LOS ANGELES—Stressing that she had significant reason to fear for her life during yesterday’s confrontation, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters Friday that she believed Sen. Alex Padilla had an even deadlier opinion that failed to go off. “We found this individual possessed a second, far more lethal string of words locked and loaded, and I’m terrified to think how the situation would have shaken out if he’d been able to say even one of them aloud,” said Noem, adding that the California senator clearly had been honing his convictions for days or even weeks before he used them at her news conference. “Thanks to the brave intervention of federal agents, we were able to detain the senator before he expressed this other highly dangerous belief, but if things had progressed differently, it’s very likely I wouldn’t be standing here today. Let me put a finer point on it: If this man had spoken just one more sentence to me, I would almost certainly be dead.” At press time, Noem released evidence from a raid of Padilla’s home that suggested he had a lengthy history of expressing such deadly opinions in writing and in person.

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