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Biden, Pope Francis discuss Israel, Gaza in rare call
President Biden and Pope Francis spoke in a rare phone call Sunday about the latest developments in Israel and Gaza, stressing the need to prevent an escalation of the conflict and steps towards peace in the Middle East.
Condemning the attacks by Hamas, which is recognized by the U.S. and several other countries as a terrorist organization, Biden spoke with the pontiff about his trip to Israel and efforts to guarantee the delivery of food, medicine and humanitarian aid to assist the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, according to readout from the White House.
The two leaders spoke about preventing the conflict’s escalation in the region and how to “work toward a durable peace in the Middle East,” the White House said.
Citing the Holy See Press Office, Vatican News reported the conversation lasted around 20 minutes and highlighted the “need to identify paths of peace.”
Biden is only the second Catholic U.S. president and had a private audience with Francis at the Vatican in 2021.
Their conversation comes just over two weeks since Hamas launched attacks that killed more than 1,400 people in Israel, including hundreds of civilians in their homes, at a bus stop, and at a music festival.
Israeli forces quickly responded with a bombardment of Gaza that has so far killed more than 4,600 Palestinians and injured over 14,000 others, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported Sunday.
Coupled with hundreds of air strikes, Israel also cut off food, water, electricity and medicine to the region, intensifying the humanitarian crisis in the area.
Israel ordered more than 1.1 million Palestinians to travel to southern half of the Gaza Strip more than a week ago, ahead of an anticipated ground assault. However, many people in Gaza said Israel still attacked that portion of the enclave. Hamas has told residents not to leave and to stay in their homes.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces on Sunday reportedly claimed Hamas has taken 212 people hostage, a slight increase from the previous estimate of at least 203 hostages last week. The upped hostage count comes days after the militant group released two American hostages.
Earlier this month, Francis called on Hamas to free hostages abducted from Israel and expressed his concern over Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip.
In Biden’s visit to Tel Aviv last week, the president reaffirmed the U.S.’s “unwavering” support to Israel while announcing an agreement to allow humanitarian aid to move from Egypt to Gaza.
Trucks carrying aid have since entered into Gaza through the Rafah crossing — Gaza’s only connection to Egypt — which had shut down in the wake of Israeli airstrikes.
Biden also confirmed the U.S. will fund $100 million to assist those living in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Hillary-endorsed candidate for Houston mayor Sheila Jackson Lee berates staff in profanity-laced tirade
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, was recently heard on recorded audio going off on one of her staff members in a profanity-laced tirade in which she said he and another staff member had no brains and are “f- -k-ups.”
Jackson Lee, a Hillary Clinton-endorsed congresswoman who built a reputation in Washington as being one of the “meanest” members of Congress, has represented the same Houston, Texas district in the House of Representatives for over 28 years.
In March, Jackson Lee threw her name in the running to become the mayor of Houston in an off-year election, which if elected, would bring her time in Congress to an end.
In audio obtained by Texas newspaper Current Revolt and published on Saturday Jackson Lee is heard speaking with a male staff member when she asked, “You took a piece of paper from that woman regarding something that was owned by Duncantell. Where is it? What date was it?”
The man answered by telling the representative he gave the piece of paper to Jerome, who took it upstairs. The staff member then tells Jackson Lee he has to call Jerome, before being cut off.
“I don’t want you to do a [expletive] thing,” she said. “I want you to have a [expletive] brain. I want you to have read it. I want you to say, ‘Congresswoman, it was such and such a date. That’s what I want. That’s the kind of staff that I want to have.”
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Jackson Lee continued to spew profanity at the staffer as she berated him over how she expects her staff members to handle calendar events, especially those from Ovide Duncantell, founder of the Black Heritage Society, Inc.
Rather than pawn it off to someone else, the congresswoman said she needs whoever took the information about the event to know when and where the event takes place.
But in this case, the staffer sounded on the audio as if he gave it to another staffer.
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“When I called Jerome, he only sits up there like a fat [expletive], just talking about what the [expletive] he doesn’t know,” she said. “Both of y’all are [expletive]-ups…This is the worst [expletive] that I could’ve ever had put together. Two [expletive] big [expletive] children. [expletive] idiots. Serve no [expletive] purpose.
“Nobody’s respecting him, nobody gives a [expletive] about what you’re doing. And you ain’t doing [expletive]. And this is an example of it. I gave it to Jerome. This is not child’s work, ok,” Jackson Lee said.
The congresswoman did not immediately respond to Fox News inquiries about the recording.
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This is not the first time Jackson Lee has gone off on staff members. In fact, in 2011, a Daily Caller report cited a number of former staff members as saying she used demeaning language and name-calling when addressing them.
