US-Born White Alabaman Rapes Two Children Under the Nose of Their Parents

Again, and sorry for the refrain, but Parker is no migrant, legal or otherwise, nor an immigrant, legal or otherwise, nor is he one of those brown- or dark-skinned US citizens now being hunted by Trump's ICE-GESTAPO.... No, no, no. He's an inbred white mongrel - balding blond with green eyes - in the image of God but from the backward state of Bama (Alabama's nickname; the first "a" should be pronounced in "Dame" and not like Obama, Heaven forbid). In that State, you never know if your sister is actually your mother or whether your son-in-law is actually your own son. Strange things have been happening down there ever since illiterate ignorant and promiscuous English peasants settled there a couple of hundreds of years ago.

I'm not sure why the story below has to specify that the rapes took place on an air mattress, as if this fact is an attenuating circumstance, what with the ebbing and flowing of the mattress doing a rock-and-roll motion that could have suggested something nefarious to the moron child rapist from Alabama. I wouldn't put it past an Alabama prosecutor to suggest partial guilt because of the mattress. Would the rapes on a Japanese futon, or behind an Appalachian moonshine still be any different?

Now Parker was doing marijuana and amphetamines when he indulged himself on the two girls. Were these drugs smuggled into Alabama by the drug cartels that Trump claims to be fighting? Who forced Parker to buy and take these illicit drugs? He should be placed on a fishing boat, tied to the boat, and launched into the Caribbean at very high speed where US military drones should blow him up.

Can't wait to hear what the scintillating Senator Tuberville, the rather low-minded representative of the State in the Senate, thinks about the lurid stories that keep emanating from his State.

Can anyone guess who Parker voted for in 2024?
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Alabama man raped child sleeping on air mattress while he spent the night doing drugs with her family
Carol Robinson
Thu, November 20, 2025


An Oneonta man has been convicted in the sexual abuse of a young girl in Blount County.

The jury on Wednesday found 38-year-old Christopher Don Parker guilty of first-degree rape and sex abuse of a child under the age of 12, said District Attorney Pamela Casey.

Parker’s trial began Monday. The jury delivered the verdict after about four hours of deliberation.

Parker was arrested in June 2022 when authorities received a report that Parker had sexually abused two children under the age of 12 at a residence located on County Highway 42 in Blount County.

Evidence at trial showed that Parker often visited the family at their home.

“Parker would often smoke marijuana and methamphetamine with the parents,” Casey said. “On at least three of these occasions, Parker spent the night at the residence, which is how he gained access to the children.”

“Parker attacked one victim as she lay sleeping on an air mattress,” she said. “The young girl reported the attack to her grandfather who had custody of her at the time.”

Casey praised the work of lead investigator Sgt. Ed Hull of the Blount County Sheriff’s Office.

“These cases are always difficult,” Casey said. “It is hard and often heartbreaking to listen to the evidence in these cases.”

“This can be even more difficult,” she said, “when jurors are having to consider the testimony of children who do not have the life experience and/or vocabulary to describe the vile and disgusting things that happen to them.”

Parker faces a sentence of life in prison or a term not less than 99 years under Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender. He has two prior felony convictions for burglary and theft.

Following the verdict, Parker was booked into the Blount County Jail to await sentencing on Jan. 20.

Donald Dumb: Lie to Your Heart's Content. MAGA Morons will Believe Your Lies

It's a "tactic" Roy Cohn taught Pinocchio Donald: Even if confronted with the truth, never admit, never give up, keep lying. It works with poor-minded, superstitious, ignorant people who believe he is a Messiah with big gonads, i.e. rednecks, survivalists, and such backwoods inbred imbeciles of the back country. It's really not even at street level; it's in the gutter; and it's disgusting. Even the dense MAGA morons are beginning to reckon with the now-proven fact that HE LIED TO THEM ONLY TO GET ELECTED. 
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Analysis: Trump keeps lying while accusing others of lying
Daniel Dale, CNN
Wed, November 19, 2025


President Donald Trump speaks to the press during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on November 18. - Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

President Donald Trump tells a lot of lies. Trump also regularly accuses others of lying.

And sometimes he does both at once – telling a lie about something while accusing someone else of lying about it. In other words, the president has been dishonest even about others’ honesty.

It’s a subset of his years-old “I know you are but what am I?” tactic of trying to turn common criticisms of him against his opponents. And he’s used it a bunch this fall.
Trump’s deception about supposed deception from Democrats and his former FBI director

One perfect example: Trump has repeatedly alleged that Democrats are lying when they correctly say overall prices and grocery prices are up during his second presidency – even though it is Trump who is lying when he says overall prices and grocery prices are down.

“The problem with the Democrats: they lie. They do it so well. They talk about affordability, but I’m the one that’s getting the prices down,” he told reporters Sunday, though overall prices were 3% higher in September than they were in September 2024 and 1.7% higher than they were in January 2025, the month he returned to office. “More than anything else, it’s a con job by the Democrats,” since “costs are way down,” Trump falsely said last week on Fox News.

