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Mexican sewage gushing into Navy SEAL training waters is US’ ‘next Camp Lejeune,’ vets warn
«Disgusting,» said Navy SEAL veteran Rob Sweetman in describing the smell and mist of Mexican sewage spewing into U.S. waters as he stood on a hill overlooking the Tijuana River estuary in California.
Sweetman, a Navy veteran who served on the SEALs for eight years, spoke to Fox News Digital to sound the alarm on a water crisis rocking the San Diego area, including where SEALs train, taking a camera with him to show viewers firsthand how the contaminated water flows into the U.S.
Just one mile away from where Sweetman spoke, SEALs and candidates train in the same water, which has sickened more than 1,000 candidates in a five-year period, per a Department of Defense watchdog report released in February.
San Diego and the surrounding area are in a clean-water crisis that has raged for decades, but it is finding revived concern from the Trump administration as SEALs and local veterans warn of a «national security crisis» that they say is on par with the Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, water crisis.
Thousands of Marines and others were sickened at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune base between 1953 and 1987 as a result of water contaminated by industrial solvents used to drink, bathe and cook at the training facilities and on-base housing.
EPA CHIEF TAKES ON MEXICAN ‘SEWAGE CRISIS’ FLOWING INTO US WATERS WHERE NAVY SEALS TRAIN
The Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) class participates in a surf passage training exercise at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in Coronado, California. (Getty Images)
Kate Monroe, a Marine Corps veteran and CEO of VetComm — which advocates for disabled veterans and those navigating the VA’s complicated health system — told Fox Digital in an April Zoom interview, «San Diego County is as big as some states. It’s giant. Millions of people live here and are breathing the air of this water. It goes well beyond the military. It’s a crisis. It’s a FEMA-level travesty, and we have just been hiding it.»
The Navy has deep roots in the San Diego area, with the United States Naval Special Warfare Command headquartered in America’s Finest City and where Navy SEAL candidates complete their arduous six-month Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) at the Naval Amphibious Base Coronado.
Naval Special Warfare Center reported 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal illnesses among SEAL candidates between January 2019 and May 2023 alone. (Jeff Gum)
The sewage problem flowing from neighboring Mexico into the U.S. has percolated in San Diego for years.
But the water crisis hit crisis level when it was reported in 2024 that 44 billion gallons of contaminated water imbued with raw sewage was released along the California coast in 2023, the most on record since at least 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.
The issue of sewage water flowing into U.S. waters is largely attributed to outdated wastewater infrastructure across the southern border, local media outlets recently reported, with Mexico reportedly in the midst of addressing its infrastructure to curb the leaks of sewage water.
The Tijuana River has for decades been plagued by sewage and waste that has affected its beaches and neighboring San Diego.
In February, the Department of Defense’s inspector general released a report finding that the Naval Special Warfare Center reported 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal illnesses among SEAL candidates between January 2019 and May 2023 alone.
Navy SEAL trainees are shown during Hell Week. (Getty Images)
«Navy SEAL candidate exposure to contaminated water occurred because (Naval Special Warfare Command) did not follow San Diego County’s Beach and Bay Water Quality Program’s beach closure postings,» the inspector general report found. «As a result of Navy SEAL candidate exposure to contaminated water during training, candidates are presented with increased health risks and NAVSPECWARCOM’s training mission could be impacted.»
‘IBS, GERD, skin issues, weird cancers’
It was when Monroe, who is well-versed with veteran health through VetComm, was working with SEALs who were retiring that she realized the severity of the San Diego water pollution of the past few years.
She observed an increase in health claims related to intestinal issues and «weird cancers,» which was a departure from typical claims related to PTSD or orthopedic ailments.
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«I started creating relationships with the SEAL teams, the people that were exiting the SEALs, you know, at 14 years, 20 years, nearing their retirement,» Monroe told Fox News Digital. «And the claims that we were making for these guys were surprising to me because a lot of them, they have combat PTSD, a lot of orthopedic issues. But we were having guys coming to us with, like, IBS, GERD, skin issues, weird cancers, and they were all attributing it to their time spent in San Diego training to be a SEAL in that water here that we have in San Diego.»
