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New Schiff leak claim from whistleblower echoes years of similar accusations
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Longtime Trump political foe Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff for years has been accused of leaking classified documents — long before the release of a «bombshell» whistleblower testimony claiming the California lawmaker approved leaking classified information in order to discredit the president during the Russiagate probe, Fox News Digital found.
Schiff, who served in the U.S. House for more than two decades before securing his spot in the U.S. Senate in 2024, is facing heightened scrutiny following FBI Director Kash Patel declassifying claims from a Democrat whistleblower that Schiff approved the release of classified information on Trump that allegedly «would be used to indict President TRUMP,» according to the report.
The whistleblower, who reportedly had worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than 10 years, made the claims to the FBI in 2017. Schiff had access to classified information while serving on the House Intelligence Committee during his tenure in the lower chamber, including serving as its chair from 2019 to 2023.
«In this meeting, SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States DONALD J. TRUMP. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President TRUMP,» according to the whistleblower documents.
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Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and President Donald Trump have been political foes stretching back years. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images; Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
The whistleblower «stated this would be illegal and, upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured that they would not be caught leaking classified information,» the report added.
Schiff has denied the allegations, with his office telling Fox News Digital Aug. 12 that the allegations were «absolutely and categorically false.»
But this isn’t the first time Schiff has been accused of leaking classified information to the public, with accusations following him since at least the first Trump administration. Fox News Digital took a look back at Schiff’s political history in recent years and gathered the times he previously had been accused of leaking classified materials.
The August declassified whistleblower accusations are «just the latest in a series of defamatory attacks from the President and his allies meant to distract from their plummeting poll numbers and the Epstein files scandal,» a Schiff spokesperson told Fox Digital when approached for comment on the allegations, after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the whistleblower’s account a «bombshell.»
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«These baseless smears are based on allegations that were found to be not reliable, not credible, and unsubstantiated from a disgruntled former staffer who was fired by the House Intelligence Committee for cause in early 2017, including for harassment and potentially compromising activity on official travel for the Committee,» the spokesperson continued. «Even Trump’s own Justice Department and an independent inspector general found this individual to not be credible, have ‘little support for their contentions’ and was of ‘unknown reliability,’ and concluded that his accusations against Members of Congress and congressional staff ‘were not ultimately substantiated.’»
Sen. Adam Schiff has repeatedly slammed claims he leaked classified information, including in August when he slammed Democratic whistleblower claims of leaking as «baseless smears.» (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
‘Leaked classified information that had been provided to him’
Just days after former President Joe Biden was sworn-in as president in January 2021, Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence and U.S. ambassador from his first administration Ric Grenell took to X to list out «facts» regarding Schiff.
«Facts,» a Jan. 22, 2021, post on X that is no longer available on the social media site read. The X post received media attention and was preserved in reports at the time, such as the Washington Examiner.
He listed off: «Schiff wouldn’t return my call to coordinate on DNI reforms. – the reforms were asked for by career officials for years. -Schiff complained when I appointed the 1st female head of counterterrorism (a career person). -Schiff & team regularly leaked classified information.»
Grenell’s message was in response to Schiff claiming in an interview with The Hill that Grennell and former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe under the first Trump administration «bent intelligence work products to the president’s will.»
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Ric Grenell served as President Trump’s acting director of national intelligence during his first term, and ambassador to Germany and as special presidential envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations. (Getty Images)
«The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, probably the most devastated of all of the agencies by terrible leadership of people like Rick Grenell and John Ratcliffe,» Schiff said during a video interview at the time.
Fast-forward to 2023, former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who served under the first Trump administration, also accused Schiff of leaking classified docs.
«Adam Schiff lied to the American people, and during my time as CIA director and secretary of State, I know that he leaked classified information that had been provided to him,» Pompeo said in January 2023 during a Fox News interview.
Pompeo continued that he «held back» sharing information with the House Intelligence Committee due to not feeling «comfortable» when Schiff led the panel.
A representative for Pompeo told Fox Digital in August that the former Trump official stands by his 2023 comments on Schiff.
Schiff’s office slammed Pompeo’s remarks at the time as «another patently false and defamatory statement.»
Mike Pompeo served at different times as President Trump’s CIA director and secretary of the State Department under the president’s first term in office. (Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump had also accused Schiff of leaking classified documents under his first administration, claiming in 2018, he was the «one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington.»
«Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!» Trump continued wrote in one X thread at the time.
Schiff shot back at the time that Trump’s X post was a «false smear.»