Then, on Monday morning, Trump claimed on social media that Christopher Wray, whom he appointed as FBI director during his first term, had “lied!!!” about the deployment of FBI agents on January 6, 2021, the day Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. But the president’s supposed basis for this claim was a false conspiracy theory that FBI agents had been secretly inserted into the pre-riot Capitol crowd to whip up a frenzy.

The phony narrative was debunked in September by none other than Trump’s current FBI director, Kash Patel, who noted that the agents were deployed for crowd control “after the riot was declared by Metro Police.”

Trump chooses colorful fiction over fact-based ammunition

In late October, Trump attacked the integrity of former president Joe Biden in a speech to a military audience – saying, “Biden used to say he was a pilot. He was a pilot, he was a truck dri— whatever, whoever walked in. He wasn’t a pilot.” Biden did falsely claim during his presidency to have previously been a truck driver, among other inaccurate claims about his past, but there is no record of him having claimed to have been a pilot. In other words, Trump was making something up – again – while calling out Biden for supposedly making something up.

Biden’s actual fabrications about his biography would give Trump ample material for attacks. But Trump often discards fact-based ammunition in favor of colorful fiction.

Take what Trump said about Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut when the president announced in October that he was commuting the prison sentence of former Republican Rep. George Santos, who had pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges after gaining notoriety for numerous lies about his biography.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal gavels the start of a hearing on Capitol Hill on June 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Trump posted on social media that Blumenthal’s actions were “far worse.” Trump claimed that Blumenthal had lied for nearly two decades that, while serving in the Vietnam War, he “was ‘a Great Hero’” and “endured the worst of the War, watching the Wounded and Dead as he raced up the hills and down the valleys, blood streaming from his face.”

There is no record of Blumenthal claiming to have been a war hero, nor of Blumenthal claiming to have been injured in Vietnam, seen wounded or deceased people, fought in battles, or run through any particular terrain.

Blumenthal, who served in the Marine Corps Reserve in the US during the war, did falsely claim on at least a few occasions in the 2000s that he served in Vietnam itself. But Blumenthal – who accurately described his service on other occasions, and apologized in 2010 for the misstatements – told none of the vivid stories about taking part in deadly fights that Trump attacked him for supposedly telling.

Trump has told similar lies about Blumenthal’s supposed lies for more than seven years now.
Echoes of Trump’s other baseless attacks on the integrity of people and institutions

Trump’s attacks on the honesty of his political foes echo some of his best-known attacks on American institutions. Consider his frequent claims that accurate media reports are “fake news” and that the legitimate 2020 election he lost was “rigged and stolen.”

In those cases, as with his claims this week about inflation and January 6, he has presented himself as a paragon of truth while deceptively undermining the reputations of people who have actually been truthful.

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Floridiot MAGA Rep. Cory Mills Caught with Pants Down While in Afghanistan

They're all for "family values", which include adultery, illegal fornication, homosexual pick-ups in airport bathrooms, pedophilia, porn actresses and prostitutes... I was raised a Christian, but they never taught me how to fornicate in sinful bliss like these famous Republicans, MAGA morons, and associated imbeciles who then, when caught with their pants down, claim to have been redeemed by their "personal" Savior Jesus Christ.

Cory Mills is a white dude. White American dudes think they own America because their granparents moved (illegally) from Europe, mass murdered the indigenous Amerindians and stole their lands, enslaved millions of Africans as free labor on their cotton plantations, and made the stunning discovery that "All men are created equal!". They had no idea. Their bible taught them that they - the white european dudes - are God's superior creation, a notion they must have borrowed from the Jewish people's scriptures that claim that they are Yahweh's favorite pet people and own the earth because God says so in the said goat-skin-parchment bible.

Even after making this astounding discovery that "All men are created equal" and proposing democracy as the new ruling method of their new country, the white founding fathers never really changed their mind. They just said they liked democracy because it was the cool thing to say in the late 18th century, what with all these philosophers and enlightened thinkers around them saying those things. But deep down, they continued, and continue, to hold racist, colonial, supremacist ideas and put them in practice. Donald Dumb is only the last in a long line of white supremacist racist dudes who say it is cool to have a democracy but do not practice it in reality.

The dude Mills also has the unrestrained libido of a rabbit. He must have sex - or turn violent - with every woman he meets. Perhaps he is following God's biblical injunction - again, borrowed from the biblical Hebrews - to "MULTIPLY", although Moses's ten commandements do not include "fornicative multiplication" as the eleventh commandment. I advise the adultering Texas Governor, the violating promoter of the divine commandments, the fornicator Gregg Abbot, to add an eleventh commandement, "Thou Shalt Fucketht Every Woman" as a fine print waiver to the other commandements (Thou shalt not commit adultery and Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife). This is what American insurance companies do: In large print, you get all the promises and pledges, but then after 100 pages of bullshit materials, they insert a small fine-print page in which they walk back all the aforementioned promises of coverage. This is the American business genius!

