Posts on Thursday, November 20, 2025
When Obama administration officials manufactured U.S. intelligence tying Donald Trump to Moscow following his stunning 2016 victory, they had no idea Trump’s own political appointees would help them undermine Trump’s presidency – and his chances of reelection in 2020.
RCI’s review of recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with former Trump officials reveals for the first time how key members of Trump’s cabinet and other appointees during his first term shrouded the previous administration’s machinations and either deliberately or inadvertently misled the public into thinking the fake Russiagate intelligence was real.
Male inmates at an all-female prison in Fort Worth, Texas, are temporarily restricted from entering or using female-only private areas, a judge decided this week. It is the first time a federal court has ruled that male inmates must be sex-segregated in women’s prisons.
The Federal Medical Center, Carswell is a formerly women-only prison in Texas that currently houses several men who identify as women. FMC Carswell recently housed dozens of people who identify as trans or intersex, according to a federal report.
Female inmates have for years petitioned the state to separate trans-identifying men from women’s private spaces.
Jones Plastic & Engineering, a Kentucky company that got its start making plastic bottle caps for whiskey bottles, has been working with GE Appliances for four decades.
But the family-owned business plans to expand to accommodate more demand for its control panels and other parts from GE Appliances, which is shifting production of all its front-load washing machines and dryers from China to a new $490 million factory in Louisville, Ky. “It’s a big deal for us,” said Ryan Jones, chief operating officer. GE Appliances on Thursday announced $150 million in new contracts to 18 suppliers in 10 states.
A federal appeals court temporarily blocked a judge’s order on Thursday that had called for the release of hundreds of people arrested by immigration agents in the Chicago area.
The administrative stay issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which the Trump administration requested, halts the release of those detainees while the government’s appeal moves forward. Appellate judges are scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case on Dec. 2. Judge Jeffrey Cummings of the U.S. District Court ordered that most of the detainees in a group of 615 people be released on bond by this Friday while their immigration cases move forward.
A bicameral group of Republicans in Congress is grilling James Boasberg, the U.S. district chief judge for Washington, D.C., on his decision to allow lawfare activist Jack Smith to spy on the Senate, offering him the “opportunity to explain yourself publicly” for a decision that almost certainly violated federal law.
As The Federalist reported, Boasberg approved a scheme under the Department of Justice’s Arctic Frost weaponization against Republicans in which Smith could subpoena the phone records of House and Senate Republicans and attach a nondisclosure order (NDO) so that the congressional bodies could not find out about it from the telecommunications providers being subpoenaed.
Pennsylvania will lose $75 million in federal roads funds unless it gets into compliance with U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) licensing requirements for non-domiciled commercial learner’s permits (CLP) and non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDL). That is according to an alarming letter DOT sent Wednesday to Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Secretary Mike Carroll and Gov. Josh Shapiro.
The threatened loss of funding comes on the heels of the recent Kansas arrest of an illegal alien wanted in Uzbekistan for belonging to a terrorist organization, according to ICE. As The Federalist previously reported, the alleged terrorist Akhror Bozorov was issued a non-domiciled CDL in Pennsylvania.
The FBI is disputing California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell's claims the agency is refusing to protect him, his family and other Democrats.
On Monday, Swalwell shared a report about FBI Director Kash Patel providing an agency security detail for his girlfriend.
"I don’t want anything to happen to @FBIDirectorKash or his girlfriend. Protect her if she’s threatened," Swalwell posted on X. "It’s just F’d up that he REFUSES to protect me and my kids from MULTIPLE specific death threats. Same for other Dem colleagues. Can only conclude he wants us dead." FBI Assistant Director for Public Affairs Ben Williamson posted on X on Wednesday in response to the congressman, "Mr. Swalwell
Again, why isn’t this a bigger story? I promised to cover the trial details as they come out.
The jury at the trial of Linda Sun, a former top aide to New York Govs. Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo saw pictures and details of her lavish lifestyle, which she supposedly funded with money from China.
Prosecutors have accused Sun of working as a Chinese agent in exchange for lots of money.
