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Ex-judges blast top Trump DOJ official for declaring ‘war’ on courts
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A group of former federal judges sharply criticized a top Justice Department official this week for characterizing the court fights playing out in President Donald Trump’s second term as a «war» against so-called «activist judges» — remarks they described as unnecessarily inflammatory, and amounting to «pouring oil» on an already fast-burning fire.
Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, spoke colorfully last week during a fireside chat hosted by the Federalist Society. Blanche used his time to excoriate federal judges for pausing or blocking some of Trump’s biggest executive orders and actions since January, and to urge young lawyers and law students in the audience to fight back. «It is a war,» Blanche said, «and it is something we will not win unless we keep on fighting.»
The judges «have a robe on, but they are more political, or as political, as the most liberal governor or D.A.,» Blanche added.
His remarks prompted rebuke from the New York State Bar Association and from the Article III Coalition — a group of 50 former federal judges appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents.
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Todd Blanche, nominee for U.S. deputy attorney general, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., on February 12. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
This type of rhetoric, «especially when voiced by high-ranking officials — not only endangers individual judges and court staff, but also undermines the public’s trust in the judiciary as an impartial and co-equal branch of government,» the judges said in a letter.
In a series of interviews this week, several former judges told Fox News Digital they were shocked by Blanche’s remarks, which they described as a departure from longstanding Justice Department norms and a threat to the judiciary both as an institution and to the individual judges who serve on the bench.
One judge said Blanche’s remarks were «wildly different from all prior decades, and under all prior administrations» he experienced in his more than 60-year career in D.C.
«I’ve been in Washington since 1974, continuously, and I’ve never seen anything like it,» Paul R. Michel, the former chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, told Fox News Digital in an interview.
Michel formerly served as a special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation, a role in which he personally interviewed former President Nixon. «It’s just startling for the deputy attorney general to be functioning as a PR ‘hatchet man’ instead of a law enforcement official,» he said of Blanche’s remarks.
Michel and others in the group of retired judges told Fox News Digital that they fear the rhetoric used could further erode public trust in the judiciary — a branch that the framers designed to interpret the law impartially and to serve as a check against excesses of the other branches, regardless of politics or the administration in charge.
They noted that while parties often disagree with a decision, or a near-term temporary order or motion, both the Justice Department and the opposing parties have a readily available mechanism to seek relief via the appeals process.
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a press conference in the Oval Office on Oct. 15, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Parties looking to challenge a temporary order or other form of injunctive relief can proceed with having the district court evaluate the case on its merits, or kick it to the U.S. Court of Appeals — and, in some cases, the Supreme Court, for review, Philip Pro, a former U.S. District Judge in Nevada appointed by President Ronald Reagan, told Fox News Digital.
Federal judges have attempted to issue near-term or emergency orders temporarily blocking some of Trump’s biggest policy priorities, including on immigration enforcement, birthright citizenship and sweeping layoffs across the federal government. The administration has responded to the lower court actions by seeking emergency relief from the higher courts, via emergency stays — which Blanche also touted during his remarks last week.
Judges are «totally reactive» by design, Pro said. «We’re sitting in our districts. The cases are randomly assigned.»
«There is nothing ‘rogue’ about these decisions,» Pro added. «Those wheels grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly well, and that’s the way you get resolution.»
Josh Blackman, a professor at the South Texas College of Law who attended the fireside remarks, told Fox News Digital in an interview that he is sympathetic to the concerns voiced by the judges, but he also understands the broader issue Blanche may have been trying to get at — which is, the power the courts have to review the actions of the executive branch.
This has emerged as a particular pain point not only for Trump but for his predecessors as well, each of whom has sought to enact some of their policy priorities via executive order in a bid to sidestep a clunky and slow-moving Congress.
Those actions are therefore more vulnerable to emergency intervention from the federal courts, Blackman said — though the degree to which judges can or should act in this space is the subject of ongoing debate.
«I don’t see Blanche’s comments as calling for violence,» Blackman said. «I think it’s more trying to say that there’s just this struggle between the executive branch and the judiciary that is not normal,» he said.