 White and horny MAGA republican dude Cory Mills - Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images

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Rep. Cory Mills Just Got Busted for Yet Another Sex Scandal: Report

Sarah Rumpf

Fri, November 21, 2025

No stranger to scandal, Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) just got his name in the headlines again, this time for reportedly getting caught with sex workers during a 2021 rescue mission to help evacuate Americans from Afghanistan.

The tale of Mills’ alleged misplaced priorities was reported on Thursday by Reese Gorman at NOTUS, citing “a source with direct knowledge of the incident and two sources briefed on the matter.”

According to Gorman’s report, Mills was part of a group of private individuals on an unofficial trip to Afghanistan in the wake of the chaos that accompanied the withdrawal of U.S. troops, with the intention of extracting Americans still stranded there as the Taliban retook control. At the time, Mills, an Army veteran, was a candidate for Florida’s 7th congressional district.

The trouble arose before they even arrived in Afghanistan, Gorman wrote, when the group was stopped in Tbilisi, Georgia before continuing on the next phase of their travels. One evening, Mills “was caught with sex workers” in the hallway of their accommodations, a discovery that made the other group members because “[t]heir mission was already sensitive, given the state of the country they were trying to enter.”

New: Cory Mills was caught with sex workers in Tilbisi, Georgia in 2021.

While awaiting to travel on an unannounced rescue mission to Afghanistan, Mills was caught in the hallway with sex workers and was kicked out of the group.https://t.co/rZ0o3A2q66  — Reese Gorman (@reesejgorman) November 20, 2025

The sources told NOTUS that this incident led the group to decide to “part ways” with Mills, and he traveled to Afghanistan separately.

While there, Mills did apparently help evacuate an American woman and her three children and then later publicly squabbled with the State Department, accusing the Biden administration of stealing credit in an appearance on Fox News and other media interviews.

Mills, now 45, has co-founded several security and defense contracting companies. His troubles over the past year include multiple on-the-record stolen valor accusations from soldiers who served with him in combat, a House Ethics Committee investigation into his business dealings and financial disclosures, a report he was being evicted from his D.C. penthouse apartment after his landlord accused him of owing $85,000, an accusation in February from 27-year-old Sarah Raviani that he had assaulted her at that D.C. apartment, a warrant was issued for Mills’ arrest but then Raviani recanted her accusations and he was not arrested, and then in September, Lindsey Langston, 26, the current reigning Miss United States and a Florida GOP state committeewoman, filed a restraining order petition against him.

Langston’s petition included numerous allegations against Mills, describing how she broke up with him after learning he was also in a relationship with Raviani from the news reports. However, he continued to aggressively pursue and harass her for months, ignoring her repeated rejections and requests to leave her alone.

According to Langston, “the threats from Cory intensified over time,” and included “emotional manipulation,” “physical violence against whoever I date in the future,” and threats to release nude images and sexually explicit videos of her, which would violate the Miss United States pageant’s code of conduct and jeopardize her crown.

Last month, a Florida judge slapped Mills with a restraining order requiring him to stay away from Langston, telling the congressman he found his testimony to not be believable.

Momentum is building in the House to censure Mills for these accusations of domestic violence and stolen valor, with several of his fellow Republicans supporting a censure resolution.

Regarding this latest report about sex workers in Georgia, his office did not respond to NOTUS’ request for comment and thus far, Mills has not posted on social media about it, although he has recently denied other allegations against him.

Trump to Pardon Jonathan Pollard, the Jewish Spy who sold US secrets to Israel

Christian Zionist US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Loves Israeli Spies.  

Despite claiming ignorance, Donald Dumb instructed the moron Hucakbee to meet with the Jewish American traitor and spy Jonathan Pollard, who betrayed his own country (well, many American Jews consider Israel as their first country, and the US as a secondary convenient herd of livestock to use and abuse) by selling American military and nuclear secrets to Israel. Donald Dumb has been on a roll pardoning every possible criminal out there, and Pollard appears to be no exception. Pollard has been out of US prisons since 2015, his parole ended in 2020, and he is now a free traitor and criminal, hiding like many Jewish criminals in Israel, the so-called "homeland of the Jews". But an ultimate pardon by Donald Dumb would crown Pollard's nefarious career.

For background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard 

The Evangelical Christian moron from the backward slavery state of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, loves Israelis who spy against the US. His behavior is symptomatic of the "US as Israel's Butler" syndrome in which Israelis can spy and steal from the US without shame or fear. Americans and Israelis are one and the same people because Zionists say they are both bound by the garbage parchment known as the "bible". In his rat hole in occupied colonized Palestine, War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu claims he has stolen and raped Palestine, and is exterminating the indigenous Palestinian people (with the civilized western methods of ethnic cleansing and genocide) in order to defend western values! Hahahahaaaaa .... Israel thus proves that it itself is no more than a Jewish American colony in Palestine, and that the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) no more than an American colonial militia whose objective is to terrorize the native Palestinians into never rising up against the rape of their ancestral country of Palestine. Netanyahu and Huckabee's magic formula: For every Palestinian killed, ten Zionist settlers can take his place, and ten Christian Americans are ensured a one-way express ticket to Jesus-Christ's heavenly Disney-like resort. 

