Reporting from, ahem, “elsewhere”, identifies the man and states he was arrested.
"Abbey Gate!” Steve Nikoui yelled down at the president. “Second Battalion, First Marines!”
Capitol Police escorted Nikoui, 51, out of the chamber around 10:15 p.m. and took him into custody.
He was charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding Congress, a misdemeanor that typically results in the offender’s release after paying a $50 fine.
Nikoui’s son, Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, was killed by a suicide bomber outside Kabul’s international airport while trying to process evacuees from the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021."
Hey, thanks for platforming this guy whom I would have never heard of as being anything more than “voice of loonytunes wacko heckler during speech”
Now he will be on a talk show circuit
Like it or not, it’s news when someone interrupts the SOTU and has to be forcibly removed. And honestly, it’s fine with me if this guy gets air time. It was a terrible thing, and he has a right to be angry. Hopefully, if this does get more coverage, it will be made clear that Biden isn’t the one culpable - it was more trump than him, and more the Taliban than Trump.
Not on the networks that will give him airtime, it won’t.