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Trump is far from the first president to publicly complain about «activist» judges for hampering his policies — such criticisms stretch back decades and include former presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, among others.
Still, the judges say they are concerned by Blanche’s remarks, which are a stark departure from what they experienced in their own careers, including while serving as federal prosecutors.
«Calling judges ‘rogue’ because they apply the law in a politically unfavorable way is a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the judiciary in our constitutional structure,» Allyson K. Duncan, a former judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, said in a statement.
Michel, the former special prosecutor for the Watergate investigation, noted he worked for two successive deputy attorneys general, in the «exact post Blanche now holds» — but who gave much different marching orders, he recalled.
«Their instructions to me were, ‘Politics are outside the boundaries for Justice Department employees,’ and politics are ‘not to have any influence,’» he said. «We were not to pay any attention to what somebody in the White House might say, or in the media, or elsewhere — we were to be a ‘politics-free zone.’»
«That seemed to me to be entirely appropriate,» Michel said. «The power to investigate, the power to indict, and the power to indict and the power to prosecute and convict are awesome, awesome powers,» he added.
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The group also cited concerns for their colleagues who remain on the bench at a time when public threats to judges have increased, according to data from U.S. Marshals. This includes online harassment, threats of physical violence, and «doxxing» judges at their home addresses by sending them unsolicited pizzas. Some deliveries have been made in the name of a judge’s son, who was shot and killed in 2020 after opening the door to a disgruntled individual disguised as a delivery person.
The number of threats made against federal judges in 2025 has outpaced threats from the past 12-month period, according to the U.S. Marshals Service, prompting a push for Congress to take action.
«Deputy Attorney General Blanche’s remarks reflect a reality the Department of Justice confronts every day: a growing number of activist judges attempting to set national policy from the bench,» a spokesperson for the Justice Department told Fox News Digital on Friday in response to a request for comment.
«The department will continue to follow the Constitution, defend its lawful authorities, and push back when activist rulings threaten public safety or undermine the will of the American people.»
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Delayed justice: Argentina’s secret Nazi files expose costly inaction in pursuit of war criminals
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Argentina’s cache of declassified files tracking Nazi criminals who fled to South America after World War II offers new insight into how the country handled war criminals living or suspected to be there, including Adolf Eichmann and Walter Kutschmann.
They show Argentina’s shifting attitude toward Nazi criminals — from sluggish responses to efforts to prevent foreign intelligence operations on its soil, such as the 1960 Mossad abduction of Adolf Eichmann to how others were never caught, vanished or died without ever facing justice.
Walter Kutschmann
Kutschmann was an SS and Gestapo officer based in the Lviv (Lwów) region of Poland. He played a direct role in the killings of more than 1,500 Polish Jews, intellectuals and civilians. He is also implicated in the mass murders carried out by the Einsatzgruppen in regions that are now part of Ukraine.
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Walter Kutschmann is pictured during World War II when he was a lieutenant in the German SS in Poland. Kutschmann later escaped to Argentina under the cover as a monk. (Associated Press)
Witness accounts describe Kutschmann publicly shooting an 18-year-old Jewish maid in the head after accusing her of transmitting a venereal disease after allegedly raping her.
The published Argentine files reveal a detailed paper trail of intelligence gathering, diplomatic communications and survivor advocacy surrounding Kutschmann, who entered Argentina pretending to be a monk and lived in the country openly for decades under the alias Pedro Ricardo Olmo. He eventually became a naturalized Argentinian citizen under his false name.
A large portion of the dossier focuses on communications from 1975 when survivor groups and foreign authorities intensified efforts to locate Nazi fugitives. A telegram sent in July 1975, from Jewish survivor organizations, warned officials, including Argentina’s then-president, Isabel de Perón, that Kutschmann was living in the country and was wanted by West German judicial authorities.
