President Donald Trump sparked much commentary on Monday with his online response to the murders of Hollywood director and producer Rob Reiner &#8212; a vocal Trump critic, who called for the president&#8217;s indictment &#8212; and his wife.
Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were reportedly stabbed to death at their Los Angeles home over the weekend. The couple&#8217;s 32-year-old son, Nick, has been arrested in connection with the brutal attack, according to <a href="https://pagesix.com/2025/12/15/celebrity-news/rob-reiner-and-wife-micheles-son-nick-arrested-for-murder-in-parents-stabbing-deaths/">Page Six</a>.
&#8220;A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS,&#8221; the president wrote in a post on Truth Social.
&#8220;He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;May Rob and Michele rest in peace!&#8221;
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Many conservatives responded to the post by voicing their disappointment with Trump&#8217;s comments, while some others underscored Reiner&#8217;s repeated attacks on Trump, which included calls for the president to be indicted and framing the president as an enemy of democracy.
&#8220;What happened last night to Rob Reiner and his wife was a savage butchering of 2 human lives,&#8221; activist Robby Starbuck said. &#8220;I don’t care what their politics were or how they felt about Trump, no law abiding human deserves this. We should pray for + send condolences to his loved ones and NOT make it political.&#8221;
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What happened last night to Rob Reiner and his wife was a savage butchering of 2 human lives. I don’t care what their politics were or how they felt about Trump, no law abiding human deserves this. We should pray for + send condolences to his loved ones and NOT make it political. <a href="https://t.co/WK99n8zVWF">https://t.co/WK99n8zVWF</a>
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/2000585470531543297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered,&#8221; GOP Rep. Thomas Massie (R) posted. &#8220;I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.&#8221;
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Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it. <a href="https://t.co/j3dvzRxLQJ">pic.twitter.com/j3dvzRxLQJ</a>
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2000597616674193616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
Conservative Allie Beth Stuckey wrote on X, &#8220;With Trump, you could either get a really sweet, compassionate moment like when he heard that [late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg], who hated him, died, or you could get the kind of post he put out about Rob Reiner. Hard to ever know what to expect.&#8221;
&#8220;I really appreciated Reiner’s kind words when Charlie [Kirk] was murdered,&#8221; Stuckey added. &#8220;What a tragedy for his family. May they be comforted and may justice be swift.&#8221;
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When Kirk was assassinated, Reiner <a href="https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2000422293294707079">said</a> what happened &#8220;should never happen to anybody &#8212; I don&#8217;t care what your political beliefs are. That&#8217;s not acceptable, that&#8217;s not a solution to solving problems.&#8221;
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With Trump, you could either get a really sweet, compassionate moment like when he heard that RBG, who hated him, died, or you could get the kind of post he put out about Rob Reiner. Hard to ever know what to expect. I really appreciated Reiner’s kind words when Charlie was…
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) <a href="https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/2000641788135051489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
Others highlighted some of Reiner&#8217;s comments about Trump and suggested outrage from the Left was performative.
&#8220;Rob Reiner called for Trump to be jailed over lies,&#8221; Jack Posobiec <a href="https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/2000617242342617545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">said</a>. &#8220;Not surprised Trump said what he said.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m not going to participate in the fake outrage at President Trump for his response to Rob Reiner,&#8221; Trump advisor Alex Bruesewitz wrote on X. &#8220;Rob Reiner called for Trump to be arrested and charged with treason, a crime punishable by death. He was quite nasty toward the President. Regardless, RIP!&#8221;
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I’m not going to participate in the fake outrage at President Trump for his response to Rob Reiner.
Rob Reiner called for Trump to be arrested and charged with treason, a crime punishable by death.
He was quite nasty toward the President.
Regardless, RIP!
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexbruesewitz/status/2000623949693010351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
Reiner called Trump “mentally unfit” to be president and “the single most unqualified human being to ever assume the presidency of the United States.” He also <a href="https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/rob-reiner-president-trump-is-clearly-a-criminal-62375493933">said</a> the president was &#8220;clearly a criminal&#8221; and called for him to be indicted.
In 2022, Reiner <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/30/rob-reiner-claims-trump-directly-responsible-attack-paul-pelosi-calls-indictment/">said</a> Trump was &#8220;100% responsible&#8221; for a physical attack on Paul Pelosi and the January 6 Capitol breach, adding that Trump “must be indicted and never be allowed to hold office.”
More recently, Reiner claimed Trump could bring “full-on autocracy” to the United States. He also said Trump was cracking down on First Amendment rights and &#8220;has declared war on this democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;He throws people out of the country without due process,&#8221; Reiner claimed. &#8220;He takes funds that were appropriated by Congress, refuses to distribute them, in clear contradiction to the Constitution, the separation of powers.”