Swimming and spending time in water contaminated with feces can lead to a host of illnesses, including bacterial, viral and parasitic infections that leave people nauseous, vomiting and rushing to the bathroom.
Navy SEAL vet Jeff Gum was only days from entering the SEAL’s aptly named Hell Week — the fourth week of basic conditioning for SEAL candidates — when nausea hit him. He was trapped in a cycle of drinking water and vomiting when he realized a serious illness had its grips on him.
Gum is a retired SEAL who served from 2007 to 2017 and was exposed to the contaminated water in 2008 during BUD/S training off the San Diego coast.
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«I couldn’t stop,» Gum recounted of how he couldn’t keep water down without vomiting. «You never really want to go to medical because they can pull you out or make you get rolled to the next class, but I couldn’t even drink water without throwing up. It’s the only time in my whole life that this has happened.»
Gum’s nausea overcame him on a Friday in 2008, with Hell Week kicking off that Sunday night. Hell Week is a more than five-day training that puts candidates through rigorous training, including cold-water immersion, «surf torture,» buoy swims, mud runs, all while operating on minimal sleep.
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Navy SEAL vet Jeff Gum in Iraq. (Jeff Gum)
«The sun goes down, and the instructors come out with big machine guns, that kicks it off,» Gum said of how Hell Week began. «We run out to the beach, right into the ocean. You spend the rest of the week soaking wet, covered in sand. And everywhere you go, you have a 200-pound boat on your head that you and your boat crew of six to seven guys will share the weight of, and you just run everywhere.»
Hell Week training for the SEALs includes carrying boats. (Getty Images)
«You’re just in the water. There’s no escaping it. It’s part of what makes BUD/S BUD/S. And it’s part of what makes the Navy SEALs America’s premier maritime special operators,» he said. «There’s not getting around how comfortable we have to be in the water. Cold, wet, miserable, doesn’t matter, we suck it up and we do it.»
MEXICO IS POISONING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN A BORDER CRISIS ALMOST NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT
Gum received IVs the weekend ahead of Hell Week and was able to keep food and water down by the time the intense training began, but he had been diagnosed with viral gastroenteritis, commonly known as the stomach flu and highly contagious, which then morphed into rhabdomyolysis due to exerting so much energy while dehydrated from viral gastroenteritis
Rhabdomyolysis is a serious illness that causes muscle to break down quickly and can lead to «muscle death» and the release of high levels of myoglobin in the blood that can injure a person’s kidneys.
The border fence between Imperial Beach near San Ysidro, California, right, and Playas de Tijuana near Tijuana, Mexico. (Getty Images)
Gum failed the first phase of BUD/S, but he was granted permission to return to training for a second time after senior leaders saw he had viral gastroenteritis. Gum again went through the first phase of BUD/S, but again he went to medical, where tests showed that his «blood came back toxic» from rhabdomyolysis.
The SEAL was put on medical leave and able to fully recover in his home state of Pennsylvania before he «crushed» the hellish training on his third try. He served on SEAL Team Five, deployed to Fallujah, Iraq, and taught combatives and prisoner handling to SEAL trainees in San Diego from 2013 until his retirement in 2017.
Sweetman told Fox Digital that «everyone who goes through training is going to get sick.»
Tijuana, Mexico, top, and San Diego (Getty Images)
«They’re going to get infections, and it’s terrible,» Sweetman told Fox Digital in an April Zoom interview. «And some might argue that this is Navy SEAL training. You have to go through the toughest conditions to be able to survive and make it. I would say that it’s gotten a little bit out of hand.»
The SEAL vet, who lives in the San Diego area, said the issue has gotten worse in recent years as Tijuana’s population grows.
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«When I went through training, it was absolutely a thing that they’d shut down the Imperial Beach because the ocean water was so bad, because the waste coming from Tijuana had infected the water,» Sweetman said. «You could always smell it. And oftentimes, even in the bay, we’d need to wash our wet suit after being out on a swim.»
Rob Sweetman served eight years as a Navy SEAL. (Rob Sweetman)
«Now, some of the training causes us to be deeply immersed in the water, and infections and all types of things can come up from being in the water. But I’ll say that it has gotten significantly worse as the population has doubled in Tijuana.»
