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Trump wishes all – including ‘Radical Left Scum’ – a Merry Christmas
Quote:President Trump touted his second term accomplishment Wednesday in a Christmas Eve message, wishing all Americans – including “the Radical Left Scum,” a Merry Christmas.
“Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“We no longer have Open Borders, Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender for Everyone, or Weak Law Enforcement,” the president continued. “What we do have is a Record Stock Market and 401K’s, Lowest Crime numbers in decades, No Inflation, and yesterday, a 4.3 GDP, two points better than expected.
“Tariffs have given us Trillions of Dollars in Growth and Prosperity, and the strongest National Security we have ever had.”
Trump argued that under his leadership the United States is “respected again, perhaps like never before.”
“God Bless America!!!” he added.
Trump wishes Americans a merry Christmas after declaring Christmas Eve a national holiday
Quote:President Trump took to Truth Social Wednesday to wish Americans a "MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!"
Trump will be spending the holiday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Last week, Trump took executive action to ensure federal workers get Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas off from work.
Trump had previously given federal workers the day off on Christmas Eve, but his action Thursday goes a step further and adds Dec. 26 to the list for the 2025 calendar year.
Previous presidents have given full or half days on Christmas Eve. Trump did so in 2019 and 2020. But adding Dec. 26 off as well is unique for this year.
Quote:Federal agents were attempting to get in touch with 10 alleged Jeffrey Epstein “co-conspirators” a day after he was arrested on sex-trafficking charges in 2019, according to an email in the latest batch of case documents released by the Justice Department.
The highly-redacted July 7, 2019 email references contact or attempts to make contact with several of them in New York and Boston, but only mentions three by name: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel and Leslie Wexner.
The only known Epstein co-conspirator mentioned in the email is Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex trafficking charges.
Brunel, a French modeling agent who allegedly scouted girls for Epstein, was found dead in his prison cell in Paris in 2022.
Wexner, the billionaire retail titan behind such brands as Victoria’s Secret, The Limited and Abercrombie & Fitch, had his money managed by Epstein until he cut ties with the disgraced financier in 2007 after he was indicted in Florida on sex trafficking charges.
Wexner’s lawyer told the New York Times that the 88 year old is not the target of a federal investigation or considered a co-conspirator, claiming he only gave federal prosecutors background information on Epstein and was never contacted again.
In response to an inquiry by The Post, Victoria’s Secret said Wexner “has no current business connections” to the brand.
The email blacks out who sent the message, but the reply included in the document has the words “FBI New York” in the signature line.
Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, who is among those accusing the Justice Department of slow-rolling the document dump, called upon the DOJ to unveil more details about the alleged Epstein co-conspirators.
Quote:Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s fake passport, one of the most intriguing pieces of evidence in the federal sex-trafficking case against the late financier, is included in the latest trove of records released by the Trump Justice Department early Tuesday.
The green passport, purporting to be issued by Austria, gives a date of issue as May 21, 1982, and states that it is good for the next five years.
The passport photo is a younger version of Epstein, but the bearer’s name is given as Marius Fortelni, a real estate developer who records show lived in New York before moving to Palm Beach, Fla. Attempts to reach a number linked to Fortelni’s business in Florida were not immediately successful.
Most intriguingly, the passport lists Epstein/Fortelni’s residence as Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
The travel document was included in a list of evidence recovered by the feds from Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse following his arrest in July 2019.
Attorneys for Epstein claimed that he never used the passport and it was only “for personal protection in the event of travel to dangerous areas, only to be presented to potential kidnappers, hijackers, or terrorists should violent episodes occur.”
Prosecutors rejected that claim, and photos included in the document release show stamps granting the bearer entry to France, Spain, and the United Kingdom on multiple occasions in 1982 and 1983.
Yet another stamp, from the Saudi Consulate in Vienna, appears to grant the bearer entry for two months.
The existence of the passport has led to speculation that Epstein was employed by one or more intelligence agencies; however, there is no evidence that this was the case.
Quote:The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has ruled against President Donald Trump’s plans to federalize and send 300 Illinois National Guardsmen to the sanctuary city of Chicago to help protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from violent rioters.
In October, Trump had sought to deploy the National Guard to assist ICE agents, but a federal judge, appointed by former President Joe Biden, blocked the effort with a temporary restraining order.
When the Trump administration asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to stay the judge’s order, the panel of judges denied the administration’s plea.
That is when the Trump administration asked SCOTUS to stay the federal judge’s order so National Guardsmen could be deployed to Chicago.
On Tuesday, SCOTUS ruled in a 6-3 decision that the Trump administration “has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” and therefore the administration’s application for a stay was denied:
At this preliminary stage, the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois. The President has not invoked a statute that provides an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act. Instead, he relies on inherent constitutional authority that, according to the Government, allows him to use the military to protect federal personnel and property. But the Government also claims—consistent with the longstanding view of the Executive Branch—that performing such protective functions does not constitute “execut[ing] the laws” within the meaning of the Posse Comitatus Act. If that is correct, it is hard to see how performing those functions could constitute “execut[ing] the laws” under §12406(3). (“This Court does not lightly assume that Congress silently attaches different meanings to the same term in the same or related statutes”). Thus, at least in this posture, the Government has not carried its burden to show that §12406(3) permits the President to federalize the Guard in the exercise of inherent authority to protect federal personnel and property in Illinois. We need not and do not address the reviewability of findings made by the President under §12406(3) or any other statute. The application for stay is denied. [Emphasis added]
Justices John Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson seemingly backed the unsigned order while Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion.
Justices Samuel Alito wrote a dissenting opinion, which Justice Clarence Thomas joined. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a dissenting opinion as well.
“Whatever one may think about the current administration’s enforcement of the immigration laws or the way ICE has conducted its operations, the protection of federal officers from potentially lethal attacks should not be thwarted,” Alito wrote in his dissenting opinion. “I therefore respectfully dissent.”
As Breitbart News has chronicled for months, violent rioters have descended on an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, where agents have not only been attacked, but rioters have chanted “Kill ICE!” and “Shoot ICE!”
