Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: IMA announces withdrawal of services for 24 hours on August 17
The strike has been called by IMA amid the ongoing protest in Kolkata over the rape-murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College
Texas sues Biden again to block federal protections for transgender workers
The Texas Attorney General is following his familiar playbook by taking the case to a federal judge with a record of rulings against the Biden administration’s agenda.
Republican state Rep. Doc Anderson resigns
Anderson, 79, was already not running for reelection. He said he’s leaving early to give his successor a chance at more seniority.
Trump conducts no-holds-barred press conference while Harris continues dodging media
Former President Trump held yet another hours-long press conference Thursday — his second this month — in an effort to draw a stark contrast between his candidacy, policies and campaign versus his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been dodging the media since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. Trump held a press conference Thursday at his Bedminster, New Jersey property. The former president and Republican presidential nominee stood at the podium with groceries on display, and delivered remarks focused on the rising costs under the Biden-Harris administration. “Harris has just declared that tackling inflation will be a ‘Day One priority’ for her,” Trump said Thursday. “But Day One for Kamala was three and a half years ago.” TRUMP ARGUES HARRIS IS MORE LIBERAL THAN BERNIE SANDERS — HERE’S WHAT THE VERMONT SENATOR TOLD FOX NEWS “Where has she been and why hasn’t she done it? Why hasn’t she done it?” Harris has been the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee for 25 days and has not held a press conference or a sit-down interview with the media. Trump said Harris’ campaign is “hiding” her, in a similar way he said the Biden campaign was “hiding” him. “They’re hiding her no different than him, because I believe she’s grossly incompetent,” Trump said. “And I don’t think that when people hear what she has to say, they’re going to buy it.” Sources in Trump’s political orbit tell Fox News that top advisers to the former president are quietly aiming to persuade him to tamp down the insults to Harris and the questioning of the vice president’s racial identity and instead focus on branding her an ultra-liberal and spotlighting her stance on the border, crime and inflation. But Trump, during the press conference Thursday, was asked about the “personal attacks” against Harris. “Because of what she’s done to the country, I’m very angry at her – that she had weaponized the justice system against me and other people. Very angry at her,” Trump said. “I think I’m entitled to personal attacks.” Trump added: “I don’t have a lot of respect for her. I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence. And I think she’d be a terrible president.” “I think it’s very important that we win,” he continued. “And whether the personal attacks are good or bad, I mean, she certainly attacks me personally.” Trump said Harris “actually called me weird… And she called JD and I weird. He’s not weird. He was a great student at Yale. He went to Ohio State, graduated in two years at the top of his class, and all of these different things.” Trump pointed to Harris’ running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, saying he is “a weird guy” and Harris is “weird in her policy.” “Who wouldn’t want to have strong borders?” Trump said. “Who doesn’t want to have lower taxes?” TRUMP CAMPAIGN PLANS COUNTER-PROGRAMMING DURING DEMOCRATS’ CONVENTION “You know, all my life I’ve watched as politicians campaigned and I’ve always been on, you know, for the most part on the other side, on the side that these people are on and they always talked about, we’re going to reduce taxes — this is the only campaign I’ve ever heard where they’re saying, we’re going to increase your taxes,” Trump continued. Trump stressed that the voters “don’t know who she is.” “She is a radical left socialist,” Trump said. “But beyond that, I mean, she’s way beyond socialism, who’s going to destroy our country and when they find out, I think you’re going to see something.” Trump defended his attacks against Harris. “I just want to win for the country. Some people say, oh, why don’t you be nice? But they’re not nice to me,” he said. They want to put me in prison. You know, just so you understand. You know, they tell me I should be nice. They want to put me in prison. It’s never happened before in the history of our country. I did nothing wrong.” Trump was referring to his legal challenges–many cases have been thrown out or delayed. As for his campaign, Trump said he wished he didn’t have to run. “If our country were run by Democrats and it was run beautifully, where we were really being productive and everything else, I would have never done this,” Trump said. “I wouldn’t have done it if I thought I couldn’t have won. I think I can win, I think I can win easily once they’re exposed for what they are, which is, you know, radical left lunatics. And that’s what they are.” Trump said Harris is “going to ruin our country.” “And I just hope the people of our country, and I believe they are, because I see it already happening,” Trump said. “But I hope they are able to think for themselves, because if they think for themselves, if they look at the destruction that’s going to be caused by Kamala and this, this person from out of nowhere, he came out of nowhere, a state that I love that state, but a state that’s doing so poorly where he’s the one that signed to put tampons in boys bathrooms…signed a bill that boys bathrooms, all boys bathrooms in Minnesota will have tampons and what’s going on?” “What’s wrong with us? What’s wrong with us as a country?” Trump said. “So no, if we had somebody doing a phenomenal job, I would be extremely happy.” Trump said that even while he campaigns and hopes to win in November, what he wants is the country to do “really well” in the final months of Biden’s term, even though he said it “would make it probably a little bit harder to win.” “I hope the country does really well. It’s country first. I want our country to do great,” Trump said. “If they were great leaders, I would be the first to say they’re doing a fantastic job.” Meanwhile, Trump was asked why he felt God saved his life on July