Raw sewage from Tijuana is flowing into the San Diego area, causing illness to spread among SEALs and candidates. (Rob Sweetman)
‘A huge national crisis’
Gum and Monroe both said that water issue is a crisis, with Gum identifying it as a national security crisis that could cull well-suited candidates from the SEALs due to acute illnesses as well as sicken active SEALs.
«This is a huge national crisis,» he said. «Like half the SEAL teams are located in San Diego, the other half are in Virginia Beach. So when you’ve got half the SEAL teams who are getting exposed to this, then it’s a major issue.»
Monroe called it the «next Camp Lejeune» crisis, which sickened Marines with contaminated drinking water at the North Carolina Marine Corps base camp for nearly three decades. The crisis has cost the U.S. billions of dollars, including legal costs and settlements to vets and their families.
«This is going to be, in my opinion, the next Camp Lejeune water problem that cost our government $21 to $25 billion,» she said. «That’s just in the compensation directly, like the lawsuit portion of it. That doesn’t cover all the compensation you have to pay these veterans tax-free for the rest of their lives. I would say that this issue here in San Diego, if you look at it over the time that people have been training here, you’re looking at another $21 to $25 billion, plus all of the compensation that’s going to come. It would be cheaper for our country to fix this than it would to allow it to continue.»
The three veterans who spoke to Fox Digital all responded with optimism that the Trump administration will tackle the crisis and end it.
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Fox Digital exclusively reported earlier in April that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is heading to San Diego to meet with SEALs and see the crisis firsthand April 22, 2025.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is heading to San Diego to meet with SEALs and see the water firsthand April 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«The raw sewage flowing from Mexico into the Tijuana River is creating serious, detrimental issues for communities with affected waterways,» Zeldin told Fox Digital ahead of the Tuesday trip.
«Ensuring America’s waters are clean is part of EPA’s core mission, and I look forward to being on the ground in San Diego in a few days to assess the situation and hear directly from those affected,» he said. «It is top-of-mind knowing that as this issue persists, more and more Navy SEALs remain at risk of sickness because of the contaminated waterways they train in. I strongly believe the time has come to finalize and implement an urgent strategy to end decades of raw sewage entering the U.S.»
BUD/S students participate in SEAL training at the Naval Special Warfare Center, Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, California. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
A spokesperson for Naval Special Warfare added in a comment to Fox News Digital that SEALs and candidates’ health are a top priority and that officials are monitoring water quality in areas where they train.
«The Navy takes the health and safety of our personnel very seriously,» the spokesperson said. «Water quality at Navy training locations on the beach waterfront is closely monitored in coordination with local authorities. We are fully committed to ensuring warfighters at U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command train in a safe environment.»
Mexican sewage flows into the U.S. (Rob Sweetman)
Ahead of Zeldin’s visit, the water flowing from Mexico into the U.S. is as «nasty» as ever, according to Sweetman.
«What I see here is a tremendous amount of green, nasty water,» Sweetman said while pointing at the murky water. «I mean, you can smell it. This is disgusting. As it pours through, it doesn’t clear up. There’s no clarity to it. It just turns into a foam. And the foam sits on top of the water where it’s murky and it just continues to flow towards Imperial Beach and the ocean down here.»
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«It’s absolutely disgusting. I can’t comment strongly enough about how bad it is to be here. I’m here specifically because I want people to see just how bad it is,» he said. «The moment that I leave here, I’m going to go take a shower.»
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North Korea test fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday, just days before President Donald Trump is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders in South Korea.
South Korea’s military said the missiles, which were the first launched by its neighbor in five months, originated from an area south of Pyongyang and flew about 220 miles toward the northeast. The missiles did not land in the sea, the military added.
Trump is set to leave for Asia at the end of the week in what will be his first trip to the region during his second term. He plans to go to Malaysia first for a regional summit, and then head to Japan before traveling on to South Korea for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.
The president is expected to visit the South Korean city of Gyeongju ahead of the summit for bilateral meetings with leaders including Xi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.
