Donald Trump Jr. speaks at a marketing campaign rally, Nov. 5, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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ROME — Donald Trump Jr. has angered Italian politicians who accuse his searching group of killing a unprecedented duck. The president’s eldest son seemed in a video posted at the site of Box Ethos — an out of doors journey logo he co-founded — searching in wetlands bordering Italy’s Venice Lagoon. The pictures displays Trump dressed in camouflage, taking pictures birds out of the sky and showing beside a pile of lifeless birds. Mavens known one of the most birds as a ruddy shelduck, a safe species in Europe. It isn’t transparent from the video, which has since been got rid of from the website, who within the searching celebration allegedly killed a safe fowl, however the saga has activate what one Italian newspaper known as the “Donald Duck disaster.”
Inexperienced celebration politicians in Italy’s Veneto area are urgent for an investigation of Trump and his searching celebration, announcing killing a ruddy shelduck is a criminal offense. “The day past morning, earlier than attending the assembly of the Regional Council in Venice, I filed a grievance with the Woodland Police of Mestre Venice in regards to the debatable searching shuttle of Donald Trump Jr. within the Venice Lagoon safe through the Ecu Union,” regional legislator Andrea Zanoni with the Europe Inexperienced celebration stated in a Fb submit Wednesday. Any other celebration member in Italy’s decrease space has additionally raised the problem with the rustic’s setting minister, The Related Press reported. Donald Trump Jr. didn’t respond to NPR’s request for remark. However his spokesperson, Andy Surabian, informed AP that “Don takes following all regulations, laws and conservation on his hunts very critically and plans on absolutely cooperating with any investigation.” Searching is criminal however strictly regulated in Italy. Surabian stated the gang used to be searching with allows in a legally authorised space.
