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(BERLIN)– An American tourist was killed and another was injured when they were attacked by an American man they met near the famous Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany, authorities said Thursday.
The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon in the German state of Bavaria near the Marienbruecke, a pedestrian bridge popular for its stunning view of Neuschwanstein. Nestled on the edge of the Bavarian Alps, the 19th-century palace was the inspiration for the castle in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Two women, ages 21 and 22, met a 30-year-old man on a hiking trail east of the bridge who then lured them onto a path that led to a viewpoint, according to a statement from the Bavarian State Police.
The man then “physically attacked” the younger woman, police said. When the other woman tried to intervene, the man choked her and pushed her down a steep slope. He then apparently attempted to sexually assault the 21-year-old before also pushing her down the slope. Both women fell nearly 50 meters (165 feet), according to police.
A mountain rescue service from the nearby town of Fuessen rescued both women. The 22-year-old was injured but responsive and taken to a hospital. The 21-year-old suffered serious injuries and was airlifted to a hospital, where she died overnight, police said.
The suspect had left the scene but was arrested close by soon after, according to police.
Although the names of the suspect and the victims have not yet been released, a Bavarian State Police spokesperson confirmed to ABC News that all three were American tourists.
The suspect appeared before a judge in the nearby town of Kempten on Thursday and was ordered to be held in jail pending a potential indictment. He is under investigation on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and sexual offense, according to police.
Police have called for any witnesses to come forward as they continue to investigate the alleged attack.
(NEW YORK) — Federal prosecutors in New York said they would drop several criminal charges, at least for now, against disgraced crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried if the judge agrees to try him later on those charges.
The offer to sever five of the 13 charges followed a ruling earlier this week in the Bahamas that allows Bankman-Fried to challenge the additional charges.
A prosecutor said during a hearing Thursday it was uncertain when the Bahamas would decide whether to consent to the new charges, which included bank fraud and an allegation Bankman-Fried bribed the Chinese.
“Severing those counts seems to be appropriate given the developments in the Bahamas this week,” the prosecutor, Nathan Rehn, said.
Bankman-Fried, who has pleaded not guilty, is scheduled to stand trial in October. Rehn said prosecutors would not proceed with the new charges unless the government of the Bahamas consented.
Bankman-Fried was extradited from the Bahamas on eight criminal charges stemming from the collapse of FTX, the crypto-exchange he founded. He has argued the U.S. government breached its extradition treaty with the Bahamas by filing additional charges against him months later, including bank fraud and an allegation he paid a $40 million bribe to the Chinese government to unfreeze a trading account.
“We think dismissal of those counts would be the better outcome,” defense attorney Marc Cohen said.
The judge did not immediately rule.
“I’m not going to rule on this now,” Judge Lewis Kaplan said. “I’m going to give it a little more thought.”
The defense asked the judge to dismiss an original charge that accused Bankman-Fried of violating campaign finance laws, arguing that count also violated the extradition treaty. The charge said Bankman-Fried improperly donated tens of millions of dollars to mainly Democratic and some Republican candidates.
Prosecutors said Bankman-Fried lacked standing to make the argument because the decision to move forward with the charge involved diplomatic policy.
“It’s a matter of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the Bahamas,” Rehn said. “It was an understanding of all the parties involved that this was part of the extradition.”
Bankman-Fried is broadly accused of misappropriating billions of dollars in customer and investor money from FTX in what prosecutors have described as one of the biggest financial frauds ever. He has been free on bail, confined to his parents’ home in Palo Alto and restricted in his use of the internet.
(NEW YORK) — Three of America’s top female athletes have suffered life-threatening complications while giving birth.
Now, the two athletes who survived giving birth, Olympic gold medalists Allyson Felix and Tianna Bartoletta, are speaking out to shine a spotlight on the Black maternal health crisis in the United States as they mourn the loss of their teammate, Tori Bowie.
Bowie, 32, was found dead in her home last month near Orlando, Florida. Authorities said Bowie was eight months pregnant and had been in labor when she died.
An autopsy report released this week found that Bowie’s death was “natural,” noting that possible complications included respiratory distress and eclampsia.