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North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong Un is shown left, conducted missile launches just days ahead of a visit by President Donald Trump to South Korea. (China Daily via Reuters/Korea News Service via AP; Ahn Young-joon/AP; Alex Brandon/AP)
South Korea’s military said Wednesday that it remains ready to repel any provocations by North Korea based on its alliance with the United States.
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi also told reporters that Tokyo was closely communicating with Washington and Seoul, including by sharing real-time missile warning data.
Wednesday’s ballistic missile launches by North Korea were the first of their kind since the country tested short-range systems on May 8 that simulated nuclear counterstrikes against U.S. and South Korean forces.
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A North Korean government photo shows what it says is a new intercontinental ballistic missile called the Hwasong-20 during a military parade on Oct. 10, 2025, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
Earlier this month, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un displayed a new long-range intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade in Pyongyang that included foreign leaders.
The yet-to-be-tested Hwasong-20 was described by the state-owned Korean Central News Agency as having the «most powerful nuclear strategic weapons system.»
The government also displayed shorter-range ballistic, cruise and supersonic missiles at the military parade, which marked 80 years since the founding of the Worker’s Party.
Kim said at the parade that the military «must continue to evolve into an invincible force that eliminates all threats.»
A TV screen shows North Korea’s missile launch during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (Ahn Young-joon/AP)
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The foreign dignitaries at the parade included Chinese Premier Li Qiang, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Vietnam’s Communist Party chief To Lam.
Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Bruce Springsteen tiene su película película biográfica, pero no es la que se podía esperar
Durante meses del año pasado, Jeremy Allen White tuvo a Bruce Springsteen hablándole constantemente al oído.
White escuchó una y otra vez la narración en audio de 18 horas de las memorias de Springsteen, Born to Run, como parte de una intensa preparación para interpretarlo en la próxima película Springsteen: música de ninguna parte, que narra las dificultades del ícono del rock para crear su álbum Nebraska en 1982.
“Eso sonaba en casa todo el tiempo”, recordó White, conocido por ser el protagonista de la serie The Bear, en una reciente entrevista por video. “Cuando salía a correr, cuando caminaba, cuando preparaba la cena. Me ayudaba mucho tener su voz conmigo todo el tiempo”.
Springsteen: música de ninguna parte, escrita y dirigida por Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), ofrece algunos momentos propios de la épica biográfica del rock, como un White empapado en sudor cantando “Born to Run” ante una multitud o improvisando para un público devoto en el club Stone Pony de la costa de Nueva Jersey.
Pero al centrarse en Nebraska —una galería de personajes frágiles en clave acústica— y el colapso depresivo que Springsteen atravesó tras su grabación, la película se convierte en una exploración sobre la fragilidad de la salud mental y los límites del arte como sostén vital. En una escena tomada directamente de las memorias del músico, el hombre generalmente visto como el ideal del rock entra en la consulta de un terapeuta y rompe a llorar en silencio.
El objetivo de Cooper, dijo, “nunca fue contar la historia completa de Bruce Springsteen”. “Me esforzaba por hacer algo más tranquilo y más interior, sobre este momento muy específico en la vida de Bruce”, añadió el director, “sobre un hombre que enfrenta algunos de los traumas que arrastra desde su infancia”.
Springsteen: música de ninguna parte marca la primera vez que “El jefe” permite que su historia sea dramatizada en una película, y no es casualidad que Nebraska sea el núcleo. Springsteen ha dicho que considera este álbum quizás el mejor, aunque siempre ha sido una rareza y un misterio en su obra.
Compuesto mientras comenzaba a trabajar las canciones que dos años después integrarían Born in the USA, Springsteen grabó Nebraska en solitario, con una grabadora simple de cuatro pistas, en una casa alquilada en Colts Neck, cerca de Freehold, en Nueva Jersey. El músico trabajó en ella durante los meses posteriores a la exitosa gira de The River, su primer álbum número uno, bajo la presión de sostener su popularidad.
Las grabaciones de temas como “Atlantic City”, “Johnny 99″ y “Nebraska” —relatos de crimen, soledad y personajes en busca de esperanza— fueron concebidas como maquetas a desarrollar junto a la E Street Band. Pero Springsteen quedó cautivado por el sonido crudo y fantasmal de las cintas, y tras intentos frustrados de rehacerlas en el estudio, decidió que la versión original saldría tal cual, a pesar de la escasa fidelidad. En la película, los productores lidian con la dificultad de convertir el casete en un master comercialmente viable.