I have pity for Americans. They don't know that they are used by Zionists to promote and advance the Zionist rape of Palestine. They just go along because their biased media, their Zionist-lobby-paid representatives, and the Zionist-run Hollywood and entertainment industry feed their guinea-pig brains with distorted and biased information. Where do they think did Trump learn his trade of lies, alternative facts, and distorted misinformation from? The dumb jackass learned all of this from Roy Cohn, Jeffrey Epstein and all his New York Russian and Jewish Mafia buddies.

Donald Dumb and Roy Cohn, the evil master "architect" who mentored Donald Dumb (The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/apprentice-trump-roy-cohn-jeremy-strong-b2628062.html) 

‘He Is Out of Control’: MAGA Demands Answers After Trump Ambassador Mike Huckabee Covertly Meets With Spy Who Sold American Secrets

Charlie Nash

Fri, November 21, 2025

[LI: The neanderthal Arkansan idiot US ambassador to Israel expects all Jews to convert to Christianity once his Savior Messiah Jesus-Christ returns (schedule unknown, but often declared as imminent) to earth from his heavenly abode where he's been recovering from his crucifixion some 2,000 years ago. If the Jews do not repent and convert, then Huckabee must follow his garbage bible's injunction to kill all the Jews who refuse to become Christians. That is why Donald Dumb appointed him as US Ambassador to the Zionist colony in Palestine, namely to speed up the return of the Messiah and the genocide of the recalcitrant Jews. Israelis: You've been warned. Huckabee and his ilk love you to death, literally. Remember that the Christian religion is an offshoot of Judaism, the first Christians during the first 300 years after the death of Jesus were ALL Jewish terrorist rebels fighting to topple the Roman Empire.] AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg

Prominent supporters of President Donald Trump demanded answers on Thursday after it was revealed that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee had held a secret meeting in Jerusalem with Jonathan Pollard, a convicted spy who sold American secrets to Israel.

Reacting to news of the July rendezvous, which reportedly raised concerns at the CIA, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said, “This is shocking behavior from a United States ambassador. Is Huckabee going to explain it?”

“Immediately Recall Ambassador Huckabee, He is Out of Control,” reacted former White House chief strategist and Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon. 

“There is no universe where it’s appropriate for Mike Huckabee, who is supposed to be OUR AMBASSADOR and serve our country’s interest, is meeting with Jonathan Pollard, who to this day encourages spying on the U.S.,” protested Mike Cernovich, who called for an investigation into the meeting. 

The meeting was also condemned by several Democrats, including Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) and former Obama White House staffer Tommy Vietor. 

“Jonathan Pollard is a convicted traitor who provided highly sensitive national security information to the Israeli government. He did grave harm to our country. He has never shown a degree of remorse for his crimes,” declared Castro. “It’s unacceptable that Ambassador Huckabee secretly met with Mr. Pollard, a convicted traitor, at the United States Embassy.”

Huckabee’s secret meeting with Pollard at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem was revealed by the New York Times on Thursday – four months after the rendezvous took place.

Pollard confirmed the “friendly meeting” in an interview with the newspaper and said that “a lot of things that came up in conversation.”

Pollard also attacked President Trump, calling him a “madman who has literally sold us down the drain, for Saudi gold.”

Three unnamed officials told the Times that the meeting “alarmed the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in Israel.” The White House was also reportedly unaware of the meeting in advance.

The former U.S. intelligence analyst was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 after he was found guilty of selling American secrets to the state of Israel.

After being released from prison in 2015, Pollard moved to Israel in 2020 – flying on a private jet owned by top Trump donor Sheldon Adelson. In Tel Aviv, Pollard was given a hero’s welcome by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Nag, Nag, Nag.... NAGA Morons Angry for Being Fooled by Donald Dumb

All of the disappointment below notwithstanding, the NAGA morons know they are under pressure to demonstrate thei patriotism and their "Americanity" by indebting themsleves further into a financial bottomless hole by rushing to spend every penny they make, consume and buy junk and crap for the "holidays" in order to save Trump's America.

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People Have No Sympathy For This Trump Supporter Who Complained About Their Rising Insurance Cost In A Viral Rant
Alexa Lisitza
Fri, November 21, 2025

Republicans have a problem. According to Politico, Americans who buy their insurance through the Affordable Care Act may face a 26% rise in their premiums, and those who get insurance through their employers could see a hike of up to 7%.
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Their hypothetical solution? Find a way to avoid premium rises without extending government subsidies. However, if you ask how they'll do this, that has yet to be seen.

I'm sure I don't have to tell you, but Americans are already struggling to afford basic needs and the cost of living. As Bankrate Senior Economic Analyst Mark Hamrick told CBS News, "We are essentially a paycheck-to-paycheck nation," and a single emergency could knock most citizens off their feet.

