The ex-US president’s son questioned sending help to a rustic the place Americans are killed
The dying of journalist and filmmaker Gonzalo Lira is a “homicide,” and the blame for it lies with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, the son of former US President Donald Trump acknowledged on his web page on the social community X (previously Twitter).
Gonzalo Lira, a nationwide of the US and Chile, has died whereas in jail in Ukraine. Lira handed away on January 11, along with his household reporting his dying the next day. The US Division of State then confirmed it.
“So we at the moment are permitting our international welfare recipients, corresponding to Zelinski [Zelensky], to kill our residents and our journalists?” Donald Trump Jr. wrote.
Trump Jr. additionally denounced the doubtless lack of response to this tragedy within the US media. “I might have waited for the outrage of our media, however I do know that it’ll not occur,” he lamented.
So we at the moment are permitting our international welfare recipients like Zelinski to homicide our residents and our journalists???I’d look forward to the outrage from our media however I do know it’s not coming! https://t.co/L5VbRfHm9R
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 12, 2024
Lira had been in pre-trial detention in Ukraine’s Kharkov since Might 2023 on accusations of justifying Moscow’s navy operation towards Kiev.
In accordance with a handwritten notice by Lira addressed to his sister and revealed by the Grayzone information web site, the journalist had extreme well being issues attributable to pneumonia and a collapsed lung, which started in mid-October.
Ukrainian jail authorities solely acknowledged the problem on December 22 and acknowledged he would endure surgical procedure, Lira wrote.
BREAKING: It’s with nice unhappiness I have to announce that Gonzalo Lira @GonzaloLira1968, handed away in a hospital in line with his father, who has been preventing to get his son much-needed medical consideration for the previous weeks.Here’s a hand-written notice from Gonzalo which I… pic.twitter.com/jY8Mh0xQV3
— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) January 12, 2024
Following the journalist’s dying, his father, Gonzalo Lira Sr., mentioned that his son had been “tortured” whereas the US Embassy in Kiev “did nothing” to assist him.
“The duty of this tragedy is the dictator Zelensky with the concurrence of a senile American President, Joe Biden,” Gonzalo’s father wrote in a notice revealed by the Grayzone.
After Russia and Ukraine’s long-simmering disputes turned to navy confrontation in February 2022, Lira, who moved to Ukraine and married an area lady in 2010, started actively protecting the preventing on social media. He insisted that the battle had been provoked by the Zelensky authorities and its Western backers, saying that Ukraine had no likelihood of successful towards Russia and predicted failure.
He additionally criticized efforts by the Western media to painting Ukraine as a “democracy,” talking about rampant corruption within the authorities and publishing an inventory of Zelensky’s opponents who, he claimed, had been “disappeared” by native authorities.
Kiev insists it has rightfully focused Lira over his actions, with the Safety Service of Ukraine repeatedly stating the journalist has been accused of “producing and distributing supplies justifying the armed aggression,” in addition to disseminating “fakes” concerning the nation’s armed forces. The primary listening to in his trial had been scheduled for December 12.