The case is Trump v. Illinois, No. 25A443 in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Quote:South Carolina Republicans won all three special elections in the state’s legislature on Tuesday, with the party saying the results “send a clear message.”
Incumbent Reps. John Lastinger, Dianne Mitchell, and Sen. Lee Bright all handily won their races, with 8,729 ballots cast.
Mitchell and Bright garnered over 70 and 67 percent respectively, with no one else on either ballot. The remainder of the votes went to various write-in candidates.
Lastinger, a pastor, beat Democrat retired Army Col. Joseph “Chuck” Hightower 62-37, with less than one percent going to write-in candidates.
Voter turnout was low, with just about seven percent of registered voters in State House Districts 21 and 88 and State Senate District 12 casting a ballot.
“Republicans won all three special elections and that success belongs to the voters who showed up,” the South Carolina Republican Party wrote on X:
“While Democrats hoped low turnout would hand them a win, Republicans proved them wrong at the ballot box. We didn’t sit this one out. We showed up, voted, and protected conservative leadership across South Carolina,” the SCGOP continued. “Thank you to every voter who took time away from family gatherings, travel, and holiday plans to make your voice heard. That commitment is why we win.”
“Tonight’s results send a clear message: South Carolina Republicans show up when it matters and we’re heading into 2026 organized, energized, and stronger than ever.”
Quote:President Donald Trump’s newly appointed envoy to Greenland said Tuesday that the administration wants to open a dialogue with residents of the semi-autonomous Danish territory about its future, seeking to ease concerns stirred by Trump’s past statements about U.S. control of the strategically important Arctic island.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, named to the envoy role earlier this week, made his first extended public remarks in an interview on Fox News. He said the administration is not seeking to seize Greenland or undermine its sovereignty, despite Trump’s repeated assertions that the United States needs to take control of the island for national security reasons.
“We’re not going in there trying to conquer anybody or take over anybody’s country,” Landry said on Fox News' Will Cain Show. Instead, he said the focus should be on engaging directly with Greenland’s residents. “What are they looking for? What opportunities have they not gotten? Why haven’t they gotten the protection that they actually deserve?”
Why It Matters
The announcement of Landry’s appointment has renewed unease in Denmark and across Europe, where officials have warned that Trump’s language threatens long-standing norms governing national sovereignty.
What To Know
Landry’s comments appeared to contrast with Trump’s own rhetoric. The president has repeatedly argued that U.S. jurisdiction over Greenland is necessary to counter growing Russian and Chinese influence in the Arctic and has declined to rule out the use of military force to secure control of the mineral-rich territory.
Trump announced he had appointed Landry, a Republican, in a Truth Social post late on Sunday. The president said Landry "understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security, and will strongly advance our Country’s Interests for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Allies, and indeed, the World."
In his own public message on X directed at the president, Landry called it “an honor” to serve in what he described as a “volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the U.S.” He did not elaborate on what this might entail, but added that the role “in no way affects” his duties as governor.
Denmark’s foreign minister said Tuesday he would summon the U.S. ambassador for talks, underscoring the seriousness with which Copenhagen views the issue. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s premier, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, issued a joint statement reiterating that Greenland is not for sale.
Trump revived the Greenland issue during his presidential transition and in the early months of his second term. In March, Vice President JD Vance visited a remote U.S. military base on the island and accused Denmark of failing to adequately invest in Greenland’s defense and infrastructure.
Although the controversy faded from public view in recent months, it resurfaced in August after Danish officials summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen following reports that individuals linked to Trump had conducted covert influence efforts in Greenland.
According to a Danish government official, the Trump administration provided no advance notice of Landry’s appointment. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. A congressional aide said lawmakers also have not received formal details about the role or its scope.
Trump’s renewed focus on Greenland comes as his administration faces multiple foreign policy challenges, including efforts to preserve a fragile truce in Gaza and negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Quote:The State Department is barring five “egregious” European figures in the “global censorship-industrial complex” from entering the US, it revealed Tuesday.
State Department officials contended that those five Europeans flouted a visa policy rolled out in May restricting those who work to censor protected speech in the US from entering the country.
“For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Tuesday.
“The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship. Today, [the State Department] will take steps to bar leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States.”
“We stand ready and willing to expand this list if others do not reverse course.”
The five Europeans blocked from entering the US are: former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton; Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate; Clare Melford, who is in charge of the Global Disinformation Index; and Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders at the Germany-based HateAid.
Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, revealed the five Europeans being blocked on Tuesday.
“Our message is clear: if you spend your career fomenting censorship of American speech, you’re unwelcome on American soil,” she posted on X.
“Our targets are foreign, but you’ll notice that some collaborated with U.S. bureaucrats on Murthy-style speech suppression. Don’t worry: we’re pursuing transparency, truth, and reconciliation at the [State Department] too.”
“Murthy-style speech suppression” refers to the 2024 US Supreme Court case Murthy v. Missouri, in which the court addressed back-channel efforts by governments to limit free speech online.
Quote:President Donald Trump’s administration is forcing down the huge crime waves overseen by Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, according to a crime report posted by Axios.com.
“U.S. murders on pace for largest one-year drop on record,” says Axios.com’s coverage of the data collected by the Real Time Crime Index site, which compiles data from 570 law enforcement agencies.
The site shows almost 7,300 murders during the 12 months up to October 2025, compared to 8,852 in the 12 months before the May 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn.
The murder rate spiked to 12,000 in the subsequent 12 months of Democratic cheerleading for a “racial reckoning” and “Black Lives Matter.”
Trump’s lower 2025 murder rate is below the 8,192 seen in the 12 months before April 2019.
That record is saving the lives of thousands of Americans compared to Biden and Obama, who helped trigger a crime wave just before the 2014 mid-term election by endorsing claims that police officers were shooting many African-Americans.
Trump’s emphasis on law and order — plus his nationwide crackdown on illegal migration — has also forced down auto theft by almost one-quarter, murder by 20 percent, robbery by 18 percent, burglary by 15 percent, and violent crime by 10 percent.
The crackdown is helping push murder numbers back to the levels before the 1960s crime explosion.
Since January, Trump’s deputies have deported roughly 600,000 migrants, including many with long criminal records.
