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Ex-Pelosi aide accuses Hakeem Jeffries of ‘squandering’ anti-Trump opportunities in stunning rebuke

A former top advisor to ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is not meeting the moment in the current Trump era.
«Trump is just giving us all this incredible red meat. I mean, I’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s like the biggest gift any party has been given by the opposition, and we’re just squandering it, to a degree,» former Pelosi advisor Ashley Etienne told Politico’s Deep Dive podcast.
Etienne helped Pelosi oversee Democrats’ messaging during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment. She also previously worked for former Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.
She said Jeffries was «doing well» in many areas and said she had «a tremendous amount of respect» for the New York Democrat but signaled that he was missing opportunities on anti-Trump messaging.
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A former advisor to ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi shared criticism of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ leadership. (Getty/Reuters)
«He gave a speech this morning. I don’t have any talking points in my phone about what he said. And I’m going to be doing TV and this interview all day. That’s a failure,» Etienne said.
«How do you get to discipline if you’re not telling people what the hell you want them to say? At least emphatically, at least tonally.»
Jeffries’ allies pushed back against that characterization, pointing out that intraparty friction was taking attention away from Trump’s low poll numbers and Republicans’ policies.
«Donald Trump’s approval ratings are plummeting, and he’s bringing House Republicans down with him. Extreme MAGA Republicans have been forced to delay their plans to advance Trump’s centerpiece legislative priority due to intense backlash against their scheme to enact the largest cuts in history to Medicaid and food assistance. Let’s keep the main thing, the main thing,» Jeffries spokesperson Christiana Stephenson told Fox News Digital.
Just Friday morning, Jeffries released a statement hammering House Republicans for having to delay part of their legislative work to advance Trump’s agenda.
But Etienne’s comments are a notable rebuke from a former senior Democratic leadership aide to one of the party’s most powerful current officials, which comes after months of Democrats being plagued by infighting over messaging woes.
Etienne noted that Democrats had scored several wins on the messaging front, like having «successfully demonized Elon Musk» and Sen. Cory Booker’s recent record-breaking filibuster speech.
But she singled out liberals’ protests during Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress as an «embarrassing» setback for the party and Jeffries.

Etienne said the Democratic protests during Trump’s speech were ‘embarrassing.’ (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)
«If you look at the headlines post-the speech, even during the speech, it was more about Democrats and Democrats protesting rather than what Trump was actually saying. And in those kind of moments, you don’t want to become the story. You want Trump to be the story,» Etienne said.
«And I also thought it was a problem for Mr. Jeffries. I mean, it really says a lot about how people value his leadership. He asked for no protest. And what did they do? They protest 50 different ways.»
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Both Pelosi and Jeffries’ offices told Politico that the latter often seeks the former’s input, and Jeffries’ spokesperson pushed back on Politico’s reporting that House Democratic leaders were seeking to move past Pelosi and that Jeffries was not doing enough to help Democratic groups with messaging.
One of those groups, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), pushed back on the assertion they were not hearing enough from Jeffries.
PCCC sent out a press release that read, «Today, in a POLITICO article we are not interested in dwelling on, a former Pelosi staffer attacked Hakeem Jeffries. PCCC co-founder Adam Green said, ‘We hear more from Jeffries than we ever heard from Pelosi.’»
Meanwhile, a House Democratic aide told Fox News Digital that Jeffries held «multiple calls» previewing his earlier speech on Trump’s first 100 days in office, as well as talking points «emphasizing the Leader’s message that President Trump’s first 100 days have been a disaster for the American people.»
Stephenson, Jeffries’ spokesperson, also posted on X of Politico’s report, «Can anyone tell me how grandstanding like this is anything other than a gift to Republicans?»
But House Republicans’ elections arm was quick to pounce on the discord as well.
«Hakeem Jeffries is the so-called leader of a team that doesn’t fear him, doesn’t follow him, and now, doesn’t even pretend to respect him,» National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Mike Marinella said in a statement.
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And Democratic strategist Julian Epstein, a former chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee, criticized Jeffries’ leadership but said that Trump was not Democrats’ main problem.
«He’s not a particularly effective speaker, gives no sense of direction or purpose, seems intent on not offending anyone, and has a leadership style that seems extremely passive,» Epstein said.
«The Democrats in the House just seem like a big blob that goes wherever gravity takes them, and right now gravity is taking them to the hard protest left. But no matter who the leader is, if the Democrats are selling a product that voters don’t like, it won’t matter.»
Pelosi’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
House Of Representatives,House of Representatives Democrats,Nancy Pelosi,Politics
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Haití declaró el estado de emergencia en tres departamentos del país ante el recrudecimiento de la violencia pandillera

