GREG GUTFELD:So, how about that rocket launch yesterday? Elon Musk and President Trump? Watch the Starship take off from a city called Boca Chica, which is Spanish for small mouth. But while the incoming president celebrated the rocket taking off to cheering crowds, the outgoing president took off as well to a different kind of clamor.
You know, usually when people scream at Joe like that, they say, ‘Sir, that’s a houseplant, not a toilet.’ But why was he in such a hurry? Maybe he really had to go – literally.
And so it’s a tale of two takeoffs. One is a ride to space. Another, a ride to the rest home. But Trump isn’t traveling alone. The world seems to be along for the ride. It’s funny – just a few weeks ago, Trump was a threat to world peace when the only threat we really faced was Joe Biden mistaking our children for dinner. But now foreign leaders are suddenly making nice.
Australia’s ambassador to America had previously called Trump the most destructive president in history – but now he’s congratulating him and looking forward to working closely with him. No wonder the Aussies invented the boomerang, up in Canada. Their first trans prime minister, Justin Trudeau, suddenly cracked down on unchecked immigration. He was talking tough there for a while – until somebody showed him this picture.
Down in Mexico, lefty President Claudia Sheinbaum wouldn’t even acknowledge Trump’s candidacy on Election Day. Sheinbaum, Mexico has a Jewish president. Maybe she’ll agree to Trump building a Wailing Wall. You know that joke doesn’t deserve you.
Then Trump said he would make public the intelligence that America had on Mexican politicians – in bed with cartels. Suddenly, Sheinbaum is cracking down on her own border – but soon Claudia might be welcoming 10 million people who should look familiar. Get ready for an influx of gangs, drug dealers and even worse, washed-up celebs.
Trump’s triggering lefty foreign leaders like a quarter-pounder at a PETA rally. But is it all on Trump, as he himself has said? They haven’t been after him. They’ve been after you, and he’s just in the way. And the truth is, it’s you who’s had enough. It just took Trump to make it clear the world gets it.
Daddy’s home and it’s time to clean up your mess. And you can’t hide behind a legacy media – which is deader than the battery in Rosie O’Donnell’s back trimmer. But really, the world wants this. The world wants this.
They just needed someone to rip the Band-Aid off. It wasn’t going to be Joe or Kamala. Joe lacks the upper body strength, and Kamala doesn’t have enough accents to please the whole world. But everyone knew the planet was screwed. Hell, even the bad guys are now picking up their toys and crawling back under their rocks. Qatar has just confirmed that Hamas leaders are no longer there.
For things to operate in the world, someone has to stand up once in a while and say, ‘wrap it up, guys, this is enough.’ That guy is Trump. But he’s got all of us, too. No wonder the world’s scared. It might be the one thing they’ve ever gotten right.
The 58th annual 2024 CMA Awards
has concluded at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.
Chris Stapleton was the big winner of the night, taking home three of his five nominations, including male vocalist of the year, as well as both single of the year and song of the year for his song, “White Horse.”
Morgan Wallen was nominated in seven categories, the most of any artist this year, but only took home one award, entertainer of the year. Despite being the top award of the night, Wallen was absent from the ceremony.
The show’s co-host Lainey Wilson also took home two trophies, including female vocalist of the year and music video of the year.
Then-President Donald Trump speaks with Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik.
Days after the revelation of a sexual assault allegation against Pete Hegseth, the Fox News star nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as secretary of defense, Mediaite obtained the police report on the 2017 encounter.
The report
, provided by the City of Monterey, California, was previously released to Hegseth in March 2021, per his request. It runs 24 pages and details the allegation leveled by a woman (who remains anonymous) who claimed in 2017 that she was sexually assaulted by the cable news star at a Republican women’s conference.
Tim Parlatore, Hegseth’s attorney, denied the assault when it was first reported last week that a detailed memo of the claim had been sent to the Trump team. Parlatore said
the sex was consensual, and that Hegseth later paid his accuser as part of a nondisclosure agreement in order to protect his reputation.
In a new statement to Mediaite in light of the full police report, Parlatore said: “This police report confirms what I have said all along that the incident was fully investigated and police found the allegations to be false, which is why no charges were filed.”