Eclampsia is a medical emergency that happens when a pregnant woman with preeclampsia develops seizures, which can lead to coma or death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bowie won a gold medal at the 2016 Olympics alongside Felix and Bartoletta as a member of the 4x100m U.S. relay team.
In reaction to Bowie’s cause of death, Bartoletta shared a post on Instagram noting that three of the four members of that gold medal-winning relay team “have nearly died or died in childbirth.”
“Why? Black women have the HIGHEST maternal mortality rate. 3 times higher than white women,” Bartoletta wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of the teammates celebrating their 2016 Olympic win. “And the more educated the black woman, the higher her mortality rate becomes.”
Bartoletta added that when she went to the hospital last year after going into labor with her son at 26 weeks pregnant, she was “NOT AT ALL confident that I’d be coming home.”
“We went to the hospital with my medical advance directive AND my will. Additionally I had a VERY tough conversation with @cwryaniii about who to save if it came down to it,” Bartoletta wrote, referencing her partner Charles Ryan.
Felix, who also faced a potentially deadly experience when she gave birth to her daughter in November 2018, commented on Bartoletta’s post, writing, “It’s heartbreaking.”
“We continue to face a maternity mortality crisis in this country. Black women are at risk. It’s why I won’t stop doing this work,” Felix wrote. “We can’t sit by and continue to watch our loved ones die when many of these complications are preventable. Standing with you T.”
Felix, now 37, has said publicly in the past that just before giving birth to her daughter Camryn, she was diagnosed with severe preeclampsia, high blood pressure that typically occurs in women after the 20th week of pregnancy, according to the CDC.
Felix’s condition was discovered during a routine prenatal visit. She was immediately admitted to the hospital and underwent an emergency C-section, after which her daughter spent a month in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
“Looking back, I wish I would have been better informed about potential warning signs and talked to the doctor about those symptoms,” she said in 2021, when she joined the CDC’s “Hear Her” campaign, which works to create public awareness of the warning signs of pregnancy emergencies. “I really want women to have information, to know if they’re at risk, to have a plan in place, to not be intimidated in doctor’s offices and to feel empowered to speak up when they have concerns.”
While eclampsia is more rare, preeclampsia, a condition of high blood pressure and kidney damage during pregnancy, is common, affecting as many as 1 in 25 pregnancies in the U.S., according to the CDC.
As Black women, both Felix and Bowie are among the population most affected by preeclampsia, data shows.
According to the Preeclampsia Foundation a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, the rate of preeclampsia is 60% higher among Black women than white women, and Black women are more likely to develop severe preeclampsia.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists also lists being Black as among the “moderate risk” factors for preeclampsia, a condition for which the exact cause is not known.
Bowie, Felix and Bartoletta, as Black women, are also in the highest risk category for death due to pregnancy-related complications.
In the U.S., Black women and Native American women are two to three times as likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause as white women, according to the CDC. Across all races, the U.S. has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, with around 700 women dying each year as a result of complications due to pregnancy.
Despite having one of the world’s most advanced health care systems, the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality among developed nations and the rate has steadily risen for nearly 40 years, according to the CDC.
In 2021, the Biden administration issued a “nationwide call to action” on the maternal health crisis in the U.S. That same year, President Joe Biden issued the first-ever presidential proclamation for Black Maternal Health Week.
In late 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched an action plan to combat the high rates of pregnancy-related complications and deaths. The plan set out three key targets aimed at improving maternal health by 2025: reducing the maternal mortality rate by 50%, reducing low-risk cesarean deliveries by 25% and controlling blood pressure in 80% of reproductive age women.
(LONDON) — Women diagnosed with breast cancer in England are living longer than they would have 20 years ago, new research by Cancer Research UK and the University of Oxford has found.
The research found that the proportion of women surviving early-stage breast cancer has improved “substantially” since the 1990s.
In the 90s, women diagnosed with early-stage invasive breast cancer had a 14% risk, on average, of dying within five years of diagnosis. But women diagnosed with the same today have a “less than 3%” risk of dying from breast cancer within the first five years of diagnosis, the study found.