«Mr. President, I see you’ve had a busy morning of ‘Executive Time.’ Instead of tweeting false smears, the American people would appreciate it if you turned off the TV and helped solve the funding crisis, protected Dreamers or…really anything else,» Schiff responded to Trump in February 2018.
As Trump railed against the alleged leaks during his first term, reports spread that the Department of Justice subpoenaed Apple for account data of House Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, including Schiff, between 2017 and 2018. The DOJ, which was led by Jeff Sessions at the time, was searching for individuals who leaked to the media about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.
The investigation dragged, including after Bill Barr was tapped as Trump’s attorney general in 2019 through the end of Trump’s first term, the New York Times reported in 2021, citing sources familiar with the investigation.
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog, under the Biden administration, opened an investigation into the subpoenas and published a report in 2024 that found the Trump DOJ did not comply with established procedures when it sought the records.
«We are glad that the Department of Justice Inspector General conducted a thorough investigation, and that the Inspector General has recommended safeguards to further protect the media, and to safeguard the separation of powers,» a spokesperson for Schiff said following the release of the report, according to Reuters in 2024.
As the 2020 campaign heated up, Trump continued accusing Schiff and other House Democrats of leaking, with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence at the time scaling back its security briefings with Congress that year as high-profile Democrats promoted concerns that Russia was interfering in that election.
«Director Ratcliffe brought information into the committee, and the information leaked,» Trump said in August 2020. «Whether it was Shifty Schiff or somebody else, they leaked the information. … And what’s even worse, they leaked the wrong information. And he got tired of it. So he wants to do it in a different forum, because you have leakers on the committee.»
Schiff denied leaking any classified intelligence in 2020, but said he could not confirm the same for other House Democrats.
«I haven’t. My staff hasn’t. I can’t speak for what all the members of the committee have done or not done, including a lot of the Republican members,» Schiff told CNN’s Dana Bash in 2020, following Trump claiming «Shifty Schiff» may have been behind another leak of intelligence given to the House Intelligence Committee at the time.
President Donald Trump has called for Sen. Schiff be «held accountable for the countless lies he told the American people in relation to the Russiagate scandal,» White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in August. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
The Trump administration continued its laser-focused hunt to identify and suss out internal federal government leakers during the second administration, with a White House official telling Axios in June, «We are declaring a war on leakers.»
The comment came in response to a leak of an internal assessment of the Trump administration’s bombing a trio of Iranian nuclear facilities that claimed the strikes were not ads effective as the president said.
Federal agencies such as the FBI, Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security have leveraged using polygraph tests on staffers suspected of leaking information under the second Trump administration.
Alleged mortgage fraud, ‘Russiagate’
Trump and Schiff have long been political foes.
This was underscored during Trump’s first administration when Schiff served as the lead House manager during the first impeachment trial against Trump in 2020. It also was highlighted when Schiff repeatedly promoted claims that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
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Schiff landed in hot water earlier this spring, when the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a letter to the Department of Justice in May sounding the alarm that in «multiple instances,» Schiff allegedly «falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from 2003-2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property.»
He is currently under criminal investigation for mortgage fraud, Fox Digital previously reported. The California Democrat has denied any wrongdoing, claiming the matter is a «baseless attempt at political retribution.»
Days after Trump first posted about Schiff’s mortgages in Maryland and California in July, the president’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, declassified documents that reportedly show «overwhelming evidence» that then-President Barack Obama and his national security team allegedly laid the groundwork for what would be the yearslong Trump–Russia collusion probe after Trump’s election win against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016.
«It lays out, these over 100 documents that you’re referencing, that I declassified and released, spells out in great detail exactly what happens when you have some of the most powerful people in our country directly leading at the helm, President Obama and his senior-most national security cabinet, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper and Susan Rice and others, essentially making a very intentional decision to create this manufactured, politicized piece of intelligence with the objective of subverting the will of the American people,» Gabbard told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in July following the release.
Schiff was an incredibly vocal lawmaker amid the Russian collusion claims, most notably when the House censured him in 2023 over his promotion that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia. Schiff served in the House representing California from 2001 to 2024, when he was sworn-in as a senator after his successful 2024 campaign to serve in the nation’s upper chamber.
Schiff also served on the Jan. 6 select committee, which investigated the breach of the Capitol building in 2021 by Trump supporters following then-President Biden’s election win.
At the 11th hour of Biden’s tenure on Jan. 20, Schiff was among lawmakers who served on the committee who were granted preemptive pardons. The subcommittee concluded Trump’s actions played a key role in promoting the breach of the Capitol and recommended Trump be criminally prosecuted.
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Biden specifically granted preemptive pardons to «Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee, and the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.»
