Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on state’s abortion law, death of Amber Thurman
EXCLUSIVE: Two Georgia lawmakers who are also doctors experienced in emergency medicine are speaking out against what they say is media “fearmongering” about the Peach State’s abortion laws in light of recent reporting on the tragic deaths of two women from the state. ProPublica’s reporting on the death of Amber Nicole Thurman last week sparked controversy over Georgia’s heartbeat law, which states that “no abortion shall be performed if the unborn child has a detectable human heartbeat except in the event of a medical emergency or medically futile pregnancy.” Thurman died in Georgia after taking abortion pills and suffering complications. According to ProPublica reporting, doctors at Piedmont Henry Hospital waited a prolonged period of time before performing the necessary dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure to remove the dead fetus, which is not an abortion, out of reportedly being in fear of facing legal backlash due to the state’s abortion law. HARRIS CALLS FOR ELIMINATING FILIBUSTER TO PASS ‘ROE’ ABORTION BILL INTO FEDERAL LAW But Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., and state Rep. Mark Newton don’t believe the law had anything to do with Thurman’s death, but rather the complications allegedly caused by the abortion pills, as doctors may have waited too long to intercede. “We never deny a woman an abortion because it’s going to harm her in some way. She will always be protected,” McCormick, who previously served as emergency department head in a Navy deployment in Afghanistan, said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “You have every right to an abortion, even with that heartbeat law,” he continued. “So, let’s make that very clear right now. When they say there’s no exceptions, there’s never any law in any state where there’s no exceptions. That doesn’t exist. That’s simply not the way it works. The mother’s life is always protected. With that said, it doesn’t mean it’s easy to get an abortion just because you have a complication or because something goes wrong.” Once a baby’s heart has stopped, McCormick said, there are no restrictions on performing a D&C to ensure the safety of the mother. NEW POLL INDICATES WHETHER HARRIS OR TRUMP HAS THE EDGE IN THIS KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE “In my understanding, is, this baby was already in demise. There was no reason that it had anything to do with whether she could have a D&C or not. That’s actually irrelevant to the baby’s life because the baby’s already gone,” McCormick said. “If the heartbeat stopped it’s not about this law. Remember, it has nothing to do with this law at that point. It has everything to do with doing the best care for the woman.” Newton, a board-certified emergency physician, added that there are complex decisions doctors face regarding the risks of surgery versus the risks of not performing it, especially in life-threatening emergencies. “I do not think there’s anything in Georgia’s law, unless someone had a complete misunderstanding or just failed to be aware of what Georgia’s law was, has nothing to do with the timing of the decision-making,” Newton said. “This situation in which the woman presented was clearly a medical or a life-threatening emergency” Georgia’s law should not affect the timing of medical decisions, he said, adding that cases involving septic shock due to complications from a miscarriage or abortion present high mortality risks, and physicians often have to make quick decisions to stabilize patients for surgery, which typically happens immediately in emergency situations. DEMS LOOK TO FORCE VOTES ON EMERGENCY ABORTION AS ABORTION PILL DEATHS MAKE HEADLINES Democrats and pro-choice advocates have since blamed so-called “abortion bans” for the cause of the two deaths and are seeking to force votes on abortion-related bills on Capitol Hill. The advocacy group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America released a six-figure ad on Tuesday “calling out Vice President Kamala Harris and pro-abortion Democrats for spreading misinformation” relating to the fatalities. “Amber Thurman and Candi Miller died after they suffered complications from dangerous abortion drugs and did not receive appropriate, completely legal emergency care,” president Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement. “The laws do not penalize women who have abortions and they use plain, commonly accepted legal language.” Fox News Digital reached out to Piedmont Henry Hospital but did not receive a response prior to publication. Fox News Digital’s Julia Johnson contributed to this report.