The message emphasized that survivors viewed his continued freedom as deeply troubling, especially given Argentina’s reputation as a refuge for many displaced persons after the war. The telegram made specific and public allegations that he entered Argentina under a false identity and had concealed his Nazi past when obtaining citizenship. Given Argentina’s sensitivities after several embarrassing cases were publicized, it appeared to have troubled authorities, who feared further poor publicity over its lax policing standards.
The telegram sent to Argentina’s minister of the interior from the president of the Jewish Association of the Survivors of Nazi Persecution in July 1975, noted in part that the association wanted to «inform him that residing in Argentina for many years is the naturalized Argentine citizen Pedro Ricardo Olmo y Olmos, alias the Nazi criminal Walter Kutschmann, former second lieutenant of the Hitlerite SS security troops, who is wanted by the judicial authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany.»
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A police officer stands in front of a cache of Nazi artifacts discovered in 2017, during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 2, 2019. Argentine authorities found the cache in the course of a wider investigation into artwork of suspicious origin found at a gallery in Buenos Aires. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)
It continued, «For us, survivors of the Nazi massacre who have managed to save ourselves and reach this generous land, it causes anguish that a Nazi criminal can move freely in our country.»
The telegram sent from José Moskovits added, «We respectfully request that the Minister adopt the necessary measures in the case against the said Kutschmann, who entered the country under a false name and committed perjury in obtaining Argentine citizenship, concealing his extremely serious background.»
Following the new revelations, surveillance of Kutschmann received more attention from the authorities.
Multiple documents marked «Strictly Confidential» and «Very Urgent» show Argentina’s sense of urgency and discretion, including memoranda and requests from the Department of Registration and Reports in July 1975 seeking expedited background checks on «Pedro Ricardo Olmo/Walter Kutschmann.»
File records reported «no prior criminal or intelligence record» for Olmo, highlighting the difficulty authorities faced linking his Argentine identity to his wartime history. Radiograms and foreign intelligence translations included in the file indicate coordination with Interpol and West German intelligence agencies, including potential extradition issues and attempts to confirm whether the individual living in Argentina was the same person wanted in Europe.
Still, similarly to other botched cases, such as the search for Josef Mengele or Martin Bormann, authorities at times relied heavily on press clippings instead of carrying out more proactive investigations.
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Official July 2, 1975, telegram from the Association of Survivors of Nazi Persecution to Argentina’s interior minister, warning that SS officer Walter Kutschmann was living in the country under a false identity and requesting action. (General Archives of the Government of Argentina)
As public interest grew, Gente magazine, exploited a 1975 lead on Kutschmann, leading to a brief interaction and photographs of him (and of his Argentine wife, Geralda Baeumler, a veterinarian of German origins, later accused by animal welfare organizations of experimenting on and euthanizing dogs in gas chambers) in Miramar, a town in the south of Buenos Aires province.
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Multiple exchanges with Interpol establish that Olmo and Kutschmann were, in fact, the same person, leading to an Interpol arrest warrant and a West German extradition request. However, the public noise spooked Kutschmann, who managed to evade capture for another decade. During this time, the Argentine documents show a reversal to the old paper-trail, press-clipping reaction and red-tape.
Throughout a 10-year period, authorities received further information about Kutschmann’s whereabouts from both private and public sources, including renowned Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal and the Anti-Defamation League, among others. A second extradition request in 1985 ultimately led to Kutschmann’s arrest in the Greater Buenos Aires region.
Kutschmann could have been the first Nazi fugitive handed over for international justice by Argentina. However, while his extradition case was being examined, he remained interned in a local hospital due to his ill-health, and in 1986, died of a heart attack before being handed to West Germany for trial and prosecution.
A typed Argentine Interior Ministry document from Aug. 31, 1986, reporting the death of Pedro Ricardo Olmos, also known as Walter Kutschmann, at Juan A. Fernández Municipal Hospital and noting morgue intake and case details. (General Archives of the Government of Argentina)
Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann was a senior Nazi official and described by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as «one of the most pivotal actors in the implementation of the ‘Final Solution.’» He oversaw mass deportations and the structuring of death and concentration camps, turning the genocide of Jews into an industrialized process without parallel in history.
