Overview

• At a Bradenton press conference held to mark Hulk Hogan’s death, an attendee halted Governor DeSantis to denounce the Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center and label him a “pedophile.”
• Security personnel promptly escorted the disrupter from the event, after which DeSantis resumed his remarks about WrestleMania III.
• The heckler invoked President Trump’s unresolved Jeffrey Epstein files, accusing both leaders of complicity in pedophilia.
• Alligator Alcatraz has drawn criticism for reported detainee abuses, opaque contracts benefiting GOP-linked donors, environmental damage to the Everglades and disruption of tribal lands.
• DeSantis defended his backing of the facility and his alliance with President Trump despite mounting dissent within the Republican base and public outrage.