His team has also helped persuade many other migrants to quietly go home.
Quote:A Delaware state trooper who was shot to death at a DMV office was described Thursday as dependable and professional on the job and steady and kind at home.
Cpl. Matthew “Ty” Snook, 34, of Hockessin, Delaware, was working an overtime assignment at a DMV office near Wilmington on Tuesday when he was shot by a 44-year-old gunman, state police said. Authorities said Snook pushed a nearby employee to safety before he was shot again.
He died later at a hospital, as did the gunman, who was shot by another officer.
Snook, who is survived by his wife and their 1-year-old daughter, was a Delaware native. He graduated from the University of Maryland, where he was a member of the wrestling team, and had been a trooper for 10 years.
“He was known as a dependable, professional, and committed trooper,” state police said in a press release that also described him as a trusted partner and beloved community member and extended condolences to Snook’s family.
“We are forever grateful to them for sharing “Ty” with us and for the sacrifices they made in support of his service to the citizens of Delaware,” the agency said.
An official fund established to support the family describes the officer as a “loving husband, a devoted father, and a deeply cherished friend.”
“Those who knew him remember his steady presence, his kindness, and his unwavering commitment to the people he loved,” the fundraiser’s organizer wrote.
“Family meant everything to Ty, and he worked every day to provide, protect, and be present for those closest to him.”
Authorities have not yet publicly identified the gunman or disclosed a possible motive for the shooting.
Quote:LOS ANGELES — Nepo-baby junkie Nick Reiner checked into a trendy beach hotel with an indoor fire pit and sweeping views of bougie Santa Monica allegedly after slitting the throats of parents Rob and Michele Reiner.
The privileged accused-killer son of the legendary Hollywood director was in enough of a frame of mind to find his way to the Pierside Hotel, just steps from the tony California town’s iconic pier, in the pre-dawn hours of Dec. 14 — sometime after law-enforcement sources say he is believed to have killed his parents in their Los Angeles mansion roughly 5 miles away.
Nick, 32, would have strolled past the hotel lobby’s quaint Christmas tree, upscale restaurant and cozy fire-pit sitting area featuring wicker chairs to get to the check-in desk to rent a $300-a-night room at the primely located lodging between the pier and a light-rail station — which has a line leading directly to the location where he was arrested later that night.
He couldn’t have picked a more public place to hunker down for awhile — although at that time of morning and in the typically teeming area, he wouldn’t have registered on anyone’s radar.
But he was jittery, appearing “tweaked out,” when he arrived, witnesses told TMZ — and thus likely oblivious to the hotel’s features, including its lobby with floor-to-ceiling windows offering a semi-panoramic view of the local area.
The accused murderer’s second-floor room would have also afforded him his own private stunning view of the ritzy seaside enclave — although at some point, he hanged bed sheets over all the windows, blocking the sight, authorities have said.
Law enforcement later blocked off a section of the hallway where Nick’s room was located as the investigation continues, a staff member told The Post.
After Nick left the hotel sometime that day, never formally checking out, cleaners found the shower and bed in his room covered in blood. But witnesses noted that Nick had no visible blood on him when he walked in, according to TMZ.
The deeply disturbed son is accused of killing his icon father, 78, and photographer mother, 70, sometime between an embarrassingly public blow-up the three had at Conan O’Brien’s holiday party Saturday night and when his sister Romy found their parents’ body at the family’s mansion in Brentwood on Sunday afternoon.
Law-enforcement sources have said they believe Nick killed Rob and Michelle between leaving the party and arriving at the hotel.
Quote:Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted again on Wednesday for the 39th time in a year, continuing to be among one of the world’s most active volcanoes.
The eruption began on the anniversary of Episode 1 at around 8:10 p.m. HST, marking the one-year anniversary of a continuous on-off volcano eruption.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s webcams captured more than 1,400 feet of lava spewing into the air from the north and south vents of the volcano.
The USGS reported that the gas and ash plumes from the episode were so large that they were seen from space.
“You can see, very subtly, the low-level gas plume drifting to the southwest following low-level winds and spreading to the southern part of the island,” said the USGS.
“Higher-level ash plume is much more obvious and reaches 20,000 feet. High-level winds are carrying that material to the southeast.”
As of 2:13 a.m. HST, the volcano stopped erupting after a 6-hour episode.
According to the National Park Service, Kilauea is the youngest and most active volcano on the island of Hawai’i.
In the past, the volcano has only had a short period of repose, but it has covered almost 90% of its surface in lava flows within the last 1,000 years.
The last significant episode, the 38th eruption, took place earlier this month and lasted close to 12 hours.
Many of these episodes have lasted a day or less and are separated by pauses of several days.
Quote:WASHINGTON — Accused DC National Guard shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal could face the death penalty after he was hit with federal first-degree murder charges on Tuesday.
Prosecutors also alleged that the Afghan refugee tried to buy even more guns before his attack on American troops on Nov. 26.
The criminal complaint, filed in DC US District Court, brought the gun-related, assault and murder counts against the 29-year-old father of five for the shooting of West Virginia National Guard soldiers Sarah Beckstrom, who later died, and Andrew Wolfe, who is still recovering from his wounds.
Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, said the case is transferred from Superior Court to the District Court in an escalation of possible consequences for the alleged shooter.
The action “ensures that we can undertake the serious, deliberate, and weighty analysis required to determine if the death penalty is appropriate here,” Pirro said. “Sarah Beckstrom was just 20 years old when she was killed and her parents are now forced to endure the holiday season without their daughter. Andrew Wolfe, by the grace of God, survived but has a long road ahead in his recovery.”
The FBI revealed that Lakanwal purchased a stolen .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson revolver for the shooting about two weeks before he drove across the country from his home in Bellingham, Wash.
On Oct. 15, he also contacted an individual to “find” even more firearms for him — including an AR-15 rifle and a stockless, AK-47-style “Draco” pistol — but only ended up being able to get his hands on a revolver, the affidavit alleged.
It had previously been reported stolen from a home in Washington state.
