: Sen. Lindsey Graham is demanding answers on reporting that British International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan was accused of misconduct at the same time he was pursuing criminal charges against Israeli officials. 

‘Public reports indicate that allegations of harassment surfaced in early May – just a few days before Prosecutor Khan applied for arrest warrants against the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Israel for alleged violations of law during the defensive Israeli-Hamas War,’ Graham, R-S.C., wrote in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital. 

‘The timing of the allegations is troubling, and only compounds the other strong legal, jurisdictional, and prudential objections I have expressed regarding the Prosecutor’s decision to seek arrest warrants.’

On May 20, Khan requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif. All three Hamas leaders have been killed in the past year. 

Khan’s application was unprecedented – the first time the criminal court had sought arrests for Western-allied officials. 

Graham said that prior to Khan’s warrants, he along with a group of senators was working to urge Khan to ‘adhere to the Rome Statute’ and have a dialogue with Israeli officials before moving forward with their prosecution. 

On May 20, Khan was set to travel to Israel to meet with officials before deciding whether to move forward with the warrant requests. 

But he never showed up. 

He publicly announced his warrant requests without any warning to the Israelis who had planned to make their case against them, according to Graham. 

‘It has now come to my attention through media reports that Prosecutor Khan was facing allegations of misconduct around the same time, and the resolution of this matter remains a mystery,’ the senator wrote in the letter. 

‘The abrupt decision to cancel this visit to Israel, along with these contemporaneous allegations needs to be explained, and I request full transparency on the matter to ensure there is no conflict of interest.’ 

Graham said he was ‘shocked’ to learn Khan never showed up for his trip to Israel. 

‘It was a complete change of what we were told that was going to happen, and we never really understood what happened – never made sense to me.’ 

But last week, the Mail on Sunday reported that around the same time, a female employee with the court informed senior managers about harassment claims made by another female employee against Khan. The woman ‘was so upset she was in tears.’ 

The Independent Oversight Mechanism (IOM), which probes misconduct allegations by ICC employees, reportedly questioned the alleged victim, but she decided not to make a formal complaint. The IOM did not launch a formal investigation and recommended measures intended to ‘safeguard everyone’s rights.’  

‘I’ve never understood what led to such a change in position. So my concern is, did these two events have anything to do with each other?’ Graham questioned. 

‘We need transparency here. You know, is it a coincidence the guy is being accused of inappropriate conduct, and again, I have no idea if it’s legitimate or not, but just weeks later, there’s a change of course here.’

An annual report released by the IOM on Friday said that on May 3, the watchdog had been told about allegations that an elected official engaged in behavior that would breach the court’s harassment rules. It confirmed the woman ‘declined to pursue a formal complaint.’ She refused to explicitly confirm or deny to the IOM the allegations that had been reported by a third party. 

When asked for comment on the letter, the ICC prosecutor’s office referred Fox News Digital to comments Khan made to the Mail on Sunday: ‘I absolutely can confirm there is no truth to suggestions of misconduct.’

‘This is a moment in which myself and the International Criminal Court are subject to a wide range of attacks and threats. In recent months my family including my wife and child have also been targeted,’ Khan added. 

He said he would cooperate with the IOM if asked to do so. ‘I underline that I stand with any victim of sexual harassment or abuse and would encourage all survivors to raise their voice and come forward with such accounts wherever they may occur. I have always been supportive of a proactive approach in this regard.’

The court’s panel of judges has not yet issued the warrants. It took them only three weeks to issue the warrant for President Vladimir Putin’s arrest after Khan requested it following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

The U.S. and Israel are not party to the Rome Statute that founded the ICC 22 years ago and do not recognize its jurisdiction. Palestinians were granted membership in 2015. 

Since the court’s establishment in 2002, it has issued 55 arrest warrants in 32 cases. Twenty-one people have been detained and tried at The Hague while 26 remain at-large. 

Israel is also facing accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice in a case brought forth by South Africa. 