Reiner also released a documentary in 2024 that focused on the rise of &#8220;Christian Nationalism&#8221; as a threat to democracy. The theme was largely tied to Trump.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rob-reiners-son-charged-in-brutal-slayings-bail-set-at-4-million">Rob Reiner’s Son Arrested In Connection With Brutal Slayings, Bail Set At $4 Million</a>

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Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old son of the late director Rob Reiner, has been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of both of his parents, according to a report published Monday by <a href="https://pagesix.com/2025/12/15/celebrity-news/rob-reiner-and-wife-micheles-son-nick-arrested-for-murder-in-parents-stabbing-deaths/">Page Six</a>.
Nick Reiner, who has a lengthy history of drug addiction, was arrested and is currently being held at the Parker Center Jail in downtown Los Angeles, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. His bail was set at $4 million.
The news broke on Sunday that the Oscar-nominated director, 78 — known for iconic films like &#8220;When Harry Met Sally&#8221; and &#8220;A Few Good Men&#8221; and cult classics like &#8220;This Is Spinal Tap&#8221; and &#8220;The Princess Bride&#8221; — and his wife of more than 35 years, Michele Singer Reiner, 68, had been found dead in their Brentwood home that afternoon.
Later reports confirmed that the couple was found by their daughter, Romy, 28, who quickly called authorities to the scene and tipped them off that her brother may have been involved. Reiner and his wife had lacerations that an early TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/15/rob-reiner-wife-michele-throats-slit-family-member-argument/">report</a> said were &#8220;consistent with knife wounds,&#8221; but later updates stated that they had both had their &#8220;throats slit&#8221; by their attacker.
The family released a statement, saying, “It is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner. We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time.”
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Rob and Michele Reiner had three children together since they wed in 1989: Jake, 34; Nick, 32; and Romy, 28.
In the hours that followed the news of their murder, several family friends were seen in the vicinity of their home. Actor and comedian Billy Crystal, a longtime friend of the Reiners, was seen outside the home, as was fellow actor and comedian Larry David.
Actor Cary Elwes, who starred as Westley in &#8220;The Princess Bride,&#8221; shared a photo of two directors&#8217; chairs — one bearing his name and the other Reiner&#8217;s — with the caption, &#8220;No words.&#8221;
Others noted that Reiner, who was often at odds with conservatives over politics, had been very gracious in the aftermath of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
&#8220;Rob Reiner responded with grace and compassion to Charlie&#8217;s assassination. This video makes it all the more painful to hear of he and his wife&#8217;s tragic end. May God be close to the broken hearted in this terrible story,&#8221; TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet posted, sharing <a href="https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2000422293294707079">video</a> of the moment he&#8217;d discussed Kirk&#8217;s murder with host Piers Morgan.

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Director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday, and police are investigating what they are now calling an &#8220;apparent homicide.&#8221;
Authorities were reportedly called to the home earlier in the afternoon, and at approximately 3:30 p.m. local time, the Los Angeles Fire Department discovered a deceased male and a deceased female. Their approximate ages matched those of Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, 68.
The LAPD issued a brief statement, revealing only that the case would be handled going forward by the Robbery Homicide Division (RHD): &#8220;At this time, no further details are available as this is an ongoing RHD investigation, into an apparent homicide.&#8221;
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Later reports determined that the two deceased individuals were, in fact, Reiner and his wife.
Sources told <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/14/rob-reiner-wife-michele-found-dead-los-angeles-home/#continued">entertainment site TMZ</a> that both Reiner and his wife had lacerations that were consistent with stab wounds. The outlet later <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/15/rob-reiner-wife-michele-throats-slit-family-member-argument/?adid=braze-browser-notification">reported</a> that the couple &#8220;had their throats slit by a family member.&#8221;
People magazine <a href="https://people.com/rob-reiner-wife-michele-were-killed-by-son-sources-11868856">reported</a> on Sunday evening — citing multiple unnamed sources — that the couple had been killed by their 32-year-old son, Nick, who had struggled for years with addiction.
Reiner, the son of the late comedian Carl Reiner, forged his own career in comedy and in Hollywood. While he initially rose to fame as Archie Bunker&#8217;s son-in-law Mike Stivic — or Meathead – on the 1970s sitcom &#8220;All in the Family,&#8221; Reiner expanded his Hollywood legacy by directing a slew of iconic films.
Reiner&#8217;s film career spanned decades as he turned out cult classics like &#8220;This is Spinal Tap&#8221; and &#8220;The Princess Bride&#8221; in addition to blockbusters like &#8220;Stand By Me,&#8221; &#8220;A Few Good Men,&#8221; and &#8220;When Harry Met Sally.&#8221;
He was also a political activist, advocating for leftist causes.
