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Newsweek
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Israel Embassy Shooting Suspect Donated to Joe Biden, Records Indicate
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Elias Rodriguez, the 30-year-old who police believe was responsible for the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy employees by a Jewish museum in Washington D.C., appears to have made a donation to President Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. On Wednesday evening Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, identified as Israeli embassy employees by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, were shot dead at the Washington D.C. Capital Jewish Museum. Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith identified the suspect as Rodriguez. She said he had been taking into custody at the museum after the shooting and chanted "free Palestine." An individual named Elias Rodriguez donated $500 to the 'Biden for President' campaign committee on March 11, 2020, according to a Federal Election Commission filing. The individual gave their address as 3132 N Kimball Ave., which is in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood. This is the same neighborhood that an 'Elias Rodriguez' lived in, according to his profile on the website of the HistoryMakers, a nonprofit that says it is committed to "preserving and making widely accessible the untold personal stories of both well-known and unsung African Americans." On Thursday morning the Rodriguez account on the HistoryMakers website was removed. A man, standing behind police tape, talks on his cellphone outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. A man, standing behind police tape, talks on his cellphone outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP/GETTY According to a LinkedIn account, an individual named 'Elias Rodriguez' worked as a "Production and Logistics Coordinator & Oral History Researcher" at the HistoryMakers between March 2023 and July 2024. On the Federal Election Commission form Rodriguez said his employer was CouponCabin, where he worked as a senior content associate. This matches the Rodriguez LinkedIn account, which says they worked as a "Senior Content Associate & Training Coordinator" at CouponCabin between February 2019 and April 2022. Newsweek has not independently verified that the 'Elias Rodriguez' LinkedIn and HistoryMakers accounts belong to the same individual who carried out the Washington D.C. shooting, though there is a visual resemblance in the photographs of the suspect arrested and the profiles. CouponCabin is a Chicago founded company which provides online coupon codes to its users. Newsweek has contacted Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, the Chicago Police Department, the AOIA and the HistoryMakers for comment on Thursday outside of regular office hours via telephone, email and online inquiry form. Speaking to WAGA-TV one eyewitness said they saw the suspect being arrested inside the museum after the shooting. They said: "The security guard happened to let this guy in. I guess they were thinking and he was covered in rain, he was clearly in trauma, he was in shock, and some of the people in the event brought him water, they sat him down. 'Are you O. K.? Were you shot? What happened?' He's like, 'Somebody call the cops.' "So about 10 minutes later when the cops actually came in he said, 'I did this,' he said, 'Sir I'm unarmed,' he put his hands up he grabbed a red kaffiyeh out of his pocket and started the free Palestine chants. You know, 'there's only one solution, intifada revolution' and he was being dragged out of the building as he was yelling 'free Palestine'."
CBS News
15-04-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to make "Fighting Oligarchy" tour stop in Folsom
FOLSOM — Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are crisscrossing western states for what they're calling a "Fighting Oligarchy" tour . Each stop on the tour has attracted massive crowds. On Monday, 24 hours before Sanders and AOC were expected to speak in Folsom, crews were quickly setting up the stage at Folsom Lake College's athletic track. Shirley Toy is busting out her 2016 "Bernie Sanders for President" shirt to wear at the event, which she hopes will inspire people struggling to make ends meet no matter their political party. "His message crosses Independents, Democrats, and Republicans," Toy said. Sanders supporter Philip Kim will be at the rally, too. "This is about getting more people to stand up, I think, against the monied interests that are corrupting both parties," Kim said. The Sanders-AOC tour saw massive crowds in L.A. over the weekend. Tour stops are also hitting red states like Utah, Arizona, Montana, and Idaho. Republican Strategist Tab Berg said the messaging to get more people to vote against President Donald Trump in the mid-term elections may backfire. "Well, the wokey tour is going to certainly be popular with the hard core of their base," Berg said. "I think, for the most part, the wokey tour is speaking to the wokey base and that is going to alienate the Democratic Party even further from the mainstream electorate." The event at Folsom Lake College was moved from Auburn because of the anticipated size of the crowd, which is expected to top 10,000 people. The city of Folsom leaned Democrat in the presidential election; Harris beat Trump by several thousand votes. Admission to the event is free, but you do have to RSVP.
New York Times
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Henry Fonda for President' Review: A Legend and His Contradictions
Henry Fonda was inarguably one of the greatest actors ever produced by the United States. The Austrian filmmaker Alexander Horwath pushes this self-evident truth further in his purposefully expansive documentary 'Henry Fonda for President.' The movie convincingly posits that Fonda was, cinematically, the embodiment of America itself. Horwath has gathered a vast amount of archival material from film, television, radio and more to make his case. We hear not just from Fonda himself, but from Peter and Jane, the Fonda children who followed in Henry's professional footsteps. But the fulcrum from which Horwath mostly focuses his view of Fonda is a 1981 interview with the journalist Lawrence Grobel for Playboy magazine; Horwath plays sections of the tape throughout. Fonda sounds in rough shape, his distinctive Midwestern twang subsumed by rasp. He's also in a bad mood. His crankiness is bracing and sad. He would die the next year. The movie travels across the United States, taking us to significant places in both Fonda's life and filmography, beginning with the actual village of Fonda in upstate New York. Henry was a descendant of that town's founder, who was killed and scalped in a raid by the Mohawk tribe there. Horwath concludes that Fonda is playing his own ancestor in John Ford's 'Drums Along the Mohawk.' The documentary later shows Robert De Niro's mohawk haircut in 'Taxi Driver,' threading that with an old TV ad in which Fonda extols the virtues of a viewer toy to that film's co-star Jodie Foster. These connections have plentiful entertainment value, but Howarth knows they signify more than just trivia: Their threads make up the fabric of American culture, such as it is.