Lakanwal claimed he needed a gun “for protection in his vehicle as a Lyft and Uber driver,” but the person he discussed getting the weapons from noted he remarked of the revolver: “only five rounds?”
On Nov. 15, he bought a box of .357 Magnum rounds from Big 5 Sporting Goods in Bellingham, according to CCTV footage and a purchase receipt.
Lakanwal is accused of shooting Wolfe, a 24-year-old Air Force staff sergeant who has since made a “miraculous” recovery at a nearby hospital, and Beckstrom, a 20-year-old Army specialist who died from the gunshot wound on Thanksgiving Day.
Quote:A powerful winter storm swept across California on Wednesday, with heavy rains and gusty winds bringing mudslides and debris flows that has led to some water rescues and evacuation orders.
Forecasters said Southern California could see its wettest Christmas in years and warned about flash flooding and mudslides.
Areas scorched by January’s wildfires were under evacuation warnings, and Los Angeles County officials said the previous day that they delivered about 380 evacuation orders to especially vulnerable homes.
San Bernardino County firefighters said they rescued people trapped in their cars when mud and debris rushed down a road leading into Wrightwood, a mountain resort town in the San Gabriel Mountains about 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles. It was not immediately clear how many were rescued.
Firefighters also went door to door to check on residents, and the area was under a shelter-in-place order, officials said. Lytle Creek, also in the San Gabriel Mountains, was under evacuation orders in the afternoon as rains continued to pummel the area.
Debris and mud were seen cascading down a road in Wrightwood in a video posted by county fire officials. Another video showed fast-moving water rushing through the front porch of several homes.
The storm stranded Dillan Brown with his wife and 14-month-old daughter at a rented cabin in Wrightwood with almost no food and only enough diapers for about another day. By the morning, roads leading off the mountain and to a grocery store were blocked by rocks and debris, Brown said.
“I came across (a road) where there was a car sucked away by the water and realized we were trapped here,” he said.
A resident learned of his situation and posted a call for help in a Facebook group, and in less than an hour, neighbors showed up with more than enough supplies to ride out the storm, including bread, vegetables, milk, diapers and wipes.
“I think we’re a little sad and upset that we’re not going to be home with our families,” Brown said, but the “kindness shown is definitely an overwhelming feeling.”
Janice Quick, president of the Wrightwood Chamber of Commerce and a resident of the mountain town for 45 years, said a wildfire in 2024 left much of the terrain without tree coverage and “all this rain is bringing down a lot of debris and a lot of mud from the mountain area.”
Quote:Apple chief Tim Cook bought shares worth about $3 million in Nike, a move that nearly doubled his personal stake in the sportswear maker and signaled confidence in the turnaround strategy laid out by CEO Elliott Hill.
Shares of the company closed 4.6% higher on Wednesday after a regulatory filing showed that Cook, who has been on Nike’s board since 2005, bought 50,000 shares at $58.97 each.
As of Dec. 22, he held about 105,000 shares, according to the filing released on Tuesday.
It was the largest open market stock purchase for a Nike director or executive and possibly the largest in more than a decade, said Jonathan Komp, analyst at Baird Equity Research.
“(We see) Cook’s move as a positive signal for the progress under CEO Elliott Hill and Nike’s “Win Now” actions,” Komp said.
The purchase comes days after Nike reported weaker quarterly margins and weak sales in China even as CEO Hill tries to revive demand through fresh marketing plans and innovation focused on running and sports, while phasing out lagging lifestyle brands.
He has also attempted to mend Nike’s ties with wholesalers such as Dicks Sporting Goods to increase visibility among shoppers amid stiff competition from newer brands.
“For Tim Cook to be an inside buyer is a modest positive,” said David Sowerby, portfolio manager at Ancora Advisors. The investment firm said it sold its stake in Nike over a year ago due to the “lingering effect of an ineffective CEO,” as well as excess inventory, weak innovation in key categories such as running and loss of market share to competitors.
However, the strategy has strained Nike’s margins, which have been declining for over a year, while its efforts to win back its premier position in discount-friendly China appears to be faltering.
Nike’s shares have slumped nearly 13% since it reported results on Dec. 18 and are on track for the fourth straight year of declines. They were trading at $60.19 on Wednesday.
JD Vance offers damning message to racist Nick Fuentes for revolting attacks on wife Usha: ‘Eat s–t’
Quote:Vice President JD Vance had two choice words for racist troll Nick Fuentes and others like MS NOW host Jen Psaki, who have made revolting comments about the second lady: “Eat s–t.”
“Let me be clear. Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat s–t,” Vance told UnHerd in an interview published Sunday.
“That’s my official policy as vice president of the United States.”
Fuentes, a 27-year-old, far-right white supremacist and Holocaust denier, called Vance a “race traitor” for marrying Usha Vance, the daughter of two Indian immigrants, and has used hateful terms to describe her.
“Who is this guy, really? Do we really expect that the guy who has an Indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity?” Fuentes said after Vance was selected as President Trump’s running mate.
On the other side of the political spectrum, Psaki, who served as President Joe Biden’s press secretary, commented in October that Usha needed to be rescued from Vance.
“I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of [Vance’s] wife. Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. Come over here. We’ll save you,” Psaki said during an appearance on the “I’ve Had It” podcast.
During the same interview, Vance strongly came out against antisemitism and all racism, drawing a hard line over what’s unacceptable on the right.
UKRAINE WAR
Quote:Russia fired a barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine in a large-scale attack Tuesday that left three people dead, including a 4-year-old child – just one day after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned against strikes over the Christmas period.
The onslaught, which saw more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles fired, struck homes and wiped out power in 13 Ukrainian regions – causing widespread power outages in already frigid temperatures, officials said.
Zelensky decried the latest attack on families preparing to celebrate Christmas, saying it was proof Russian dictator Vladimir Putin wasn’t serious about bringing an end to the nearly four-year-old war.
“A strike before Christmas, when people want to be with their families, at home, in safety. A strike, in fact, in the midst of negotiations that are being conducted to end this war. Putin cannot accept the fact that we must stop killing,” Zelensky wrote on X.
The Ukrainian leader added the strikes meant “the world is not putting enough pressure on Russia” and that “now is the time to respond.”