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After the war, Eichmann escaped to Argentina using ratlines and a false identity. He established himself north of Buenos Aires under the alias Ricardo Klement and lived in a ranch with his family, who kept using the Eichmann surname. He also worked for various German companies, including Mercedes-Benz, and was helped by other German nationals who either knew his true identity or were Nazi sympathizers.
Photo of an identity card issued to Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, born in Solingen, Germany. He became a member of the SS in 1932, and an organizer of antisemitic activities. Captured by U.S. forces in 1945, he escaped from prison some months later, having kept his identity hidden, and in 1950 reached Argentina. He was traced by Israeli agents and taken to Israel in 1960. (Getty Images)
The declassified files show intelligence agencies were unofficially aware of his location since the early 1950s, contradicting later claims that local authorities only learned about his presence after his abduction by the Mossad in 1960.
Most of the dossier on Eichmann relies on indirect witnesses who had heard of people talking about him rather than speaking directly to him.
In 1960, in a daring operation carried out by Israel’s Mossad, agents secretively abducted Eichmann from Argentine soil and flew him to stand trial in Jerusalem, where he was ultimately sentenced to death in 1961 after being found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was executed in 1962. His body was cremated, and the remains were scattered in the sea outside Israeli territorial waters.
The declassified files and press reports suggest the Argentine president at the time, Arturo Frondizi, was enraged and embarrassed by what he deemed a violation of Argentina’s sovereignty by Israel. The country protested Israel’s actions at the United Nations and severed diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.
Extensive inquiries in the dossier seek to clarify how Israeli intelligence could have carried out such an operation in Argentina without being detected. The files reveal internal fractures in Argentine security, mostly due to extreme bureaucracy and a lack of communication between agencies even including the office of the president.
Adolf Eichmann, in a bullet-proof cabin, puts on earphones to hear the reading of the act of accusation against him, Dec. 17, 1961. He was in charge of the extermination of Jews in Poland and then organized the deportation and extermination of Jews in 13 European countries. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
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The files show the case served to establish a new internal security doctrine that avoided public scandal, prevented unilateral operation of foreign agencies in the country and retained tight control of immigration records.
The embarrassment of the Eichmann affair lasted well into the late 1970s, with agencies constantly clipping press articles about how the country was being depicted abroad. It also shaped how Argentina would later handle the case of other Nazi criminals.
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Es el cuarto invierno de la invasión a gran escala. Y es muy difícil. Los misiles y drones rusos destruyen deliberadamente la infraestructura energética de la cual depende la supervivencia de la población civil. En enero y febrero, la temperatura desciende hasta menos veinticinco grados centígrados. Las ciudades ucranianas literalmente se congelan. Millones de personas tienen acceso limitado, o no tienen acceso en absoluto, a la calefacción, el agua y la electricidad.
Recuerdo que en 2022, cuando los rusos empezaron por primera vez a golpear la infraestructura, apareció en las redes una foto de una maestra de Kyiv. Está con un abrigo rojo, un gorro caliente, en cuclillas junto a un poste metálico sobre el que puso su computador, justo en la calle, cerca de una tienda donde funciona un generador y hay señal de internet. Y allí, en pleno frío, les da una clase a los niños. Y pensé que los rusos habían venido a quitarnos todo: nuestra tierra, nuestra libertad, nuestro futuro, la educación de nuestros hijos. Pero esa maestra de Kyiv decidió no entregarles nada. Y hasta una cosa tan sencilla como darles clase a los niños se convirtió en un acto de resistencia.
Sé por experiencia propia que, cuando no puedes confiar en el sistema internacional de paz y seguridad, siempre puedes confiar en las personas. Estamos acostumbrados a pensar en categorías de Estados y organizaciones intergubernamentales, pero la gente común tiene mucha más fuerza de la que ella misma imagina.