Para la discográfica y su entorno, fue una decisión desconcertante y arriesgada para un artista en ascenso; una jugada que, bajo la mentalidad común de la industria, podía suponer un freno a su carrera. Springsteen incluso insistió en que Nebraska no fuese promocionado con sencillos, giras ni entrevistas.
Warren Zanes, músico y académico que conoció Nebraska siendo un adolescente en la banda Del Fuegos en los años 80, afirmó que, aunque ama el disco, siempre le costó entenderlo como cambio de rumbo:“Fue, para mí, uno de los mayores giros a la izquierda en la historia de la música popular”.
Tras leer la descripción de Nebraska en las memorias de Springsteen, seguida de un relato profundo de una crisis emocional, Zanes comenzó a escribir un libro sobre el álbum, entrevistando a Springsteen y a su mánager de toda la vida, Jon Landau. Ese libro, titulado Deliver Me From Nowhere (Líbrame de la nada, título original en inglés de la película también) se publicó en 2023 y Cooper lo utilizó como base para el guion.
La película retrata a Springsteen en este periodo como un personaje solitario y atribulado, pero productivo, inspirado en el filme Badlands (Malas tierras) de Terrence Malick (1973), el dúo punk Suicide y su propia biografía. Springsteen compone las canciones de Nebraska mientras revive recuerdos de infancia ligados a su padre, melancólico y bebedor, que aparece en un flashback en blanco y negro. Surge una relación con Faye, una madre soltera de Nueva Jersey, pero el músico no logra comprometerse con ella. (Faye, figura compuesta, es el único personaje principal que no está basado en una persona real).
“Bruce estaba obsesionado, no en lo gótico, sino en lo espiritual”, explicó Cooper, usando una gorra de Stone Pony. “Creo que lo obsesionaba su padre, emocionalmente distante, ese mito estadounidense de quienes persiguen el sueño americano y no lo logran”.
Cooper indicó que tanto él como Springsteen decidieron no construir una hagiografía, sino mostrar las luchas y fracasos del artista, además de sus logros. “No me interesaba mitificarlo”, declaró el director. “No estaba persiguiendo al Jefe. Busco al hombre solo en una habitación en Colts Neck con una grabadora tratando de darle sentido a su vida y a sus traumas”.
Las vivencias de Springsteen con la depresión, antes poco conocidas, se hicieron públicas en sus memorias de 2016. La relación con su padre ocupó un lugar central en Springsteen on Broadway, su espectáculo de 2017.
“Hace mucho tiempo, las defensas que construí para soportar el estrés de mi infancia, para salvar lo que tenía de mí mismo, dejaron de ser útiles”, escribió Springsteen en ese libro. “Me basé en ellas para aislarme, sellar mi alienación, aislarme de la vida, controlar a los demás y contener mis emociones hasta un punto perjudicial. Ahora el cobrador llama a la puerta, y su pago será en lágrimas”.
Cooper aseguró que White fue la única opción para el papel principal. “Pensaron que podía expresar una historia compleja con calma y mucha intensidad física”, dijo el protagonista.
El actor dudó. El papel exigía interpretación musical, pero White no era cantante ni había tocado guitarra. “Le dije: ‘Me gustaría hacer esto contigo, adoro a Bruce, ¿pero no prefieres a alguien que ya sepa hacerlo?’”.
Hasta que Cooper le transmitió que Springsteen mismo quería que lo interpretara. “En ese punto pensé: ‘No voy a interponerme en su camino’”.
Durante seis meses, White estudió guitarra y tomó clases diarias de canto con Eric Vetro, entrenador vocal de celebridades, responsable de la preparación de Austin Butler en Elvis y de Timothée Chalamet para Un completo desconocido.
En la película, la voz de White se escucha cuando canta en pantalla; en otras escenas es la voz de Springsteen.
Se ve a White con cabello desordenado, hombros musculosos encorvados en una campera de cuero negro, conduciendo un Camaro Z28 por las carreteras de Nueva Jersey, una imagen del Jefe de unos 30 años que sorprendió a sus compañeros de elenco.