Ryan Routh indicted by federal grand jury in Trump assassination attempt
The suspect accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump earlier this month has been indicted. A federal grand jury in Miami returned an indictment Tuesday against suspect Ryan Routh, who is accused of attempting to kill Trump at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sept. 15. “Violence targeting public officials endangers everything our country stands for, and the Department of Justice will use every available tool to hold Ryan Routh accountable for the attempted assassination of former President Trump charged in the indictment,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a release following the indictment. FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT SUSPECT ROUTH NOT TO BE RELEASED He added, “The Justice Department will not tolerate violence that strikes at the heart of our democracy, and we will find and hold accountable those who perpetrate it. This must stop.” Routh is accused of hiding out on the Trump golf course and attempting to fire a rifle at the former president. It is the second attempt on Trump’s life this year. He is being charged with attempted assassination of a presidential candidate. TRUMP ASSASSINATION PLOT EXPOSES RYAN ROUTH’S BOMB BUST, BARRICADE WITH ILLEGAL GUN IN PROFESSIONAL DEMISE On Monday, Magistrate Judge Ryon McCabe granted the government’s request to detain Routh pending the resolution of charges during a court hearing in Florida. Routh, who was clad in a blue prison jumpsuit and shackled by his hands and feet, appeared engaged and paid attention during the hearing. Prior to the court proceeding, the Justice Department asked the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida to keep Routh in pretrial detention. McCabe said federal prosecutors met their burden and the weight of the evidence was strong. “This alleged attempted assassination of the former President at his golf course was a direct attack on our democracy. Political violence has no place in this country — not then, not now, not ever,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. She added, “The charges today reflect the Department’s continued resolve to deploy every available resource to ensure public officials remain safe and to hold accountable those who target public officials to the fullest extent of the law.” Between 1980 and 2010, Routh had more than a hundred interactions with law enforcement, accruing charges ranging from writing bad checks to felony firearms possession, possession of a stolen vehicle and multiple counts of possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Fox News Digital’s Christina Coulter, Greg Norman, Louis Casiano and Jake Gibson contributed to this report.
DOJ inspector general does not deny FBI informants were among Jan 6 crowd
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Wednesday did not deny that federal government confidential human sources were in the crowd during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Horowitz was testifying on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The Department of Justice watchdog testified alongside an FBI whistleblower and the president of Empower Oversight, Tristan Leavitt. The hearing was set to focus on how the FBI has used its security clearance adjudication process to allegedly purge its ranks of conservatives and whistleblowers, and allegedly punish those with views contrary to that of FBI leadership. Horowitz, though, testified that he had “not made such a finding.” SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF JAN. 6 CAPITOL RIOT PARTICIPANT WHO CHALLENGED OBSTRUCTION CONVICTION However, Horowitz’s office is currently working on a review of the Justice Department’s actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Horowitz was forced to answer questions about that review from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who questioned whether federal assets and confidential human sources were present on Jan. 6 at the Capitol. Horowitz explained his review was put on pause due to ongoing criminal investigations into individuals who participated in the riot but re-initiated his investigation last year. SECRET SERVICE TO RAMP UP SECURITY ON JAN. 6, 2025, TO AVOID ANOTHER RIOT AT THE CAPITOL “Do you have evidence of the number of confidential human sources that were operating on the Capitol grounds on January 6th?” Massie asked. “Our report will include the information in that regard,” Horowitz replied. When pressed on “how many” confidential human sources were present, and on whether there were “more than 100,” Horowitz did not disclose the information. “I’m not in a position to say that, both because it is in draft form, and we have not gone through the classification review,” Horowitz said. “And so I need to be careful.” Horowitz, though, said he hoped the report would be made public in “the next couple of months,” but likely after Election Day. “I doubt it would be done in time for the election,” Horowitz said. When asked if it could be completed before the inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, Horowitz replied: “That is certainly my hope and my sure hope.” “What we do know is you’re going to expose that there were confidential human sources at the Capitol,” Massie said. “Can you tell us today how many went into the Capitol?” Horowitz replied, “I’ll have that information in the report.” “The report, I’m not able to speak to information in there, but just because it’s in draft and we get a response from the department and the FBI, but also because I don’t know yet what’s classified and not classified,” Horowitz said. Massie pressed Horowitz further and asked how many confidential human sources were “reimbursed for travel.” “As I sit here, I don’t recall the number,” Horowitz said.
