On Monday evening, an unlikely group of people rolled up to Damian, Enrique Olvera’s modern Mexican restaurant in the Arts District that many people consider to be one of the best in the world.
Emerging from a Black SUV and a Maybach were right-wing political commentator Tucker Carlson, billionaire Rick Caruso, former speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy, and Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence.
Given the on-going immigration raids across Southern California that have resulted in over 5,000 arrests and hundreds of mostly Latino families being torn apart, seeing people with close ties to Trump, the Republican party, and the far-right movement at a boundary-pushing Mexican restaurant in Downtown Los Angeles surprised some folks.
“It was pretty jarring to see in the middle of L.A.,” an eye-witness who happened to be eating across the street at Bestia, told L.A. TACO.