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As the end of the year nears, so do insurance open enrollment deadlines, and purchasers don't like what they're seeing — including MAGA voters who expected Republicans to lower prices. One such person includes this poster, whose rant about their 2026 insurance premiums is going viral. "Dear President Trump," they wrote. "I once was a supporter of yrs. Now, I am NOT !!!" [LI: FU-- YOU moron]

Charming-Rooster8773 / reddit.com [LI: Thank you for your attention to this matter!]
"Thanks to you and yr administration my insurance premiums in 2026 will be 5 ( FIVE !!!!! ) times what it was in 2025. Same policy.......same coverage ! So much for me retiring next year," they wrote.

"Can't afford it, but hell can't afford anything anymore !!!!!!! 😭😭 This country is no longer about the people. Hate me if you want. Unfriended me if you want."
"i am tired of working my ass off and getting nowhere. I am simply trying to make a good life for my family ! That gets harder everyday," the poster concluded.

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Hundreds upon hundreds of people commented on the post, and most are not exactly sympathetic. "After all this time, I still don't understand how people relying on health insurance and/or government assistance to get through each month could have voted for a candidate who very clearly indicated he was going to savagely cut those things," Redditor changelingcd commented.

Sopa Images / Getty Images [LI: Donald Dumb's NAGA supporters look like they're mutants from the Jurassic period]
 

"Why are these people so upset?" user JustinTime4242 questioned. "They got exactly what they voted for. Shouldn’t they be happy?" [LI: BUT THEY ARE THE DUMBEST OF THE DUMBEST 'NAGA' MORONS. THEIR DEFECTIVE BRAINS PREVENT THEM FROM ANTICIPATING CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS. THEY VOTE WITH EMPTY SKULLS.]

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Others suggested the poster may have been worried about the wrong thing...or the wrong party.

"If only there was some political party that wanted people to have healthcare and fair wages," letdogsvote quipped. But most suggested that the reality facing America is one that voters should have expected.

"He is not a politician. He is a businessman," derpferd said. "And for everyone who says you should run the government like a businessman, that's dumb. Governments exist to serve the needs of the people. Businesses exist to serve the goal of achieving a profit."
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Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with health insurance through work
Kelly Hooper
Thu, November 20, 2025

Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo

Rising health insurance premiums are a political problem for Republicans. Rising premiums for workers who get health insurance from their employers could be an even bigger one.

Republicans in Congress are focused on finding a way to counteract an expected 26 percent rise in premiums for people who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act, without extending government subsidies that make insurance more affordable.

What the GOP isn't talking about: Nearly seven times as many Americans get health insurance through an employer as those who buy it individually. Those 165 million people are expected to see their premiums spike by up to 7 percent.

"That's going to absolutely put pressure on whoever’s [in power],” said Katherine Hempstead, senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a health care-focused philanthropy.

Voters have started making it clear that affordability of basic necessities — including health care — will be a defining issue in determining who holds the balance of power in Congress after next year's midterm elections. That means the GOP may need to look beyond fixing Affordable Care Act subsidies to maintain control of the House and Senate.

Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers and candidates say they plan to make affordability their top issue in next year’s midterm elections, but it remains to be seen whether they'll include the plight of workers with employer-provided insurance in their push.
 

Passing rising medical costs on to patients

People with group coverage are expected to see an average 6 to 7 percent premium increase this month as they re-enroll in coverage that will start in January.

That comes as their employers are expecting the largest jump in health costs in 15 years in 2026, at 6.7 percent, more than double the rate of inflation and the typical pay raise workers are getting.

Employer-provided insurance rates are rising as medical costs shoot up — especially hospital and prescription drug costs, partially driven by the GLP-1 drug boom. In 2025, prescription drug spending rose 9.4 percent on average among large employers as more companies began covering the costly weight-loss treatments, according to Mercer.

Consolidation among health care providers, which limits competition and gives health systems more power to demand higher prices for care, also plays a role, policy experts said.

Plans may be more expensive next year to account for uncertainty over rising costs as the Trump administration implements tariffs on some drugs and medical devices, the experts said. That could drive up costs for providers at the same time that fewer Americans are projected to be insured, which puts pressure on health systems to shift costs to commercial plans.

“We all use the same delivery system, and if a hospital loses Medicaid coverage or other public coverage, they always seek to recoup those costs by passing them on to private coverage,” said Elizabeth Mitchell, president and CEO of Purchaser Business Group on Health, a nonprofit coalition of employers.
 

Congress is 'missing the broader point'

The 24 million people enrolled in Obamacare and 69 million seniors enrolled in Medicare are also seeing higher premiums during open enrollment. While there are similar catalysts behind the price hikes, Obamacare premiums are under extra pressure due to expiring subsidies Democrats supersized in 2021.

The news gets worse for those on employer plans.

In addition to rising premiums, workers are expected to see higher deductibles, co-pays and out-of-pocket maximums next year, which could lead to larger out-of-pocket costs, according to consulting firm Mercer’s 2025 National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans.

The projected premium increases for next year in the employer market follow a 6 percent increase this year, when premiums for employer-sponsored family coverage reached nearly $27,000. Workers contribute an average $6,850 toward the cost of family coverage, according to nonpartisan research group KFF, with their employers picking up the rest.