Ukrainian emergency services said the child who died was killed in Ukraine’s northwestern Zhytomyr region.
A separate drone attack killed a woman in the Kyiv region, while another civilian died in the western Khmelnytskyi region, according to officials.
At least five were reported wounded in the Kyiv strikes, the Ukrainian officials said.
Ukraine’s air force said its air defenses managed to stop 587 drones and 34 missiles.
The strike – the ninth large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine’s energy system this year alone — left scores of people without power early Tuesday, Ukraine’s energy ministry said.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s largest private energy supplier, DTEK, said the attack targeted thermal power stations in what it noted was the seventh major strike on its facilities since October.
Authorities in the western regions of Rivne, Ternopil and Lviv, as well as the northern Sumy region, also reported damage to energy infrastructure or power outages in the wake of the strikes.
Russia, for its part, admitted to attacking Ukrainian energy and military facilities and captured two villages along the front line.
Kyiv, which often disputes Russian reports of territorial gains, didn’t immediately comment.
Quote:“War on Christmas” will be reality this year for many Ukrainians, despite the Trump administration’s best efforts to end the nearly four-year conflict in time for the holy holiday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday warned that Russia may be plotting a massive strike on Kyiv for Christmas, as hopes for a holiday miracle cease-fire deal appear far-off with the latest deadly attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure knocking out power, leaving civilians shivering in the cold.
“We understand that precisely on these days they may – this is in their nature – carry out massive strikes on Christmas,” he said of the Russians in an X post. “And today we had a Staff meeting on this, and the number one issue was air defense: the protection of our cities, villages, and communities, especially on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th.”
US and international allies had earlier proposed a temporary Christmas cease-fire for a brief peace in honor of the holiday, but Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected the idea.
That prompted Zelensky to instruct Ukraine to be on guard.
“This needs to be paid attention to. The military must pay attention directly, ensure protection as much as they can,” he said in a post to X. “Everything is very difficult, because there is, unfortunately, a shortage of air defense systems.
“And people also need to pay attention – serious attention – during these days, because these ‘comrades’ may launch such strikes. There is nothing sacred for them,” he added.
His remarks proved true hours later, when Moscow launched more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles into Ukraine that night, killed at least three people — including a 4-year-old child — and wiping out power in 13 regions in frigid temperatures.
Russia celebrated the military assault, with the defense ministry touting the “massive strike by ground-based and airborne long-range precision weapons” on “Ukraine’s military-industrial sector and their energy facilities.”
“The goals of the strike were achieved. All the designated targets were hit,” the Russian defense ministry said in a statement.
Zelensky said the attack shows Moscow has little interest in stopping bloodshed. Instead, Russia has continued targeting critical infrastructure in what Ukrainian officials say is an effort to break civilian morale during the coldest months of the year.
Quote:Three people were killed by a bomb in Moscow on Wednesday after two police officers approached a man acting suspiciously near the site where a senior general was killed two days ago by a car bomb that Russia said was planted by Ukrainian intelligence.
A string of Russian military figures and high-profile supporters of the war in Ukraine have been assassinated during the nearly four-year-old conflict. Ukrainian military intelligence has said it was responsible for a number of the attacks.
Russia’s State Investigative Committee said that when two police officers approached a man who was acting strangely, they were killed by an explosive device, adding that a third person was also killed. It did not specify who the third person was.
It said it opened criminal cases under clauses dealing with the murder of law enforcement officers and the illegal trafficking of bombs.
“There was an explosion,” Alexander, a resident who lives nearby, told Reuters television. “It was loud bang – like with the car a few days ago.”
Another resident named Roza said she was woken up by the explosion in the early hours and that the entire building appeared to shake.
Unofficial Russian Telegram news channels said the bomber was one of those killed and that he detonated the bomb when approached by the officers. Reuters could not independently confirm those details.
The blast took place very close to where Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Russian General Staff’s army operational training directorate, was killed on Monday.
Russia said it suspected Ukraine was behind the killing.
There was no official comment from Ukraine.
Myrotvorets, an unofficial Ukrainian website that provides a database of people described as war criminals or traitors, updated its entry on Sarvarov to say the 56-year-old general had been “liquidated.”
Quote:Ukraine's SBU domestic security service has released new footage it says shows the country's preparations for attacking a Russian submarine in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk earlier this month.
Why It Matters
The SBU said on December 15 it had struck a Kilo-class Russian submarine using underwater drones "for the first time in history." The agency operates its SeaBaby waterborne drones and said modified underwater versions, referred to as "Sub SeaBaby" uncrewed vehicles, were responsible for targeting the submarine.
The submarine "suffered critical damage" and was taken "out of action," the SBU said. Russia's Black Sea Fleet denied the submarine had sustained damage.
What To Know
Ukraine struck a modernized Il-38N reconnaissance aircraft at the Yeysk air base in Russia's Krasnodar region which "actively opposed the work of the SBU naval drones," the agency said in a statement released on Tuesday. Novorossiysk, south of Yeysk, is on the Krasnodar coastline and one of Russia's main bases for its Black Sea Fleet that has been repeatedly caught in Kyiv's crosshairs.
The video shared by the SBU appears to show a brief generic clip of an Il-38N in flight before cutting to satellite footage appearing to show one of the aircraft visible on the tarmac at a Russian air base. The video then displays what appears to be a feed from a Ukrainian drone approaching a stationary Il38N aircraft.
The footage briefly shows a port area before an explosion rocks up from the water. The SBU said the video captured the moment it targeted Russia's submarine in Novorossiysk. Newsweek could not independently verify the clip.
The spy agency said Russia had just one operational reconnaissance aircraft able to pick up the underwater drones as they homed in on the submarine. "The disabling of this anti-submarine aircraft ensured the successful execution of the main part of the special operation," the SBU said.
Each Il-38N reconnaissance aircraft cost in the region of $24 million, the spy service said.
A spokesperson for the Black Sea Fleet said on December 15 Ukraine's "attempt to carry out sabotage using an unmanned underwater vehicle did not achieve its objectives." Satellite imagery released after the attack appears to show some damage to the Novorossiysk base but it is hard to discern how the Kilo-class submarine was affected.
