Donald Trump, Jr., accused Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy of killing U.S.-Chilean journalist Gonzalo Lira, whose death in a Ukrainian prison became known on Jan. 12. The U.S. State Department confirmed his death on Jan. 12, and Trump, Jr., tweeted the same day: “So we are now allowing our foreign welfare recipients, such as Zelinski [sic], to kill our citizens and our journalists??? I’d wait for the outrage from our media but I know it’s not coming!”
Lira’s father, Gonzalo Lira, Sr., had said earlier, in a note published by Grayzone on Jan. 12, that his son had been “tortured” while the U.S. Embassy in Kiev “did nothing” to help him, and that the “responsibility of this tragedy is the dictator Zelenskyy with the concurrence of a senile American President, Joe Biden.”
