Who is Jake Burdett, protester who was manhandled by Rep. Clay Higgins?
Olivia Bennett
Updated on February 18, 2026
A video showing Rep. Dirt Higgins truly eliminating a dissenter from a public interview on Wednesday became a web sensation
The protestor was recognized as Jake Burdett
Burdett guaranteed in a Twitter post that he was kept by DC police following the episode
A video showing Rep. Earth Higgins truly eliminating a nonconformist from a public interview with Rep. Paul Gosar and Rep. Lauren Boebert on Wednesday turned into a web sensation on Twitter. The protestor was recognized as Jake Burdett.
Who is Jake Burdett? Jake Burdett is a majority rule communist dissenter and depicts himself as a “moderate extremist” on Twitter.
Burdett recorded himself standing up to Gosar during a discourse before the episode, which provoked Higgins to hinder the nonconformist and state, “Let this man talk and afterward I’ll come converse with you secretly.”
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Higgins presented himself as the South Louisiana agent and asked Burdett to “calmly hold on with your camera” until the discourse was done so he could take questions. Burdett stood up to the senator and pushed past the blockades, moving towards her as Boebert began her own discourse. Accordingly, Burdett was effectively gotten rid of from the social affair by Higgins.
Burdett could heard express, “Get off me! You are harming me!.” Others could be heard yelling at Higgins to let Burdett go and to “quiet down”.
As indicated by a few accounts, Burdett was being pushed out of the Washington, D.C. occasion by Higgins as the senator hollered, “You’re out.” Burdett guaranteed in a Twitter post that he was confined by DC police following the occurrence.
“I’m presently being confined by DC Police for posing intense inquiries to extreme right fanatic Senators @RepGosar and @laurenboebert at a public interview. Rep Earth Higgins continued to attack/genuinely eliminate me from the public interview. For this, the police kept me, not him,” he composed.
On Wednesday, Burdett seemed to partake in a Federal health care for All meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders, and during the squabble with Higgins, he was seen wearing an Our Insurgency shirt.