Trump assassination attempt: Secret Service makes big change to former president’s outdoor rally security
Former President Trump will have bulletproof glass surrounding his podium for outdoor events going forward, a federal law enforcement source briefed on the planning told Fox News. Indoor events, meanwhile, will not involve the same level of protection, the source confirmed. The additional level of protection comes after an assassination attempt on the former president during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last month. The president was addressing the open-air crowd, just minutes into his speech, when a gunman fired at him from the rooftop of a nearby building. Trump managed to just barely turn his head and duck beneath the podium. A Secret Service member killed the gunman just seconds after he opened fire. Trump was struck in the ear but avoided serious injury. One spectator in the audience was killed and two others were injured. VANCE SAYS MEDIA ACTED LIKE BIDEN WAS ‘EINSTEIN,’ AIM TO MAKE HARRIS INTO ‘SECOND COMING OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN’ The security failure has brought heavy scrutiny on the Secret Service, which had been responsible for coordinating with local law enforcement. The fury over the security lapse mounted after it was revealed that law enforcement had identified the gunman – later identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks – as suspicious an hour before the rally began, but lost track of him. Crooks was able to scale the roof of a building owned by AGR International Inc., a supplier of automation equipment for the glass and plastic packaging industry, and fire an estimated eight shots with an AR-15-style rifle. Crooks was able to scale the roof of a building owned by AGR International Inc., a supplier of automation equipment for the glass and plastic packaging industry, and fire an estimated eight shots with an AR-15 style rifle.
Harris supporters say keep some Biden policies, lose others amid reports she is seeking ‘distance’
Vice President Kamala Harris’ supporters want her to keep in line with President Biden on some policy points but not others, several of them said on Thursday. Fox News Digital spoke with Democrats who turned up at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland for Biden and Harris’ first joint appearance since she became the party’s presidential nominee. Their speech came hours after an Axios report said Harris wants to create “distance” between her own campaign and Biden on the economy, which he had struggled with in terms of approval ratings for much of his term. PELOSI ADDRESSES WHETHER THERE’S ‘WAY BACK’ TO BIDEN FRIENDSHIP AFTER DEM PRESSURE CAMPAIGN TO DROP OUT “I would say there are some things that, you know, that were going well, and there are some things that are needing to change,” said Harris supporter Brian Galbraith. However, he pointed out that the poor economic and inflationary outlook that plagued the first half of Biden’s term was a global phenomenon after the COVID-19 pandemic, rather than something directly caused by his policies. “While we have been impacted significantly by the recent inflation, we need to take a look around and realize that everywhere has been. So no matter who, Democrat or Republican, I think we still would have been facing these issues,” he said. Another voter named Constance suggested she was happy with Biden’s economic policy but wanted to see Harris lean more into voter access issues. FOX NEWS POLL: CLOSE RACES IN BATTLEGROUND STATES SHOW VOTERS LOCKED IN “I want to see her try to follow some of his, but I also want to see her come into her own, like kind of a combination,” Constance said. “I want to continue to see the economy do well, I want [Harris] to really focus on voting rights and human rights.” Other Harris supporters suggested there were issues outside the economy that they wanted to see the vice president diverge on. “There are things that I would like to see her change,” another woman said. “I would like her to make it easier for immigrants to enter the country legally. I think there are a lot of poverty reduction programs that we need to have in place.” TRACKING KAMALA HARRIS’ POLICY REVERSALS: A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF KEY ISSUE FLIP-FLOPS A speech attendee who identified herself as Arvia Ross told Fox News Digital, “I’d like to see her [distance herself]… I would like to see her have a mind of her own on certain things.” Harris supporters Johnny and Nicolas also wanted Harris to mix her own ideas in with the line Democrats have been toeing. “I think it should be a combination of both,” Johnny said. “I think she can bring her own ideas to the table.” The latter told Fox News Digital, “She’s free to include her own policies…not following the line of leadership and whatnot. But I know for the party and as a Democrat, a Democrat has certain policies that need to be focused on, so it should be a mix of the two.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Harris and Biden appeared together Thursday to roll out the administration’s strategy for Medicare drug price cuts. Biden was met with chants of “Thank you, Joe” when he and Harris took the stage. Earlier, Biden told Fox News White House reporter Peter Doocy that Harris is “not going to” distance herself from his economic policies when asked whether it bothers him that she would do so.