Despite the ICC prosecutor’s arrest warrant requests, Graham insisted that the international law body does hold an important role. 

‘There’s a place for the ICC. I mean, like Putin’s collapsed every legal system in Russia, truly is a despot.’

Graham added: ‘But bringing charges against the defense minister and the prime minister of Israel in the middle of a war for the survival of the Jewish people without even talking to them, canceling a meeting, just doesn’t pass the smell test. I want to know what the hell happened.’

This file has been updated to include the ICC prosecutor’s office’s comments. 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently contacted Elon Musk’s America PAC about its historic $1 million giveaway to swing-state voters after the agency was warned by lawyers who claimed that the initiative may be illegal.

On Monday, the DOJ was sent a letter from a ‘group of attorneys and public officials’ requesting an investigation into Ameria PAC’s payments to petition signers. The letter, which was obtained by the Washington Post, was addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland as well as Michelle Henry, the Pennsylvania attorney general.

‘We are a group of attorneys and public officials, including those who have served in senior legal and law-enforcement roles under every Republican president from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump,’ the letter reads. ‘We write to you today to request that you review payments that are being made by the Elon Musk-founded America PAC to voters in Pennsylvania and other states that experts say raise serious questions under applicable law.’

Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is offering $1 million a day to swing-state voters who sign his political action committee’s petition in support of the Constitution. Only voters in swing states are eligible.

‘The payments are framed as being made for signing, or referring others to sign, a ‘petition’ in support of the First and Second Amendments. But only registered voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina may receive payments,’ the lawyers’ letter says.

‘We are aware of nothing like this in modern political history… We urge you to investigate whether America PAC’s payments are prohibited payments for voter registration.’

Fox News Digital did an analysis of the initiative and found it to be in a legally gray area, and it also discovered that other similar initiatives in support of Democratic causes exist. 

The giveaway explicitly asks voters to sign a petition rather than register to vote, but the letter sent to the DOJ alleged the petition still encourages registering to vote.

‘We recognize that they are framed as payments for signing a petition, or for referring voters who sign,’ the lawyers argued. ‘But many of the payments are restricted to registered voters, so anyone who wishes to get paid must first register.’

The initiative was announced by Musk this week. The PAC plans to give away $1 million to one swing-state voter per day until Election Day.

‘Every day, from now through Nov 5, @America PAC will be giving away $1M to someone in swing states who signed our petition to support free speech & the right to bear arms! We want to make sure that everyone in swing states hears about this and I suspect this will ensure they do,’ Musk wrote on X on Sunday.

Fox News Digital reached out to America PAC for comment but did not immediately hear back. The DOJ declined to comment.

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.

Vice President Harris brought Hitler into the campaign in a brutal criticism of former President Trump, accusing him of seeking the same fealty from the US military that the German Wermacht swore to the fascist tyrant.

‘Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution,’ Harris tweeted Wednesday. ‘He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term, there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.’

In brief remarks Wednesday at the official vice presidential residence in Washington, Harris accepted the claim of former Trump White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who said Trump wanted ‘Hitler’s generals.’ Harris said her GOP opponent is ‘unhinged’ and seeks ‘unchecked power.’

‘It is clear from John Kelly’s words that Donald Trump is someone who, I quote, ‘certainly falls into the general definition of fascists,’ who in fact vowed to be a dictator on day one and vowed to use the military as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas,’ Harris said. ‘Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions.’ Kelly spoke to the New York Times and The Atlantic

Kelly, the retired Marine general who worked for Trump in the White House from 2017 to 2019, told the Times and The Atlantic that the Republican presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office, Trump suggested that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ‘did some good things.’

‘Donald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution,’ Harris said Wednesday. ‘He wants a military that is loyal to him. He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders, even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States.’ 

Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But Trump reacted via his Truth social media platform, referencing the persecution of Christians in Azerbaijan.