She also was accused of forcing her staff members to work long hours, even into the early hours of the morning, and demanding them to drive her everywhere she went regardless of how short the distance.
Jackson Lee was forced to resign as the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) in 2019 in the wake of a lawsuit by a former employee who claimed she was fired as retaliation for planned legal action related to an alleged 2015 rape by a supervisor.
According to The New York Times, which first reported on Jackson Lee’s plans to resign, CBCF board members told Jackson Lee to step down as chairwoman or face a removal vote after the lawsuit became public a week earlier.
In the suit, the unnamed former staffer alleged she was raped while a CBCF intern by the foundation’s internship program coordinator and her supervisor at the time. Two years later, she was hired to work for Jackson Lee, who had recently been made chairwoman of the CBCF’s board of directors. Shortly after she was hired, Doe said Jackson Lee received a text message from the CBCF’s chief executive at the time, A. Shaunise Washington.
“I just received a notification that you have a new staffer,” Washington allegedly messaged Jackson Lee, mentioning the staffer’s name. “Call me, I have background on her.”
The staffer said she was fired in March 2018, roughly two weeks after she told Jackson’s chief of staff, Glenn Rushing, that she had “recently learned more about her case involving Mr. Jones and CBCF and planned to move forward with legal action” against the foundation.
The lawsuit was dismissed in 2020.
Brandon Gillespie of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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McCarthy concerned of terror ‘sleeper cells’ in US amid Israel-Hamas war, says speaker must prioritize border
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., warned Sunday of potential terror “sleeper cells” in the United States amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Throwing support behind Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., for his old job as the lower chamber of Congress has remained without a speaker for three weeks, McCarthy said that whoever takes on the role must prioritize border security. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” McCarthy pointed to a new report released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection that shows 18 people on the FBI’s terror watch list were apprehended at the southern border in September, accounting for the more than 160 caught so far this year.
“It’s going to be an uphill battle,” McCarthy said of the speakership fight after Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Steve Scalise, R-La., both failed to secure enough votes.
“But if you simply look at what’s the chaos right now, a wide-open southern border. I’m concerned about a cell sitting inside America today,” McCarthy said. “We just caught 18 people just last month on the FBI terrorist watch list coming across our border. More than 160 have done it this year.”
He added, “When we’re looking around the Middle East and the uprisings popping up around Europe and others, they could be sleeper cells right now in America. But this administration [hasn’t done anything] to change what’s happening on the southern border.”
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“We got government funding where our troops wouldn’t be paid sitting here in a month,” he said. “Tom Emmer has been a part of our successes from not just winning the majority but being in the room to help us pass a border security bill to make us energy independent, Parents Bill of Rights to stand up when the Democrats wanted to defund the police and decriminalize some of those laws. And he has been successful. This is not a time for a learning experience as speaker.”
McCarthy condemned eight House Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla, for having “created this chaos by joining every single Democrat in voting to shut down one branch of government.”
“I would do the exact same thing again,” McCarthy said of the deal cut with Democrats to delay a government shutdown for 45 days that ultimately cost him the speakership. “Could you imagine if we were having this discussion right now with the American government shut down with our troops in the Middle East, wondering when they’ll ever get paid again? Keeping the government open was the right decision to make, and I’d make it again each and every day.”
He also alluded to the idea that Gaetz was diverting attention away from a House ethics probe that he faces.
“I don’t know why they would follow Gaetz about his ethics complaint. I don’t know what’s in it,” McCarthy said. “I legally can’t be involved in it – must be rather serious to put this much jeopardy into this nation. I would have hoped that everybody would come together, put the country before the politics and actually solve this. Steve Scalise would have done an excellent job. I supported him. Jim Jordan would have. I just know this is not a time to play games.”
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“This is embarrassing for the Republican Party. It’s embarrassing for the nation. And we need to look at one another and solve the problem,” McCarthy added.
“Meet the Press” host Kristen Walker pressed McCarthy on whether he’d run for speaker again, but he deflected.
“I’m going to lead in any capacity. I can help to protect America. I’m going to work to secure our border. I’m going to work to stop the inflation. I’m going to make sure war does not break out in Israel and that Israel has every resource they need to defend themselves. But most importantly, I’m going to press this administration,” McCarthy said. “We have to destroy Hamas. But you cannot do it without confronting Iran. They need to change their policies. Iran only had $4 billion in the foreign exchange when they took office. They now have 70 billion.”