Reiner and Michele Singer married in 1989 and were together for more than 35 years. The Oscar-nominated director was previously married to the late director Penny Marshall, who also starred in &#8220;Laverne &amp; Shirley.&#8221;
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Suspected assassin Luigi Mangione reportedly pumped his fist in court on Monday, as video footage rolled allegedly showing officers finding a loaded magazine in his backpack.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/luigi-mangione-pumps-fist-court-police-body-cam-allegedly-reveals-loaded-magazine-found-inside-wet-underwear">According</a> to Fox News, Mangione pumped his fist while sitting in a Manhattan courtroom as body cam footage being played showed Altoona police officer Christy Wasser searching the suspect&#8217;s backpack and allegedly finding a magazine with bullets wrapped in wet underwear.
&#8220;There was another magazine hidden in his underwear,&#8221; Wasser says on the video. Another person then says, &#8220;it&#8217;s f***ing him,&#8221; Fox reported.
The footage was taken inside a McDonald&#8217;s, where Mangione was found after a days-long, nationwide manhunt. The Ivy League grad was then the only suspect in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Mangione was charged last year with stalking and murdering Thompson. The CEO, a father of two, was shot from behind while walking toward a New York City hotel to attend a corporate investor conference for UnitedHealthcare last December. 
Prosecution claims Thompson was targeted over the suspect’s grievances with the health insurance industry, citing a “manifesto.” Additionally, recovered shell casings included the inscriptions “delay,” “deny,” and “depose.”
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Mangione, who has pleaded not guilty on all counts, is facing life in prison for a state case against him, and potentially the death penalty if he’s convicted in a federal case. 
Currently, the 27-year-old is in week two of a pretrial evidentiary hearing for the state case. His lawyers are asking that key evidence be suppressed in the trial, arguing that the evidence was found on Mangione without a warrant and before Mangione was read his Miranda rights. The evidence in question is crucial to the case, including the 9mm handgun allegedly matching the murder weapon, and a notebook that prosecutors say contains writings revealing Mangione’s motive for the assassination. 
Mangione&#8217;s team also wants statements tossed that the suspect made to police, which they say were made before Mangione was read his Miranda rights.
The state is arguing that the search of Mangione’s backpack was lawful and not unreasonable since officers needed to search the suspect’s bag over safety concerns, to make sure there were no weapons or dangerous items on Mangione when they found him at the McDonald&#8217;s.
The prosecution also argues that Mangione spoke to them voluntarily and before he was in formal custody, so the Miranda requirement doesn’t apply. They also note that the only statement they plan to use is when officers asked Mangione for his name, and he allegedly gave a false name in response.
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We are at a critical moment in our shared history. A moment that calls for moral clarity and an unwavering commitment to justice. 
Christians around the globe are facing a genocide. And while President Donald Trump champions religious liberty in Syria after hosting the former al-Qaeda fighter-turned-president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, and declares <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/trump-deserves-credit-for-focus-on-nigerian-christians/">Nigeria</a> a “country of particular concern” because of the slaughter of Christians, we cannot be naive.
Christian persecution is already here in America. Our nation is becoming a dangerous place for faithful believers to live.
We must stand up now for the persecuted not only as individuals but as a united front for our brothers and sisters around the world.
Policymakers, churches, and ordinary citizens have a moral responsibility to ensure our nation remains a beacon of hope and freedom for all, especially those persecuted for their faith.
I know something about persecution and the price of freedom. I grew up in Communist Romania, where the freedoms we now experience in America were stolen from its citizens. Speaking the truth meant imprisonment, torture, and even death. The government sought to control every thought, every word, every breath. That’s why I became a political refugee and found a new home in America in 1988.
A <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/new-poll-74-worry-americans-could-lose-our-freedoms-were-not-careful">2024 Cato Institute survey</a> found that nearly 74% of Americans worry that if we’re not careful, Americans could lose their God-given freedoms and liberties. An out-of-control regime can gradually build persecution against Christians, making small, incremental changes that could go unnoticed until it is too late. I know. I lived it.
In Communist Romania, Nicolae Ceaușescu’s regime controlled religious organizations by appointing loyal leaders, restricting activities, and nationalizing properties. Atheism was promoted through education and propaganda, portraying Christianity as outdated. Religious groups faced pressure to align with state policies, with non-compliance leading to imprisonment, job loss, or death.
The legacy of this persecution continues to shape the religious landscape in Romania today.
While the extent and nature of persecution differ significantly between Communist regimes and contemporary American society, there are parallels in the experiences of marginalization, pressure to conform, and struggles for expression. The challenges faced by Christians today often manifest initially in social and cultural pressures rather than outright physical persecution. And we are beginning to see signs of it here.
That’s why I’m joining the “<a href="https://www.washingtonpolicyinstitute.org/events/persecuted-and-prevailing-addressing-christian-persecution-in-the-modern-world/">Persecuted and Prevailing”</a> panel on December 4, 2025, at the Museum of the Bible to promote the truth, amplify our voices, and push for legislative action to support Christians.
As a human rights attorney in Communist Romania, I defended Christians, experiencing firsthand America’s crucial support. Congressmen Frank Wolf and Christopher Smith met with me often to discuss my cases, raising awareness among U.S. policymakers and the public about Romania’s dire situation. Their efforts drew media attention to the plight of Romanian Christians under the thumb of Communism, creating urgency for supporting persecuted believers.