The report includes accounts from several police officers who spoke with Hegseth, his accuser (identified as Jane Doe), and others present at the conference, which took place in October 2017.
According to the report, the police were first made aware of the alleged assault when Doe, who was 30 at the time, submitted at a local hospital for a rape-kit exam. A nurse from the hospital called an officer at the Monterey Police Department and reported the assault claim. Days later, police spoke with Doe as part of their investigation.
Doe said she spoke with Hegseth on the final night of the conference, during which attendees were drinking in a suite and at a bar in the hotel. Doe told police that Hegseth was flirting with women and putting his hand on their thighs at the conference, and this prompted her to tell Hegseth she did not appreciate how he treated women.
Two different women who attended the conference and spoke with police said that Hegseth put his hand on their legs and asked them to come back to his room on separate occasions. One of the women, who worked at the conference, told police that she told Hegseth the physical contact was not acceptable. She said she then called over Doe to act as a buffer so he would not continue to pursue her.
At some point after midnight, Hegseth and Doe had an argument outside the hotel by the pool, according to the report. Doe said it was over his treatment of women; Hegseth, in an interview with police, said he did not recall the argument.
Police spoke with a staffer at the front desk of the hotel who said that around 1:30 a.m. that night he received multiple complaints about a couple causing a disturbance by the pool. There, he found Doe and Hegseth, who “began to curse” when he tried to speak with them, according to the police report.
Hegseth told the hotel worker he had “freedom of speech” while Jane Doe told the worker they were Republicans and apologized for Hegseth, the worker said.
The hotel worker said Jane Doe then led Hegseth away. He said Hegseth was very drunk, while Jane Doe was standing on her own and coherent.
Surveillance video reviewed by police from around 1:15 a.m. showed Doe and Hegseth walking towards the pool, their arms locked, and Doe “appeared to be smiling,” per the report.
Doe told police she had been drinking that night, and told the nurse that she believed someone had slipped something in her drink.
She told police that her recollection became fuzzy after the pool exchange, and that the next memory she had was in an unknown room. She said Hegseth took her phone and blocked the door with his body when she tried to leave. She told police she said “no” repeatedly. She said she was next on a bed or a couch and Hegseth was on top of her, with his dog tags hovering over her face. Hegseth, she said, ejaculated on her stomach. She said he then threw her a towel and asked if she was okay. She said she did not remember how she got back to her room that night.
Four days later, she went to the hospital.
A few weeks after the alleged assault, police spoke with Hegseth as part of their investigation. In a phone call with a Monterey detective, Hegseth insisted the sex was consensual.
He said he was “buzzed” but not drunk and that Doe led him out of the bar before going back to his hotel room. He said Doe would not leave his hotel room, and that the two proceeded to have consensual sex.
He said Doe asked him if he had a condom, and that he did not and asked her if that was okay. He said he told her they could stop if that was a problem. Hegseth also said he ejaculated on Doe’s body. After sex, Hegseth said Doe showed early signs of regret, and said she would tell her husband she fell asleep on a couch in someone else’s room.
In a second call with police after her initial interview, Doe provided more recollections about the alleged encounter. She said she was suffering from nightmares and memory loss since. Another person who spoke with police said Doe would “cry secretly” and “out of the blue” since that night.
An effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders,
I-Vt., to block certain U.S. weapons sales to Israel was overwhelmingly rejected by the U.S. Senate Wednesday evening.
Sanders’ joint resolution of disapproval, which was supported by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; and Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., intended to stop the White House’s latest arms sales to the Israeli military.
An effort to block the sales of tank rounds to Israel was voted down 79-18, and a measure intending to block mortar round shipments was rejected 78-19.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Sanders claimed the Israeli government is controlled “not only by right-wing extremists, but by religious zealots.”
“It is time to tell the Netanyahu government that they cannot use U.S. taxpayer dollars and American weapons in violation of U.S. and international law and our moral values despite receiving $18 billion from U.S. taxpayers in the last year,” Sanders said.
“And being the largest historical recipient of U.S. foreign aid, the Netanyahu government
has completely ignored the repeated requests of President Biden and the U.S. government.”
The 83-year-old politician also decried living conditions in Gaza during his speech.