Employers plan to raise wages 3.1 percent on average in 2026, according to Mercer. That means a sizable portion of many employees’ pay increase will go toward covering rising insurance premiums, leaving little left over to pay for increased costs elsewhere in their budgets.

“Our wages aren't going up fast enough to keep up with inflation. A huge part of that is because [employers] are spending so much more on health care,” said Shawn Gremminger, president and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, a coalition of mid- and large-sized employers.

Concern from employer groups like the National Alliance and PBGH comes as bipartisan lawmakers in Congress are searching for a path forward to make health care more affordable for millions of Americans — but the focus is on the Obamacare marketplace.

Lawmakers are “missing the broader point,” Gremminger said.

Average Americans aren't going to understand the nuances of health care markets and subsidies, he said, adding, "But I think they will notice when their health care costs go up next year, and they will wonder why Congress is congratulating itself on solving the problem that they haven't solved."

Employer groups are urging Congress to consider cost-cutting reforms, including bolstering provider and insurer price transparency requirements and cracking down on health care consolidation. But so far, there’s been little indication that either party is focused on employer health costs as Obamacare subsidies take center stage of lawmakers’ end-of-year discussions.

Republicans recently proposed allowing people enrolled in the ACA to access funds through health savings accounts, as opposed to receiving a federal subsidy to offset premium costs. Democrats continue to push for an ACA subsidy extension.

Earlier this year, the Senate stripped provisions from the House-passed GOP domestic policy megabill that would have strengthened HSAs for people on employer health plans, including one that would have doubled the amount individuals and families could contribute to the pre-tax accounts for medical expenses that some companies offer with high-deductible health plans. Another stripped provision would’ve broadened services enrollees can use HSA funds for to include fitness and sports expenses.

The Senate-passed version of the bill included less expansive HSA provisions, including one allowing high-deductible plans to pay for telehealth visits without jeopardizing clients’ ability to qualify for HSAs. Another allows people to use HSAs for direct primary care, or when patients pay primary care doctors a monthly or yearly fee rather than reimbursing them through insurance.

House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) signaled Monday that he wants to revisit the House’s HSA proposals and address rising employer health plan costs, but it’s not clear whether he plans to offer a specific plan and when he’ll pursue it.

Smith’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, Republicans are looking ahead to the midterms. If they want to hang onto their majorities in the House and Senate, GOP lawmakers could stand to gain from addressing rising costs of employer insurance.

It's among the priorities Americans say they care about, with polling showing that health care affordability is among the top issues voters hope Congress will address. The polling, from Reuters/Ipsos, also showed that voters see cost of living as a top concern going into the midterms.

Faced with rising costs from all angles, employees may opt to enroll in cheaper, lower-quality health plans with higher deductibles or forgo coverage altogether, a trend policy experts think will be mirrored in the ACA market if enhanced subsidies expire.

Consumers are already struggling to pay for basic expenses like food and gas, Hempstead pointed out. If they're hit with a big increase in premiums, she added, they may say: 'I'm just not going to pay for it."

The result could be a lose-lose situation: Fewer people insured and more uncompensated costs for providers.

Trump's Epstein Files Delay: 'There's Things in There He Doesn't Want People to See'

My favorite: Jeffrey Epstein called Trump a “crook” 
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Jeffrey Epstein's Brother Believes Trump Delayed Release of Files Because 'There's Things in There He Doesn't Want People to See'

Mark Epstein also alleged that his late brother believed Trump was a “crook” in a TV interview that the White House chalked up to "baseless claims"
Vanessa Etienne
Fri, November 21, 2025


Owen Hoffmann/Patrick McMullan via Getty; Neil Rasmus/Patrick McMullan via Getty; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Mark Epstein; Jeffrey Epstein; Donald Trump

NEED TO KNOW

Mark Epstein says he believes President Donald Trump took so long to endorse the release of the Epstein files because “there’s things in there he doesn’t want people to see”

He also alleged that Jeffrey Epstein called Trump a “crook” and investigators should look into the president’s flight logs from the '90s

A White House spokesperson dismissed Mark's recent allegations as "baseless claims" when reached by PEOPLE on Nov. 20

Mark Epstein is sharing why he believes President Donald Trump took so long to release the files related to his late brother, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

On Thursday, Nov. 20, Mark called into CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront and admitted that he thinks Trump’s delay in supporting the release of the long-awaited Epstein files was purposeful.

“Well, I think it’s an obvious question, not just for me,” he said. “It’s just there’s things in there he doesn’t want people to see. I mean, that... seems to be obvious.”

There is currently no evidence to support his claim, which appears to be speculative.

Additionally, Mark told Burnett that his brother and Trump were “very good friends” and used to fly together on their respective private planes, which he said is something investigators should look into.

“They say Donald was on Jeff’s plane like seven times, but I question, have they checked Donald’s flight logs from those days to see how many times Jeffrey was on his plane?" Mark said. "I know Jeffrey told me on a number of occasions that he flew up or flew down with Donald. And Donald was in Jeffrey’s office quite a bit back in the 90s. They were good friends, everybody around knew that.”