President Joe Biden pardoned members of the Jan. 6 select committee on his final day in office. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)
Schiff, however, had publicly railed against the prospect of Biden doling out preemptive pardons, saying it would set a poor precedent.
«First, those of us on the committee are very proud of the work we did. We were doing vital quintessential oversight of a violent attack on the Capitol,» Schiff said during an interview on ABC News in December 2024. «So I think it’s unnecessary.»
«But second, the precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket pardons on the way out of an administration, I think is a precedent we don’t want to set,» he added.
Charges stemming from the Jan. 6 case were dismissed following Trump’s decisive win in the 2024 presidential election against then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
The White House responded to the whistleblower’s declassified testimony claiming Schiff approved the release of classified information to damage Trump, and doubled down on Trump’s stance that Schiff be «held accountable for the countless lies he told the American people in relation to the Russiagate scandal.»
«This is obviously a bombshell whistleblower report,» Leavitt said at a Tuesday White House press briefing. «Hopefully more people in this room will cover it as such.»
«I understand Kash Patel, last night, declassified a 302 FBI document showing that a whistleblower, who is a Democrat, a career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intel Committee for more than a decade, repeatedly warned the FBI in 2017 that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the Russiagate scandal,» Leavitt said.
In August, a representative for Schiff confirmed a legal defense fund was established for the senator in response to Trump and his allies.
«It’s clear that Donald Trump and his MAGA allies will continue weaponizing the justice process to attack Senator Schiff for holding this corrupt administration accountable,» Marisol Samayoa, a spokesperson for Schiff, told Fox News Digital Tuesday evening of the legal fund. «This fund will ensure he can fight back against these baseless smears while continuing to do his job.»
Titled «Senator Schiff Legal Defense Fund,» the fund was filed with the Internal Revenue Service Thursday, The New York Times first reported.
White House spokesman Harrison Fields called Schiff a «fraud» and «corrupt politician» when approached for comment Tuesday regarding the legal fund.
«Adam Schiff is a sleazy and corrupt politician who betrayed his oath to the Constitution by prioritizing his selfish and personal animosity toward the President over the interests of the American people,» Fields told Fox News Digital. «No amount of money can shield Adam from the truth that he is a fraud.»
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Fox News Digital reached out to Schiff for additional comment on the matter but did not immediately receive a reply.
Fox News Digital’s Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.
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La ciencia desmiente mitos sobre gamers y salud psicológica en relación a los videojuegos
Frente a una computadora, muchos jóvenes encuentran en los videojuegos una parte central de su vida cotidiana. Lejos de las pantallas, surgen dudas y advertencias en la sociedad sobre los posibles efectos psicológicos de pasar tantas horas ante un juego.
Sin embargo, una investigación reciente aporta claridad al debate y demuestra que los gamers no presentan desventajas psicológicas significativas frente a quienes no juegan. Los resultados señalan que la práctica habitual de los videojuegos no implica un daño o alteración relevante en la salud mental.
Según un trabajo publicado en Psychological Reports, expertos analizaron aspectos fundamentales como la regulación de las emociones, las relaciones interpersonales y los mecanismos de defensa de personas que destinan tiempo a jugar videojuegos. El objetivo consistió en responder si se diferencian de quienes no participan en esa actividad bajo parámetros clínicos.
De acuerdo con los autores, el interés por el tema surgió ante la percepción social que asocia los videojuegos con adicción, aislamiento y dificultades emocionales, una visión que genera preocupación y debate.
La investigación incluyó a 762 personas de entre 18 y 44 años. Se clasificó como gamers a quienes jugaban ocho horas o más por semana y consideraban el juego parte importante de su vida. El grupo de no gamers estaba compuesto por quienes jugaban menos de ocho horas semanales, o bien no atribuían relevancia a esa práctica.
Para evaluar las características psicológicas, los investigadores utilizaron tests reconocidos que miden trastornos de personalidad, dificultades en la gestión emocional y estilos de defensa ante el estrés o conflictos internos.
De acuerdo con los resultados, solo se advirtieron diferencias pequeñas en la frecuencia de ciertos rasgos de personalidad. Los no gamers presentaron puntajes levemente más altos en indicadores vinculados con rasgos paranoides, histriónicos, narcisistas, evitativos y dependientes.
Por otra parte, los gamers mostraron niveles un poco superiores en rasgos antisociales y esquizotípicos. Sin embargo, una vez ajustados los resultados por edad —ya que los gamers eran en promedio dos años mayores—, la mayoría de esas diferencias perdió relevancia estadística.