“Se concentró por completo”, dijo Odessa Young, quien encarna a Faye. “Está muy presente y concentrado, y verlo interpretar a Bruce resultó casi inquietante”.
Gran parte del filme gira en torno a la relación casi fraternal de Springsteen con Landau, inicialmente crítico musical que luego se convirtió en su mánager y productor. Su colaboración histórica, desde 1975, es una de las más largas y exitosas del rock.
Jeremy Strong (Succession, El Aprendiz) interpreta a Landau como un artista empático y pragmático. Al oír Nebraska por primera vez, el representante intenta comprender la música y el dolor de su cliente. “Tiene una sensibilidad magistral”, señaló Strong sobre Landau.
Pero Landau sabe que hay un límite a su ayuda. En un momento crucial, Springsteen llega a una casa vacía en Los Ángeles y llama a Landau, quien le dice: “Necesitas ayuda, ayuda profesional”. El músico inicia terapia, a la que atribuye un cambio vital.
Persisten ciertas tensiones, sobre todo con la presión de la discográfica CBS respecto al lanzamiento de Nebraska. Finalmente, Landau y Springsteen salieron fortalecidos. Nebraska alcanzó el número 3 y fue celebrada por la crítica. Su álbum siguiente, Born in the USA, consagró a Bruce Springsteen como superestrella mundial.
Cooper optó por no dramatizar la negociación con CBS, evitando el cliché del conflicto entre artista y sello discográfico y enfocándose en la relación entre Springsteen y Landau. “Es una historia de amor entre estos dos hombres”, afirmó.
“La experiencia de Jon en la película pone a prueba su fe y determinación respecto a la visión de Bruce”, opinó Strong. “Aparecen imperativos comerciales versus imperativos artísticos y espirituales. En la vida real, Jon Landau jamás hubiera elegido lo primero”.
Springsteen y Landau aprobaron la realización de la película y Cooper dijo que ninguno de los dos pidió cambios. “Dejamos claro que era su historia”, afirmó Landau. “No solicitamos ni recibimos control sobre la filmación, el guion, la edición, el reparto, la música ni otro aspecto”. Agregó: “A mi juicio, es una de las mejores decisiones que hemos tomado”.
El rodaje comenzó en septiembre de 2024 y siguió hasta enero de 2025, mientras Springsteen realizaba su última gira. Él y Landau fueron presencias habituales en el set. “Casi todas las noches”, contó White, “recibía mensajes de texto de Bruce acerca de algún momento del rodaje que él sentía fiel a las emociones que vivió de joven”.
“Esos mensajes”, añadió, “me marcaron”.
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Front-runners for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, wasted little time attacking each other on alleged personal scandals they have been involved in during a Wednesday night debate between the pair and GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa.
Mamdani and Sliwa took the opportunity during Wednesday’s debate to drill down on past sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo, the former governor of New York, ahead of an impeachment inquiry that preceded Cuomo’s 2021 resignation. Cuomo was also hit by Mamdani over accusations he has – while in public office – failed to meet with Muslim constituents and only began doing so amid pressure from his mayoral campaign, and over his alleged poor handling of the COVID-19 virus in New York after Cuomo was party to issuing guidance forcing nursing homes and long-term care facilities to admit COVID-19 positive patients.
Meanwhile, Cuomo did not hold back on targeting Mamdani over alleged controversies that have embattled his campaign. Cuomo blasted the self-proclaimed socialist over his lack of experience, ties to radical politics, and past radical comments about law enforcement, Israel and the situation in Gaza.
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All three candidates for NEw York City governor debated Wednesday night. From left to right: Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and Zohran Mamdani. (Photo by Angelina Katsanis-Pool/Getty Images)
«My main opponent has no new ideas. He has no new plan. … He’s never run anything, managed anything. He’s never had a real job,» Cuomo said of Mamdani during the debate. Cuomo also branded Mamdani as someone who has proven to be «a divisive force in New York,» pointing to past incidents that have garnered Mamdani heat from critics.