Wolf’s actions shaped U.S. foreign policy to prioritize religious freedom, and the global impact included co-sponsoring the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ281/PLAW-114publ281.pdf">International Religious Freedom Act</a> (IRFA) of 1998, which established a framework to combat religious persecution worldwide and monitor and recommend policies. The Congressman also backed resolutions condemning persecution in Iran, Sudan, North Korea, and China, reinforcing human rights as a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy.
Now it’s our turn to carry the torch forward. Citizens who have the freedom to advocate for change must pressure policymakers to strengthen global religious liberty.
We are the voice for the persecuted who suffer in silence worldwide. If we fail to speak about oppression, like what I and many others endured in communist Romania, it will most certainly take root here. This generation needs to understand the fragile nature of freedom and the courage it takes to preserve it.
Using our voice and Constitutional rights to petition our government is the only way to protect our freedom and stand for truth. If we don’t use our voice today, we risk being silenced tomorrow.
When truth is distorted, freedom fades. Pray for discernment in a world clouded by lies. Live boldly, speak the truth in love, for true freedom flows from God’s presence, which has been with America since its founding. Remember, if God’s presence fades, so will our freedom.
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<a href="https://www.virginiaprodanbooks.com/">Virginia Prodan</a> is an international human rights attorney, best-selling author of the memoir “<a href="https://virginiaprodanbooks.com/get-the-book-2/">Saving My Assassin</a>,” and host of the “<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/courageous-leadership-with-virginia-prodan/id1590554517">Courageous Leadership with Virginia Prodan</a>” podcast. She serves as an ambassador on the President’s Council for National Religious Broadcasters, a member of the Advisory Board of the American Christian Leaders for Israel, and an Allied Attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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In a Manhattan courtroom this week, justice caught up with two Russian mobsters who tried to carry out a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-russian-mob-leaders-sentenced-25-years-prison-murder-hire-targeting-journalist-behalf">murder-for-hire</a> on behalf of the Iranian regime in New York City.
Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov — professional criminals with ties to the Russian underworld — each <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/mobsters-get-25-year-sentences-in-iran-backed-murder-for-hire-plot-of-masih-alinejad/">received 25-year sentences</a> for plotting to kill Iranian-American dissident and journalist Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home. Their mission: silence her voice for speaking truth about the brutality of the Islamic Republic. Their pay: a promised $500,000 in what prosecutors called “blood money.”
The case, as Judge Colleen McMahon put it, was “difficult” and “uncomfortable.” Presiding over the Southern District of New York, the Clinton-appointed judge told the defendants they had attempted to &#8220;take a human life for no reason at all,” before reminding the courtroom that Alinejad and her family will live with the repercussions “for the rest of their lives.”
The plot began unraveling in 2022 when the would-be hitman, Khalid Mehdiyev — an Azerbaijani-born mobster working at a Bronx pizza shop — was arrested sitting outside Alinejad’s house with an AK-47, 66 rounds of ammunition, and a ski mask. He had been caught on Alinejad’s home security footage pacing through her yard, taking photos of her porch as proof for the men who had contracted him. When officers finally pulled him over, Mehdiyev turned informant. He told prosecutors that Amirov and Omarov had sent simple orders: “Shoot the journalist. Kill the journalist.”
It was a scheme that, if successful, would have been executed on behalf of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps — the terror arm of a regime that still chants “Death to America” while plotting its enemies’ deaths in the United States. Ruhollah Bazghandi, a senior Revolutionary Guard official, allegedly orchestrated the plot from Iran. He remains at large — a reminder that Tehran continues to direct murder attempts abroad while the West drags its feet on accountability.
Alinejad, who faced her would-be assassins in court, captured the bitter irony of her story. “Because of these criminals, I have to watch over my shoulder,” she said. Yet she walked out of court calling justice “beautiful.” Outside, she reflected, “Once upon a time, a little girl in Iran was taught to shout Death to America so loud the White House would shake. Life’s irony: the same country she was told to hate gave her a second life.  Yes, her adopted country, America, arrested the killers sent by her birth country, Iran to murder her in her sunflower garden in New York and sentenced them to 25 years in prison 💃🏻✌️ From Iran to the United States of America, this is the story of freedom, survival, and truth that can’t be silenced.”
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Once upon a time, a little girl in Iran was taught to shout Death to America so loud the White House would shake. 
Life’s irony: the same country she was told to hate gave her a second life. 
Yes her adopted country, America arrested the killers sent by her birth country, Iran to…
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Her statement wasn’t mere sentiment — it was a testament to the moral chasm between a free nation and a regime built on fear. McMahon rejected prosecutors’ call for a 55-year sentence but gave both men the maximum 10 years on the murder-for-hire count — plus additional time for money laundering and conspiracy. The judge emphasized fairness: “It is not fair that Ms. Alinejad should live in constant fear,” she said. Fairness, in this case, cost two foreign agents of tyranny 25 years of their lives.
