New White House official deletes thousands of tweets amid backlash: ‘Cover his tracks?’
A recently promoted White House official whose resurfaced social media posts ignited backlash over the weekend is now deleting thousands of those tweets, Fox News Digital has learned. Tyler Cherry, who was promoted earlier this month as an associate communications director at the White House, after more than three years at the Department of Interior working for Secretary Deb Haaland, deleted almost 2,500 posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, according to the Social Blade analytics website. Cherry deleted 2,496 tweets between Sunday night and Monday morning, according to Social Blade. However, the number is likely much higher because the only visible post on Cherry’s personal X account is his response to his resurfaced posts. The former Interior official spoke out Sunday following a social media firestorm about his old posts that attacked police, criticized Republicans, and spewed anti-Israel rhetoric. Social media users took notice of the deleted tweets, including the popular conservative account LibsofTikTok. WHITE HOUSE PROMOTES BIDEN OFFICIAL WHO COMPARED POLICE TO SLAVE PATROLS, WANTS TO ABOLISH ICE “Tyler Cherry just deleted all his tweets,” the account posted on X. “Did #TylerCherry delete all his incriminating tweets, or did the Biden White House do it for him to cover his tracks?” retired diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez posted on X. “Past social media posts from when I was younger do not reflect my current views,”Cherry, who was in his 20s when he made the posts, wrote on X. “Period. I support this Administration’s agenda – and will continue my communications work focused on our climate and environmental policies.” Several of Cherry’s most controversial posts were highlighted in a Fox News Digital report on Friday, including a 2014 anti-Israel post that went viral and echoes a lot of the rhetoric currently heard on college campuses. “Cheersing in bars to ending the occupation of Palestine – no shame and f— your glares #ISupportGaza #FreePalestine,” Cherry said on July 25, 2014, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Praying for #Baltimore, but praying even harder for an end to a capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial biases,” Cherry posted in 2015 amid riots that were sparked following the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man, in police custody in Baltimore. BIDEN OFFICIAL SAYS PAST SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS DON’T REFLECT ‘CURRENT VIEWS,’ VOWS TO SUPPORT ADMIN ‘AGENDA’ “Apt (sic.) time to recall that the modern day police system is a direct evolution of slave patrols and lynch mobs,” he stated in a separate post months later. In 2018, Cherry called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Homeland Security Department agency tasked with preventing cross-border crime and illegal immigration, to be abolished. In 2014,Cherry posted support for Palestinians on social media during the Gaza War in which Palestinian forces, led by the radical Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, launched hundreds of rockets into Israel, sparking a forceful Israeli response that involved airstrikes and a ground invasion. Cherry also has a history of criticizing Republicans on social media, including in 2017 when he said conservatives in the Republican Party were focused on “white grievance politics.” Cherry also frequently criticized photos of specific events on social media for having too many “white people” in attendance, National Review’s Nate Hochman reported on X. White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the White House was “very proud to have Tyler on the team.” The White House did not respond to an inquiry on the deleted tweets.
The US and Israel missed many opportunities for peace with Hamas
The continued failure of the Biden administration to secure a full and lasting ceasefire in Gaza may go down as the most terrible and deadly diplomatic catastrophe of our time. The principles have been in place for weeks; Hamas has agreed to the general terms, and endorsed the June 10 ceasefire resolution by the UN Security Council. Yet US deference to Israeli intransigence – no matter that it stubbornly blames Hamas – is costing thousands of Palestinian lives. Any close follower of US-Israeli relations might have predicted this. US acquiescence to Israel’s unprecedented onslaught in Gaza has powerful roots in the last 30 years – ironically, since the beginning of the Oslo “peace process” in 1993. US reluctance to confront its ally, save it from itself, and insist on a visionary path of reconciliation, has brought us to this latest precipice. Let us travel, for example, to June 2006, when a private US citizen named Jerome Segal left the Gaza Strip carrying a letter for Washington. The letter was from Ismail Haniyeh, then and now the Hamas leader. Segal, founder of the Jewish Peace Lobby at the University of Maryland, was bound for the State Department, where he would deliver a surprising offer. Hamas had just been elected by the Palestinian people, who had grown exhausted and angry with the corruption of the ruling, Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, and voted for change. Haniyeh, long the leader of the Islamist opposition in Palestine, was suddenly