Experts rip ‘triple crown of bad regs’ as Biden admin posts gas stove rule it denied was a ban
After repeatedly denying that it wants to formally ban natural gas-powered stoves, the Energy Department posted to the federal register its finalized regulation targeting kitchen appliances. Critics from Congress to energy advocacy groups slammed the new rule, which administration officials have long denied would constitute a ban. But American Energy Alliance president Tom Pyle said it nonetheless wins the “Triple Crown for bad regulations.” “It’s ineffective, unnecessary, and likely illegal,” Pyle said, going on to acknowledge that the administration had watered-down the original 2023-drafted policy. BIDEN ADMIN BACKS OFF GAS STOVE CRACKDOWN AFTER WIDESPREAD PUSHBACK “After receiving severe backlash for moving to ban gas stoves, the Biden-Harris administration settled for this rule, which they claim would lower costs for families. Of course, what they don’t tell you is their so-called savings is a mere 21 cents a year.” Pyle said that if Democrats continue to hold power, the rule will be a “mere down payment” on future regulatory overreach that will try to control other mundane aspects of daily life like cooking. “American consumers [are] fully capable of choosing the appliances that best suit their needs.” The Department of Energy, however, defended the regulation – including against claims that it had waffled on the matter. A spokesman said the rule posted to the federal register mirrors the regulation devised earlier in the year, and that this final rule has the support of groups like the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said the Department of Energy is “building on decades-long efforts with industry to ensure our appliances work more efficiently and save Americans money.” “When you look past misleading rhetoric, you’ll see that our appliance standards actions are intended for nothing more than promoting innovation and increasing energy efficiency without sacrificing the reliability and performance that Americans have come to expect and rely on.” However, lawmakers who have tried to blunt “bans” or regulations on home appliances and other implements that require fossil fuel power were not convinced of the new rule’s benefits. In 2023, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., successfully drafted an amendment to an energy bill that would prohibit Granholm’s department from implementing the original energy standard for cooktops. “If this draconian rule were carried out, it would eliminate anywhere between 50-95% of today’s gas appliances,” Newhouse said at the time. WHITE HOUSE FINALIZES RULE INCREASING CLEAN ENERGY SUBSIDIES FIVEFOLD IN BID TO SUPPORT GREEN JOBS “Gas appliances are at the center of American households. They power our stoves, furnaces, water heaters and fireplaces,” he said, calling natural gas “affordable, reliable and safe.” On Thursday, a spokesman for Newhouse said the lawmaker’s efforts were a “leading factor” in having the original rule rescinded and revised to its current form. “While this new rule will still require strenuous federal oversight by Congress, it does prevent states like California and Washington from implementing sweeping, radical rules that are completely unreasonable for consumers and producers and will only pave the way for other states to follow,” the spokesman said. Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., whose Gas Stove Protection & Freedom Act passed the House but has languished in the Senate for a year, called the new rule being posted “incredibly frustrating and out of touch.” “Americans are concerned about the fentanyl crisis that is crippling communities, and many Americans are worried about being able to provide for their families and put food on the table. Instead of considering the immediate needs of many Americans, the administration has chosen to prioritize attacking gas stoves to appease climate extremists,” Armstrong said, adding that it shows that the administration wants to control every aspect of life. Heritage Action for America vice president Ryan Walker said the Department of Energy is “villanizing natural gas” despite its affordability and clean-burning qualities. “After insisting they had no plans to ban gas stoves, the Biden-Harris administration just plowed ahead with its new rule that may price the hugely popular appliances out of existence,” Walker said, adding, “The Left only cares about virtue signaling and pandering to their extreme base, not the hardworking Americans trying to make ends meet and put food on the table. The next conservative administration can and should reverse the Biden-Harris appliance crackdown.” Democrats who were either vociferously opposed to Republican efforts to blunt regulations or in favor of such rules did not offer reaction to the news. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., the ranking member on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, said of 2023 efforts to stop such regulation that “House Republicans are once again putting polluters over people.” Pallone did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., who previously called cost-related concerns about forcing Americans off natural gas a “conspiracy theory cooked up to embroil Congress in culture wars that shed more heat than light on the issues facing our nation.” The Philadelphia lawmaker said in 2023 the rule proposed at the time would save consumers $1.7 billion collectively. One longtime Democrat did, however, speak out against the original 2023 draft of the rule – as Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.V., said the feds “have no business telling American families how to cook their dinner.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Fox News Politics: Kamala’s 180
Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington, D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail. Here’s what’s happening… – Vance and Walz to debate October 1st – RFK Jr. reportedly seeks out Harris cabinet position in exchange for dropping out – Google confirms Iran targeted the Trump & Harris campaigns… Vice President Harris is doing an about-face on several far-left policies as she distances herself from President Biden and attempts to make a name of her own as the Democratic presidential nominee. In her first policy speech in North Carolina later this week and then next week at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Harris plans to present to Americans who she is and how she will govern essentially for the first time since Biden backed out of the race and endorsed her presidential campaign. In recent weeks, Harris has shifted on at least five major policy stances: mandatory assault rifle buybacks, fracking, immigration, health care and a federal jobs guarantee. While campaigning for president in 2019, she endorsed a mandatory buyback program for assault rifles. “We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory gun buyback program,” Harris said in October 2019, according to NBC News. “It’s got to be smart, we got to do it the right way. But there are 5 million [assault weapons] at least, some estimate as many as 10 million, and we’re going to have to have smart public policy that’s about taking those off the streets, but doing it the right way.” In 2024, a Harris spokesperson says she wouldn’t push a mandatory buyback program for assault rifles. …Read more NO ‘GENIUS’ NEEDED: Retired NYPD Lt. exposes how Biden-Harris administration cooked the books on crime record …Read more LATE ENTRY: DOJ finds 11th-hour Biden transcripts: watchdog …Read more STAY THE COURSE: Biden says Harris ‘not going to’ distance herself from his economic policies …Read more NO ‘MAGIC WAND’: Unearthed video shows longtime Dem rebuked student loan forgiveness before flip-flopping …Read more POINT SCORING: Tense US, China standoff over Olympic drug testing hits House GOP …Read more DISGRACED AND REPLACED: NJ Gov Phil Murphy has a pick ready to fill disgraced Sen. Menendez’s seat …Read more ‘DUCK AND HIDE’: Trump flips script on Harris with second press conference in a week as pressure mounts to face media …Read more ‘WE DON’T BELIEVE IT’: Vance accuses media of painting Harris as ‘second coming of Abraham Lincoln’ …Read more STAGE IS SET: Vance agrees to debate Walz on Oct. 1 in NYC …Read more ‘COMPLETELY SCRIPTED’: Harris, Walz ripped for interviewing each other before doing media interviews …Read more 25 DAYS AND COUNTING: Harris camp still silent on when VP will hold formal press conference …Read more QUID PRO QUO: RFK Jr. reportedly asked Harris for Cabinet position in exchange for dropping out …Read more ‘BEYOND CONTROL’: Trump says under Biden-Harris admin US has ‘new category’ of crime …Read more STAMP OF APPROVAL: More Americans are liking both Harris, Trump: poll …Read more ‘PLAYING POLITICS’: Harris campaign ‘playing politics’ by announcing her stance on key issues: strategist …Read more ‘SO UNIMAGINABLE’: Federal judge rules against UCLA in lawsuit over ‘Jew Exclusion Zone’ …Read more POLICE CLASH: Anti-Israel protesters clash with law enforcement, unleash smoke bombs following Harris rally …Read more ‘NOT MY GOVERNOR’: Minnesota small business owner rips Harris VP pick’s ‘radical’ policies dealing with this key issue …Read more HOSTILE INTERFERENCE: Google report confirms Iranian hackers targeted Trump, Harris campaigns …Read more ‘PREGNANT PERSONS’: Ohio Sen Sherrod Brown scrubbed ‘women’ from bill on pregnancy …Read more ‘QUESTIONABLE’: Climate Judiciary Project accused of ‘corruptly influencing courts’ through judge training program …Read more ‘NAKED ELECTION-INTERFERENCE’: Trump legal team calls for sentencing in Bragg case to be delayed until after election …Read more Subscribe now to get the Fox News Politics newsletter in your inbox. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.