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Alinejad’s activism made her a target long before this plot. A former journalist turned reformist icon, she has spent years urging Iranian women to remove their hijabs and reject the regime’s religious coercion. That defiance “enraged the regime,” prosecutors said, spurring Iran’s agents to strike where they least expected resistance — inside the United States.
Yet Alinejad’s defiance remains unbroken. Appearing on CNN with Jake Tapper, she said she was “excited” to see justice served. “I was nervous to see them face-to-face, but seeing a female judge — this is the dream we are fighting for in Iran.” She spoke for countless Iranians silenced or killed for far less. “I said to the court that this is not about me,” she recalled. “They didn&#8217;t want just to kill me. They wanted to kill freedom of speech because my platform with more than 10 million followers just echoing the voice of millions of Iranians who say no to forced hijab and no to Islamic Republic, and that&#8217;s why they wanted to kill me.”
Her warning to Washington was direct: “Negotiation or talking to this regime is not going to save the lives of Americans.”  It was a warning backed by history. In 2021, federal prosecutors foiled a separate Iranian plot to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/four-iranians-charged-plotting-kidnap-author-living-brooklyn-n1273890">kidnap Alinejad</a> from her Brooklyn home and return her to Iran — a chilling preview of the regime’s reach. At the time, she told reporters that police stood guard outside her residence daily. “It’s a weird feeling,” she said. “I’m so not used to being protected by the police. This wouldn’t have happened in my homeland.”
Hillel Neuer of UN Watch, who attended the sentencing, noted Iran’s fear of her words: “Tyrannical regimes always fear the truth.”
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I came to the court in New York to show full solidarity with my friend Masih Alinejad who was targeted for assassination by the Islamic regime in Iran. She speaks out for women’s rights and exposes their oppression. They fear her words. Tyrannical regimes always fear the truth. <a href="https://t.co/HYY4rfcyB9">pic.twitter.com/HYY4rfcyB9</a>
&mdash; Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1899512226890809631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Russian Mobsters Get 25 Years For Iranian Regime’s Plot To Kill Dissident On American Soil

Iran’s Hitmen Jailed: Russian Mobsters Get 25 Years For Plot to Kill Dissident Masih Alinejad

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The mother of Lola Daviet, a 12-year-old French girl who was kidnapped, raped, and beheaded by a migrant from Algeria, said her husband “died of grief” after their daughter’s murder.
The horrific crime occurred in France in October 2022. Lola’s mother testified at trial last week that her husband, Johan, began drinking heavily after her killing and was tormented by “his demons.” Johan died in February 2024.
Dhabia Benkired, 27, is the first woman in French history to receive a life sentence in prison. Benkired was working as a prostitute and had overstayed her student visa when she decided to commit murder after getting in a fight with her boyfriend.
Benkired admitted that she told herself, “I’m going to hurt someone,” and picked Lola as her target. She lured the young girl into her apartment by having her help carry a suitcase. She proceeded to sexually assault her, saying the little girl begged, “Madam, please don&#8217;t hurt me,” and sounded “scared,” per <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15219213/French-girl-Lola-12-raped-murdered-Algerian-woman-begged-dont-hurt-brutally-killed-court-hears.html">The Daily Mail</a>. 
“All the hatred I had inside me, I took it out on her&#8230; Either way, I knew she was going to die,” Benkired said during her testimony. “It&#8217;s not that I wanted to kill her, but that I wanted to hurt someone. But since I had raped her, I might as well kill her.”
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Lola had 38 stab wounds and was both vaginally and anally penetrated. Her cause of death was determined as asphyxia.
Benkired stuffed Lola’s mutilated and partially decapitated body into a plastic trunk and walked around Paris with it, including taking it into a restaurant, before she abandoned it in the lobby of the apartment complex where it was discovered by a homeless man.
The convicted murderer apologized for her “horrible actions” at the trial, saying, “I know I killed a baby, an angel.”
Before he died, Johan had hung a letter on the door of Benkired’s apartment addressed to his murdered child.
“My darling, I still don&#8217;t understand why there was so much cruelty and barbarity towards you, you who were so kind,” the letter said. “I can&#8217;t wait to see you again. Your dad, who loves you for life.”

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An Ohio man who was convicted in the high-profile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/verdict-delivered-in-death-of-ethan-liming-teen-beaten-to-death-outside-i-promise-school">beating death of 17-year-old Ethan Liming</a> has been released from prison, and was arrested and charged this past week in a different murder.
Deshawn Stafford, 24, has been charged with murdering Timothy Hutchinson, a 25-year-old Ohio man who was working as an engineer in his hometown. Hutchinson was reportedly struck unintentionally during an exchange of gunfire allegedly between Stafford and another individual.