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Dems eye possible Trump investigations if they win House majority
Some House Democrats are already looking at the possibility of investigating former President Donald Trump if they win the House majority in November. Two top lawmakers, Reps. Richard Neal, D-Mass., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., did not rule out probing Trump if he wins the White House in November. Neal, the top Democrat on the House Ways & Means Committee who led the probe into Trump’s tax returns in the last Congress, told Fox News Digital it would be “hard to assess” whether he would see himself resuscitating that effort, but he added that the Supreme Court’s recent decision expanding presidential immunity could change the calculus. “That would be speculative, but I certainly would not back away from the positions I’ve taken over the years on that issue,” Neal said. CLUB FOR GROWTH POURS $5M INTO TIGHT HOUSE RACES AS GOP BRACES FOR TOUGH ELECTION Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told Fox News Digital, “I’d rather look to the future than the past, but we’ll do our job.” In a longer statement provided to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, Raskin accused Republicans of ignoring issues like gun violence and prescription drug costs. “Instead, for two years, House Republicans have used the gavel to pursue a laughingstock flop of an impeachment investigation to help their presidential nominee and personal cult leader, Donald Trump. Even worse, they have blocked and obstructed Democrats’ efforts to investigate the corruption of Donald Trump and his autocrat allies,” Raskin said. “Investigating this endless corruption is critical for Congress to create legislative fixes to ensure government serves the people and to put an end to efforts to exploit the presidency and sell out our government to the highest bidder.” Meanwhile, rank-and-file Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., said investigations could be warranted into Trump’s family and their business dealings even if the former president lost his re-election bid. Both singled out his son-in-law and former White House adviser Jared Kushner, whose investment firm got a $2 billion investment commitment from a fund led by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. “His family has some ongoing deals that we learned about after we went out of the majority that I think are worth visiting,” Swalwell said. “The Kushners and the Saudi deal – I think people want some closure on that.” He took a shot at the House GOP’s probes into the foreign business dealings of President Biden’s son, Hunter, adding, “If you tell me you’re interested in Hunter Biden, then you probably owe it to the country to be interested in what happened there.” JOHNSON’S PLAN TO AVOID GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN GOES DOWN IN FLAMES AS REPUBLICANS REBEL Goldman, an Oversight Committee member, told Fox News Digital, “I think if Trump wins, obviously that’ll be the principal purpose [of the committee], is to provide the checks and balances that Congress needs to check, and that Donald Trump especially requires.” “I think there are a lot of really important, substantive issues that the committee has not investigated this year that are not partisan, that we should be focused on,” he said, adding, “But we also were frustrated this term that obvious, obvious concerns were not investigated.” “How did Jared Kushner get $2 billion from Mohammed bin Salman for an investment company in something that he had never done before…That’s a tremendous amount of money. There’s been no investigation into that.” SHUTDOWN FEARS MOVE HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO PROTECT MILITARY PAYCHECKS Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt responded, saying, “Swalwell and Goldman should get a life. President Trump has endured two fake impeachments, four baseless witch-hunt indictments, and endless investigations into his businesses — all of which have failed because they are not based on facts but rather, they are fueled by the vitriolic Trump Derangement Syndrome that has taken over the Democrat Party.” Raskin’s investigatory efforts into Trump during this Congress, as leader of the Oversight Committee’s Democratic minority, could also offer a possible preview of what Democrats’ probes could look like in a second Trump term. Earlier this month, he and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., sent a letter to Trump demanding that the former president prove he did not take a “cash bribe” from Egypt’s president in 2017. The letter was spurred by a Washington Post report that also alleged former Attorney General Bill Barr had blocked a probe into the matter. Investigating Biden and his family has been a core focus of the committee under Chairman James Comer’s tenure. Comer, R-Ky., released a report recently accusing the president of having committed impeachable offenses – something the White House denies. He denied that the intensity of his Biden probe could give Democrats cover to investigate Trump, however – insisting their inquiries into Trump were political. “If the Democrats want to waste taxpayer dollars and time investigating the Trump administration again for the second time, then that’s their prerogative. But we focused on waste, fraud and abuse and mismanagement by the federal government,” Comer told Fox News Digital. “If Trump wins…They’re going to harass and obstruct every step of the way.”