‘Kamala Harris did NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced in Artsakh. Christians around the World will not be safe if Kamala Harris is President of the United States. When I am President, I will protect persecuted Christians, I will work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan.’

In a separate post, he called Kelly a ‘total degenerate’ who has ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome.’

Harris also targeted Trump’s remarks describing an ‘enemy from within.’ The Democratic nominee said it was ‘deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous’ that Trump ‘would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans.’ 

‘Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there, and no longer be there to rein him in,’ Harris said of Trump possibly being re-elected on Nov. 5. ‘The bottom line is this: We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be, what do the American people want?’ 

Kash Patel, who served several roles in the Trump administration, reacted to Harris’ remarks, defending the 45th president’s record as commander-in-chief after Kelly’s disparaging interviews. 

‘They want to call him Hitler and print out more disinformation,’ Patel said. ‘I guess that’s all they got because Kamala Harris could have brought the hostages home right now in Israel from a war she started with $7 billion she gave to Iran, and she hasn’t brought home any of them. She started two more world wars.’ 

Patel said he observed Trump ‘withdraw out of multiple theatres of conflict,’ ‘a commander-in-chief who brought home over 50 hostages and detainees from around the world, more than any president before him combined,’ and how Trump attended almost every dignified transfer and ‘spent countless hours with the families of the fallen’ and give them the needed financial assistance. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin convened more than two dozen countries to discuss a ‘new world order’ free from Western hegemony and the global dominance of the U.S. dollar. 

From Tuesday to Thursday, some two dozen members will descend on Kazan, Russia, for this year’s BRICS Summit — offering Putin his biggest global platform since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. 

By reducing reliance on the dollar, the alliance hopes to evade sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the West.

‘The dollar is being used as a weapon,’ Putin said at the summit. ‘We really see that this is so. I think that this is a big mistake by those who do this.’ 

In a pivotal move, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the summit to showcase their hopes for a more harmonious relationship after decades of cross-border strife. 

It came days after China and India agreed to a deal meant to bring to a close their four-year military standoff over the disputed Himalayan region. 

‘Russia-China cooperation in international affairs is one of the main stabilizing factors in the world,’ Putin told Xi at the summit. 

Meanwhile, India has been propping up Russia’s economy by purchasing discounted oil that has been sanctioned by much of the rest of the world. 

BRICS — which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — was an idea thought up by Goldman Sachs analysts to describe the growing economic hegemony of China and other emerging markets.

The group is rapidly expanding: Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia joined in January. Turkey, Azerbaijan and Malaysia formally applied — Turkey being the first NATO member to take an interest in the group. Pakistan has also expressed an interest in joining the group.

The alliance now makes up half of the world’s population and 35% of global output. 

Some member states like Egypt receive U.S. military aid and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosts U.S. military bases. 

Russian officials already view the three-day summit as a massive success: Putin’s foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said 36 countries confirmed participation and 24 will send representatives. 

Russia is also courting more nations to join a payment system that would serve as an alternative to SWIFT, which has been used to sanction Russian officials by the West.

While Russia is pushing an anti-western agenda at the summit, members like Brazil, India and South Africa want a less combative tone. They believe the alliance should be used to tailor international institutions to meet the needs of the Global South. They believe they could work to reform the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to serve the needs of the developing world. 

Creating an alternative to SWIFT would require BRICS-based currencies and financial institutions to conduct international business — and so far BRICS members have not presented a clear plan to replace the dollar. 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an address to the summit that BRICS must act as more than a ‘dialogue club,’ and said that 15 years after the creation of the alliance, many of its goals remain unfulfilled. 

He tore into the West’s increasingly frequent threat of sanctions. 

‘Over more than three decades since the collapse of the bipolar system, it has become increasingly clear that from the perspective of Western powers, peace, democracy, prosperity, and development can only be achieved through pathways defined by them,’ he said.

‘This monopolistic outlook has resulted in increased violence, war, and terrorism on the one hand, and unprecedented use of economic and political sanctions on the other.’

