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 looking crew of killing a uncommon duck.
The president’s eldest son appeared in a video posted on the web site of Area Ethos — an out of doors journey model he co-founded — looking in wetlands bordering Italy’s Venice Lagoon. The footage exhibits Trump sporting camouflage, capturing birds out of the sky and showing beside a pile of useless birds. Specialists recognized one of many birds as a ruddy shelduck, a protected species in Europe.
It is not clear from the video, which has since been faraway from the location, who within the looking get together allegedly killed a protected chicken, however the saga has set off what one Italian newspaper referred to as the “Donald duck crisis.”
Inexperienced get together politicians in Italy’s Veneto area are urgent for an investigation of Trump and his looking get together, saying killing a ruddy shelduck is a criminal offense.
“Yesterday morning, before attending the meeting of the Regional Council in Venice, I filed a complaint with the Forest Police of Mestre Venice regarding the controversial hunting trip of Donald Trump Jr. in the Venice Lagoon protected by the European Union,” Inexperienced get together regional legislator Andrea Zanoni mentioned in a Fb submit Wednesday.
One other Inexperienced get together member in Italy’s decrease home has additionally raised the problem with the nation’s atmosphere minister, The Related Press reported.
Donald Trump Jr. didn’t reply to NPR’s request for remark. However his spokesperson, Andy Surabian, instructed AP that “Don takes following all rules, regulations and conservation on his hunts very seriously and plans on fully cooperating with any investigation.”
Searching is authorized however strictly regulated in Italy. Surabian mentioned the group was looking with permits in a legally permitted space.