confronted with the real prospect of navigating through humanitarian and economic crises, not to mention ongoing military pressure from Israel and a looming economic siege on Gaza. In the back-channel letter, Haniyeh sought compromise. Despite Hamas’s charter calling for the elimination of Israel, Haniyeh’s note to President George W Bush was conciliatory. “We are so concerned about stability and security in the area,” Haniyeh wrote, “that we don’t mind having a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders and offering a truce for many years”. This was essentially de facto recognition of Israel, with a cessation of hostilities – two of the key US and Israeli demands of Hamas. “The continuation of this situation,” Haniyeh added prophetically, “will encourage violence and chaos in the whole region”. Was Hamas serious? It was at the time in negotiations with the PA to form a unity government – suggesting the letter wasn’t just a ruse. Haniyeh now appeared to accept the concept of a two-state solution. If true, it was a stunning concession. It would hardly be unprecedented for a militant revolutionary group, considered terrorist by the US, to come to the negotiating table. After all, the PA’s predecessor, the PLO, long carried the terrorist label, as did Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress. For that matter, Jewish militias fighting for Israel’s independence before 1948 were also labelled terrorist by the British authorities – two of them, Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin, became prime ministers of Israel. Yet they all navigated a way to a reconciliation, albeit with sharply divergent goals and degrees of success. A few voices in Israel’s security establishment endorsed engagement with Hamas. Shmuel Zakai, former brigadier general and commander of the Israeli military’s Gaza division, pressed Israel “to take advantage of the calm to improve, rather than markedly worsen, the economic plight of the Palestinians in the [Gaza] Strip… You cannot just land blows, leave the Palestinians in Gaza in the economic distress they are in, and expect Hamas just to sit around and do nothing”. Another advocate for dialogue was a former director of the Mossad. “I believe there is a chance that Hamas, the devils of yesterday, could be reasonable people today,” said Efraim Halevy. “Rather than being a problem, we should strive to make them part of the solution.” But we’ll never know if Hamas really wanted to help forge a solution. The US did not respond to Haniyeh’s letter. Instead, in 2007, it launched a covert effort to foment a Palestinian civil war, trying and failing to oust Hamas. In hand-to-hand street combat, Hamas battled the US-backed PA fighters. Hamas prevailed in the Battle of Gaza, and has ruled ever since. True to Haniyeh’s prediction, violence and chaos has followed, almost without pause. In war after war, Israel has pledged to destroy Hamas, and failed. In 2014, the Obama administration would follow the same path as Bush’s when it rejected another deal with Hamas, which was in new unity negotiations with the PA, and had again agreed to a deal with Israel and the West – this one even more accommodating than Haniyeh’s appeal eight years earlier. The new effort at reconciliation “could have served Israel’s interests,” wrote Jerusalem-based author and analyst Nathan Thrall: “It offered Hamas’s political adversaries a foothold in Gaza; it was formed without a single Hamas member; it retained the same Ramallah-based prime minister, deputy prime ministers, finance minister and foreign minister; and, most important, it pledged to comply with the three conditions for Western aid long demanded by America and its European allies: nonviolence, adherence to past agreements and recognition of Israel.” Instead, the US tacitly backed Israel’s “splintering strategy” to divide the Palestinian factions, and, with it, the land itself. In a State Department cable, published by WikiLeaks, the director of Israel’s military intelligence told the American ambassador in Tel Aviv that a Hamas victory would allow Israel “to treat Gaza” as a separate “hostile country”, and that he would be “pleased” if PA leader Mahmoud Abbas “set up a separate regime in the West Bank”. Thus the West Bank became essentially sealed off from Gaza, and the dream of a corridor between the two territories in a sovereign Palestine effectively died. The US also has abetted Israel’s policy of splintering Palestine from itself, weakening the dream of self-determination and making a two-state solution all but impossible. In the last 30 years, since the Oslo deal was signed, the settler population in the West Bank has quadrupled, hundreds of military checkpoints remain in place, and over a dozen
Philippine court clears Duterte critic Leila de Lima of drugs charges