In addition to the murder charge, Stafford is facing charges of felonious assault, discharging a firearm on a public roadway, having a weapon while under disability, drug trafficking, and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, the Akron Beacon Journal <a href="https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/crime/2025/10/23/deshawn-stafford-24-arrested-in-connection-to-akron-shooting-death/86854916007/">reports</a>.
A <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/timothy-eugene-hutchinson">GoFundMe</a> for Hutchinson set up by the victim&#8217;s sister says Hutchinson graduated from the mechanical engineering program of University of Akron less than a year ago.
&#8220;To my brother, his family and friends meant everything,&#8221; Rachel Hutchinson wrote. &#8220;He was stolen from us due to senseless violence.&#8221;
Rachel said her brother &#8220;was an individual who truly never meant another human harm,&#8221; adding that &#8220;[o]ne of his final moments was him bending over asking, &#8216;Can I pet dat dawg?'&#8221;
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Just two years ago, Stafford was found guilty of aggravated assault and assault in the brutal beating death of Liming, who was 17 years old. He was sentenced to just 18 months behind bars.
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Stafford was initially hit with murder charges, but the charges were eventually reduced. Additionally, Stafford&#8217;s short sentence, along with the leniency shown to the others charged in the case put a spotlight on the incident and the criminal justice system. Liming is white and the three charged in the brutal killing are black.
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Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, who drew attention to the Liming case in 2023, posted on Friday about Stafford&#8217;s latest alleged murder.
&#8220;Two year[s] ago this piece of garbage, Deshawn Stafford, assaulted and killed a white kid named Ethan Liming,&#8221; Walsh posted. &#8220;He was sentenced to just 18 months in prison. Now he has killed another person, 25-year-old Timothy Hutchinson.&#8221;
&#8220;When will we have had enough of this?&#8221; he added. &#8220;How long will our communities be held hostage by these barbarians?&#8221;
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Two year ago this piece of garbage, Deshawn Stafford, assaulted and killed a white kid named Ethan Liming. He was sentenced to just 18 months in prison. Now he has killed another person, 25-year-old Timothy Hutchinson. When will we have had enough of this? How long will our… <a href="https://t.co/b4UvU8AdoF">pic.twitter.com/b4UvU8AdoF</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1981759927824658623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/verdict-delivered-in-death-of-ethan-liming-teen-beaten-to-death-outside-i-promise-school">Verdict Delivered In Death Of Ethan Liming, Teen Beaten To Death Outside I PROMISE School</a>

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By all accounts — including his own — 36-year-old roofer Joe Gonzales was an evil human being who deserved to die. In 1992, in the state of Texas, Gonzales murdered a 50-year-old building contractor who supposedly owed him $200. Gonzales robbed the man and attempted to make his death look like a suicide. But it wasn&#8217;t a very convincing defense, because people who kill themselves normally don&#8217;t rob themselves after they do it. At trial, Gonzales told the jury, “I am a man who has no regard for the law. I am a man who has no regard for humanity.&#8221;
Within just twelve minutes, in November of 1995, the jury <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/19/us/on-death-row-10-months-man-is-executed.html">convicted</a> Gonzales and recommended the death penalty.
If you had to guess how long it took Joe Gonzales to actually be put to death, what would you say? What&#8217;s the approximate timeframe for how long you think Joe Gonzales sat on death row, before he was finally executed?
Maybe you&#8217;re thinking this is a trick question, and that the answer is: He was never actually executed, he&#8217;s still on death row, appealing the jury&#8217;s decision, to this day. That&#8217;s normally how death penalty cases go. We all know that. But in this case, surprisingly enough, Joe Gonzales was indeed put to death. And he was put to death very quickly, relatively speaking. Just ten months after the jury recommended the death penalty, in September of 1996, Joe Gonzales was executed by lethal injection. It was the fastest execution in U.S. history since Gary Gilmore was executed in Utah in 1977 by firing squad, just three months after he was convicted of two murders.
The reason both of these men were executed so quickly is that, unlike most death penalty defendants, they weren&#8217;t interested in dragging the process out. They didn&#8217;t have any interest in appealing their sentences. So they allowed the government to proceed with the executions, without undue delay. And the government obliged. Left to their own devices, without any frivolous appeals, states like Texas and Utah were able to dispense justice in a reasonable timeframe.
This is not ancient history. We&#8217;re not talking about executions in colonial New England, or anything like that. In modern America, it&#8217;s entirely possible to put violent criminals to death, promptly. One of the key steps we need to take, as these cases demonstrate, is to get rid of the idea that death penalty defendants are entitled to an automatic appeal. These appeals can take decades to resolve. They&#8217;re almost always unnecessary.
But ever since the 1970s, because of a Supreme Court decision, these appeals have been mandatory (unless the defendant waives them). As a result of this decision by the Supreme Court, the average time that inmates spend on death row has ballooned.