“Iran only produced 400,000 barrels of oil a day. When they – when Biden took office, they now produce 3 million,” he said. “They’re getting billions of dollars to fund terrorism around the world. And you cannot stop Hamas, you cannot get the American hostages back without confronting Iran. And they cannot make the same mistake they did in Afghanistan. We have to be very clear. Every single American has to come home. No one will be left behind.”
McCarthy, who also declined to say whether he’d endorse former President Donald Trump in 2024 but said he expected Trump to be the GOP nominee, also said he would not support linking Ukraine aid to Israel because the latter needs to be expedited.
“I would have already sent aid to Israel,” he said. “I would have stood up to the antisemitism that’s coming across the aisle. The lies that are being said by the Democrats where [House Minority Leader] Hakeem [Jeffries] just says there’s no statement. I would have made sure that we had looked at our own border, that we don’t have any sleeping cells here, that we would actually stop these terrorists coming across our own border. And I would have made sure from that perspective going forward that Israel had every sophisticated weapon they needed to defend themselves.”
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Blinken says US has ‘pretty strong idea’ that Hamas holding some of 10 unaccounted for Americans hostage
With 10 Americans still unaccounted for more than two weeks after Hamas’ massacre in Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said the terrorist group is believed to be holding at least some of them hostage in Gaza.
Blinken addressed the missing Americans during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” saying that the U.S. is still uncertain whether some of the unaccounted for are dead, with their bodies yet to be recovered, though a “significant number” are believed to be held hostage.
“We’ve got 10 unaccounted for Americans,” Blinken said. “We believe that some significant number are hostages.”
He continued, reiterating that “we have a pretty strong idea that some number of the 10 at least are being held in Gaza by Hamas.”
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More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed in the war – mostly civilians slain during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7. Hamas is also believed to have taken more than 200 people hostage during its deadly incursion, which Blinken described as a slaughter.
“But, you know, what’s happening is – and it just underscores the horror – Israel continues to discover, uncover people, who were killed, who were slaughtered, and I use that term very advisedly, slaughtered, on Oct. 7,” he said.
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Two American nationals held captive by Hamas were released Friday. They were identified as Judith Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter Natalie Raanan, who originally were taken by Hamas from the Nahal Oz kibbutz in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip.
Video of President Biden speaking with both the mother and daughter by phone was posted to social media on Saturday.
“We’re going to get them all out, God willing,” Biden said in the video.
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McConnell calls China, Russia, Iran new ‘axis of evil’ that US must deal with: ‘This is an emergency’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Sunday deemed China, Russia and Iran the new “axis of evil” amid wars in Ukraine and Israel, while addressing U.S. funding of allies’ responses to those duel conflicts.
In a new sit-down interview with “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream, McConnell, the highest-ranking Senate Republican, agreed with fellow Republican Kentuckian Sen. Rand Paul that the $1.5 trillion deficit is “entirely too big.” But while Paul remarked last month that the U.S. under the Biden administration was borrowing heavily from China just to send aid to Ukraine, McConnell instead emphasized Sunday that the deficit also expanded during the prior administration under former President Donald Trump.
“You have to respond to conditions that actually exist that are a threat to the United States. The Iranians are a threat to us as well. And so, this is an emergency. It’s an emergency that we step up and deal with this axis of evil – China, Russia, Iran – because it’s an immediate threat to the United States,” McConnell said.
“In many ways the world is more endangered today than it has been in my lifetime,” McConnell said, recalling that unlike when the Berlin Wall fell, the world faces a “big power competition” coinciding with the terrorism threats in the Middle East and culminating in Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists.
“The question is, is American going to lead?” McConnell posed to Bream. “I think the Biden administration sent the wrong signal and they had the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. I think that was like giving a green light to Putin to go into Ukraine. And we see that Iran, principal sponsor of terrorism, sending drones to the Russians and attacking – Hezbollah and in this particular situation, Hamas – attacking the Israelis with drones. So it’s all connected. You can’t separate out one part of it and say we’re only gonna deal with this. It’s all connected.”
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McConnell said, “We know which side they’re on” in regard to China’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war, adding, “We need to view this as a worldwide problem.”
As for the budget supplemental, McConnell said Senate Republicans will want something “credible on the border,” telling Bream, “If we’re going to accept the financial responsibility of helping our allies we certainly want to do something to help ourselves.” Bream noted how Republicans like Sen. JD Vance of Ohio are critical of President Biden for tying Ukrainian aid to the atrocities seen in Israel during Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack to ask Congress for more funding, but McConnell argued the conflicts are connected.
“I don’t view this as about whether to give Biden credit or not. This is a question of whether it’s a serious threat to the United States. If the Russians aren’t defeated, they’ll go into a NATO country next,” McConnell warned. “And the notion that somehow our Asian allies are unconcerned about Ukraine is completely wrong.”