El gobierno de transición de Haití decretó este sábado el estado de emergencia en los departamentos de Oeste, Artibonito y Centro, en respuesta a un repunte significativo de la violencia criminal durante el segundo trimestre de 2025. Según datos oficiales y la Oficina de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, al menos 1.500 personas han muerto y 600 han resultado heridas en el periodo señalado, mientras que más de 620 han sido secuestradas y al menos 239.000 ciudadanos han abandonado sus hogares a causa de la inseguridad.
La decisión, anunciada oficialmente por el Ejecutivo de transición, señala que tiene como objetivo “continuar la lucha contra la inseguridad y responder a la crisis agrícola y alimentaria”, y busca otorgar mayores medios y tiempo a las autoridades para restituir la seguridad y la paz en el territorio nacional.
La violencia de las pandillas se ha desplazado progresivamente desde la capital, Puerto Príncipe, hacia la región centro y en especial al departamento de Artibonito, el mayor del país y conocido como el “granero” nacional. El gobierno subraya las “consecuencias negativas de la violencia para la vida de los ciudadanos y para los sectores de actividad del país”. La región, fundamental para la producción de arroz, ha experimentado ataques que han forzado a los agricultores a abandonar sus campos y a desplazarse, situación que ha agravado la crisis agrícola y alimentaria nacional, según la ONU.
A finales de abril, decenas de personas se vieron obligadas a cruzar a pie y a nado el río más grande de Haití, en un esfuerzo por huir de la actividad de los grupos armados. Las autoridades describen una escalada de la violencia, con asesinatos sistemáticos, secuestros y desplazamientos masivos.
El viernes, la administración interina designó a André Jonas Vladimir Paraison como nuevo director general interino de la Policía Nacional de Haití (PNH), en reemplazo de Normil Rameau. Paraison fue jefe de seguridad del Palacio Nacional durante seis años y estuvo presente como agente policial durante el asesinato del presidente Jovenel Moïse en julio de 2021. La misión de Paraison es establecer un clima de seguridad que posibilite la celebración de elecciones previstas para febrero de 2026.
Paraison recalcó, en presencia del primer ministro Alix Didier Fils-Aime y el nuevo presidente del Consejo Presidencial de Transición (CPT), Laurent Saint-Cyr, la necesidad de “un gran plan de desarrollo para la PNH” y de “coherencia entre el plan nacional de desarrollo y el plan de seguridad de la Policía para ofrecer mejores resultados a la población”.

En la actualidad, las bandas armadas controlan hasta el 90% de la región metropolitana de Puerto Príncipe y han instalado controles en las carreteras hacia el interior del país.
Saint-Cyr instó al nuevo jefe policial a tomar “todas las medidas necesarias para restablecer la seguridad”, intensificar las operaciones en todos los frentes y liberar gradualmente los territorios ocupados por las bandas.
A pesar de la presencia de un contingente internacional liderado por Kenia y respaldado por la ONU, las operaciones para restablecer el orden han logrado algunos avances en la capital, pero no han conseguido contener la multiplicación de actividades de las pandillas en otras zonas. El Consejo Presidencial de Transición, establecido el año pasado, tiene como meta pacificar el país y organizar las primeras elecciones en una década.
La nueva estrategia del gobierno de transición tiene como prioridad restaurar la seguridad y responder lo antes posible a la emergencia alimentaria y humanitaria, con la expectativa de crear condiciones estables que permitan el proceso electoral y el retorno paulatino de los desplazados internos a sus comunidades de origen.
(Con información de AP, EFE y EP)
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Local entrepreneur sounds alarm on local leaders over viral street attack: ‘Democrat monopoly’

