India, June 14 -- US President Donald Trump has tried to justify the forced removal of California Senator Alex Padilla from a press conference by federal agents. The Democrat leader was thrown to the ground and handcuffed by officials after he asked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question at her press conference in Los Angeles. Noem was in LA amid the protests against raids by immigration officials. According to Michael Wolff, Trump's biographer, the 47th President tried to justify the incident by saying that Padilla "looked like an illegal," the Daily Beast reported.

On the Daily Beast podcast, Michael Wolff claimed that Trump tried to dismiss the incident by saying that Alex Padilla was not famous. Wolff explained Trump's ra...