“The prime minister of Japan said if you want to send President Xi a message, beat the Russians in Ukraine,” he continued. “The South Koreans, the Japanese, the Taiwanese are all interested in what’s happening over in Ukraine because they know President Xi is watching that. President Xi recently declared that they had an endless friendship with the Russians. What more do you need to know about how relevant Ukraine is to Asia and to the Middle East?”
As Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week, Bream asked McConnell what China might be making of Axios reporting that artillery shells the U.S. designated for Ukraine are being diverted to Israel and that Taiwan has millions of dollars worth of equipment and artillery that the U.S. has been unable to fulfill.
“One of the best things about this from a U.S. point of view, is when we give older equipment to the Ukrainians for example, we are rebuilding our industrial base in this country. There are jobs being created by the help we’re providing Ukraine in 38 states. And rebuilding our industrial complex for the more serious big power threat in Asia. So the notion that our assistance for Ukraine is not helpful to us is something not factual.”
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Margaret Brennan presses Blinken over US not calling for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war
CBS “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan on Sunday pressed Secretary of State Antony Blinken over why the U.S. is not calling for a temporary ceasefire between Israel and militant group Hamas in the midst of a deepening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, to which the State Department head emphasized Israel’s right to defend itself.
Blinken argued “no country can be expected to tolerate” Hamas’s bloody massacre against Israel, which killed 1,400 Israeli’s in an attack on Oct. 7 including hundreds of civilians in their homes, at a bus stop, and at a music festival earlier this month. Blinken stressed that Israel has a right and “even the obligation,” to defend itself to ensure such attacks don’t happen again.
“So, let’s talk about how they do it. You’re right to lay out just how absolutely horrible that attack was two weeks ago,” Brennan responded to Blinken, while pointing to UNICEF’s estimate that 1,524 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip amid heavy bombardment by Israel since Oct. 7. “Why isn’t the US calling for at least a temporary ceasefire?”
“Margaret, when I hear the stories, when I see the pictures of young children, who have lost their lives in this conflict of Hamas’s making- whoever they are, wherever they are, whether they’re Palestinians, whether they’re Israelis, whether…they’re Jews or Muslims — it hits me and I know it hits vitally everyone right in the heart,” Blinken responded.
“And that’s why it’s so important to do everything possible to protect them, and and why it’s so important to do everything possible to get assistance to those who need it. Food medicine water-,” he continued.
But Brennan interrupted Blinken to reiterate her question, “So why not ask for at least a temporary pause in the bombing…as was proposed at the UN earlier this week?” to which Blinken responded that humanitarian assistance had finally made its way into Gaza on Saturday for the first time since the war began.
“We want to make sure that we have sustained delivery of food, medicine, water, the things that people need. At the same time, I said something a minute ago that- that we have to- we have to remember. Israel has to do everything it can to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Blinken said. “Freezing things in place where they are now would allow Hamas to remain where it is and to repeat what it’s done sometime in the future. No country could accept that.”
Brennan again pressed, referencing a Palestinian politician who asked a CBS correspondent reporting in the region why President Biden didn’t tell Israel “enough is enough” when he visited Tel Aviv last week.
“‘Enough is enough’ should have been the case with- with Hamas two weeks ago. It would be good to hear the entire world speaking clearly, and with one voice, about the actions that Hamas took, about the slaughter of people, about the fact that that should be absolutely intolerable, unacceptable to anyone, anywhere, any country, any people,” Blinken responded.
Fighting between Israel and Hamas — a militant group that the U.S. and other countries have recognized as a terrorist organization — has raged for over two weeks since Hamas’s deadly surprise attack.
Israeli forces quickly responded with a bombardment of Gaza that has so far killed more than 4,600 Palestinians and injured over 14,000 others, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported Sunday.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepened last week following Israel’s siege on food, water, electricity and medicine, prompting calls for a temporary ceasefire to allow Gaza civilians to leave amid the violence.
Israel ordered the evacuation of more than 1.1 million Palestinians over a week ago to travel to the southern half of the Gaza Strip last week ahead of an anticipated ground assault. However, many people in Gaza said Israel still attacked that portion of the enclave. Hamas has told residents not to leave and to stay in their homes.
Biden visited Tel Aviv last week to meet with Israeli leaders and families impacted by the ongoing violence and reiterate the U.S.’s support for Jerusalem.
While there, Biden announced an agreement to allow humanitarian aid to move from Egypt to Gaza and confirmed the U.S. will fund $100 million to assist those living in Gaza and the West Bank. Trucks carrying aid have since entered into Gaza through the Rafah crossing — Gaza’s only connection to Egypt — which had shut down in the wake of Israeli airstrikes.