De Lima was jailed during the Rodrigo Duterte presidency after years of investigating drug-related killings. A Philippine court has dropped the last of three cases against former Senator Leila de Lima, a longtime critic of former President Rodrigo Duterte and his “war on drugs”. De Lima faced various charges in 2017 within months of launching a senate inquiry into Duterte’s bloody anti-drugs campaign, in which thousands of users and dealers were killed by police or in mysterious circumstances. Critics and rights groups said the police summarily executed drug suspects, which the police deny, saying they acted in self-defence. Duterte, whose term ended in 2022, accused de Lima of colluding with drug gangs while she was justice minister. “I am now completely free and vindicated. It’s very liberating,” an emotional de Lima told reporters as she emerged from the southern Manila courtroom on Monday, where the case against her was dismissed due to insufficient evidence. “My heart is full with all the love pouring in today after the dismissal of all my cases,” she wrote in a post on X. De Lima was arrested in 2017 while a sitting senator, and spent more than six years in jail while on trial for three drug-trafficking charges. She was freed on bail in November last year, having earlier been cleared of the two other drug charges. The final drug case that was overturned on Monday concerned the 2010-2015 period when she was justice minister, with allegations that she took money from inmates inside the country’s largest prison to allow them to sell drugs. De Lima maintained that the charges, which carried a maximum penalty of life in prison, were fabricated in an effort to support the narcotics crackdown. Multiple witnesses, including prison gang bosses, died or recanted their testimonies during the lengthy trials. The court on Monday also dismissed another charge alleging de Lima pressured a former employee to ignore a 2016 summons issued by the House of Representatives for a hearing in relation to the trade of illegal drugs in Philippine prisons. That case, the only other criminal proceeding against her, had carried a penalty of anywhere between a fine and six months in prison. Amnesty International welcomed the dismissal of the “bogus charges” against de Lima in a statement, saying it was overdue after “nearly seven years of arbitrary detention, as well as relentless political persecution”. Duterte is facing a probe by the International Criminal Court over the anti-drugs campaign. De Lima said on Monday that she will continue to help the court with its probe. Adblock test (Why?)
Thousands of refugees in Indonesia have spent years awaiting resettlement
Morwan Mohammad walks down an old hotel corridor on Batam Island in northwestern Indonesia before entering a six-square-metre (64sq-foot) room that has been home to him and his growing family for the past eight years. Mohammad, who fled war in Sudan, is one of hundreds of refugees living in community housing on the island while waiting for resettlement in a third country. Hotel Kolekta, a former tourist hotel, was converted in 2015 into a temporary shelter that today houses 228 refugees from conflict-torn nations including Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere. The island, just south of Singapore, has a population of 1.2 million people. Indonesia, despite having a long history of accepting refugees, is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention of 1951 and its 1967 Protocol, and the government does not allow refugees and asylum seekers to work. Many had fled to Indonesia as a jumping-off point hoping to eventually reach Australia by boat, but are now stuck in what feels like an endless limbo. Mohammad and his wife arrived in Jakarta nine years ago after travelling from his hometown Nyala to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and onward to the sprawling Southeast Asian archipelago, where their first stop was the UN refugee agency office in the capital. “We did not know where to go — just looking for a safe place to live. The most important thing was to get out of Sudan to avoid war,” he said. They made their way to Batam in 2016, believing it would be easier to travel from there to a third country for resettlement. All three of Mohammad’s children were born in Indonesia and he does not know where his family will ultimately settle. He says he wants to have a normal life, working and earning money so he can support himself without relying on others for assistance. “We left our country, our family. We miss our family members. But life here is also too hard for us because, for eight years, we are not working, not doing good activities. Just sleep, wake up, eat, repeat,” he said. Hotel Kolekta is administered by the Tanjungpinang Central Immigration Detention Center on nearby Bintan Island. That three-storey detention facility, with its barred windows and fading paint, is home to dozens of detainees facing similarly uncertain futures, including whether they will ever return to their homelands, but in conditions that more closely resemble a prison. Two Palestinian men have languished there for more than a year, unable to return home due to the war in Gaza. Four fishermen from Myanmar are stranded because they cannot afford to pay for their onward travel. Those held in the detention centre typically violated Indonesia’s immigration regulations, while those living in Hotel Kolekta and other community housing entered the country legally seeking safe haven. The UNHCR office in Indonesia says that nearly one-third of the 12,295 people registered with the organisation are children who have limited access to education and health services. Adblock test (Why?)
India’s second longest expressway to be built in this route, travel time to reduce by 50%, top speed to be…
A substantial segment of the Amritsar-Jamnagar Expressway, spanning approximately 500 kilometres in Rajasthan, is now operational.