Dollar assets currently comprise around 59% of global foreign currency reserves, down from 70% in 1999. 

Former President Donald Trump has promised ‘100% tariffs’ on nations that snub the U.S. dollar, arguing that losing the dollar as the world currency would be like ‘losing a war.’ 

‘I was a user of sanctions, but I put them on and take them off as quickly as possible, because ultimately it kills your dollar, and it kills everything the dollar represents. And we have to continue to have that be the world currency. I think it’s important. I think it would be losing a war, if we lost the dollar as the world currency,’ he told the Economic Club in New York in September. 

‘That would make us a Third World country. You’re losing Russia. China is out there trying to get their currency to be the dominant currency.’

Former President Donald Trump hit back at remarks made by Vice President Harris on Wednesday in which she compared the Republican presidential nominee to Adolf Hitler while referencing comments made by a former Marine general who served under the Trump administration.

During a press conference Wednesday at the official vice presidential residence in Washington, Harris amplified the claim of former Trump White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who said Trump wanted ‘Hitler’s generals.’ 

Harris said her GOP opponent is ‘unhinged’ and seeks ‘unchecked power.’

‘It is clear from John Kelly’s words that Donald Trump is someone who, I quote, ‘certainly falls into the general definition of fascists,’ who in fact vowed to be a dictator on day one and vowed to use the military as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas,’ Harris said.

Harris also took to social media on Wednesday to further push her rhetoric, comparing Trump to Hitler.

‘Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution,’ Harris tweeted Wednesday. ‘He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term, there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.’

Trump responded to Harris’ remarks while also attacking Kelly’s reputation.

‘Thank you for your support against a total degenerate named John Kelly, who made up a story out of pure Trump Derangement Syndrome Hatred! This guy had two qualities, which don’t work well together. He was tough and dumb,’ Trump wrote. ‘The problem is his toughness morphed into weakness because he became JELLO with time! The story about the Soldiers was A LIE, as are numerous other stories he told.

‘Even though I shouldn’t be wasting my time with him, I always feel it’s necessary to hit back in pursuit of THE TRUTH,’ he added. ‘John Kelly is a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to MOVE ON! His wife once told me, at Camp David, John admires you tremendously, and when he leaves the Military, he will only speak well of you. I said, Thank you!’

Trump’s campaign provided a statement to Fox News Digital on the matter.

‘Kamala Harris is a stone-cold loser who is increasingly desperate because she is flailing, and her campaign is in shambles. That is why she continues to peddle outright lies and falsehoods that are easily disproved,’ Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung said. ‘The fact is that Kamala’s dangerous rhetoric is directly to blame for the multiple assassination attempts against President Trump, and she continues to stoke the flames of violence all in the name of politics. She is despicable, and her grotesque behavior proves she is wholly unfit for office.’ 

Billionaire Elon Musk commented about Harris’ post on X, saying, ‘Major incitement to violence against @realDonaldTrump.’

Kelly, a retired Marine general who worked for Trump in the White House from 2017 to 2019, told the New York Times and The Atlantic that the Republican presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist, and while in office, Trump suggested Hitler ‘did some good things.’

Earlier in the day, Trump called Kelly a ‘total degenerate’ who has ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome.’

Trump also took digs at Harris earlier in the day.

‘Kamala Harris did NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced in Artsakh,’ he wrote. ‘Christians around the World will not be safe if Kamala Harris is President of the United States. When I am President, I will protect persecuted Christians, I will work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan.’

Fox News Digital’s Danielle Wallace and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

So, back in 2007, in written testimony to Congress, DA Kamala Harris showed herself capable of some truly inspired argumentation. There was only one problem — that inspiring language wasn’t hers. See, when she wasn’t just lifting a wine glass, she was lifting all those sentences. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Kamala’s statement in support of a loan repayment plan for local prosecutors was taken almost verbatim from an Illinois DA’s opinion on the same subject that was given to the Senate months prior. 

