — especially when Senate theatrics and firearms collide.
Just as Democrat Senator Cory Booker was ramping up his much-hyped, 17-hour tirade against President Trump and Elon Musk from the Senate floor, one of his own staffers was being quietly arrested for carrying an unlicensed firearm onto Capitol grounds.
Cory Booker goes OFF on Trump in the 17th hour of his filibuster: “He promised to lower your grocery prices – they’re higher. Over and over he’s breaking promises and doing outrageous things like disappearing people off American streets. Do we see what’s happening?” pic.twitter.com/j1gIky6KLV
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) April 1, 2025
According to U.S. Capitol Police, 59-year-old Kevin A. Batts, a Booker aide and retired law enforcement officer, was busted Monday evening for packing heat without a license. Officers say Batts was escorted around standard security screening at the Hart Senate Office Building by a Member of Congress earlier in the day — a major no-no in itself.
Later, while standing outside the Senate Galleries — presumably catching some of his boss’s filibustered fireworks — Batts voluntarily informed police that he was armed. That confession earned him a shiny new charge: Carrying a Pistol Without a License.
“All weapons are prohibited from Capitol Grounds, even if you are a retired law enforcement officer, or have a permit to carry in another state or the District of Columbia,” Capitol Police said in a statement.
In other words, there are no special carve-outs for Cory Booker’s crew — no matter how many anti-MAGA monologues they’re delivering upstairs.
Batts, listed on Legistorm as a special assistant to Booker, now finds himself in hot water while his boss continues playing cable news hero in a marathon speech aimed at demonizing President Trump, Elon Musk, and the entire America First movement.
Booker, wide-eyed and fueled by who-knows-what, vowed Monday night to speak “for as long as I am physically able,” launching into a performative screed dripping with progressive angst. It’s been more than 17 hours, and yes — he’s still going.
Apparently, Booker is trying to stir up public outrage over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Musk’s cost-cutting crusade, which has already saved taxpayers hundreds of billions. It seems the Senator from New Jersey thinks your money is better spent on transgender opera programs in Guatemala.
Meanwhile, back in reality, one of his own staffers was sneaking around Capitol security with a firearm — raising serious questions about judgment, hypocrisy, and whether any of these people actually follow the rules they lecture the rest of us about.
It’s the same old story in D.C.: while the Left yells about Trump being a “threat to democracy,” they’re the ones bypassing security with illegal weapons and propping up staffers who should know better.
Maybe someone should hand Booker a mirror before he finishes hour 18.
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