This means that over 90% of women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer today will survive the disease for five years or more, according to the study.
“Our study is good news for the overwhelming majority of women diagnosed with early breast cancer today because their prognosis has improved so much,” said Carolyn Taylor, lead author of the study and Professor of Oncology at Oxford Population Health. “In the future, further research may be able to reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer even more.”
The study examined routine data from the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service of 512,447 women in England diagnosed with early-stage invasive breast cancer between Jan. 1993 to Dec. 2015. They found that the prognosis for women has “improved substantially” and that “most [women] can expect to become long term cancer survivors,” the study said.
The study also focused on women with early-stage breast cancer who were “initially treated with surgery,” but excluded those who were diagnosed with multiple cancers or those whose cancer had already spread.
“The prognosis for patients with breast cancer has improved, and that improvement is dramatic,” said Dr. David Dodwell from Oxford University’s Department of Population Health. “Our general feeling that things are getting better has been confirmed and, not only that, we can probably be more optimistic than we had dared to hope.”
Experts say some of the gains may boil down to better disease tracking and earlier diagnosis. Evidence, however, also shows that early detection, increased breast cancer screening as well as advancements in treatments surgery and radiotherapy are all factors that accounted for the increased survival rates.
Cancer Research UK, which funded the study, described the findings as “heart-warming.”
The study did find, however, that for a few women, the risk of death remained “appreciable.”
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), breast cancer is the first or second leading cause of female cancer deaths in 95% of countries worldwide. There are an estimated 2.3 million breast cancer cases annually, making it the most common cancer among adults.
“Countries with weaker health systems are least able to manage the increasing burden of breast cancer,” said WHO Chief Tedros Ghebreyesus. “It places a tremendous strain on individuals, families, communities, health systems and economies so it must be a priority for ministries of health and governments everywhere.”
(WASHINGTON) — The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, hit a milestone on Thursday, 11 years after it first began.
As the White House touts how DACA has helped support young immigrants who they say have become valuable members of society, some of those same DACA recipients are speaking out as their fate remains in limbo, given the years of legal challenges and controversy around the program.
In written and taped statements first shared with ABC News, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris marked the DACA anniversary by praising the contributions of the young immigrants, sometimes referred to as “Dreamers,” who were shielded from deportation.
Biden and Harris also again called on Congress to provide those people with long-term protections through immigration reform — something Congress has been unable to agree on for years, despite bipartisan interest in the issue.
Under DACA, young people without legal authorization to be in the U.S. were able to work in the country without imminent threat of removal.
“Dreamers are Americans. Many have spent the majority of their lives in the United States. They are our doctors, our teachers, and our small business owners. Dreamers strengthen our economy, enrich our workplaces, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, many served their communities on the frontlines,” Biden said in his statement.
On Thursday night, Biden plans to host a film screening for DACA recipients, lawmakers, civil rights leaders and others and will give remarks “celebrating the contributions and culture of the Latino community” while “once again call[ing] on Congress to send him a bill that creates a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers,” a White House official said.
DACA began in 2012, during the Obama administration, and has since covered more than 800,000 immigrants. According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, there are nearly 600,000 current DACA holders.
In her video released on Thursday, Harris said “the story of Dreamers is the story of America.”
“The DACA program has made it possible for hundreds of thousands of Dreamers to live, work and thrive in America. For the benefit of America. So, today, on the 11th anniversary of DACA. President Biden and I again declare: We will not rest until Congress provides all Dreamers permanent protections, including a pathway to citizenship,” Harris said in the video, which also features several DACA recipients.
Requirements for obtaining DACA include having entered the country before age 16 and having lived in the U.S. prior to 2007. Passing a background screening, fingerprint and other education and identity requirements is also necessary. Applicants must re-register for the program every two years.
Since its inception, DACA has faced a barrage of challenges and current recipients are bracing for an imminent federal court ruling out of Texas that could upend their lives.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, who previously ruled that DACA is unlawful, is expected to once again rule on the legality of the program after the Biden administration took steps to codify it into administrative law in order to better protect it from lawsuits.