Mark then alleged that Jeffrey cut ties with Trump because he “realized that Trump was a crook” — a comment from his brother that he claims was caught somewhere “on tape.”

In the interview, Mark also claimed that the pair spoke to each other following the 2016 presidential election.

“Jeffrey told me that it was after the election, Trump called him and it was sort of like ‘Can you believe this?’ Because nobody believed Trump was going to win. Trump was sort of surprised himself that he won,” Mark alleged.

Trump has maintained that he hadn’t spoken to Jeffrey in several years prior to his death.

The latest comments from Jeffrey's brother come shortly after he claimed in a phone interview with NewsNation that an unnamed source told him that names of conservative politicians were being axed from the Epstein files to prevent Republicans from getting incriminated.

"I've been recently told, the reason they're going to be releasing the files and the reason for the flip is that they're sabotaging these files," Mark said on Monday, Nov. 18, further alleging that administration officials are "scrubbing the files to take Republican names out."

"That's what I was told by a pretty good source," he added.

Additionally, Mark alleged that his brother had information on Trump when he was running for his first term in office in 2016, claiming that it was incriminating enough to “cancel the election.”

"He didn't tell me what he knew," Mark told the outlet, "but Jeffrey definitely had dirt on Trump."

Asked about Mark's recent claims, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson shifted the conversation to Democrats who were also seemingly in Jeffrey's orbit, suggesting that their affiliations with Jeffrey deserve attention too.

"Instead of amplifying baseless claims, the media should start asking real questions: why was Democrat Stacey Plaskett live texting Epstein in 2019 during a congressional hearing after he was a convicted sex offender and why did she accept thousands of dollars from him? Why was Hakeem Jeffries soliciting money and dinner from Epstein after he was a convicted sex offender? Why did President Bill Clinton travel on Epstein’s plane 26 times? And why did one of Epstein’s victims write that she saw Clinton on Epstein’s island with two young women?" Jackson said in the statement.

"These are just some of the many questions that the American people deserve to have answered,” she added.

Plaskett has addressed her text exchanges with Epstein during a 2019 House hearing by defending to CNN that she "believed that Jeffrey Epstein had information" and "was going to get information to get at the truth." She claimed, "Having a friendship with him is not something that I would deem to have."

House Minority Leader Jeffries recently shrugged off a newly released Epstein email — which showed that a fundraising firm invited Epstein to one of Jeffries' campaign dinners in 2013 — telling CNN, "I have no recollection of the email. I've never had a conversation with him, never met him, know nothing about him other than the extreme things that he’s been convicted of doing."

Clinton's spokesperson, meanwhile, has maintained for years that the former president was unaware of Epstein's crimes. In another of the recently released emails from Jeffrey's personal address, the late wealth manager wrote, "CLinton [sic] was never on the island."

Trump has distanced himself from Jeffrey over the years, though there have been documented ties between the two for years prior to the disgraced financier's arrest and downfall.

Jeffrey was arrested in July 2019 and charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors. One month later, while he was awaiting trial at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, Jeffrey died in an apparent suicide.

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Trump's Ass-Kissing to Oil-Drenched Dollar-Laden Saudis has no Limits

"You don't want to embarrass our guest", said Trump when reporters asked the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman about the assassination and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. US intelligence services investigated the matter and found that the assassination was in all likelihood ordered by the Crown Prince himself.

All of this because Trump wants to keep making money off the backs of the wealthy but hapless Saudis who think they need the protection of a babysitter like Trump. Trump too is trying to woo the Saudis into signing a surrender normalization deal with the Zionist colony in Palestine. Despite all of this, the Saudis remain the last obstacle to the extermination and elimination of Palestine and its people. But the Crown Prince is already surrendering to Trump's pressures and scare tactics: He no longer wants an independent Palestine as a condition to normalize; he now says he wants a "pathway" to an independent Palestine. Pathway my a s s - like a bridge to nowhere. A "pathway", we know from the violent and colonial expansionist history of the Zionist colony in Palestine, that will be blown up by the rabid racist Zionists the moment the Crown Prince signs.

Trump is setting many traps to the Saudis whose fear of the Iranian scarecrow is making them fall into all these traps. The Saudis probably know what Trump says about them behind their backs; they are no fools. They know he doesn't give a shit about them - in fact he hates them because he's a Christian Evangelical crusader who hates all Muslims, especially those with oil. But the ruling tribe of the desert kingdom knows that its grip on the country and its resources is delicate, what with a short history (less than 100 years) preceded by constant centuries-long warfare between various tribes. The American blackmail consists of the US brandishing Iran as the ultimate boogeyman to keep the Saudis - and their oil -  hiding under Uncle Sam's military skirt. 

Meanwhile, the American television networks (OSN, CNN, MS Now, etc.) that broadcast in the Arabian Gulf region keep pumping shitty, bloody, gory and violent Hollywood movies with very little educational content into the brains of a captive Saudi audience and whose brainwashing into all-things-American is doubled by advertisements and commercials promoting junk food and gas-guzzling giant cars that Americans themselves are rejecting. That is what colonialism does: dispose of your own trash (material and cultural) by dumping it over your colonized victims who see it as gold!

