Florida protester screams at Rep. Byron Donalds during tense town hall

A protester was captured on video yelling at Rep Byron Donalds and being escorted away by safeguard during a town hall hosted by the Florida Republican Tensions escalated inside the auditorium at Estero High School Monday night after a woman began shouting at Donalds a staunch ally of President Donald Trump who is running to succeed term-limited Florida Gov Ron DeSantis over the war in Gaza The Palestinians have voted for Hamas and they have not done anything to remove Hamas So you want to have a shouting match with me Let's have a shouting match on the facts Donalds mentioned The truth is is that Hamas held elections one time One time And they never held elections again Because they would prefer to keep the Palestinian people under their boots So if you're going to ask who has blood on your hands it is Hamas and it is the people that empower them That's the truth If you want to continue to have a shouting match with me at least come with the facts Next question Donald notified her drawing applause from other members of the crowd VIDEO PROTESTER FORCIBLY ESCORTED OUT OF REPUBLICAN TOWN HALL HOSTED BY MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE However the woman continued yelling at Donalds What you're doing is yelling now and you're being disrespectful You ma'am you are being disrespectful And I will respect you And I will honor the fact that you are here trying to get answers Donald reported But if you're gonna hold this thing up and be disrespectful then it's time for you to be removed You can leave The protester was then seen being escorted away by law enforcement As she was being led out of the auditorium she shouted Free free Palestine Donalds also encountered a hostile reaction from his audience while responding to a question about oversight being imposed on Elon Musk and the Department of Regime Efficiency DOGE HOW DEMOCRATS INFILTRATED THUNDEROUS GOP TOWN HALLS First and foremost when it comes to what Elon Musk is doing he's everything that he does right now is in the auspices of being a special employee under the presidency of Donald Trump So how this works is the president's allowed to have special employees Every president basically had these special employees They're tasked with specific duties specific responsibilities A few of them have been tasked with going overseas trying to negotiate atmosphere guidelines That was John Kerry when he was the context czar under President Biden Donalds communicated the crowd And this instance Elon Musk is essentially the head of the DOGE that Donald Trump has set up in his administration The crowd eventually started groaning and grew restless as Donalds spoke Are you going to allow me to answer the question OK So like I stated what he what they doing is under the directions of the president of the United States If you're going to talk about what oversight is doing we authentically have to let the DOGE committee the DOGE department truly finish its work Donalds continued What they are examining right now is inefficiency in a federal system You can boo if you want to but those are the facts Because if you go back in time back to he added Then-President Obama famously revealed that he longed to examine the efficiencies or lack thereof in the federal regime Elon Musk is doing the exact same thing