Según detallaron los autores, tras el ajuste por edad persistieron tres diferencias: los gamers mantuvieron leves aumentos en rasgos antisociales y esquizotípicos, mientras que los no gamers conservaron una tendencia mayor hacia rasgos evitativos y dependientes. Estas variaciones fueron consideradas menores y no alcanzan a definir perfiles patológicos.
Además, la edad se mostró como un factor relevante, dado que algunos rasgos tienden a disminuir con el paso del tiempo, como la impulsividad o la sensibilidad en las relaciones interpersonales.
Los investigadores también analizaron el área de las relaciones con otras personas, un punto esencial para el desarrollo emocional sano. De acuerdo con el estudio, no existen diferencias significativas entre gamers y no gamers en dimensiones como la capacidad de vincularse, el sentimiento de alienación o la seguridad afectiva. Este hallazgo resulta relevante, ya que sugiere que el contacto regular con videojuegos no provoca aislamiento social ni dificulta la construcción de relaciones sanas, al menos en los parámetros medidos.
El estudio observó los mecanismos de defensa, es decir, las estrategias inconscientes que las personas usan para enfrentar el malestar interno. Según los datos, los gamers emplean mecanismos maduros con mayor frecuencia, estrategias consideradas sanas como el humor, la anticipación y la sublimación.
Los no gamers, en cambio, manifestaron más uso de mecanismos de defensa de tipo neurótico, como la represión o la formación reactiva. No hubo diferencias entre grupos en los mecanismos de tipo inmaduro, como la negación o la proyección.
Respecto a la regulación emocional, tanto gamers como no gamers mostraron niveles similares de capacidad para manejar sus emociones. Según los autores, la gestión emocional suele mejorar al llegar a la adultez joven, lo que habría influido en los resultados observados.
El estudio fue llevado a cabo por el profesor Ekin Emiral y Yıldız Bilge, quienes, según sus declaraciones difundidas por Psypost, buscaron cuestionar la tendencia a patologizar comportamientos que se alejan de las normas tradicionales. El objetivo no fue identificar a los videojuegos como causa de problemas de salud mental, sino explorar si las personas que dedican mucho tiempo a esta práctica presentan diferencias estructurales notorias frente a quienes no lo hacen.
Según Emiral, “los gamers no presentan más problemas psicológicos que quienes no juegan”, y en determinadas dimensiones, demuestran incluso una mayor capacidad de adaptación.
Los autores reconocen algunas limitaciones en su trabajo. Según el informe, el grupo de gamers incluyó más hombres que mujeres, lo que podría haber influido en los resultados relacionados con el perfil de personalidad y el uso de mecanismos de defensa.
Además, la división entre gamers y no gamers dependió del auto-reporte, por lo que pueden existir matices o situaciones no contempladas. El diseño transversal del estudio tampoco permite establecer causas o efectos a largo plazo.
De acuerdo con los investigadores, los futuros estudios deberían incorporar una muestra más equilibrada en relación al género y generar clasificaciones más detalladas en función de los tipos de juegos y las motivaciones de cada participante.
También sugieren realizar seguimientos prolongados para observar si determinados rasgos de personalidad se desarrollan debido a la experiencia de jugar, o si quienes ya tienen esos rasgos optan por los videojuegos.
A pesar de estos puntos, el estudio representa uno de los análisis más integrales sobre las funciones psicológicas de gamers y no gamers. Según sus conclusiones, la participación frecuente en videojuegos no altera el desarrollo psicológico normal y puede asociarse, en algunos casos, con estrategias de afrontamiento más maduras. Los resultados invitan a abandonar miradas simplistas y considerar al gaming como un espacio de expresión y desarrollo similar a otras actividades culturales.
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Russia launches massive drone and missile barrage on Ukraine hitting Kyiv, other targets throughout country
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Russian forces launched a massive barrage of drones and missiles into Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least four people.
The strike, mostly targeting the capital city of Kyiv, was the first major aerial assault since Russia launched its largest barrage of the war last month. Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Administration, confirmed Sunday’s casualties via Telegram and said 10 people were also wounded in the attack. One of those killed was a 12-year-old girl, he said.
«The Russians have restarted the child death counter,» Tkachenko wrote.
Russia fired a total of 595 exploding drones and decoys and 48 missiles, Ukraine’s air force said Sunday. Of those, air defenses shot down or jammed 566 drones and 45 missiles, they said.
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Rescuers work at the site of an apartment buildings damaged during a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the bombardment targeted the regions of Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, and Odesa in addition to Kyiv. He said at least 70 people were injured nationwide.