“Right now, there is raw sewage running through the streets of Gaza, and it is very difficult for the people there to obtain clean drinking water,” Sanders said. “Every one of Gaza’s 12 universities has been bombed … as have many hundreds of schools. For 13 months, there has been no electricity in Gaza.
“As I have said many, many times, Israel had the absolute right to respond to that horrific Hamas attack as any other country would,” Sanders concluded. “I don’t think anybody here in the United States Senate disagrees with that. But Prime Minister Netanyahu’s extremist government has not simply waged war against Hamas. It has waged an all-out war against the Palestinian people.”
Despite the vote, Sanders’ effort was not wholly unpopular. Earlier this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., signaled support for the Vermont Independent’s proposal.
“The failure by the Biden administration to follow U.S. law and to suspend arms shipments is a grave mistake that undermines American credibility worldwide,” Warren said in a statement to The Guardian.
“If this administration will not act, Congress must step up to enforce U.S. law and hold the Netanyahu government accountable through a joint resolution of disapproval.”
Fox News Digital’s Jessica Sonkin and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.
Republican leaders from Congress expressed “serious concern” with the Mountain West Conference
about transgender women participating in women’s sports.
Thirteen officials signed a letter to Mountain West Commissioner Gloria Nevarez, urging the conference to prohibit transgender athletes
from playing against biological women.
“We write with serious concerns about the safety and fair competition standards for female athletes participating in the Mountain West Conference,” the letter,
signed by members of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, says.
The letter was sent amid controversy at San Jose State University, where Blaire Fleming, a transgender woman, plays for the women’s volleyball team.
Several teams have forfeited games against the Spartans this season.
“Title IX was established over 50 years ago to even the playing field for women. Since its implementation, women have participated in safer and fairer competition — but recent events have shown this is at risk,” the letter states.
“Recently, members of your conference have forfeited games, risking their competitive standings to ensure the safety of their female athletes. The Mountain West Conference’s failure to prohibit biological males from competing in women’s sports is unfair to the women and girls who have worked tirelessly to compete at the collegiate level. We applaud the bravery of these female athletes and the universities in our home states for taking a stand to preserve Title IX when the Mountain West Conference would not.
“Permitting biological men to play in women’s sports is not equitable; it is an injustice. Under these guidelines, it is only fair that biological males play men’s sports and biological females play women’s sports. Clearly, the Mountain West Conference has dropped the ball.
“Life isn’t fair, but sports should be. We urge you to address these inequities in women’s sports in the Mountain West Conference immediately, and we look forward to working with you to support women in collegiate sports.”
Fleming has been one of the top players
in the conference and an offensive anchor for San Jose State this season, even amid the controversy. Fleming is third in the conference in average kills per serve with 3.86 and amassed 297 total kills on the year despite playing seven fewer games than expected due to forfeits. It’s helped give San Jose State the third best hitting percentage in the Mountain West.
Fleming’s teammate, Brooke Slusser, is a part of the lawsuit against the NCAA, and she filed another suit alongside other Mountain West players against the conference over the alleged presence of her transgender teammate. Slusser has alleged the school deliberately hid Fleming’s natural birth sex from her and other players on the team and around the conference.
San Jose State has repeatedly defended the presence of Fleming on the team.
“Our athletes all comply with NCAA and Mountain West Conference policies and are eligible to play under the rules of those organizations. Our volleyball team members have earned the right to compete, and we are deeply disappointed for them and with them that they are being denied those opportunities through cancellations and forfeits. We are also proud of how they have persevered through these challenges on the court,” a statement provided to Fox News Digital by a university spokesperson said.
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
No one seemed more surprised about the New York Giants’
decision to start third-string quarterback Tommy DeVito this weekend over veteran backup Drew Lock than Drew Lock.
While addressing reporters inside the Giants’ locker room Wednesday, Lock was asked specifically about the depth chart and why, if he was listed as the No. 2 quarterback up until this point, DeVito was named Sunday’s starter against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“That’s a question I might still have for myself,” he responded.
“It was expressed to me that I was going to be the two, and, I don’t know, it’s just an interesting situation. There’s not much I can really say about it besides, again, I’m going to be here for [DeVito], and we’re still communicating, still very good friends — believe it or not,” he continued with a smile.