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Venezuelans top Mexicans in US illegal border crossings for 1st time on record in September
Venezuelans topped Mexicans for the largest group of nationals arrested for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border for the first time on record in the month of September.
According to its latest monthly report released Saturday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded 218,763 encounters of people from all nationalities between ports of entry along the southwest border in September 2023, representing a 21% increase from the 181,084 illegal immigrants caught in August.
Venezuelans were arrested 54,833 times by the Border Patrol after entering from Mexico in September, more than double from 22,090 arrests in August and well above the previous monthly high of 33,749 arrests in September 2022. For decades, Mexicans accounted for the vast majority of illegal crossings but flows shifted over the last decade to Central Americans and, more recently, to people from South America, Africa and Asia.
Mexicans were arrested 39,733 times crossing the border in September, well behind Venezuelans. Guatemalans, Hondurans and Colombians rounded out the top five.
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The Biden administration recently announced temporary legal status for nearly 500,000 Venezuelans who were already in the United States on July 31, while vowing to deport those who come illegally after that date and fail to get asylum. It recently began deportation flights to Venezuela as part of a diplomatic thaw with the government of Nicolás Maduro, a longtime adversary. The U.S. “surged resources and personnel” to the border in September, said Troy Miller, acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.
“We are continually engaging with domestic and foreign partners to address historic hemispheric migration, including large migrant groups traveling on freight trains, and to enforce consequence, including by preparing for direct repatriations to Venezuela,” Miller said.
CBP recorded 53,296 encounters involving Mexican nationals along the southwest land border, down from the 55,493 Mexican migrants in August 2023, and the 63,431 in September 2022. That includes both people apprehended crossing illegally and those processed at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.
There were 4,042 encounters of Chinese nationals along the southwest land border in September, compared to the 2,379 in August.
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In September 2022, there were just 399 encounters involving Chinese nationals.
CBP recorded 1,779 encounters of Russian nationals in September, down from the 2,099 in August. In September 2022, there were 2,617 encounters of Russians on the southwest border.
So far this year, there have been nearly 2.5 million encounters along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the CBP statistics, and about 1.5 million of those people were single adults.
September’s total approached the all-time high of 222,018 encounters recorded in December 2022, according to CBP. Arrests for the government’s budget year that ended Sept. 30 topped 2 million for the second year in a row, down 7% from an all-time high of more than 2.2 million arrests in the same period a year earlier, according to the Associated Press.
About 43,000 migrants entered the country at land crossings with Mexico in September using a mobile app called CBP One, bringing the total to nearly 278,000 since the online appointment system began in January. Also, more than 265,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela entered through September at airports after applying online with financial sponsors. Including those pathways, the number of crossings hit a new all-time monthly high of 269,735 in September and a new budget-year high of nearly 2.5 million.
The Biden administration proposed about $14 billion for the border in a $106 billion spending package announced Friday.
Border officials arrested 18 people on the FBI’s terror watchlist in September, making fiscal year 2023 a record year for such encounters at the southern border.
According to CBP statistics released Saturday, 169 people on the FBI terror watchlist were encountered between ports of entry at the southern border in the past 12 months, a number that exceeds not only FY 22’s record-setting total (98) but the last six fiscal years combined.
Fox News’ Adam Shaw and Bill Melugin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Cheney says Biden providing ‘better leadership’ than Trump on foreign policy
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Sunday that President Biden is providing “better leadership” than former President Trump at the international level.
When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Cheney on “State of the Union” whether Biden or Trump was “providing better leadership on the international stage right now,” the Wyoming Republican said “certainly” Biden is. She also took aim at Trump’s criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month, who he accused of “letting us down” in 2020 just before the U.S. killed a top Iranian general.
“They were appalling comments,” she said. “And, you know, you’re absolutely right, that there should have been a response. I think that you know, every Republican member of Congress ought to be asked about those comments. Every Republican candidate for the presidency ought to be asked about those comments.”
She also noted that Trump was reportedly accused of sharing Israeli intelligence with Russia early in his term as president and that according to an indictment brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, he also shared classified information related to potential military action against Iran.
“So if you think about, not only is he out there advocating for, complimenting America’s adversaries, and in fact, terrorist organizations that slaughter innocents, he also seems to have shared very highly classified intelligence information, both ours and the Israelis, in fact, with adversaries,” she said. “So I think it’s it’s simply the latest example of why Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States.”
Trump was charged with 40 felony counts over alleged mishandling of classified records and attempting to obstruct the government’s retrieval of those records. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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