<div id="attachment_989217" style="width: 799px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-989217" class="wp-image-989217 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Chart-Death-Row-789x576.jpg" alt="Source: Death Penalty Information Center" width="789" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Chart-Death-Row-789x576.jpg 789w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Chart-Death-Row-300x219.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Chart-Death-Row-768x560.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Chart-Death-Row-1360x994.jpg 1360w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Chart-Death-Row.jpg 1362w" sizes=" (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px" />Source: Death Penalty Information Center</div>
In the 1980s, as you can see here, the average time spent on death row was around 74 months. Now it&#8217;s over 260.
So it didn&#8217;t take long, after the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in 1976, for everything to slow down. They introduced mandatory appeals, and now inmates are spending three times as long on death row.
<div id="attachment_989223" style="width: 779px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-989223" class="wp-image-989223 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Death-Penalty-age-769x576.jpg" alt="Source: Death Penalty Information Center" width="769" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Death-Penalty-age-769x576.jpg 769w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Death-Penalty-age-300x225.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Death-Penalty-age-768x575.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Death-Penalty-age.jpg 1370w" sizes=" (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px" />Source: Death Penalty Information Center</div>
Along the same lines, as you&#8217;d expect, there&#8217;s also been a dramatic change in the average age of a defendant who&#8217;s executed on death row. In 1975, the average age was 36. In 1980, the average age was 24.
By 2005, the average age was up to 44. Now it&#8217;s over 50. In fact, more than 570 prisoners on death row are over the age of 60, as of 2019. Back in 1996, that number was just 39.
Some elderly prisoners — like Vernon Madison in Alabama — are spending so much time on death row that they&#8217;re developing dementia and having strokes, which makes them ineligible for the death penalty because they&#8217;re supposedly &#8220;incompetent to be executed.&#8221; Yes, that&#8217;s an actual category of inmate. You might argue that competence is kind of irrelevant for the death penalty. You don’t need to be competent. You don’t need to do anything but die. But this is the system we have now. Even if you were competent to stand trial, it&#8217;s possible for you to lose your mind on death row. And then you go back to general population, as a confused vegetable, while the victim&#8217;s family wonders when they&#8217;re going to get the justice they were promised. This is supposedly the &#8220;humane&#8221; solution, according to the Supreme Court. We need an absurd amount of appeals and bureaucratic wrangling, lasting years and years, before we can actually execute anyone.
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Keep in mind, the Supreme Court made this decision in an era before advanced DNA evidence, modern ballistics techniques, or widespread video surveillance. The general sentiment, at the time, was that innocent people might be convicted and sent to death row. So therefore, because evidence wasn&#8217;t robust, we supposedly needed mandatory appeals, to make sure that innocent people weren&#8217;t executed.
But that&#8217;s not the case any more.
Most death penalty cases are similar to the murder of Iryna Zarutska.
It’s an important case, even amid all of the other things happening in the country. And we cannot forget what happened to her.
That’s why I want to give a brief update on the case and tell you what’s going on with it now. The answer, as we’ll see, is that nothing is going on. There is no update. No movement at all. And that’s the point.
Now, of course, there is no doubt whatsoever as to who is responsible for Iryna&#8217;s death. The killer in this case has more than a dozen prior arrests. He committed the crime on camera, as we all remember. In a just society, the man responsible — Decarlos Brown Jr. — would be given a speedy trial, under our Constitution, and then put to death.
That&#8217;s true even if you buy his defense, which is that he was &#8220;mentally ill&#8221; in some way. But really, the defense is nonsense. This is a surveillance photo from the light rail, a second or so after he stabbed and mortally wounded Iryna. It&#8217;s the photo you&#8217;ve probably seen many times before.
<div id="attachment_989213" style="width: 585px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-989213" class="size-large wp-image-989213" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Char2-575x576.jpg" alt="Screenshot: Surveillance video, Charlotte Area Transit System" width="575" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Char2-575x576.jpg 575w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Char2-300x300.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Char2-150x150.jpg 150w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Char2-768x769.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Char2.jpg 1070w" sizes=" (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px" />Screenshot: Surveillance video, Charlotte Area Transit System</div>
It&#8217;s obvious that Decarlos Brown went out of his way to target a defenseless woman who wasn&#8217;t even looking at him. He sat in wait for his victim. After he killed her, he said something along the lines of, &#8220;I got that white girl.&#8221; And then, as this surveillance footage from the train station, which was just released, demonstrates, he changed his clothing.
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This is the footage of the arrest of Decarlos Brown. The officers swarm him pretty quickly. But as you can see, he&#8217;s not wearing the red clothing anymore. He&#8217;s carrying his sweatshirt. So it looks a lot like he understood that he had just killed someone, and wanted to avoid detection.
Whether he &#8220;heard voices&#8221; or not, or whether he has &#8220;impulse control issues&#8221; or not, it doesn&#8217;t matter. Someone who decides to murder an innocent woman, for any reason, forfeits his right to live. And that&#8217;s clearly what happened here.