‘Abuse of power’: House GOP opens probe into Ukrainian president’s trip to battleground Pennsylvania
The House Oversight Committee is investigating the Biden-Harris administration’s alleged use of taxpayer-funded resources to fly Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to battleground Pennsylvania ahead of the November presidential election, Fox News Digital has learned. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., penned letters to the White House, the Pentagon and the Justice Department on Wednesday seeking documents regarding the administration’s alleged “misuse of government resources” to allow Zelenskyy to allegedly “interfere in the 2024 presidential election.” “In 2019, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives impeached President Donald J. Trump for abuse of power under the theory that he attempted to use a foreign leader — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — to benefit his 2020 presidential campaign, despite a lack of any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of President Trump,” Comer wrote. ZELENSKYY WARNS VANCE’S PLAN TO GIVE RUSSIA SEIZED LAND WILL LEAD TO ‘GLOBAL SHOWDOWN’ Comer, though, said the Biden-Harris administration “recently flew the same foreign leader — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — on an American-taxpayer-funded flight to Pennsylvania, a battleground state in the upcoming 2024 presidential election, which has been described as the ‘trickiest battleground for Vice President Kamala Harris to win.’” REPUBLICANS GROAN AT BIDEN ADMIN’S LAST-MINUTE REQUEST FOR MORE TIME TO SEND UNUSED $6B TO UKRAINE “The Committee seeks to determine whether the Biden-Harris Administration attempted to use a foreign leader to benefit Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign and, if so, necessarily committed an abuse of power,” Comer wrote. Comer said his committee is investigating the circumstances that led to “justify” the administration’s transport of Zelenskyy on a Department of the Air Force aircraft to Pennsylvania. Comer said Zelenskyy’s itinerary included a stop in Pennsylvania to meet with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. Comer also cited a recent interview with Zelenskyy, in which he was critical of Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, calling the Ohio senator “too radical.” “He further stated his belief that President Trump and his administration would not be able to stop the war, despite this being one of President Trump’s main campaign platforms (and peace in the region under the entirety of the former Trump administration),” Comer wrote. “This rhetoric coming from a foreign leader released in anticipation of a U.S.-taxpayer funded visit about the current Administration’s political opponent is highly concerning,” Comer wrote. “The Committee is investigating any coordination or communication among the Biden-Harris Administration, Pennsylvania’s Office of the Governor, and President Zelenskyy for use or solicitation of use of government property to politically benefit Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign.” In his letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Comer reminded that the DOJ is highly focused on combating foreign election interference, specifically from adversaries. However, Comer said the House Oversight Committee “believes no foreign actor — whether or not deemed ‘malign’ by DOJ — should be permitted to interfere in American elections.” Comer’s letters were addressed to Garland, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Assistant to the President and White House Counsel Edward Siskel. Comer demanded documents and records from the agencies by Oct. 2. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House, Pentagon, Justice Department and Harris campaign for comment.
Harris-Trump showdown: New poll indicates who has edge in most important battleground
PITTSBURGH, PA – A new public opinion poll indicates Vice President Kamala Harris holding the edge over former President Trump in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania. Forty-eight percent of those questioned in Monmouth University survey of registered Pennsylvania voters released on Wednesday said they are definitely or probably supporting Harris in the presidential election, with 45% saying the same thing about Trump. And the poll, conducted Sept. 19-23, indicates Harris holding a four-point advantage over Trump among those who said they are extremely motivated to cast a ballot in the White House race. The survey is the latest to indicate a close contest in Pennsylvania, which, with 19 electoral votes up for grabs, is the biggest prize among the seven key battleground states whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden’s 2020 election victory over Trump and will likely determine whether Harris or Trump succeeds Biden in the White House. WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS IN THE 2024 ELECTION SHOW Pennsylvania, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, makes up the Democrats’ so-called “blue wall,” which the party reliably won for a quarter-century in presidential elections until Trump narrowly carried all three states in his 2016 White House victory. But Biden – with razor-thin margins – won back all three states four years ago. Both Harris and Trump have repeatedly made stops this summer in Pennsylvania. And while the campaigns and their allied super PACs are pouring resources into all seven swing states, more money has been spent to run spots in Pennsylvania than any of the other battlegrounds. And both sides have dished out more dollars to reserve airtime going forward in the Keystone State than any of the other swing states, according to figures from AdImpact, a top national ad tracking firm. The release of the poll comes a couple of hours before Harris returns to Pennsylvania – which is considered a must-win state for the Democratic presidential nominee – to deliver what her campaign is billing as a major speech on the economy. THIS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HAS THE UPPER HAND IN THE 2024 CASH DASH The vice president, at her address at the Economic Club of Pittsburgh, is expected to offer up the most substantial comments on the economy since replacing Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticker just over two months ago. A senior Harris campaign official said the vice president will spotlight her “pragmatic” approach to the economy and will offer up “practical, realistic solutions.” The official added that Harris – who has been derided by Trump as “Comrade Kamala” – will describe herself as “a capitalist” who “understands the limitations of government and has always sought to take good ideas from wherever they come and harness the power of innovation.” Her address comes a day after the former president, in a speech in battleground Georgia, gave what was also billed a major economic speech, vowing to lower taxes on U.S.-based manufacturers. With less than six weeks to go until Election Day on Nov. 5 and with early in-person voting or absentee balloting underway in nearly two dozen states, just about every poll indicates that the economy remains the top issue on the minds of Americans. This, as the nation’s economic recovery from the pandemic-inflicted recession continues and inflation remains a leading concern among voters. WHICH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HOLDS THE EDGE ON THE ECONOMY? When it comes to which presidential candidate can better handle the economy, Trump continues to have the edge – but his margins over Harris differ dramatically depending on the poll. The former president’s up 13 points over the vice president in a post-debate survey from the New York Times and Siena College, and favored by seven points in an ABC News Ipsos survey also conducted after the showdown. But Trump’s advantage over Harris on the economy stands at only five points in the latest Fox News poll, and just two points in an AP/NORC survey. In Pennsylvania, the new Monmouth University survey indicates Trump holding a three-point edge over Harris when respondents were asked which candidate is more trusted to handle the economy. Harris, according to the senior campaign aide, is expected in her speech to premiere some new manufacturing proposals and highlight her ideas to lower costs, invest in American innovation and entrepreneurship, and her goal of “leading the world in the industries of the future.” The senior official added that Harris is expected to argue that “for Donald Trump, our economy works best if it works for those who own the big skyscrapers. Not those who build them. Not those who wire them. Not those who mop the floors.” And that she will reiterate her charge that Trump has “no intention to grow the middle class, because all he cares about is helping himself and billionaires like him.” Trump has repeatedly charged that Harris’ plans for the economy are inept and potentially dangerous. “If you think four years of Harris-Biden is bad, that’s nothing compared to four years of Harris-Walz,” the Trump campaign has argued. Fox News’ Mark Meredith contributed to this report Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Justice Department backs UN claim relief workers accused of aiding Hamas are immune
The Justice Department (DOJ) has sided with the United Nations in defending in court its relief agency for Palestinians after some workers were found to have likely been involved in the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) fired at least nine of its employees in August after finding that they likely participated in the Hamas slaughter of 1,200 people, including more than 30 Americans. Victims of the massacre and their families sued UNRWA in a New York federal court, accusing the group and the individuals involved of aiding and abetting Hamas “in the commission of international torts.” The United Nations (U.N.) says the lawsuit should be dismissed, claiming the charter between the U.S. and the U.N. gives the group and its subsidiaries diplomatic immunity. “Since the U.N. has not waived immunity in this instance, its subsidiary, UNRWA, continues to enjoy absolute immunity from prosecution, and the lawsuit should be dismissed,” the U.N. stated in response. UN CHIEF DEFENDS UNRWA, SAYS ONLY ‘A FEW ELEMENTS’ PARTICIPATED IN OCT. 7 U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York filed a brief in July supporting that argument, saying, “In light of the United Nations’ immunity, the Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the United Nations.” The brief notes that “the United States acknowledges and deplores the profound losses suffered on October 7,” and that “the United States takes no position on the factual allegations in the complaint.” “The United Nations is absolutely immune from suit and legal process absent an express waiver of immunity,” Williams said, citing the Charter of the United Nations, to which the United States acceded in 1945, that says the U.N. “shall enjoy in the territory of each of its Members such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the fulfilment [sic] of its purposes.” Similarly, the individual defendants in the lawsuit also enjoy immunity from suit as U.N. employees, the brief said. Among other things, the DOJ’s brief says that the victims’ lawsuit alleges that UNRWA “knowingly provided monetary and material support to Hamas to build its ‘terror infrastructure’ leading up to the Oct. 7 attacks, facilitated the construction of Hamas command and control centers, permitted weapons storage in UNRWA facilities, concealed rocket and rocket-launching materials on UNRWA premises, and that that UNRWA chose Hamas-approved textbooks for its schools that were used