DHS, FBI probed for info on alleged Iranian agent’s assassination plot possibly targeting Trump
FIRST ON FOX: A group of leading bipartisan senators conducting oversight of homeland security and governmental matters are demanding answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after an alleged Iranian agent was charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for orchestrating a scheme to assassinate a politician or U.S. official — potentially former President Trump. Pakistani national Asif Merchant was charged with seeking to carry out a murder-for-hire, the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said earlier this month. “This dangerous murder-for-hire plot exposed in today’s charges allegedly was orchestrated by a Pakistani national with close ties to Iran and is straight out of the Iranian playbook,” Wray said in the press release. “A foreign-directed plot to kill a public official, or any U.S. citizen, is a threat to our national security and will be met with the full might and resources of the FBI.” ‘PREGNANT PERSONS’: OHIO SEN SHERROD BROWN SCRUBBED ‘WOMEN’ FROM BILL ON PREGNANCY In a joint letter to Wray and Mayorkas on Wednesday, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., Ranking Member Rand Paul, R-Ky., Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Ranking Member Ron Johnson, R-Wis., noted that the court documents detailed that Merchant had been “orchestrating his assassination plot since at least April 2024 when he ‘flew from Pakistan to Istanbul and then on to Houston, Texas on or about April 13, 2024, to recruit individuals to carry out his plot to assassinate U.S. government officials.” The senators pointed to a Fox News Digital report citing multiple federal law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation, who claimed that the FBI had been watching Merchant before he entered the U.S. According to those sources, the bureau needed him to enter the country in order to cement its case and arrest him. ‘PATH TO JUSTICE’: DURBIN URGES AUSTIN TO RETHINK REVOKING 9/11 MASTERMINDS’ PLEA DEALS Arresting Merchant at Customs would not have allowed agents to get the necessary evidence regarding the plot, per the sources. “In light of this new information and to understand the extent of FBI’s and DHS’s awareness of Merchant and his plot, including the justification to allow him to enter the U.S.,” Peters, Paul, Blumenthal, and Johnson asked that the FBI and DHS leaders provide answers on when and how the Pakistani national became known to the FBI, what the bureau knew at that time and whether it had shared the information with the Secret Service. The lawmakers further asked the entities for information on whether the FBI had sponsored Significant Public Benefit Parole (SPBP) for Merchant for “security interests.” The suspect was allegedly allowed entry through SPBP, which grants non-citizens entry to the U.S. on a temporary basis. KAMALA HARRIS LED DEMS IN 2018 CALL TO REJECT MORE FUNDING FOR BORDER PATROL, ICE They additionally questioned Mayorkas and Wray on the information provided to DHS by the FBI prior to the decision to allow Merchant into the country. “Did FBI inform DHS about Merchant’s assassination plot? When and how did DHS officials become aware of Merchant?” the senators questioned. In their correspondence, the senators noted that a request made last month is still outstanding for “documents and information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including any intelligence regarding a series of enumerated threats known or being investigated in advance of the July 13, 2024 rally,” where Trump survived an assassination attempt. The initial request on July 24 came in response to an attempted assassination against Trump at an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooting wounded the former president’s ear, leaving him bloodied, and killed one spectator as well as critically injuring two others. GOOGLE EXECS PRESSED TO TESTIFY AFTER ADMITTING TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT SEARCH OMISSIONS WERE BY DESIGN “Please explain what, if any, steps federal law enforcement has taken to investigate any connection between Merchant’s assassination plot and the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump,” the lawmakers requested in the latest letter. The FBI confirmed receipt of the letter to Fox News Digital but declined to comment. DHS did not provide comment to Fox News Digital in time for publication. Fox News’ Louis Casiano, Bill Melugin, David Spunt and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