Supreme Court declines to hear reality star Josh Duggar’s appeal of child pornography conviction
The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear reality star Josh Duggar’s appeal of his child pornography conviction. The court announced it was denying Duggar’s petition for certiorari in its Monday order list. The former reality star had sought to overturn his 12-year prison sentence that was handed down in December 2021. He is expected to remain in prison until 2032. A federal jury in Arkansas found Duggar, 36, guilty in 2021 on charges related to the receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography. He was sentenced in May 2022 to 151 months in prison. Duggar was later transferred from Washington County Jail in his home state of Arkansas to FCI Seagoville in Texas. Federal authorities investigated him after Little Rock Police detectives found child sexual abuse material was being shared by a computer traced to him. Investigators testified that images depicting the sexual abuse of children, including toddlers, were downloaded in 2019 onto a computer at a car dealership Duggar owned. DUGGAR DOCUSERIES ‘SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE’ REVEALS SHOCKING SECRETS ABOUT REALITY TV FAMILY Duggar’s attorneys argued that statements he made to investigators during the search of the dealership should not have been allowed at trial since his attorney was not present. LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Last year, his sentence was extended by two months to conclude in October 2032. He was placed in solitary confinement at the time after allegedly being found with a contraband cellphone. The allegations against Duggar date to 2006, when a family friend sent a tip to authorities that he had allegedly molested four of his sisters. However, the investigation ended because the statute of limitations had passed. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER The allegations reemerged in 2015, leading to the cancellation of “19 Kids and Counting.” Duggar apologized for marital infidelity and pornography addiction at the time and sought treatment. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP He is married to Anna Duggar, and they share seven children together. Fox News’ Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
Trump camp hits back after CNN host cuts feed, slams debate moderator’s ‘history of anti-Trump lies’
CNN has already set the stage for an unfair debate between former President Trump and President Biden by selecting a debate moderator with a “history of anti-Trump lies” and abruptly ending an interview with the campaign’s spokeswoman on Monday morning, according to the Trump campaign. “CNN cutting off my microphone for bringing up a debate moderator’s history of anti-Trump lies just proves our point that President Trump will not be treated fairly in Thursday’s debate. Yet President Trump is still willing to go into this 3-1 fight to bring his winning message to the American people, and he will win,” Trump national campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital on Monday morning. Leavitt was abruptly cut off during an interview with CNN host Kasie Hunt on Monday morning, after criticizing CNN hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, who will moderate Thursday’s debate between Trump and Biden. “That’s why President Trump is knowingly going into a hostile environment on this very network, on CNN, with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well known over the past eight years. And their biased coverage of him,” Leavitt said on CNN, previewing the debate. CNN HOST CUTS OFF TRUMP SPOKESWOMAN FOR CRITICIZING NETWORK DEBATE MODERATORS: ‘I’M GOING TO STOP THIS’ “So I‘ll just say my colleagues, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, have acquitted themselves as professionals as they have covered campaigns and interviewed candidates from all sides of the aisle. I‘ll also say that if you talk to analysts of previous debates, that if you’re attacking the moderators, you’re usually losing,” Hunt responded. EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP TAKES DEBATE PREP TO CAMPAIGN TRAIL, CALLS IT A WINNING STRATEGY As Hunt tried to redirect the interview back to previewing the debate, Leavitt said it would take just a few minutes to pull up examples of Tapper’s anti-Trump rhetoric across the years. “Ma’am, I’m going to stop this interview if you’re going to continue to attack my colleagues,” Hunt said, before Leavitt continued that she was “stating facts” about what CNN hosts have previously said about Trump. “I’m sorry, guys, we’re going to come back out to the panel,” Hunt said. “Karoline, thank you very much for your time. You are welcome to come back at any point. She is welcome to come back and speak about Donald Trump, and Donald Trump will have equal time to Joe Biden when they both join us later this week in Atlanta for this debate.” Hunt followed up on X Monday morning that when guests join her show, they must “respect my colleagues.” CNN DEBATE MODERATOR JAKE TAPPER’S SHARPEST ANTI-TRUMP COMMENTARY OVER THE YEARS “You come on my show, you respect my colleagues. Period. I don’t care what side of the aisle you stand on, as my track record clearly shows,” Hunt posted. A CNN spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Monday morning that Tapper and Bash are “well respected veteran journalists who have covered politics for more than five decades combined.” “They have extensive experience moderating major political debates, including CNN’s Republican Presidential Primary Debate this cycle. There are no two people better equipped to co-moderate a substantial and fact-based discussion and we look forward to the debate on June 27 in Atlanta,” the spokesperson continued. Trump had already predicted that the upcoming debate on CNN had a 90% chance of being unfair toward him, highlighting there was still a “good 10% chance” moderators Tapper and Bash would be fair. “Fake [Jake] Tapper and lots of other people that were involved on CNN, [the Biden campaign] wanted to be seated, which I didn’t like. I said we should stand and I think we won that point,” Trump said on Logan Paul’s “IMPAULSIVE” podcast earlier this month. “But I would have agreed to whatever I had agreed to because they didn’t want to do it. They thought that I wouldn’t do it because it’s CNN, but I’ve done plenty of CNN. I did a town hall not so long ago with CNN that worked out well. But I think they’ll be fair. I think they’re gonna try to be fair. As fair as they can be.” “But I think that it’s important for there to be a debate. So [the Biden campaign] said, ‘You want to debate?’ ‘Yep, I’ll accept. You don’t even have to tell me.’ Then they said CNN, they said the different people that are involved, but let’s see what happens. I used to get along with [debate moderator] Jake Tapper. We’ll see what happens, but it doesn’t matter. Whatever it is, it is,” Trump continued. “They might be [fair],” Trump added. “I’d say a good 10% chance.” CNN’S JAKE TAPPER, WHO CALLED TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY A ‘NIGHTMARE,’ TAPPED TO MODERATE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE Tapper has a long history of espousing anti-Trump rhetoric, including trying to link Trump to Adolf Hitler, as Leavitt mentioned in her brief remarks on CNN Monday. In December, Tapper tied Trump to Hitler following the 45th president’s remark that illegal immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.” “With four weeks until Ohioans cast the nation’s first votes in the 2024 presidential race, the dehumanizing rhetoric of Adolf Hitler is once again alive and well on the national political stage. This time, of course, in the United States. This time, given life by former president and current Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, whose thoughts on immigrants were made shockingly crystal clear over the weekend,” Tapper said before playing the clip of Trump’s remarks. “If you were to open up a copy of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf,’ you would find the Nazi leader describing the mixing of non-Germans with Germans as poisoning. The Jew, Hitler wrote, quote, ‘poisons the blood of others.’” Back in 2020, Tapper also eulogized Trump’s loss to Biden, declaring that “for tens of millions of our fellow Americans: their long national nightmare is over.” “It’s been a time of extreme divisions, many of the divisions caused and exacerbated by President Trump himself,” Tapper said at the time. “It’s
Illegal immigrant linked to Morin rape, murder by earlier assault of 9-year-old girl: cops
New distressing details emerged in the murder case of Rachel Morin, including that the Maryland mother of five was “badly beaten” before being raped. A Maryland court heard Friday that Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, a 23-year-old illegal El Salvadorian migrant accused of raping and killing Morin, brutally beat, strangled and raped his victim before leaving her behind partially naked, according to a report from the New York Post. Randolph Rice, an attorney for the Morin family, told the New York Post the mother of five had “10-15 head wounds and the manner of death was strangulation and blunt force injuries.” Police say the fatal assault of Morin was brutal enough that the family believed she looked like “her head had been smashed with a rock.” BIDEN OFFERS ‘CONDOLENCES’ BUT NO SOLUTION AFTER LATEST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MURDER ALLEGATION “She was attacked on the trail during her workout and dragged through the woods to the tunnel where she was located,” he said, echoing the argument made by the State Attorney’s office and Hernandez’s bail hearing. The El Salvadorian migrant was not granted bail by Judge Kerwin A. Miller, who determined that Martinez Hernandez was a flight risk and potential danger to society. The judge also noted that Martinez Hernandez, who had entered the country illegally four times, had an ICE detainer and an Interpol warrant. The Morin family attorney told the New York Post that it was an “emotionally challenging experience for them to see the Defendant on the video screen.” The attorney added that the judge’s decision to “deny bail in such a serious case is not unexpected.” MARYLAND DEMS MOURN MOM ALLEGEDLY MURDERED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT BUT BACK BIDEN’S BORDER ORDER “Given the gravity of the accusations in this case – rape and murder – it’s clear that the court found significant reasons to keep the defendant in custody,” Rice said. “This decision underscores the court’s priority to ensure public safety and the integrity of the judicial process.” Martinez Hernandez is charged with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree rape, and second-degree assault in the case. He did not take the opportunity to make a statement at the hearing. Friday’s hearing revealed that DNA evidence played a crucial role in tracking down Martinez Hernandez as the suspect. DNA at the scene of Morin’s murder was linked to DNA found on a water bottle and cap at a March home burglary in Los Angeles that resulted in the assault of a 9-year-old girl. Los Angeles authorities had surveillance video of the March burglary, but were at the time unable to identify Martinez Hernandez as a suspect. He was finally tracked down to a bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was arrested earlier this month. The hearing also revealed that relatives of Martinez Hernandez turned over two bags of clothes and a pair of shoes he left behind in Maryland after fleeing the state, according to the report. Authorities say Martinez Hernandez initially fled El Salvador for the U.S. after allegedly killing a woman there in January 2023. He made two attempts to cross the U.S. border that month, one in Texas and once in New Mexico, but was caught and deported both times. Martinez Hernandez made another attempt to cross a month later, again in New Mexico, but was caught and deported. His fourth and finally successful attempt to cross the border illegally happened that same month or a month later. Get the latest updates on the ongoing border crisis from the Fox News Digital immigration hub.