Sun’s husband, Chris Hu, also faces charges.
Sun only made $145,000.
Despite that salary, Sun and Hu lived in a $3.6 million mansion in Long Island. That’s where the FBI investigated for five hours. FBI Special Agent Edward Tam told the jury
Somalis in Minnesota swindled millions in state Medicaid autism-care programs and sent the cash back to their homeland and its terror groups, investigators say.
Breitbart News reported in July that nearly 100 autism clinics in Minnesota were being investigated for fraudulently billing Medicaid for treatment of children supposedly diagnosed with autism, most of it in connection with the rampantly corrupt Somali community around Minneapolis.
But the fraud is far more widespread with far more money involved than was previously reported — all of which has been presided over by former Democrat Party vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz. The money paid out by Minnesota’s scandal-plagued welfare schemes is monumental. The state’s failed
Dick Cheney's funeral was held on Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Cheney served as Vice President under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. He died on Nov. 3, at 84 years old, "due to complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease." Bush and Cheney's daughter, Liz, gave the eulogies.
What got a lot of talk on social media about was who was there - and who wasn't.
Starting with the "who wasn't," President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were not invited. Cheney and his daughter were big critics of Trump, and they supported Kamala Harris in her 2024 presidential run.
You can pretty much track the radicalization of the Democrat party in modern times. In 2016, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), calling himself a democratic socialist, took people aback just a bit. Now, democratic socialists are coming out of the woodwork. But even those Democrats who may still be in the DSA closet, or maybe don't lean that far left, now have no problem crowing about all the things they hate about America. The latest example comes from Tennessee's upcoming special election, where the Dem candidate says she hates everything about the largest city in the district she is running in. Voters in Tennessee's seventh congressional district
President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department will issue a new rule that prevents illegal aliens and foreign nationals from securing income tax credits such as the lucrative Earned Income Tax Credit and Additional Child Tax Credit, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.
On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the agency would issue new regulations regarding who is eligible for such income tax credits under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA).
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are enforcing the law and preventing illegal aliens from claiming tax benefits intended for American citizens,” Bessent told Breitbart News.
Whoa! Surveillance Video of Charlie Kirk’s
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A bombshell investigation by a local Salt Lake City station has uncovered that critical surveillance video showing accused murderer Tyler Robinson turning himself in to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office has mysteriously disappeared.[snip] “We do not have any records responsive to this portion of the request, as Tyler Robinson did not go to or enter the jail area,”[snip] When pressed with a broader request for any surveillance video of Robinson entering the building, officials suddenly changed their story, claiming the footage no longer exists because it was automatically deleted after the department’s 30-day retention period.
DoorDash’s bid to expand its San Francisco food delivery service with airborne drones survived its first major challenge Wednesday when the city’s Board of Appeals upheld a ruling that confirms current zoning allows DoorDash to test delivery drones. The Teamsters Local 665 argued that outdoor drones testing doesn’t qualify as “laboratory use” under city zoning rules for DoorDash’s warehouse at 1960 Folsom Street in the Mission District. They warned that what begins as research could evolve into a drone operation whizzing through one of the city’s densest neighborhoods.
Charlotte, N.C., is making headlines this week because dozens of construction sites have gone silent. ICE swept through the region, and the labor force evaporated almost instantly. A major American city discovered, in real time, that its building boom was being held together by workers who couldn’t legally be there. Watching that footage hit me hard, because I’ve seen it before — not on the evening news, but in the slow collapse of my own childhood community. [Video]
I grew up forty miles north of Louisville, Ky., in a one-stoplight town held together by tobacco, construction, and the kinds of gritty jobs that built the region’s character.
It appears U.S. District Judge James Boasberg isn’t done with the issue of the Trump administration’s deportation flights earlier this year.
He is now trying to revive contempt proceedings against the White House.
From Politico:
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, whose initial contempt proceedings were stymied for seven months by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, said he had the green light to resume after the appellate court lifted the hold on his case last week.