‘Let Minneapolis burn’: Retired police lieutenant rips Gov Walz for surrendering city to rioters
MINNEAPOLIS – A retired police lieutenant in Minnesota is pushing back against the narrative that Gov. Tim Walz is a “moderate” and tells Fox News Digital that the governor “intentionally” let Minneapolis burn during the 2020 riots because he “truly doesn’t like police.” “He is not a moderate, he has never been a moderate and here in Minnesota he has been anti-police, he has raised taxes, he is nowhere near being a moderate,” retired Minnesota State Patrol Lt. John Nagel told Fox News Digital. “He’s anti-police, defund the police, when you have police families, and we have an officer killed in the line of duty, when that family looks at the governor and says we don’t want you at the funeral. That should tell you a great deal of how law enforcement in general feels about Walz.” Last year, the widow of Pope County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Owen, who was killed in the line of duty responding to a domestic violence call, told Walz he was not invited to her late husband’s funeral because “he does not support law enforcement,” Alpha News reported. SHOP OWNER REVEALS HEART-WRENCHING EXPERIENCE AFTER BLM RIOTS ‘DESTROYED’ HIS STORE ON GOV WALZ’S WATCH Nagel told Fox News Digital that a major reason law enforcement in Minnesota is unhappy with Walz was his slow response when asked to send in the National Guard as the city burned during the 2020 George Floyd riots, which Walz has faced fierce criticism for since becoming the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Nagel, who is running for office as a Republican in Minnesota House District 46A, explained that he believes the slow response was due in part to a political calculation. “We’re hearing this over and over and over again, he let Minneapolis burn,” Nagel said. “I think he intentionally let Minneapolis burn.” MINNESOTA MURDER STATS ROSE UNDER WALZ’S LEADERSHIP AS HE TRIES TO TIE VIOLENT CRIME TREND TO TRUMP: DATA “I think it was all part of a much greater scheme because he truly doesn’t like the police. [Minnesota Attorney General] Keith Ellison has never liked the police. They have been involved with people who are defunding the police.” Walz, who publicly backed “alternatives to policing” as the Minnesota City Council was pushing to disband the police department in 2020, has been widely criticized by Republicans for not doing more to support law enforcement during the riots. “Tim Walz let Minneapolis burn for three straight nights without doing anything,” GOP Rep. Pete Stauber, who represents Duluth, Minnesota and surrounding areas, previously told Fox News Digital. “And he called the riots, he stated their actions were, this is a quote, ‘righteous anger.’ Hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to family businesses and buildings in Minneapolis.” Stauber told Fox News Digital the “vast majority” of law enforcement in Minnesota are “disgruntled” with Walz’s “lack of support.” MINNESOTA DEM LAWMAKER DEFENDS WALZ AGAINST ‘RADICAL’ LABEL FROM GOP: ‘COULDN’T DISAGREE MORE’ Nagel, who served in uniform for 30 years, told Fox News Digital that Democrat policies are “hurting Minnesota,” causing people to leave “in droves” and argued that Walz has played a key part in the “dismantling of public safety in Minnesota.” Fox News Digital asked Nagel what he thinks voters who were not familiar with Walz need to know about him from a veteran law enforcement officer’s perspective. “I think they need to understand that he’s not truthful, I think they need to understand that he’s power hungry, they need to understand that he’s not doing this for the good of the people,” Nagel said. “He’s doing it for the good of himself, and he is going to be lockstep with whatever the Democrats want, and I think it would be, just take a look at Minnesota, he’s ruined Minnesota along with this trifecta of the Democrats. Can you only imagine what he’s going to be able to do with your federal tax dollars? And when North Korea decides to knock on the door, he and his president, are they going to be able to actually handle a national crisis when he couldn’t handle a crisis in Minneapolis?” Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris-Walz campaign for comment and did not receive a response.