Hace cuatro años estaba en Kyiv cuando las tropas rusas intentaban cercarla. En aquel momento, nadie creía que pudiéramos resistir una amenaza militar tan poderosa. Recibíamos cada mañana como una victoria, porque habíamos logrado aguantar una noche más. Recuerdo cómo las organizaciones humanitarias internacionales evacuaban a su personal. Pero la gente común se quedó y empezó a resistir. Las personas comunes empezaron a hacer cosas extraordinarias.
Una de esas personas era mi amiga Victoria Amelina, la escritora ucraniana. En los primeros días de la invasión a gran escala, interrumpió un viaje y regresó a Ucrania. Muy pronto se incorporó al trabajo de documentación de crímenes de guerra. Y además hacía muchas cosas en paralelo. Recuerdo que le decía: haces demasiado y ya estás al borde del agotamiento: escribes un libro, documentas crímenes de guerra, vas a misiones de campo, haces trabajo voluntario. ¿Cómo puedes asumir más proyectos? Pero ella respondía que tenía una sensación persistente de no estar haciendo lo suficiente. Y que no sabía cuánto tiempo le quedaba a ella y, al final, a todos nosotros.
Un mes después de esa conversación, un misil ruso impactó un restaurante en Kramatorsk. En ese momento Vika estaba allí acompañando al Donbas a un grupo de colombianos que promueven la campaña de solidaridad ¡Aguanta Ucrania!. Sufrió una herida grave y cayó en coma. Tal vez suene absurdo, pero le escribía mensajes todos los días. Estaba convencida de que despertaría y leería todo. Y aun cuando una amiga común, que estaba a su lado en cuidados intensivos, me dijo que no solo debía prepararme, sino aceptar lo inevitable, respondí que, aun así, no perdía la esperanza.
No hace mucho revisé por primera vez esa última conversación que Vika nunca llegó a leer. Y esto es lo que quiero decirles.
Primero. Durante tres siglos, los ucranianos vivieron a la sombra del imperio ruso. Por eso entramos en esta guerra como una sociedad sin contexto. Nuestra historia no fue escrita por nosotros. Somos un país con una literatura clásica sin traducir. Las personas en otros continentes sabían de nuestra parte del mundo solo que aquí estaba Rusia. Un imperio no es solo la posesión de tierras, recursos y personas. Es la posesión del conocimiento, es decir, el derecho a nombrar las cosas.
Segundo. Putin afirma abiertamente que no existe la nación ucraniana, así como tampoco existen la lengua o la cultura ucranianas. Desde hace doce años documentamos cómo esas palabras se convierten en una práctica terrible en los territorios ocupados. Los rusos eliminan físicamente a las personas activas en las comunidades, prohíben la lengua ucraniana, saquean el patrimonio cultural ucraniano y educan a los niños ucranianos con manuales rusos en los que Ucrania no existe como Estado.
Y por último. Esta guerra tiene una dimensión de valores. No es una guerra entre dos países, sino entre dos sistemas: el autoritarismo y la democracia. Putin busca demostrar que un país con poder de veto en la ONU y armas nucleares puede permitirse todo lo que quiera. Incluso privar a toda una nación de su identidad y su libertad. Y la libertad, para los ucranianos, no es solo un valor de autoexpresión, es un valor de supervivencia. No habríamos sobrevivido ni surgido como nación si no hubiéramos aspirado obstinadamente a la libertad durante todos estos siglos.
Por eso, pese a todo, hay personas que enseñan a los niños ucranianos. Hay personas que escriben libros ucranianos. Hay personas que preservan su memoria.
Sembramos. Sembramos semillas. Sembramos incluso en invierno, cuando todo está congelado. Sembramos aquello que no teme al frío. Sembramos como un acto de fe, porque sabemos que la primavera llegará inevitablemente y todo lo que sembremos brotará. Y sí, es un trabajo a largo plazo. Pero quien piensa en el largo plazo, gana.
Cuando releía aquella conversación que Vika nunca alcanzó a leer, recordaba todo lo importante que logró hacer en su corta vida; pensaba en el amor que compartió generosamente conmigo, con su familia y con nuestras amigas; revisaba las fotos de su libro inconcluso sobre mujeres en la guerra, que fue publicado después de su muerte y traducido a varios idiomas. La vida humana es frágil. Pero aun así, puede estar llena de sentidos eternos.