Daniel Jones
was benched Monday in favor of fan favorite DeVito. Head coach Brian Daboll pointed to DeVito’s 3-3 record last season as one of the reasons why.
“Got a lot of respect for all three of those guys,” Daboll said. “After evaluating a bunch of things and looking at a lot of tape and being around Tommy last year, where he created a little bit of a spark for us, that’s the reason why we’re going with Tommy.
“Drew will be the backup. Continue to work with him. He’s been nothing but a pro, and as was Daniel. It’s never an easy conversation to have with the players. But felt like this was a necessary move for us and look forward to working with Tommy and getting him ready to go against Tampa.”
Daboll said Wednesday the team will make a final decision by Friday on whether Jones will serve as the emergency third quarterback.
Jones has thrown for eight touchdowns and seven interceptions this season. He is 3-13 in his last 16 starts, and New York ranks last in the league in scoring, averaging 15.6 points per game.
Comcast officially announced on Wednesday it would spin off several NBCUniversal cable networks
, including MSNBC, in a move that will dramatically shake up the landscape of legacy media as the liberal cable outlet will no longer be affiliated with NBC News.
Cesar Conde will continue leading the NBCUniversal News Group, but now that group only includes NBC News, the NBC News Now streaming service, Telemundo and owned-and-operated local stations. Conde loses oversight of MSNBC and CNBC in the process and the fate of shared resources – and even the cable network’s name and editorial direction– are in question.
A current MSNBC staffer is “intrigued by the amount of thought that seems to have gone into” the decision from a business standpoint, but said there is a “big concern” about what this means going forward for MSNBC
.
“What is MSNBC going to be editorially? I would say some people are probably relieved that probably Comcast and NBC will have less to do with that, because if you look at the kerfuffles over the last year with Mika and Joe and with Ronna McDaniel, it was all… out of sync with our viewers, are our hosts and reporters out of sync with our bosses,” a current MSNBC staffer told Fox News Digital
.
“There was no conversation about what that editorial direction is going to look like on this front,” they continued. “But, I don’t know that anything [will be] different than it was two days ago.”
The progressive network has had its share of public relations headaches this year, most notably the short-lived hiring of former Republican chair Ronna McDaniel as a contributor to NBC in March, and last week’s meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
The staffer added they were in the dark about whether MSNBC would even operate out of NBC’s famed Rockefeller Center headquarters that currently houses the network.
The staffer believes Comcast “identified the things that are not allowing MSNBC and CNBC, which earn a lot of money, to enjoy the fruits of their success” because profits get “siphoned off to pay off other people’s pet projects.”
“Arguably, we’re still a deteriorating business, but this is a potential way to squeeze more value out of these businesses,” the employee said.
“Everybody at MSNBC sort of saw the worst coming between some of the cuts that we’ve taken and the political winds shifting and our exodus of viewers,” they continued, adding that there is optimism this will be “a growth project rather than a shrinking project.”
“I think most people have come to terms with the fact that our alignment with NBC is not great,” the MSNBC staffer said.
The decision comes as the rise in popularity of streaming services and cord-cutting has hit the cable industry. MSNBC remains profitable, but the announcement coincides with viewers fleeing the network
on the heels of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
Scarborough has already joked on-air that he could get “fired” once the spin-off is complete, which is expected to take about a year. “When this happens, you never know what’s going to happen,” he said.
The current MSNBC employee said that resources have been downsized already, so the idea of additional downsizing wouldn’t surprise anyone at the liberal cable network. A longtime, former high-level NBC News staffer doesn’t believe the move will benefit his ex-colleagues who rely on the editorial resources of MSNBC.
“Despite NBC News claiming it’s separate from MSNBC, they share many resources,” the former NBC News staffer said.
“It would be the tragic disembowelment of NBC News and leave it weak and flailing and largely irrelevant,” they continued. “Much like ABC News and CBS News are.”
Comcast, NBC News and MSNBC did not immediately respond when asked what would happen to shared resources, including on-air figures that contribute to both NBC News and MSNBC.