A coalition of mostly Republican-led states have challenged the program, arguing in part that it imposes economic harm and that DACA being initiated by a president exceeded the White House’s power.
“Our lawsuit is about the rule of law, not the wisdom of any particular immigration policy … Left intact, DACA sets a dangerous precedent by giving the executive branch sweeping authority to ignore the laws enacted by Congress and change our nation’s immigration laws to suit a president’s own policy preferences,” the Texas attorney general has said.
Hanen sided with the states in 2021, citing “the hardship that the continued operation of DACA has inflicted on them.”
However, Hanen allowed current recipients to continue their status while the appeals process plays out but barred new applicants from joining.
Aurora Chavez, 24, was brought to the U.S. when she was 10 months old and was in the process of applying for DACA when Hanen issued his 2021 ruling. She told ABC News that without the ability to legally work without a fear of deportation, she has been unable to provide for her siblings, one of whom has leukemia.
“I am physically able to do many things, and I can’t even do it because I feel held back from many opportunities,” she said.
At a hearing in early June, lawyers representing DACA recipients argued that the states challenging the program were not accounting for the economic contributions that hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers” have made after being able to enter the workforce, become homeowners and integrate into society. The attorneys also argued the program is lawful because of executive discretion.
Attorneys for MALDEF, one of the co-litigators in the case representing DACA recipients, told reporters in late May that they expect Hanen’s ruling to be appealed and that the case may end up before the Supreme Court.
As federal authorities continue a crackdown on unauthorized immigration to deter many asylum-seekers at the southern border, the population of immigration detention centers has more than doubled since Biden took office. The number of people in immigration detention recently hit about 30,000, marking a 40% increase since the end of pandemic-era measures used to justify fast-track border protocols to remove migrants.
The state of immigration detention underscores the stakes for those who could face deportation if DACA ends.
ABC News spoke with two of the defendant-intervenors in the DACA case who say the anniversary is a bittersweet celebration: a chance to reflect on their accomplishments while facing the possibility that the program will go away.
Jung Woo Kim, co-director of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium, arrived in the U.S. from Korea when he was 15 years old. He said he chose to get involved in the case because of his sense of obligation to himself and to other recipients whose livelihoods are now at risk.
“If someone tries to take away what you have, what are you going to do? You’re going to do your best to defend it,” he said.
Jung Woo, now 38, said the fear of losing his DACA status has prevented him from starting a family. His mother also suffers from a disability and his ability to financially provide for her is on the line if DACA ends, he said.
Karina Ruiz, also 38, is the executive director of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition. She said she’s fighting for the program that has allowed her “to take a breath in the middle of a storm.”
As a young grandmother, she said her fight is not only about her but the generations that follow.
“It shouldn’t matter where you were born,” she said. “That’s something we can’t control.”
(NEW YORK) — A New Jersey jury ruled unanimously in favor of a former Starbucks employee who sued the company for wrongful termination, claiming that she was fired for being white.
Shannon Phillips, a former regional director for the chain, claimed in a lawsuit first filed in 2019 that “her race was a determinative factor” in Starbucks’ decision to fire her in the wake of a 2018 racial firestorm.
After a six-day trial, the jury returned a verdict, ordering the coffee giant to pay $25.6 million in settlement money, including punitive and compensatory damages, according to Phillips’ attorneys.
In April 2018, two Black men — Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson — were arrested while waiting for a business meeting after an employee called 911 and accused the men of trespassing after they refused to make a purchase or leave the store. The arrests sparked nationwide protests and prompted Starbucks to close some of its stores for a day for racial bias training.
Robinson and Nelson reached a private settlement with Starbucks, as well as with the city of Philadelphia, which vowed to pay the men each $1 and promised a $200,000 investment into programs that support aspiring young entrepreneurs, according to the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office.
Less than a month after the arrests, Phillips was notified of her termination, despite claiming that she wasn’t at the store that day and was not involved in the arrests in any way.
According to court documents, Starbucks claimed Phillips “appeared overwhelmed, frozen and lacked awareness of how critical the situation was for Starbucks and its partners” and that “all actions taken by Starbucks with respect to Ms. Phillips were for legitimate, nondiscriminatory, non-retaliatory reasons.”