Donald Trump has picked his running mate and they will be at Thursday’s debate
Former President Trump says he knows who he will choose as his running mate but says he has yet to reveal to anyone the name of that choice. When speaking with reporters this weekend, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said he has settled on a vice presidential nominee. “In my mind, yeah,” Trump said when asked by NBC News at a retail stop in Philadelphia on Saturday if he has decided on his running mate. WHAT DONALD TRUMP TOLD FOX NEWS ABOUT HIS DEBATE PREP STRATEGY When asked if the person he has picked is aware, the former president responded, “No, nobody knows.” Trump added that the person he has picked will “most likely” attend Thursday’s first debate between Trump and President Biden, which will take place in Atlanta. “They’ll be there,” the former president added. “I think we have a lot of people coming.” TRUMP, BIDEN, AIM TO USE POST-DEBATE RALLIES IN THESE STATES TO PUT EACH OTHER ON DEFENSE Trump was also interviewed at the retail stop by Fox News’ Alexis McAdams and discussed the timing of his running mate announcement. “I’ll be announcing it right around the time of the convention,” Trump reiterated to Fox News, as he pointed to the Republican National Convention, which kicks off on Monday, July 15 in Milwuakee. Trump took questions from reporters as he stopped at Tony and Nick’s Steaks, a well-known cheesesteak joint in the city’s South Philadelphia neighborhood. The former president later headlined a rally at nearby Temple University. Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state. CLICK HERE TO GET FOX NEWS APP While Trump heads Monday evening to New Orleans for a campaign fundraiser with House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana as a special guest, the president is scheduled to remain at Camp David as he prepares for Thursday’s debate. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Liberal Illinois prosecutor Kim Foxx assaulted near her home, court records say
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx was allegedly assaulted near her home in Chicago this weekend, according to court records. The suspect, 34-year-old William Swetz, is charged with aggravated assault with a motor vehicle and aggravated battery in a public place, according to Fox 32. Swetz allegedly shouted an insult at Foxx and nearly hit her with hs vehicle as he drove by. Foxx reportedly responded with a hand gesture, at which point Swezt reversed his vehicle and threw a drink at Foxx, striking her in the face. Swetz was arrested soon after the incident but has since been released. Foxx was not injured in the incident. CHICAGO FAMILY RIPS KIM FOXX AFTER TEENS ACCUSED OF DEADLY CAR CRASH GET MISDEMEANORS: ‘BLOOD ON HER HANDS’ The incident comes more than a month after Foxx announced that she does not plan to seek re-election, ending a controversial career in public office. Foxx became the state’s attorney for Cook County, Illinois, in 2016 and has frequently been under heavy criticism over her lax enforcement policies, including her handling of the Jussie Smollett case. CHICAGO’S LORI LIGHTFOOT SLAMMED OVER CRIME PIVOT FOLLOWING OUSTING: ‘TOO LITTLE TOO LATE’ The prosecutor set off widespread objections after she dropped charges against Smollett, a Black and gay actor who had concocted an elaborate “hate crime” hoax in which he claimed two White individuals attacked him in the streets of Chicago while yelling, “This is MAGA country,” tying a rope around his neck and dousing him in bleach. Foxx entered office with significant support from billionaire George Soros, who contributed $400,000 to her 2016 campaign. He also donated $2 million to a fund supporting Foxx in the 2020 election. Soros has backed dozens of far-left prosecutor candidates, with Foxx among the most well-known. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The candidates Soros supports typically favor lax enforcement, oppose cash bail and back so-called “restorative justice” initiatives toward young offenders, which includes shying away from charging minors as adults. Fox News’ Joe Schoffstall contributed to this report.