“Justice requires me to move promptly on this,” Boasberg said during a hearing on a lawsuit brought on behalf of men deported under President Donald Trump’s unprecedented peacetime invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
The Chicago Subway Arson Attack Was Horrific
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Yesterday, Townhall told you about two horrible crimes in Chicago that happened just this week. In one, a pregnant woman and her child were beaten by a mob of students outside a Chicago school. If that wasn't bad enough, a 26-year-old woman was set on fire on Chicago's Blue Line after reportedly getting into an argument with a career criminal named Lawrence Reed.
In the initial reporting, we believed Reed had 22 prior arrests. That's inexcusable enough, but it turns out Reed had 49 prior arrests, including for arson, as well as ten felony convictions. And it seems Reed's victim didn't get into an argument with him at all.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its preliminary report into the crash of UPS 2976 , an MD-11F bound for Honolulu that crashed on takeoff at Muhammad International Airport.
The preliminary report was released 16 days after the crash.
The three crewmembers were killed, as were 11 people on the ground. There were also 23 injuries as a result of the crash.
The initial report shows that the taxi and takeoff roll were uneventful. The Flight Data Recorder contained about 63 hours of data that spanned 24 flights, including the crash. Initial investigation revealed that the left engine and left pylon detached during takeoff.
STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of raping and fatally beating his former manager at a Florida convenience store in 1988 is scheduled to be executed Thursday evening.
Richard Barry Randolph, 63, is set to receive a lethal injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke. Randolph was convicted of murder, armed robbery, sexual battery and grand theft and sentenced to death in 1989.
It would be Florida’s 17th death sentence carried out in 2025, further extending the state's record for total executions in a single year.
According to court records, Randolph attempted to break into the safe at the Handy-Way convenience store in Palatka, where he had previously
Employers across the U.S. added 119,000 jobs in September, marking a pickup after previous employment data had shown a slowdown in hiring. The report marks the first official job tally since the government shutdown ended last week, ending a six-week blackout on labor data.
The numbers
Economists had forecast payroll gains of 50,000 jobs in September, according to a poll by FactSet.
The unemployment rate rose 4.4% in September, up from 4.3% in August and the highest level since Oct. 2021. With robust job growth in September
It looks like SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program designed to help struggling Americans put food on their tables, is having a long-overdue and much-deserved "come to Jesus" moment. The program has come under intense scrutiny this year, particularly during the recent government shutdown when a spotlight shone brightly on the massive amount of taxpayer money being wasted on people abusing the system.
The SNAP scrutiny kicked off earlier this year when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., emboldened by the growing Make American Health Again (MAHA) movement, gave permission to West Virginia to ban the use of federal food assistance dollars to purchase soft drinks.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is launching an investigation into Sixteen Thirty Fund's Chorus Creator Incubator Program, according to letters obtained by the Daily Caller. The Sixteen Thirty Fund -- whose donors include nonprofits tied to George Soros -- is a nonprofit that has been accused of trying to sidestep campaign-finance disclosure rules enforced by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and Justice Department. It also bypasses standard media-ethics practices meant to differentiate real journalism from paid political work that must be disclosed, according to Comer.
When Europe goes to war with Russia, they will not require the military to fill out customs declarations as they cross borders within the EU.
Tanks, missiles, artillery and most combat weapons could be exempt from EU customs declarations if the plan by Brussels moves forwardAdditionally, under the proposal most drivers of military equipment may even be permitted to exceed the limits on driving times and rest periods, should the fight against Russia require extended physical effort.
The newly proposed objective is to empower European soldiers to make independent decisions without having to fill out the customary paperwork, requiring prior approval from the European Commission before affixing their bayonets.
Lee Zeldin Goes Scorched Earth With Blistering
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The Democrats thought pushing for the release of Epstein information was going to hurt President Donald Trump.
But not only is it not going as they planned, it's blowing back on them, as it's revealing a lot of Epstein connections to Democrats. Epstein was a big donor to Democrats, among them, Democrat Delegate Stacey Plaskett (VI), a non-voting member of the House. Epstein was also texting her in February 2019 during a Congressional hearing to help her against Trump.
Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) came to Plaskett's defense on Wednesday on the House floor, arguing that Republicans had received donations from "somebody" by the name of Jeffrey Epstein.
Halligan Defends Handling of Comey Grand
Jury Indictment, Claims Magistrate Omitted
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Jury Indictment, Claims Magistrate Omitted
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Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan is defending her handling of the grand jury proceedings, which resulted in two criminal charges against fired FBI Director James Comey, in the wake of critiques from a magistrate judge and probing questions Wednesday from the federal judge presiding over the case. Halligan . . . pushed back on multiple criticisms in Wednesday evening court filings, telling the judge that "the grand jury was provided the proposed indictment, deliberated, and determined probable cause existed to believe that the defendant had committed the crimes charged in two counts" and claiming that the magistrate judge had misrepresented her comments . . . .
At this point, Democrats are just embarrassing themselves badly over Jeffrey Epstein.
Their efforts backfired spectacularly as the Epstein estate information revealed more Democrat connections to Epstein. It left them scrambling, trying to justify/defend Democrat Delegate Stacey Plaskett's texting with Jeffrey Epstein during a Congressional hearing. Plaskett is the non-voting delegate from the Virgin Islands, where Epstein had his infamous island. She received donations from Epstein up to 2018, long after the nature of Epstein was widely known. She claimed she gave the donations she got in 2016 and 2018 to women's groups.
Then, Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) defended her, claiming Republicans had gotten donations as well from "somebody"
The University of California system made news earlier this year when it eliminated mandatory diversity statements for new hires. But at California's other public university system, DEI isn't in retreat—it's required.
Nearly every California State University campus requires students to pass at least one diversity and cultural competency class, according to graduation criteria identified by Do No Harm, a group that opposes identity politics in medicine. The exact requirements vary across schools, but they typically prescribe a specific course or allow students to pick from a list of classes that "explore the interrelatedness and intersection of race and ethnicity with class,
Liberal loudmouth Rep. Jasmine Crockett gave a mind-boggling explanation for why she accused Lee Zeldin and other Republicans on the House floor of taking donations from Jeffrey Epstein — desperately insisting she never said she was referring to the late convicted pedophile.
Crockett (D-Texas) tried to defend herself Wednesday night in a CNN appearance after she was ripped for boldly implying that she’d found evidence linking the Long Island Republican and other prominent GOPers to the disgraced financier, who died in 2019.
“Listen, I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein,” Crockett told “The Source” host Kaitlin Collins after being given the chance to correct the record.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Justice Department said in court on Nov. 19 that the full grand jury in former FBI Director James Comey’s case never saw the final indictment used to charge him, an issue Comey’s attorney described as fatal to the prosecution.
The revelation was made amid scrutiny of the grand jury proceedings, but this particular hearing was focused on Comey’s argument that the prosecution should be dismissed as vindictive and unconstitutional.
After some argument about the motion, Judge Michael Nachmanoff of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia asked Justice Department attorney Tyler Lemons for further details about the indictment.
“Trump’s Truly Sh*tty Economy” – Robert Reich. That’s how the diminutive former Clinton labor secretary put it recently on his Substack page, and it’s the message Democrats desperately want every American to hear. We have an affordability crisis! Real wages are falling!! Trump is making it worse!!! The recent elections show the depth of despair!!!!
It’s true that Americans aren’t particularly happy at the moment. The TIPP Economic Optimism Index (TIPP is I&I’s polling partner) is lower today than it was in June 2020, during peak COVID mania. And just 34% give Trump an “A” or “B” grade on his handling of the economy
George Conway, a conservative lawyer but vocal critic of President Donald Trump, is considering jumping into the race to replace New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler next year, according to the New York Times. Conway, who divorced his wife and former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway in 2023, told donors at a private virtual event for paid members of the liberal media outlet Democracy Docket on Tuesday that he was inspired to consider a campaign after eight Senate Democrats voted to reopen the government without a deal to extend expiring health care subsidies. The former conservative said he would run as a Democrat if he jumped into the race
The wealthy oceanfront town of Carmel, California, has banned pickleball in its public park after residents complained that the constant sound of paddles striking balls was too noisy.