Kyiv said in August 2024 its forces had destroyed Moscow's Rostov-on-Don Kilo-class submarine in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and Kyiv has vowed to reclaim the peninsula. Many Ukrainian attacks on Russia's military capabilities have focused on Crimea.
Quote:NATO member Poland scrambled fighter jets overnight as Russia launched strikes on Ukraine, Warsaw's military said on Tuesday.
Poland also put ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems on "the highest state of readiness" to protect NATO territory bordering Ukraine, Poland said.
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What To Know
On Tuesday, Poland's military said its actions were "of a preventive nature" to secure the country's airspace, "especially in areas adjacent to the threatened zones."
A spokesperson for the German military told Newsweek German aircraft were not scrambled overnight. Germany has sent a detachment of five fighter jets to northern Poland for a rotation of NATO air policing. A Polish military spokesperson declined to specify which aircraft—and how many—were involved, citing operational security.
Ukrainian officials reported that aerial attacks in several regions had killed at least three people, including in Kyiv.
One person was killed and three were injured in the capital, Ukraine's state emergency service said. The injured were in the west of the city, according to Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko.
Vitaliy Bunechko, the governor of the Zhytomyr region west of Kyiv, said a child had been killed in the strikes, while another four people were injured. Serhiy Tyurin, who leads the western Khmelnytskyi region, said one person had died overnight.
"Since last night, Russia has been carrying out a massive attack on Ukraine—primarily targeting our energy sector and civilian infrastructure, essentially the entire infrastructure of daily life," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said early Tuesday.
The Ukrainian leader said Russia had launched more than 650 drones and 30 missiles.
Ukraine's energy ministry said Russia had targeted the country's energy infrastructure and that power outages were affecting several regions. A similar message was shared by Ukraine's state electricity transmission system operator, Ukrenergo.
Oleh Kiper, the governor of Ukraine's southern Odesa region, said Russia had "carried out another massive attack with strike UAVs [uncrewed aerial vehicles]."
The attacks damaged the region's energy, port, transport and industrial infrastructure, as well as residential areas, Kiper said.
Romania's Defense Ministry said it had detected two unspecified aerial targets in Ukrainian airspace moving toward its border.
Radars also picked up a different group of drones heading for Romania following a series of explosions on Ukrainian territory, Bucharest said.
Authorities issued alerts for those living in the north of the Tulcea county area bordering Ukraine and the southeastern Galati county. The warnings were rescinded at 2:15 a.m. local time.
Quote:KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters that he would be willing to withdraw troops from the country’s eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan to end Russia’s war, if Moscow also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized, free economic zone monitored by international forces.
The proposal marks the clearest indication yet of the compromises the Ukrainian leader would be willing to make on the Donbas region, control of which is a major sticking point in peace negotiations.
A similar arrangement could be possible for the area around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is currently under Russian control, Zelenskyy said. He said that any peace plan would need to be put to a referendum.
Zelenskyy spoke to reporters Tuesday to describe a 20-point overarching plan that negotiators from Ukraine and the U.S. hammered out in Florida in recent days, though he said that many details are still being discussed.
Russia has given no indication that it will agree to any kind of withdrawal of its troops from land it has seized. In fact, Moscow has insisted that Ukraine relinquish the remaining territory it still holds in the Donbas – an ultimatum that Ukraine has rejected. Russia has captured most of Luhansk and about 70% of Donetsk – the two areas that make up the Donbas.
Asked about the plan, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that Moscow would set out its position based on information received by Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who met with U.S. envoys in Florida over the weekend. Peskov declined to share further details.
American negotiators have engaged in a series of talks with Ukraine and Russia separately since U.S. President Donald Trump presented a plan to end the war last month – a proposal widely see as favoring Moscow, which invaded its neighbor nearly four years ago. Since then, Ukraine and its allies in Europe have worked to pull the plan closer to Kyiv’s position.
Zelenskyy said that figuring out control of the Donbas region is “the most difficult point.”
Meanwhile, on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the U.S. has proposed creating a consortium with Ukraine and Russia, in which each party would have an equal stake. Zelenskyy countered with a proposal for joint venture between the U.S. and Ukraine, in which the Americans would be able to decide how to distribute their share, including giving some of it to Russia.
Zelenskyy acknowledged that the U.S. has not yet accepted Ukraine’s counterproposals.
“We did not reach a consensus with the American side on the territory of the Donetsk region and on the ZNPP,” Zelenskyy said, using an acronym for the power plant in Zaporizhzhia. “But we have significantly brought most of the positions closer together. In principle, all other consensus in this agreement has been found between us and them.”
Creating a free economic zone in the Donbas would require difficult discussions on how far troops would be required to move back and where international forces would be stationed, Zelenskyy said, adding that it should discussed at the leaders level.
The working U.S.-Ukraine draft also proposes that Russian forces withdraw from the Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv regions. Zelenskyy envisions that international forces could be located along certain points of the contact line within the free economic zone to monitor the implementation of the agreement.
“Since there is no faith in the Russians, and they have repeatedly broken their promises, today’s contact line is turning into a line of a de facto free economic zone, and international forces should be there to guarantee that no one will enter there under any guise – neither ‘little green men’ nor Russian military disguised as civilians,” Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine is also proposing that the occupied city of Enerhodar, which is the closest city to the Zaporizhzhia power plant, become a demilitarized free economic zone, Zelenskyy said.
This point required 15 hours of discussions with the U.S., he said, and no agreement was reached.
Quote:“This is my house, I have to defend it.”
That’s what Kevin McCallister said as he bolted his front door and began fortifying the home against invaders in one of the most iconic scenes from “Home Alone” — a scene where “Carol of the Bells” plays prominently, helping to make the song an American Christmas staple.
The song wasn’t always associated with Christmas, however, but the scene is a remarkably apt parallel to its true origins: an anthem of Ukrainian defiance against Russian invaders.
And it’s especially poignant today, as Ukrainian forces are fighting through the holiday to throw Russian soldiers out of Pokrovsk, the very city where composer Mykola Leontovych lived and was inspired to write the melody.