to indoctrinate children against Israel.” The suit also alleges UNRWA “knew several local staff were affiliated with Hamas and paid staff “in a fashion calculated to further enrich Hamas,” according to Williams’ brief. UN FORCED TO FIRE 9 EMPLOYEES OVER LIKELY INVOLVEMENT IN HAMAS MASSACRE: ‘TIP OF THE ICEBERG’ Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, said that DOJ’s brief outlining the scope of UNRWA’s immunity “makes a lot of assumptions” and exhibits a “lack of appetite on behalf of the executive branch to go after supporters of terror.” “There are also multiple technical arguments to be made here that UNRWA is not actually immune,” Goldfeder said in a statement on X, directed at the Justice Department. “The treaties above are not self-executing; it is only an affiliated organization and was never itself designated under the International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945,” he continued. “It saddens me that you chose to simply assume that UNRWA’s positions are correct, instead of engaging on any of these points.” “Perhaps the most egregious assumption you accept is the idea that the claims made by the plaintiffs against all the individual defendants here relate to actions undertaken or omissions made by them in the performance of their official function,” Goldfeder said. ISRAEL’S UN AMBASSADOR SLAMS WORLD BODY, SAYS UNRWA TAKEN OVER BY HAMAS TERRORISTS IN GAZA “To be clear… [the complaint is] chock-full of allegations that these defendants aided and abetted Hamas, and that they did so consciously, voluntarily, and culpably.” “Is it, pray tell, your contention that all of those actions were what UNRWA was supposed to be doing?” Goldfeder questioned on the social media platform. Goldfeder continued in an interview with Fox News Digital, arguing, “The basic premise of what makes it so absolutely crazy is this – the U.N. is claiming that immunity from civil suits for invading a country and massacring its citizens is necessary for the exercise of its functions. And again, the Biden-Harris administration just filed that they agree. So the point is, if you think that immunity for mass murder is necessary for the U.N. to function, maybe it’s time to rethink the U.N. entirely.” Anne Bayefsky, president of Human Rights Voices and Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, says that the practical effect of DOJ’s position is “unaccountabillity” for UNRWA. “Regardless of the empty protestations to the contrary, the practical effect of the DOJ position is to contribute to unaccountability for UNRWA and its employees despite their demonstrable connections to Hamas and heinous behavior on multiple fronts,” Bayefsky said. “Legally-speaking immunity applies here when employees act within the boundaries of their official capacities. So is the DOJ now arguing that aiding and abetting an officially-designated terrorist organization is UNRWA just doing its job?” she added. UNRWA and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
Walz blasted for huddling with George Soros’ son at NYC luxury apartment: ‘Billionaire nepo baby’
Minnesota Gov. and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz was blasted on social media this week for visiting the upscale Manhattan apartment of Alex Soros, the son of billionaire liberal mega donor George Soros. “Honored to host Governor @Tim_Walz at my home in New York City!” Alex Soros, his dad’s successor at the multibillion-dollar Open Society Foundations (OSF), posted on X on Tuesday along with photos alongside Walz in front of the New York City skyline. The post was widely panned by conservatives on social media who made the argument that Walz’s portrayal as a “rural” moderate was compromised by standing next to one of the most prolific progressive families in the United States. “All you need to know……” Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham posted on X. GEORGE SOROS CLOSER TO CONTROLLING 200 RADIO STATIONS DESPITE OBJECTION FROM TRUMP-NOMINATED FCC COMMISSIONER “If you squint, you can see the strings on the marionette,” former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posted on X. “A post like this does nothing to help Kamala Harris & Tim Walz win — if anything, it hurts them,” journalist Jerry Dunleavy posted on X. “So why would Soros post something like this? To publicly signal his power & influence within the next would-be presidential administration.” SOROS-LINKED GROUP BLASTS HARRISON BUTKER’S GRADUATION SPEECH, FEARS POWER-SEEKERS ‘THINK JUST LIKE HIM’ “Real working man’s salt of the earth aesthetic for ol Walzy,” Daily Caller editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll posted on X. “This guy goes around saying he’s a small town midwestern guy who understands the struggles of the middle class and then goes to hang out at the floating home in the sky of the world’s biggest billionaire nepo baby,” digital strategist Greg Price wrote on X. “Nothing screams Midwestern folksy like a billionaire penthouse view of Manhattan,” Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross posted on X. “George was better at this than his weird son,” Daily Wire managing editor Brent Scher posted on X. “Why would you post this?” This is at least the second time that Walz has hung out with Alex Soros in the last month. Photos circulated on social media in August during the DNC showed Soros, his new fiancée, Huma Abedin, and Walz hanging out in Chicago. Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris-Walz campaign and the Soros Open Society Foundation for comment but did not receive a response. Walz has been widely touted by various media outlets as a VP choice who will help Harris win rural voters in Middle America while George Soros is one of the most polarizing progressive figures in American politics, often criticized by Republicans for implementing a far-left agenda with his vast fortune.