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News: Vice President Kamala Harris Visits Milwaukee
WASHINGTON (77WABC) — Vice President Kamala Harris is getting heat after she attended the inauguration of new socialist Honduran President Xiomara Castro Thursday.
Our relationship with Honduras is an important one. Today I met with President Xiomara Castro to discuss deepening our cooperation across a broad range of issues, including addressing the root causes of migration, combatting corruption, and expanding economic opportunity. pic.twitter.com/fGBfHSWqSs
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) January 28, 2022
Castro’s inner circle has made problematic statements about Jewish people and Israel. Her husband Manuel Zelaya, an ex-president, claimed ‘Israeli mercenaries’ were torturing him with high-frequency radiation.
Castro’s running mate, Salvador Nasralla, said Jews control the global money supply. Nasralla also said in 2020 that Honduras’ outgoing president Juan Orlando Hernández’s ‘boss is the government of Israel’.
During Nasralla’s 2017 run for the presidency, which he lost, his wife Iroshka Elvir had to apologize to Jewish organizations for praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
‘The newspaper published that I admire Hitler, but it is not true, I never told them that I admired Hitler,’ she told Jewish groups.
New York Rep. Lee Zeldin slammed Harris’ trip — also on Holocaust Memorial Day — as ‘totally disgusting and unacceptable.’
“It’s totally disgusting and unacceptable that the U.S. Vice President would attend this inauguration and give legitimacy to this vile behavior, especially on the day we honor and remember the six million Jews and millions of others killed in the Holocaust,” Zeldin told DailyMail.com. “It’s sad that the Biden Administration is going out of its way to embrace the country’s troubling new leaders, but couldn’t be bothered to show support when Honduras took bold steps to strengthen its bond with Israel.”
The VP tweeted a tribute to the six million Jews who were slaughtered as she landed in the country.
Today, we honor the six million Jews and other victims murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. We must teach our children the truth about the atrocities of the Holocaust, so that together we give meaning to that timeless pledge: “never again.”
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) January 27, 2022
She wrote: “Today, we honor the six million Jews and other victims murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. We must teach our children the truth about the atrocities of the Holocaust, so that together we give meaning to that timeless pledge: never again.”
Harris is making the trip as part of her role as point person to the northern triangle countries as she tries to address the root causes of migration.