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CINCINNATI, OHIO – Southwest Ohio residents are expressing outrage at local leadership after a viral street fight in their backyard that captured the nation’s attention. One resident, a local political activist, told Fox News Digital a «Democrat monopoly» is partially to blame.
The Saturday night violence in downtown Cincinnati on July 26, which left a woman knocked unconscious on the street at the hands of a male assailant, was the result of a city that wasn’t «prepared» due to political ideology, Price Hill native Adam Koehler told Fox News Digital. He added that the response to the fight was «not leadership.»
«Leadership comes out and says, ‘Hey, we’ve got a problem. Here’s my solution to fix it,’» Koehler said. «But instead, they want to be cowardly and hide the fact that crime is actually happening.»
Cincinnati’s mayor and other local officials have faced heated criticism in recent days over the perception they are not taking crime seriously. One elected Democrat, Councilwoman Victoria Parks, posted on social media saying that the victims of the fight «begged for that beatdown.»
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Fox News Digital spoke to Cincinnati resident Adam Koehler about crime in the city. (Fox News Digital)
«This is a Democrat monopoly they’ve got here,» Koehler, an entrepreneur and former candidate for Hamilton County commissioner, told Fox News Digital. «So, I mean they can just pretty much do whatever they want. And a lot of that kind of rhetoric is excused, right? It’s, you know, past injustices and you know now I feel like I can say whatever I want and it’s excused. And luckily there are some city council members that denounced the words that Victoria Parks said, which is great, but you’ve got other people that just want to stoke the flames.»
Holly, the woman brutally knocked out and bruised in the attack, told Fox News this week she is yet to receive a phone call from the mayor or top officials «just apologizing for what happened and for letting these thugs and criminals run the streets when they should have been in jail to begin with.»
Koehler told Fox News Digital that Democrats running the city «have an agenda» and «want to look a certain way» and «ignore the problem.»
«It’s a lot of these ideologies that come out of the universities, right?» Koehler said. «Every generation thinks they figured something out about crime and they’re soft-hearted people, they wanted to do things, but, you know, policies like what Giuliani did in New York, those kind of things work.»
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(L-R) Jermaine Matthews, Dominique Kittle, DeKyra Vernon, Montianez Merriweather and Patrick Rosemond are facing various charges for their alleged roles in the viral beatdown in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 26, 2025. (Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office; Fulton County Sheriff’s Office; Jay Black)
Koehler, who was speaking to Fox News Digital outside a GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy town hall event on Cincinnati’s west side, said figures like Ramaswamy, Sen. Bernie Moreno, and Ohio native VP JD Vance are reasons to be optimistic about addressing the crime spike downtown.
«Those guys got power,» Koehler said. «I mean you start throwing the DOJ down here and start investigating some of the things that are happening, why wasn’t there more police there?»
Koehler added, «I mean there’s a lot of grifting that goes on whenever you have a one-party monopoly in any city. Obviously, you’re gonna have corruption. And it’s just, it’s festered here, and it’s culminated in what you see.»
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Sen. Bernie Moreno speaks at a press conference alongside Holly, a victim in the viral July 26 brawl in Cincinnati, at the Fraternal Order of Police headquarters in Ohio on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
Moreno said this week he is introducing «Holly’s Act,» a move aimed at ending what he calls the justice system’s revolving door for repeat offenders.
«Let’s be honest, because a lot of times you guys are qualifying this as a brawl,» Moreno told reporters. «This was attempted murder of an innocent woman. And that person had a rap sheet a mile long. Nobody who has that rap sheet should be walking the streets of any Ohio city free.»
Fox News Digital’s Julia Bonavita and Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report.
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Julio María Sanguinetti: “Milei y Trump son las respuestas extremas de sociedades atrapadas por el desasosiego”

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