Roughly 80% of her testimony was copied word for word from that old guy over there — Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, who, by the way, is a Republican. Holy s***. That’s like me stealing jokes from Jimmy Kimmel. I’d never do that, not because he’s my competition, but because he has cancer of the funny bone. But that’s not the only time she committed stolen verbiage. While she was California AG, she published a report on sex trafficking in her state. In that, she copied a fictional, fictional example of the type of call received by the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which told the story of how a woman in D.C. was saved from forced prostitution. 

But in a report, Harris never said the story was fake. Instead, she changed the location to San Fran to get credit for a rescue that never actually happened. There are other examples, but this is at least the second time Harris has been caught in a blatant act of plagiarism. She’s the literary version of a smash and grabber. Remember Kamala, anything under 900 words and you won’t get charged.

The language is exactly the same line after line. Harris even kept the typos and grammar errors. She didn’t even try to make her theft look like her own. I mean, maybe it’s because she loves rap, and she considers it more like sampling. But it’s weird, you know, that none of this is surprising, perhaps because her only concrete policy proposal, no taxes on tips, she stole from another Republican, her opponent. So, in light of the fact that nothing Kamala says gives you any idea of what she believes, is it any surprise that less than two weeks out from Election Day, even Rachel Levine is asking, who the hell is this woman? 

Now, all of this comes on the heels of a report that Kamala lifted entire sections of her policy book, Smart on Crime. Who knew she was actually talking about herself stealing? Even The New York Times, which initially rush to defend her, finally had to admit her thievery. But the real point isn’t Kamala’s serial plagiarism, it’s how in the past this would end a campaign. It would lead every newscast. This would be the October surprise. I mean, this is way worse than what sunk Joe Biden in ’87 when he was caught stealing speeches from a British leader. And worse, it was this guy he stole it from.

PICTURE OF MR BEAN

But also, Harris has no core principles or any non-core principles. Her head is as empty as her husband’s balls after nanny season. There is a nanny season… she grew up in a middle-class family that was pretty well-off. She’s an American that spent her formative years in Canada. And she’s going to save democracy after she plotted a coup against her boss. I don’t even know what Doug sees in her since she won’t put him down for a nap. In fact, she might be the least honest politician ever. Listen to her on the Biden decline cover-up.

NBC NEWS REPORTER: Can you say that you were honest with the American people about what you saw in those moments with President Biden as you were with him again and again repeatedly in that time?

VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Of course. Joe Biden is an extremely accomplished, experienced and and capable.

REPORTER: You never saw anything like what happened at the debate night behind closed doors with him?

KAMALA HARRIS: It was a bad debate.

REPORTER: Can the American people trust you in these moments, even when it’s maybe uncomfortable for Americans to have… To level with Americans in that way?

KAMALA HARRIS: I speak with not only sincerity, but with a real firsthand account of watching him do this work. I have no reluctance in saying that.

Our apologies, that should have come with bongos.

VIDEO OF KAMALA HARRIS SPEAKING WITH BONGOS PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND

It always makes more sense. Incredible. But like the conveyor belt at the manure factory, the load of crap keeps coming. Listen to her on transgender laws.

REPORTER: Do you believe that transgender Americans should have access to gender affirming care in this country?

KAMALA HARRIS: I believe we should follow the law. I mean, I think you’re probably pointing to the fact that Donald Trump’s campaign has spent tens of millions of dollars… 

REPORTER: They’re trying to define you on this. I’m asking you to define yourself, though. Just broadly speaking, what is your value? Do you believe they should have that access?

KAMALA HARRIS: I believe that people, as the law states, even on this issue about federal law.

What horse****. The reporter even set up the question as a pro-trans layup and she still threw a brick, as if she actually has no impact on the law. And remember, there are other laws she doesn’t follow, like the 25th Amendment.

You know, you thought Biden was an empty vessel? He’s got nothing on this broad. Fact is, we really don’t know what this woman stands for. Maybe that’s the point.