«This vile attack came virtually (at) the close of UN General Assembly week, and this is exactly how Russia declares its true position. Moscow wants to keep fighting and killing, and it deserves the toughest pressure from the world,» Zelenskyy wrote in a statement on social media.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that Russia’s attack landed on the end of the United Nations’ general assembly week. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Image)
Sunday’s barrage comes after President Donald Trump displayed a shift in tone toward Ukraine during the United Nations General Assembly last week. Rather than emphasizing a peace deal with Putin, Trump instead urged Ukraine to go after Russia in whatever ways possible.
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«I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form,» he said Tuesday on social media.
«With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original borders from where this war started, is very much an option,» Trump added. «Why not?»
U.S. President Donald Trump shifted his tone on the Ukraine war during the United Nations general assembly. ( Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Trump’s comments present a stark reversal from where he stood when he first re-entered office and, in an infamous February Oval Office meeting told Zelenskyy he «[didn’t] have the cards» to take on Russia, and repeatedly suggested Kyiv would need to make significant concessions to end the war.
Fox News’ Caitlin McFall and The Associated Press contributed to this report
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Harris recalls stun over Biden’s botched debate response about fallen service members in Afghanistan
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris revealed in her new political memoir, «107 Days,» that she was stunned by then-President Joe Biden’s debate response about his administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, which left 13 service members dead.
Biden’s debate performance against Donald Trump in 2024 was viewed as an abject failure, with the Democratic president tripping over his words, losing his train of thought and displaying a raspy voice attributed to a cold during the event.
Harris argued that Biden whiffed an easy question on the military and omitted any acknowledgment of the 13 U.S. service members who died during the Afghanistan withdrawal. She also pointed to his claims that he was «the only president this century» and «this decade» who did not have any troops «dying anywhere in the world.»
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Harris in her book, however, identified those who were killed as «13 marines,» — except it was not all Marines who died during the withdrawal. Eleven Marines, one soldier and one Navy corpsman were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul Airport’s Abbey Gate.
Harris explained in her book that Biden first faced a question on the economy during his debate in June 2024, which she said was rushed, with Biden showing «no light in his eyes, no expression in his voice.»
Former Vice President Kamala Harris published a book Sept. 23, 2025, recapping her experiences on the 2024 campaign trail while also taking shots at former President Joe Biden. (Saul Loeb/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The next question was on the military, and included Biden omitting an acknowledgment of the horrific attack that plagued his administration as one of its greatest failures.
«He’s got so much material on this—Trump calling our fallen soldiers ‘suckers and losers,’» Harris wrote of what ran through her head when Biden was asked about his role as commander-in-chief.
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President Joe Biden during his debate against President Donald Trump June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«He managed to get off that line but had stepped on it earlier by saying no one had died in wars overseas on his watch, seeming to forget the thirteen marines who died in the bomb blast at the airport during the evacuation of Afghanistan. I’d been on Air Force Two when it happened, and we had to change our flight plan to get back to DC in the face of that tragedy. How could he overlook that day?» she wrote, expressing her surprise over the response, but misidentifying those who were all killed as members of the Marines Corps.
«I know his deep feelings for those men and women. It’s personal to him,» she added.
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Taliban fighters celebrate the third anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kabul, Aug. 14, 2024. (Siddiqullah Alizai/The Associated Press)
The Biden administration repeatedly came under fire for its handling of the Afghan withdrawal. It was viewed as paving the road for adversaries such as Russia to invade Ukraine, as the U.S. looked weak on the international stage, critics such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said at the time. The Taliban regained control of Afghanistan upon the U.S.’ withdrawal.
The families who lost loved ones during the botched withdrawal previously slammed Biden and Harris for their deaths, including launching a scathing defense attack against Harris when she was running for president. Parents and other loved ones claimed that the «administration killed my son» and that they «have not seen any support from you or your administration.»
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Biden added fuel to the fire of the botched withdrawal criticisms when he appeared on a tarmac during a dignified transfer ceremony of those killed in 2021 and was seen looking at his watch.
Fox News Digital reached out to Harris’ office for comment on the section of the book, including a response as to why Harris stated the 13 service members were all identified as «marines,» but did not immediately receive responses. Biden’s office declined to comment.
Then-Vice President Kamala Harris listens during an event with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sept. 26, 2024. (Susan Walsh, File/AP Photo)
Harris’ book, «107 Days,» hit store shelves Tuesday and reflects on the former vice president’s truncated presidential campaign cycle after Biden dropped out of the race amid mounting concern over his mental acuity.
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Harris is set to go on tour promoting her book in cities such as New York, San Francisco and London.
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