The Carmel City Council voted earlier this month to permanently prohibit the sport at Forest Hill Park, the only public pickleball location within city limits, marking the first such ban in the state, according to sfgate.com.
Residents reported that the "popping" sound had been echoing through the neighborhood as players participated in the game that has grown in popularity, particularly among seniors and retirees, the outlet reported.
Worst Living President Turns 83
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When Joe Biden, the worst living president of the United States, entered the world in 1942, there were still people alive who fought in the Civil War. Now he's celebrating his 83rd birthday. He is joined in celebration by his conniving wife, Dr. Jill Biden, his crackhead lothario son, Hunter Biden, his utterly disgraced former White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, and other deranged weirdos who view Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 campaign as a national tragedy.
If the Biden clan had gotten their way, we'd be less than halfway through the first half of President Biden's second term in office. He would be confined to his basement and getting treated
The Embarrassments of Ideology
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology.
It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by white males.
DEI makes no allowance for the class or wealth of the alleged victims or their supposed victimizers. So once that rigid party line is set, it cannot account for tens of millions of affluent and privileged non-white Americans or like numbers of poor and non-privileged whites.
Absurdities and ridicule must then follow.
One example is the spectacle of former First Lady Michelle Obama on her current book tour.
A new report from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) makes some uncomfortable claims about a plan by Islamic radicals, especially the so-called Muslim Brotherhood, to systematically enter, infiltrate, and destroy the United States. If this doesn't make Americans sit up and take notice, I don't know what might. Here's a key point: In other words: Inject a poison into America's bloodstream, to devour it from within. Many of the actors, we should note, may well already be here - see Dearborn, Michigan. See also the last four years of the Biden administration, which threw open our border to all and sundry, allowing in millions.
Hochul’s colossal $113M
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Gov. Hochul has spent $66 million of taxpayer money on grants to radical left-wing groups that conduct overt political operations to defund the police, close prisons, abolish ICE, decriminalize prostitution, promote open borders, target minors with transgender ideology, promote anti-Israel extremism, impose crippling climate mandates on new housing — and increase taxation to pay for it all.
An examination of 13,000 grants since Hochul took office in 2021 shows a massive investment in far-left causes, with $66 million paid so far and almost $50 million promised for a total contract value of $113 million.
“Our tax dollars should go towards fighting criminals, not helping them,” says Rep. Elise Stefanik,
Billionaire hedge fund founder-turned-environmental advocate Tom Steyer is running for governor of California – an announcement that comes as little to no surprise following his recent ad buys in support of Proposition 50 during the state’s special election on redistricting. Speculations that Steyer, who also ran for president in 2020, may be eyeing another foray into politics began swirling immediately after he announced plans to drop $12 million on ads to support California Democrats’ mid-decade redistricting effort several weeks ago. Those speculations were confirmed Wednesday, Nov. 19, when Steyer, 68, formally announced his candidacy for governor. The Democrat is a vocal critic of President Donald Trump.
With a little less than a year to go before the 2026 midterm elections, a Marist Poll shows Democrats leading Republicans by a massive +14 points in the generic ballot.
“Democrats currently have a 14-point lead against the Republicans among registered voters nationally on the 2026 generic congressional ballot question,” writes Marist. “This has changed considerably. Since 2022, voters have been divided about which party’s candidate they would support.”
This, even though those polled “place most of the blame for the shutdown on congressional Democrats.” Still, “six in ten [blame] either the President or the GOP in Congress.”
Yesterday we learned that a three judge panel had ruled 2-1 that Texas would not be allowed to use newly drawn maps in the midterm elections. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, who is a Trump appointee, joined U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama, an Obama appointee, to demand the state return to its previously drawn maps. The core of their ruling was that the goal of the redistricting was not partisan political advantage, but racial gerrymandering.
The state had argued that the entire redistricting process was based on a partisan goal, which the U.S. Supreme Court has previously said courts cannot intervene to prevent. But the plaintiffs pointed to a letter