One of those incidents included a picture he took with a hard-lined Ugandan lawmaker who has pushed policies of imprisoning people for being gay, which Mamdani took while taking a break from the campaign trail to visit his home country of Uganda for a wedding. Cuomo also hit the controversy over whether Mamdani supports Jewish New Yorkers, as his critics have claimed he is anti-Israel pointing to statements he has made, like «globalize the intifada.»
Cuomo also accused Mamdani of disrespecting Italian-Americans after a video of him surfaced giving the middle finger to a statue of Christopher Columbus, while also pointing to criticism the self-proclaimed socialist candidate has garnered from 9/11 first-responders after posting a photo with a Muslim cleric who served as a character witness for the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 attacks.
TOP 5 MOMENTS FROM FIERY NYC MAYORAL DEBATE: ‘HE LITERALLY HAS NEVER HAD A JOB’
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (left) shakes hands on the debate stage with Democratic Party candidate for New York City mayor (right) Zohran Mamdani. Cuomo is running as an Independent after lsoing to Mamdani in the primary election. (Photographer: Angelina Katsanis/AP)
«You have been a divisive force in New York, and I believe that’s toxic energy for New York. It’s with the Jewish community. It’s with the Italian-American community – when you give the Columbus statue the finger. It’s with the Sunni Muslims when you say decriminalize prostitution, which is Haram. It’s the Hindus,» Cuomo continued. «Then, you take a picture with Rebecca Kadaga, deputy Prime Minister of Uganda. … She’s known as Rebecca ‘Gay Killer.’ … You’re a citizen of Uganda. You took the picture. You said you didn’t know who she was. It turns out you did. How do you not renounce your citizenship or demand BDS against Uganda for imprisoning people who are gay just by their sexual orientation? Isn’t that a basic violation of human rights?»
Mamdani shot back that his politics have remained «consistent» and that they are built on a belief in human rights for all people, including LGBTQ+ folks. Had he known Kadga’s role in drafting legislation to imprison gay folks, Mamdani said, he never would have taken the picture.
«This constant attempt to smear and slander me is an attempt to also distract from the fact that, unlike myself, you do not actually have a platform or a set of policies,» Mamdani shot back at Cuomo before introducing his own claims about the former governor regarding past accusations of sexual harassment.
MAMDANI RIPPED BY RIVALS FOR UNPOPULAR STANCE DURING FIERY NYC DEBATE: ‘YOU WON’T SUPPORT ISRAEL’
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo slammed his democratic socialist opponent Zohran Mamdani during Wednesday’s debate for a variety of alleged scandals he has been involved in. (Angelina Katsanis/Getty; Angelina Katsanis/Getty)
«Mr. Cuomo. In 2021, 13 different women who worked in your administration credibly accused you of sexual harassment. Since then, you have spent more than $20 million in taxpayer funds to defend yourself, all while describing these allegations as entirely political,» Mamdani said while attacking Cuomo Wednesday night.
«You have even gone so far as to legally go after these women. One of those women, Charlotte Bennett, is here in the audience this evening. You sought to access her private gynecological records. She cannot speak up for herself because you lodged a defamation case against her. I, however, can speak. What do you say to the 13 women that you sexually harassed?»
Cuomo, in 2021, was accused of multiple incidents of sexual harassment that preceded his resignation as governor that year. A subsequent report from New York Attorney General Letitia James confirmed Cuomo «sexually harassed multiple women from 2013 through 2020,» while in January 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it had reached a nearly $500,000 settlement with Cuomo’s executive office over one of the claims. However, no criminal charges were ever filed against Cuomo, with some district attorneys citing insufficient evidence.
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Cuomo defended himself against Mamdani’s accusations, noting the cases were eventually dropped, before returning to questions about Mamdani’s alleged past.
Meanwhile, Sliwa didn’t skip an opportunity to slam Cuomo over the sexual assault allegations either, saying early in the debate during a discussion about homelessness that Cuomo «fled» the governor’s office amid an impeachment inquiry that was investigating him.
«Andrew, you didn’t ‘leave.’ You fled from being impeached by the Democrats in the state legislature,» Sliwa began before getting into the homelessness issue, earning him a round-of-applause from the audience.
«‘Leave?’ You fled!» Sliwa continued to applause. «But let’s get back on topic.»
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