NBC News’ own online report on the move noted that “it would separate MSNBC and CNBC from the central newsgathering operations of NBC News.”
“It was not immediately clear whether the cable news channels and the network’s core news division would continue to share editorial resources,” NBC News reporter Daniel Arkin wrote.
Multiple prominent figures appear across both networks. MSNBC’s dayside news coverage frequently features NBC News reporters, while its opinion lineup starts with Nicolle Wallace at 4 p.m. ET and into primetime is progressive commentary.
While the former NBC News employee thinks NBC News could be in trouble, the current MSNBC employee doesn’t think anyone will miss their soon-to-be former colleagues.
“I think most people at NBC would just as soon not have to share those resources with MSNBC because they don’t think we have similar goals. It feels the same way going the other direction,” the MSNBC staffer said.
The move isn’t a surprise, as Comcast president Mike Cavanagh suggested last month during the company’s third-quarter earnings call with investors that it was looking to create “a new, well-capitalized company owned by our shareholders and comprised of our strong portfolio of cable networks.”
A few weeks later, the plan came to fruition.NBCUniversal’s cable television networks will fall under a new company currently called “SpinCo” led by Mark Lazarus, the current Chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group, and Anand Kini, the current Chief Financial Officer of NBCUniversal and EVP of Corporate Strategy at Comcast.
USA Network, CNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and Sports Engine join MSNBC as part of the new company.
With current NBCUniversal executives atop the new company, MSNBC viewers likely don’t have to worry about new ownership tamping down the network’s liberal programming. However, the situation is so murky that Lazarus doesn’t even know if MSNBC will have to change its identity, including the name and logo that have been long synonymous with NBC.
The current MSNBC staffer who spoke to Fox News Digital attended a 10 a.m. ET meeting with Lazarus, who was tasked with answering questions about the announcement.
“It was not standoffish. It was not hostile. People don’t really know him and have no particular reason to be hostile toward him… I mean, he’s not the world’s most dynamic guy, but I think he presented pretty well,” they said.
The MSNBC employee said it was “interesting” that Lazarus implied a name change could be on the horizon. MSNBC was named in 1996 as a partnership of Microsoft and NBC, hence the name, but Microsoft hasn’t been involved for years, and its relationship with NBC is coming to an end.
“There’s a lot of brand equity involved in being MSNBC or CNBC,” the employee said.
The MSNBC employee also believes “technical separation” with NBC News might be more difficult than an editorial split.
“Everybody’s deployed out of our facilities at Long Island City where we share physical cameras and camera people and sound engineers, all that’s got to change. And it sounds like all that is going to NBC and then MSNBC is going to have to rebuild an infrastructure, which is a very, very big deal,” they said.
“That’s a big expense in a time of retrenchment,” the staffer continued. “So, I was surprised to hear Mark Lazarus talk about that, or even suggest that was the case because if he didn’t say anything about it, most of us would’ve assumed we’re done on that front.”
The assets set to make up SpinCo generated roughly $7 billion in revenue over the last 12 months and Comcast hopes to complete the spinoff project in a year. The Wall Street Journal reported
Tuesday that Comcast is guessing NBCUniversal’s other assets in broadcast TV, sports, movies and theme parks would have higher growth potential going forward.
Fox News Digital’s Hanna Panreck and David Rutz contributed to this report.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was in no mood to take questions about Matt Gaetz on Wednesday, or perhaps ever.
Fox News Senior Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram approached Graham outside the Capitol to ask about Gaetz, whom President-elect Donald Trump nominated for attorney general last week. The selection shocked Washington for several reasons, not the least of which was the House Ethics Committee investigation into Gaetz, who resigned
from Congress last week. One witness testified to the committee that she saw Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old girl at a drug-fueled party in 2017 when Gaetz was about 35. Two other witnesses said the congressman paid them for sex. On Wednesday, the committee declined
to release the findings of its investigation.
The former congressman, who met with Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, denies all wrongdoing.
Afterward, Pergram approached Graham outside the Capitol as the senator walked toward an SUV.
“How was your meeting?” Pergram asked in a recording that aired on Your World. “What do you have to say about it? Are you concerned about Gaetz at all?”
Graham said nothing, got into the passenger’s side, and slammed the door.