“It was never just a Christmas song, but a Ukrainian cultural message to the world, a greeting card of the nation’s deep-rooted spirituality and resilience in the face of threat,” Leontovych biographer Larysa Semenko told Politico.
“The same threat our nation is fighting today,”
Leontovych lived in Pokrovsk during the first years of the 20th century, and it was there he began to make a name for himself as a composer while teaching music and running a local choir.
And it was around that time that he repurposed a local folk tune to write Carol of the Bells — then called Shchedryk — and after World War I it became the anthem of Ukrainian nationalists hoping to gain independence from Russia, which had controlled the country’s people for centuries.
A short-lived independent Ukrainian government even sent a choir on a tour of Europe in 1922 to showcase its culture with the song and promote its independence from Russia — and it was a sensation across the world.
“Shchedryk, which was a hit and always played as an encore, enchanted Europe and America, and helped Ukrainians to declare their nation and state to the world,” said author Anatoliy Paladiychuk.
But Leontovych paid dearly for his defiance of the Russian yoke.
After the Bolsheviks retook swaths of Ukraine during the Russian Civil War, he was tracked down by Soviet agents and murdered in a 1921 assassination that was covered up until the 1990s.
“Just like they do in occupied territories of Ukraine now, Russian authorities saw a threat in Ukrainian culture,” Semenko told Politico.
EUROPE
Quote:Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has issued a dire warning to government staff — predicting that 2026 “will be much worse” than 2025.
The straight-talking conservative populist, 48, made the not-so-festive forecast on Tuesday during her traditional Christmas greeting exchange to staff at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
“The end of 2025 has been difficult for all of us. Don’t worry, because next year will be much worse,” Meloni said, as reported by Italian outlet Ansa.
“So rest properly during these holidays, because we must continue to give answers to this extraordinary nation,” she continued.
Speaking from the Government Palace in Rome, Meloni described 2025 as a year defined by constant struggle — framing her administration as a “family” that had been fighting on multiple fronts.
The speech is part of an annual tradition in which Italy’s leader usually delivers a message of hope to the nation.
For example, last year, Meloni wished a “merry Christmas,” to those who “can’t be with their families” during the holidays, including essential service workers such as the armed forces, police, doctors and nurses.
Her comments came as Italy’s government prepares to debate extending arms sales to Ukraine at the final Cabinet meeting of the year.
The Northern League, a right-wing junior partner in Italy’s ruling coalition, is trying to impose restrictions on further weapons sales.
Quote:Professional protester Greta Thunberg was arrested Tuesday in Central London while part of a mass gathering backing the Palestine Action terrorist group.
The 22-year-old Swede was detained as she expressed support for the proscribed organization.
In a video shared by the Prisoners for Palestine protest group, Thunberg can be seen holding a sign reading “I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide” at the demonstration outside the central London offices of Aspen Insurance.
Two activists sprayed red paint over the front of the building before police arrived and made arrests.
Prisoners for Palestine said its protest had targeted the offices of Aspen Insurance because the company provided services to Israeli-linked defence firm Elbit Systems UK.
A City of London Police spokesperson confirmed to LBC: “At around 7am this morning hammers and red paint were used to damage a building on Fenchurch Street.
“A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage. They glued themselves nearby and specialist officers are working to release them, and bring them into police custody.
“A little while later, a 22-year-old woman also attended the scene. She has been arrested for displaying an item (in this case a placard) in support of a proscribed organisation (in this case Palestine Action) contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.”
The arrests follow a similar response at another protest earlier this year, as Breitbart London reported.
The UK government in July proscribed Palestine Action under the UK’s Terrorism Act of 2000.
This followed several acts of vandalism, including against two planes at a Royal Air Force base, which caused an estimated £7 million ($10 million) in damage.
Thunberg also joined a pro-Palestinian protest in central London last night where she was seen shouting “we support the hunger strikers.”
She said in a video posted on her Instagram: “We are witnessing with pure and utter disgust how the UK government is handling this situation.”
Quote:Politico is framing the celebration of Christmas as a “far-right” front in Europe, arguing that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her party have made it a “spectacle.”
Conservative social media users blasted the left-wing outlet’s Wednesday article, “How the far right stole Christmas,” authored by Rome correspondent Hannah Roberts.
“Not a ‘far right’ concept.. politico is such a joke,” wrote podcast host Mel K:
“Wow, imagine marking Christmas as being Christian. Revolutionary thinking in Europa,” wrote former Breitbart News journalist Chris Tomlinson:
In the Christmas Eve piece, Roberts wrote that the holiday “is becoming a new front line in Europe’s culture wars,” with so-called “far-right” parties and politicians “claiming the festive season as their own.”
The evidence?: Meloni’s defense of public Nativity scenes and other long-standing Christmas traditions in her majority-Catholic country.
“In Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made the defense of Christmas traditions central to her political identity. She has repeatedly framed the holiday as part of the nation’s endangered heritage, railing against what she calls ‘ideological’ attempts to dilute it,” Roberts wrote.
She continued to frame Europe’s conservative parties as “far-right” for preserving Christian culture, writing, “France’s National Rally and Spain’s Vox have similarly opposed secularist or ‘woke’ efforts to replace religious imagery with neutral seasonal language, and advocated for nativity scenes in town halls.”
“In Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has warned that Christmas markets are losing their ‘German character,’ amplifying disinformation about Muslim traditions edging out Christian ones,” she stated.
Former Republican congressional candidate Robby Starbuck wished Politico a “Merry Christmas” while calling them “commies.”
“‘Those dang Christians claiming the celebration of their Savior’s birth as their own.’ You might want to ask yourself why you’re being ratioed,” wrote Ellie A:
“Jesus is the reason for the season,” said Dustin Grage. “Cry harder.”
Quote:Russia plans to build a power plant on the moon within the next decade to support its lunar ambitions and a joint research base with China, as major world powers intensify efforts to establish a long-term presence on Earth’s only natural satellite.
Russia’s state space corporation, Roscosmos, said this week it aims to complete construction of the lunar power facility by 2036, according to Reuters. Roscosmos has signed a contract with the Lavochkin Association, a major Russian aerospace company, to carry out the project.
