An official with the Trump Administration was assaulted this week inside a bathroom at the United Nations, raising fresh concerns over security failures at the international body’s New York headquarters.
Authorities arrested the attacker — described as a radical leftist — and charged them with assault, aggravated harassment, attempted assault, and criminal possession of a weapon.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly confirmed to Fox News Digital that the suspect is due back in court on November 13. “An HHS official was followed into a bathroom, recorded, physically assaulted and verbally accosted by a deranged leftist at the UN who somehow entered the venue past multiple layers of security,” Kelly said. “Thankfully, the official is safe, and the lunatic was arrested, but this is part of a disturbing and dangerous set of failures by the UN after their sabotage of President Trump ahead of and during his speech.”
The victim was working in support of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team during the high-level United Nations General Assembly meetings.
This bathroom attack comes on the heels of at least two other troubling incidents at the UN during President Trump’s visit this week. On Tuesday, as the President and First Lady Melania Trump entered the building, the escalator carrying them suddenly malfunctioned — stopping the moment President Trump stepped onto it, while the adjacent escalator continued working. Melania Trump quickly began walking up the steps, followed by the President and his entourage, leaving the President briefly stranded without full security protection.
Later, during his speech to the General Assembly, President Trump pointed out that his TelePrompter was not functioning. He managed the disruption with humor, but later called for accountability, stating that UN staffers who intentionally sabotaged his equipment should face jail time.
The repeated lapses — including the escalator malfunction, the TelePrompter failure, and now the physical assault of an HHS official — have prompted outrage among Trump Administration officials. Questions are being raised as to how such breaches could occur at a facility where security is meant to be airtight, especially when hosting the President of the United States and other world leaders.
The United States remains the primary financial backer of the United Nations, fueling calls for a serious review of whether taxpayer dollars should continue flowing to an institution plagued by these alarming failures.