Phillips, who had been employed by Starbucks for nearly 13 years at the time of her termination, claims she “actively worked” on “crisis management” efforts and “took steps to ensure that the retail locations within her area were a safe and welcoming environment for all customers, regardless of race,” according to her 2019 civil complaint.
Attorney Channa Lloyd, an ABC News contributor and a managing partner of The Cochran Firm, told ABC’s Good Morning America, “Starbucks wasn’t necessarily under legal pressure but they were under public pressure to act and to show that they were open to everyone of every race and origin and to show that they were not going to allow racism to foster within their organization.”
During the trial, key testimony came from a Black district manager at Starbucks who testified via Zoom that he thought Phillips’ race played into Starbucks’ decision to fire her and that his race was a reason why he was not terminated, according to a statement provided to ABC News from Phillips’ attorney.
Phillips’ attorney also told GMA, “Starbucks chose not to terminate the District Manager of the store where the arrests took place, who was Black, but instead terminated his White supervisor, Ms. Phillips.”
“Other companies are definitely going to have to be much more thoughtful and clear about why they’re exercising terminations when they’re faced with this type of situation,” Lloyd added about the impact of the settlement decision.
ABC News reached out to Starbucks but the company declined comment.
(NEW YORK) — More severe weather is slamming the U.S. on Thursday, with residents from Florida to Kansas bracing for impact.
The states in the bull’s-eye are Kansas and Oklahoma, where extreme winds, huge hail and a few tornadoes are possible.
Other cities bracing for storms Thursday include Dallas; Jackson, Mississippi; Mobile, Alabama; and Tallahassee, Florida.
A tornado watch has been issued in southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
This comes after Wednesday storms brought massive hail and powerful winds to Mississippi and at least 10 reported tornadoes to Texas, Alabama and Georgia.
And on Friday, a threat of hail and damaging winds will stretch from Colorado to Florida, including Little Rock, Arkansas; Jackson; and Montgomery, Alabama.
(NEW YORK) — The seal of approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on meat and poultry you see at the grocery store may soon carry more weight thanks to an update to labeling guidelines for meat producers that will more rigorously verify how animals were raised.
The government agency announced a new multi-step effort on Wednesday for the first time since 2019 in which the Food Safety and Inspection Service will raise the bar on its requirements for producers’ claims about how animals were raised.
Terms that appear on labels such as “grass-fed” and “free-range,” which are voluntary marketing claims, must now be approved by the Food Safety and Inspection Service before being put on a label.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said consumers should be able to trust what they infer when picking a product with a USDA mark of inspection.
He added that the USDA is taking the new steps “to ensure the integrity of animal-raising claims and level the playing field for producers who are truthfully using these claims, which we know consumers value and rely on to guide their meat and poultry purchasing decisions.”
The agency said in a press release that it has “received several petitions, comments, and letters from a wide range of stakeholders asking the agency to reevaluate its oversight of animal-raising claims, specifically, how they are substantiated.” That also applies to the accuracy of “‘negative’ antibiotics claims” such as “raised without antibiotics” or “no antibiotics ever.”
In partnership with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, the Food Safety and Inspection Service will start “a sampling project to assess antibiotic residues in cattle destined for the ‘raised without antibiotics’ market,” to help inform whether FSIS should require that laboratory testing results be submitted for that claim or start a new verification sampling program.
The FSIS will also issue a new industry guideline for companies to strengthen any documentation they submit to the agency to further substantiate those animal-raising claims.
The agency said it also plans to “strongly encourage use of third-party certification to verify these claims.”
This action comes on the heels of other efforts from the USDA to protect consumers from false or misleading labels as part of President Joe Biden’s executive order on promoting competition in the American economy.
(NEW YORK) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced on Thursday morning he is running for president, challenging Donald Trump for the Republican nomination.
Suarez told co-anchor George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview on ABC News’ Good Morning America he represents “generational change,” but he repeatedly avoided answering about Trump’s indictment or whether he had done anything wrong.