While Roscosmos did not explicitly describe the facility as nuclear, it said the effort involves Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, and the Kurchatov Institute, the country’s leading nuclear research center.
Why It Matters
The announcement comes as Russia seeks to reassert itself as a major space power after a series of setbacks. Once a global leader in space exploration following Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight in 1961, Russia has fallen behind the United States and, increasingly, China in recent decades. Its ambitions suffered a major blow in August 2023 when the unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft crashed while attempting to land on the moon.
What To Know
Roscosmos said the plant would supply energy for Russia’s lunar program, including robotic rovers, a scientific observatory and infrastructure for a joint Russian-Chinese International Lunar Research Station. The agency described the project as a shift from short-term missions toward a permanent scientific presence on the moon.
Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov said in June that placing a nuclear power plant on the moon is one of the agency’s strategic goals, along with renewed exploration of Venus, often referred to as Earth’s “sister planet.”
The moon’s distance from Earth — about 384,400 kilometers (238,855 miles) — and its harsh environment make reliable energy generation a central challenge for long-term human or robotic activity. Nuclear power has increasingly been viewed by space agencies as a practical solution, particularly in regions where sunlight is limited or intermittent.
Russia is not alone in pursuing such plans. NASA announced in August that it intends to deploy a nuclear reactor on the moon by the first quarter of fiscal year 2030. U.S. officials have framed the effort as part of a broader strategic competition with China.
International agreements prohibit the placement of nuclear weapons in space but allow the use of nuclear energy sources, provided they comply with established safety and regulatory standards.
Interest in the moon has grown as scientists and governments eye its potential resources. NASA estimates the lunar surface may contain up to a million metric tons of helium-3, a rare isotope on Earth that could be used in future energy technologies. Studies have also identified rare earth elements on the moon, including scandium, yttrium and the lanthanides, which are critical to modern electronics and advanced manufacturing.
AUSTRALIA
Quote:Embattled Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese apologized to the Jewish community Monday, a day after he was loudly booed at a vigil for the 15 killed in the Bondi Beach terrorist attack — admitting he feels the “weight of responsibility” for the hate-filled antisemitic massacre.
The embattled lefty leader — who has been widely accused of failing to curb surging antisemitism — voiced regret after his humiliating reception from thousands of mourners marking a week since ISIS terrorists shot up a Jewish Hanukkah celebration.
“Emotions were raw, and a lot of people in the community are hurting and angry, and some of that anger was directed towards me, and I understand that,” Albanese said as he addressed the crowd’s furious reaction toward him.
“As prime minister, I feel the weight of responsibility for an atrocity that happened while I’m prime minister,” he added.
“And I’m sorry for what the Jewish community and our nation as a whole has experienced.”
Albanese has faced widespread backlash in the wake of last week’s bloodshed after critics accused his center-left government of failing to curb a surge in antisemitism since the war in Gaza broke out.
Albanese’s apology came soon after he announced a review of the country’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies following the attack.
He said the review, which will be led by a former chief of Australia’s spy agency, would investigate whether federal police and intelligence agencies have the “right powers, structures, processes and sharing arrangements in place to keep Australians safe.”
Jewish leaders, however, have called for a royal commission — the most powerful type of Australian government inquiry — to be set up to investigate the attack.
Albanese defended the move for a review into security agencies rather than a royal commission — insisting it would be faster.
“The … review will enable action to take place,” he said.
Quote:Israeli President Isaac Herzog will soon be invited to pay a state visit to Australia, in the aftermath of the Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Herzog’s office said on Tuesday.
“President Herzog was invited to visit Australia by the Australian government and the Jewish community,” according to the statement.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “advised President Herzog that, upon the recommendation of the Australian government and in accordance with protocol, the Governor-General of Australia will issue an invitation to President Herzog to visit Australia as soon as possible,” it continued.
Herzog said that he would accept the invitation and mentioned that the President of the Zionist Federation of Australia had also sent him an official invitation, according to the statement.
Albanese said he felt “profound shock and dismay” over the terror attack, which an alleged jihadist is accused of carrying out with his father. The son survived exchanges of fire with the police, though he sustained serious injuries.
His father, who was born in Pakistan, was killed. Forty people were wounded in the attack, the deadliest antisemitic incident in Australia’s history.
Herzog expressed his “deep horror and shock over the catastrophic terror attack at the Jewish community Chanukah event on Bondi Beach,” Herzog’s office said, adding that he conveyed his “profound condolences to the families of the victims and his wishes for a speedy recovery for all those injured.”
Quote:An Australian man allegedly praised the ISIS-loving father and son accused of carrying out the antisemitic Bondi Beach massacre on social media — and found himself behind bars when police uncovered a stockpile of guns, ammo, and terrorist flags in his home.
Martin Thomas Glynn, 39, was arrested Tuesday after police found six rifles, about 4,000 rounds of ammunition, and banners belonging to terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah inside his Perth home.
Cops also seized disturbing notebooks referencing Hitler and the Holocaust, along with a “shopping list” of materials to make explosives, authorities alleged at a court hearing Wednesday, NBC News reported.
“There is no place in Australia for antisemitism, hate and violent ideologies,” embattled Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement Wednesday on Instagram.
“I thank the work of the WA Police in quickly identifying this individual and acting immediately.”
Glynn’s home was raided after he made a series of antisemitic posts, including one where he pledged his support to alleged terror suspects Sajid Akram, 50, and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram for killing 15 and injuring dozens more at a Hanukkah celebration at the famed Sydney Beach on Dec. 14.
“I just want to say that I, Martin Glynn, 100 per cent support the New South Wales shooters,” he said in one of the alarming Instagram posts, police told the court, the outlet reported.
Naveed is charged with 59 offenses, including 15 counts of murder, 40 counts of causing harm with intent to murder in relation to the wounded survivors and one count of committing a terrorist act.
His father, who legally owned six rifles and shotguns, died at the scene after being taken out by cops.
In another chilling post, the deranged suspect allegedly wrote that he had “no sympathy for any casualties,” citing Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza, authorities added.
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