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Right-wing media complain that toddler was released by Hamas due to her family’s connections to Biden
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Right-wing media are attacking the Biden administration for working to negotiate the release of a 4-year-old hostage from Hamas. The toddler has dual American and Israeli citizenship and was the first American hostage released. After a fringe blog reported that the toddler’s great aunt had connections to the Biden administration and suggested her release was due to these ties, some right-wing media outlets and social media users — including on X (formerly Twitter), Gab, Truth Social, and other fringe platforms — spread the claim, with it ultimately making it onto Fox airwaves when Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo asked her guest about the connection on November 29.