“All right, well that went well,” host Neil Cavuto responded. “Senator Lindsey Graham not speaking – can you believe this? Not speaking to our own Chad Pergram on his meeting today with one Matt Gaetz.”
Graham, who will become chair of the Judiciary in January, said
earlier on Wednesday that the confirmation process will not be a “lynch mob.”
Cavuto welcomed to Pergram to the show and reported that Vice President-elect JD Vance “guided Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz through a series of meetings with senators.”
Your World then played a clip of Pergram interviewing Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
“I will be supporting each of these nominees,” she said.
“Are you concerned about any of those allegations?” he asked. “Are you clear that there’s no problem there?”
“Everybody deserves a fair hearing,” she responded. “And I know that as we get into the process of the hearings, you’ll have information that will come up.”
Republicans are gearing up for a trifecta of control in Congress next year with a heightened focus on legislation
against transgender medical procedures on minors.
During a Senate panel on Wednesday afternoon, lawmakers discussed the future of legislative action in Congress
, such as bans on biological males competing in women’s sports, restrictions on gender-related surgery on minors and cessation of taxpayer funding of these types of procedures for children, and expanding parental consent requirements.
The discussion was hosted by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and was led by Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project (APP). Schilling interviewed Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., and Paula Scanlan, a swimmer who shared her experience of competing alongside Lia Thomas, a transgender athlete on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania.
“This movement from the beginning has been about saving America, but mostly about protecting our children,” Schilling said in his opening remarks.
“Here, today, we’re protecting young ladies and men from genital mutilation, ’cause this is what this is,” Marshall told the panel. “It’s hard for me to believe we’re doing irreversible damage to these young children.”
Tuberville, who introduced the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023, said that “we’ve gotten no help from the Democratic side,” but that Republicans are going to continue working on the issue in the next Congress when Senate Republicans
will likely have a majority.
“I can’t believe we’re even having to do this,” Tuberville added. “It is pure insanity and has caused irreversible damage on children. This isn’t about politics folks, this is about good and evil.”
“Title IX is the best thing to come out of this building in 50 years,” Tuberville, a former coach, said. “Biological men playing in women’s sports is not a right.”
Scanlan told the panel about her experience competing for the University of Pennsylvania’s swim team alongside a biological male, saying that she had to change in the locker room with Thomas “18 times per week.”
Marshall revealed that Congress will be introducing the Safeguarding the Overall Protection of Minors Act (STOP), which will aim to “punish people who perform surgery or mediation on minors.”
According to an APP report recently covered by Fox News Digital
, total revenues for transgender drugs and surgeries in 2023 are estimated to surpass $4.4 billion. That number, according to the study, could exceed $7.8 billion by 2030.
A well-known Ugandan opposition figure appeared in a military court Wednesday days after he was reported missing in neighboring Kenya
, and denied a charge of seeking military support from abroad to destabilize Uganda’s military forces.
Kizza Besigye, a fierce critic of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
and once his personal doctor, has faced arrest and assault on previous occasions. He has contested and lost four presidential elections.
Besigye, who at first appeared in court without lawyers and in a cage, rejected government legal representation and said he should be tried in a civilian court because he’s not a member of the armed forces.
The former president of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party also was charged with possessing an illegal firearm, which he denied. He will stay in custody until Dec. 2 with FDC member Hajj Lutale Kamulegeya, who was also charged and denied wrongdoing.
Besigye’s reappearance came four days after he went missing in Nairobi. On Saturday his wife, UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima, claimed he had been kidnapped and put in a Ugandan military jail.
The Ugandan government has not commented.
Kenya’s foreign affairs permanent secretary, Korir Singoei, told local media that Kenya was not involved in the alleged incident.
Besigye’s lawyer, the Kampala mayor and FDC member Erias Lukwago, expressed concern that his client was arrested abroad.
“For his liberty to be curtailed in a sovereign state like Kenya, and no actions being taken by the Kenyan government against the sister country violating the territorial integrity of Kenya, that is a very serious matter and we are not going to let it lie down,” he said.
Museveni, who has ruled the East African country since 1986, has long been criticized by human rights
groups over alleged violations against opposition figures.
