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A major thread in the story implicates the very much still alive Gerry Adams, who became the leader of the Sinn Féin political party in 1983, as the man who ordered Jean McConville’s kidnapping as a high-ranking IRA leader.

He was also recently identified in court documents and investigated by federal prosecutors for having allegedly attended a “sex party” that involved cocaine, ecstasy, and a nude 17-year-old.

Gabbard, who was a Democrat until 2022 but critical of her party long before that, endorsed Trump in the 2024 election.

Her words contrast with those of Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who called Trump "racist", "sexist" and a "homophobe" in an interview in May and urged his party to "call him out".

In 2022 she left the Democrat Party and initially registered as an independent - accusing her former party of being an “elitist cabal of warmongers” driven by "cowardly wokeness".