The 45-year-old mayor filed paperwork on Wednesday declaring his candidacy for president, making him the third candidate from Florida to jump into the race and the only Latino GOP candidate in the field.
(NEW YORK) — The indictment of former President Donald Trump on federal charges last week has elicited outcry from many of his prominent supporters in Washington D.C., who have denounced the prosecution as politically motivated or downplayed the alleged crimes.
While many of Trump’s top allies in the business community have largely remained quiet, some of Trump’s supporters in the private sector spoke with ABC News, offering a range of views about the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith and the alleged crimes.
The business allies also weighed in on whether the indictment would affect plans for further donations to the Trump campaign, and explained why they believe many of their peers haven’t spoken out.
Trump faces 37 counts tied to what prosecutors said were the mishandling of classified documents and the obstruction of an investigation into the alleged misconduct. The classified documents at issue, according to the indictment, included information about nuclear programs and potential national security vulnerabilities.
Taken together, the charges could bring decades in prison if found guilty. Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in court. Following the arraignment, the former president criticized Smith and falsely claimed that he was able to keep classified documents under the Presidential Records Act.
John Catsimatidis, a New York-based billionaire who donated at least $600,000 in support of Trump’s 2020 and 2016 presidential campaigns, downplayed Trump’s alleged misconduct but affirmed the legitimacy of the court proceeding.
Speaking about the federal charges against Trump, Catsimatidis belittled the case as “nickel and dime.”
Still, Catsimatidis said he trusts the court system to adjudicate the charges against Trump.
“Let it go through the system,” said Catsimatidis, the owner of the grocery store chain Gristedes.
Stan Pate, whose Alabama-based company BPH Properties made a $500,000 donation in support of Trump in November, forcefully denounced the federal charges against Trump and vowed to bolster his support for Trump’s candidacy if he is found guilty.
The charges amount to a “complete outrage,” said Stephen Moore, who served as an economic adviser for Trump’s 2016 campaign.
However, Moore said that he is “not a lawyer.”
“No one is above the law,” added Moore, a fellow in economics at the right-leaning Heritage Foundation. “I can’t assess whether he violated this law or that law.”
As with some prominent Republican elected officials, Catsimatidis and Pate said the indictment was political.
There is no evidence that Biden influenced the decision to charge Trump. For his part, Smith was a federal prosecutor for nearly 10 years, and oversaw the DOJ’s public integrity section, where he investigated members of both parties.
Hours before Trump’s indictment became public, Biden said Americans should trust the Department of Justice, despite attacks from Trump and others.
“I have never once, not one single time suggested to the Justice Department what they should do or not do relative to bringing a charge or not bringing a charge,” Biden said.
Catsimatidis and Pate both said the indictment would not affect their decision-making about future donations in support of Trump.
Pate, who was set to attend a meet-and-greet event with Trump at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey on Tuesday night, said he will “certainly be donating to his campaign in the future.”
If Trump is found guilty of federal crimes in the documents case, Pate said he would “double down.”
“If you believe in somebody and have confidence in him, why would you abandon him and take away your support,” Pate added. “I might triple down.”
Catsimatidis, who donated more than $100,000 in support of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, said contributions are the “cost of doing business.”
“I donate money because when I pick up the phone and call people, I like them to answer the phone,” Catsimatidis said.
The indictment is unlikely to affect donations from staunch backers of Trump, Candice Nelson, a professor of government at American University and academic director of The Campaign Institute, told ABC News.
“If they’re strong supporters of Trump, they’ll believe what he’s telling them,” Nelson said.
ABC News contacted more than two dozen current and former allies of Trump within the private sector about the indictment, including many who have offered him economic policy advice and donated millions of dollars in support of his presidential campaigns.
Most of the backers declined to comment or did not reply.
When asked why most of Trump’s business allies passed up an opportunity to comment on the indictment, Catsimatidis said: “They’re scared stiff.”
“There are very few people,” he added. “who are willing to stand up and say that it’s right or it’s wrong.”
Most major Trump donors, Moore said, have not spoken publicly about the indictment because they “don’t want to be front and center on this kind of controversy.”
“They want to stay behind the scenes,” Moore added.