But because our death penalty system is a bureaucratic morass, Decarlos Brown will not be executed anytime soon.
This is the latest reporting from a <a href="https://www.wbtv.com/2025/10/15/hearing-determine-if-north-carolina-will-pursue-death-penalty-alleged-light-rail-killer-delayed/">local news station</a> in North Carolina. Here’s what’s happening with his case right now.
<blockquote>The man accused of killing a Ukrainian woman on a Charlotte light rail almost two months ago was scheduled to have a crucial court hearing on Thursday. Decarlos Brown Jr., the man accused of killing 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska back in late August, was scheduled to have a Rule 24 court hearing on Thursday, Oct. 16. A Rule 24 hearing is for the state to determine whether or not they would pursue the death penalty. Court documents said that the hearing has now been pushed back until April 2026. The decision to delay the hearing came from Brown and his attorney, Daniel Roberts. However, the reason for the delay was redacted, according to court documents.</blockquote>
So there&#8217;s going to be a &#8220;hearing&#8221; to &#8220;determine whether or not&#8221; the state will &#8220;pursue the death penalty&#8221; — as if there&#8217;s any doubt that they should. Decarlos Brown should&#8217;ve been put down somewhere after his 10th conviction. And he certainly should be executed now. But this hearing won&#8217;t take place until April of next year.
Of course, the best part of all is that you don&#8217;t even get to know why the hearing was delayed. You get no information whatsoever. All you can be sure of, at this point, is that the trial isn&#8217;t going to take place for a very long time — if it occurs at all. Even in a case where the defendant&#8217;s guilt is obvious to everyone in the entire country, we&#8217;re told to put up with endless delays, for no reason.
These delays are downstream from that Supreme Court decision in the 1970s. And that Supreme Court decision was downstream of the belief — which is false — that innocent defendants are sent to death row all the time. That wasn&#8217;t true in the 1970s. And it&#8217;s certainly not true anymore. We don&#8217;t need a neurotic number of hearings and appeals to determine the fate of animals like Decarlos Brown. The evidence is overwhelming. And it&#8217;s overwhelming in every other death row case, as well.
So why haven&#8217;t any states attempted to bypass this Supreme Court decision, with lawsuits or new legislation? Why haven&#8217;t we seen legal challenges to this absurd framework that essentially renders the death penalty moot? Why don&#8217;t states say, actually, we don&#8217;t need mandatory appeals anymore, or endless hearings. We can just hold a trial, present the overwhelming evidence, and then get on with the execution. There&#8217;s certainly no constitutional basis for making the death penalty effectively impossible to enforce. On the contrary, the Founders approved of the death penalty — explicitly, in many cases. So why don&#8217;t we see any legal challenges on this point?
The only explanation that makes sense is that — in the case of Decarlos Brown, and every other case like his — the people in charge of the state government want us to forget what happened. They want the outrage to subside, which it usually does. And then they can get away with giving as lenient a sentence as possible. That&#8217;s what the mayor of Charlotte clearly wants. Remember, she put out a statement saying we should feel sympathy for people like Decarlos Brown, and attacked anyone who shared the footage of Iryna&#8217;s murder. She doesn&#8217;t want Decarlos Brown to be executed. If she can arrange it, she wants him out on the streets, as soon as possible, so he can terrorize more innocent women.
And it&#8217;s not crazy to think the mayor of Charlotte might accomplish that goal. Just a week ago, we covered the case of a convicted child killer who managed to get out of prison in less than a decade. Fortunately, in the case of Decarlos Brown, there are federal charges as well — and those charges are also death-eligible. But that prosecution — and any potential conviction — could be undone by a future Democrat administration. And at this point, particularly if Decarlos Brown isn&#8217;t executed, that outcome seems like a distinct possibility. But it shouldn&#8217;t be possible. The right to a speedy trial doesn&#8217;t just apply for the benefit of the defendant. It also applies for the benefit of society at large. We have a constitutional right to see violent criminals punished, swiftly, to the fullest extent of the law.
Every once in a while, over the past month or so, I&#8217;ve come across a post on X with that picture of Iryna, along with a message like &#8220;We haven&#8217;t forgotten you,&#8221; or something along those lines. I hope that&#8217;s true. But as months turn into years, inevitably, people will become distracted. There will be more violence and chaos and tragedy — Democrats will make sure of that. And it will be easy, despite our best efforts, to forget what happened to Iryna. That&#8217;s what they want us to do. That was the whole point of the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in the 1970s, and all the state laws that followed. Now&#8217;s the time for those laws to change. And it&#8217;s time for Iryna Zarutska&#8217;s killer to receive a fair trial, and then a speedy execution in a matter of weeks, if not days — which is, admittedly, a far more dignified death than he deserves. But under our Constitution and our common law tradition on the death penalty, which has been ignored since the 1970s, it&#8217;s the fate that Decarlos Brown should receive.
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