Ahora sé mucho sobre lo que es la esperanza. La esperanza no es la convicción de que todo saldrá bien. Es la profunda conciencia de que todos nuestros esfuerzos tienen sentido.
*Oleksandra Matviichuk, defensora de derechos humanos y presidenta del Centro para las Libertades Civiles, en 2022 recibió el Premio Nobel de Paz.
“Cartas de Ucrania” es un proyecto de la campaña de solidaridad latinoamericana ¡Aguanta Ucrania! en conjunto con PEN Ucrania, UkraineWorld e Instituto Ucraniano.
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Greenland’s rejection of President Donald Trump sending a U.S. military hospital ship has touched off a private-public healthcare debate amid ongoing diplomatic talks about Arctic security.
Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Sunday turned down Trump’s offer, and now Trump special envoy to Greenland, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, has weighed in.
«Shame on Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen!» Landry wrote in response to a Fox News report on Nielsen’s objection. «President Donald J. Trump and America care. After speaking to many Greenlanders about the day to day problems they face, one issue stood out — healthcare.»
Greenland has sought more self-governance from Denmark under the Self Government Act in 2009 to take more local authority under home rule, but Danish officials’ instant rejection of Trump’s offer is aligned with Greenland’s own rejection that came later Sunday.
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Greenland has rejected the Trump administration’s push to take over the Danish territory. (Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images; Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«President Trump’s idea of sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted,» Nielsen wrote in a translated Facebook post. «But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens.
«It is a deliberate choice.»
Greenland remains open to dialogue and cooperation with the U.S., with a caveat, according to Nielsen.
«But talk to us instead of just making more or less random outbursts on social media,» Nielsen said in his own public Facebook protestation.
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Louisiana GOP Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump last year. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Greenland’s «free for citizens» care is not sufficient, Landry argued in his Facebook response posted to his campaign’s page.
«Many villages and small towns lack basic services that Americans often take for granted,» Landry’s post continued. «Small settlements are without permanent doctors, diagnostic tools, or specialist care – forcing residents to travel great distances for vital treatments that should be available at home.»
The healthcare issue underlies the overreaching Trump hopes to annex Greenland to secure the strategic Arctic region from Russian and Chinese designs, calling it a vital issue for «national security» for both the U.S. and the NATO alliance.
«A healthy Greenland is vital for America’s national security,» Landry’s post concluded. «America is committed to defending Greenland, and that begins by ensuring its people are defended against basic illnesses and ailments.
«These missions matter because health is inseparable from security. America’s commitment to defending Greenland must begin with ensuring its people are healthy.»
The recent dust-up came after Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command evacuated a crew member who required urgent medical treatment from a U.S. submarine in Greenlandic waters, seven nautical miles outside of Greenland’s capital of Nuuk.
«Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there,» Trump wrote Saturday night on Truth Social. «It’s on the way!!!»
That post sparked objection from both Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Sunday.
«The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs,» Poulsen told Danish broadcaster DR, according to Reuters. «They receive it either in Greenland, or, if they require specialized treatment, they receive it in Denmark.
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«So it’s not as if there’s a need for a special healthcare initiative in Greenland.»
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is rejecting President Donald Trump’s offer to send a U.S. military hospital ship to Greenland, suggesting Denmark’s public healthcare system is sufficient. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Kirsty Wigglesworth – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Frederiksen spun the Trump offer into a political debate on public healthcare.
«Am happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to health for all,» Frederiksen wrote in a translated post, sharing a Democrat attack point on Trump’s Republican Party’s struggles to reform what Trump has rebuked as a «failure» of Obamacare. «Where it’s not insurances and wealth that determine whether you get proper treatment. You have the same approach in Greenland.»
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The U.S. Navy has two hospital ships, the Mercy and the Comfort. Both were last docked in Alabama for repairs, according to Reuters.
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