In sum, Saudi Arabia, despite the gold-laced machismo of its inbred ruling royal family, is a colony of the US. OOps! Just like Israel. There are many people who think the "Abraham Accords" refer to the three monotheistic cults. But what those pathetic Christians, who find solace in believing that they are part of the "accords", ignore that the Abraham Accords are only betwen Muslims and Jews, and exclude Christians. In the biblical garbage, Abraham fornicated with his maid Haggar and with his 100-year-old wife Sarah, and produced two sons: One an Arab-Jewish bastard know as Ismael whom he quickly abandoned in the desert because he was the son of the Arab maid. Ismael is the metaphorical father of the Arabs. Imagine, then, that the Judeo-Christian world is impregnated with the notion of the Arabs being the lower-caste bastard Semites, whereas Isaac, the son of old and decrepit  Sarah, is the "real" pure-blooded Jewish son of Abraham and is therefore automatically viewed as superior to the Arabs.

In the Near East, the bible-imbided Americans have no place for non-Muslims and non-Jews. The easy-to-comprehend, simpleton formula that dumb US students can understand negates all the complexities of the region, and it is taught at the most prestigious American academies to future diplomats and politicians, namely that there are only two sides in the Near East: The Jewish one represented by the American Jewish outpost known as Israel, and the Muslim one represented by the American Muslim colony known as Saudi Arabia (and its little satellites of the Gulf Emirates). 
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Secret Tape That Could Spin Trump Into Another Cover-Up Scandal
Farrah Tomazin
Wed, November 19, 2025

The White House is facing calls to release a “shocking and disturbing” phone call between Donald Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince at the centre of the gruesome murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

One day after the president insisted Mohammed bin Salman had nothing to do with Khashoggi’s killing, despite U.S. intelligence officials concluding he ordered the hit, a former Trump national security insider has claimed there is explosive evidence to the contrary.

Virginia Congressman Eugene Vindman was a National Security Council staffer under the first Trump administration. His work included reviewing certain calls between the president and foreign leaders.

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) meets with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office . / Win McNamee / Getty Images

He claims that one phone call he reviewed undercut Trump’s astonishing defense of the Crown Prince in the Oval Office on Tuesday, when he said of Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents: “Things happen.”

“During my tenure on Trump’s White House National Security Council staff, I reviewed many of Trump’s calls with foreign leaders. Of all the calls I reviewed, two stood out as the most problematic,” said Vindman, a retired Army officer-turned-Democratic Congressman. “The first, we all know, was between President Trump and President Zelensky, which resulted in President Trump’s first impeachment. The second was between President Trump and Mohammed bin Salman.

Rep. Eugene Vindman has called on the White House to release the details of a phone call between Trump and MBS. / Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images

“After the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, I reviewed a call between the president and the Saudi crown prince. The American people and the Khashoggi family deserve to know what was said on that call. If history is any guide, the receipts will be shocking.”

The Daily Beast has asked the White House if it would be prepared to release the transcript, but White House officials have yet to answer.

Seven years after Khashoggi’s murder cast the prince as an international pariah, Trump rolled out the red carpet for Salman on Tuesday, welcoming him with a military flyover, a horse procession, and Saudi flags draped across the White House and South Lawn.

President Donald Trump salutes a U.S. military honor guard as he awaits the arrival of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. / Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

The president also hosted a dinner for the crown prince last night. Guests included Elon Musk, who is back in Trump’s good graces, as well as soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, Apple chief executive Tim Cook, Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, and billionaire investor Bill Ackerman.

But it was Trump’s earlier comments in the Oval Office that stunned Americans, and prompted Vindman to call for the phone call transcript to be released in remarks to the House chamber.

Musk's most recent White House appearance before Tuesday was in late May. / BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images

Asked about Khashoggi, a dual U.S. citizen who was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw by Saudi agents in 2018, Trump said on Tuesday: “You’re mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” he said.

He also said of the prince: “He knew nothing about it and we can leave it at that. You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.”

Jamal Khashoggi looks on during a press conference in the Bahraini capital Manama, on December 15, 2014. / Mohammed al-Shaikh/AFP via Getty Images

Khashoggi was longtime Washington Post columnist known for his criticism of the Saudi kingdom. He was assassinated and dismembered at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, after going there to get paperwork for his upcoming marriage.

But according to veteran reporter Bob Woodward, Trump once bragged about protecting Salman from Congressional scrutiny after the killing, which Trump’s own CIA pinned on the crown prince.

“I saved his ass,” Trump is quoted as saying in Woodward’s book, Rage. “I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop.”

The Saudi royal, however, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and told reporters on Tuesday: “We did all the right steps in terms of investigation, etc. in Saudi Arabia and we’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that.”

Trump was also forced to defend his family’s business interests in Saudi Arabia, insisting he had no conflicts of interest as president because he had “nothing to do with the family business.”

This week, for instance, the Trump Organization and its Saudi-based development partner, Dar Al Arkan, announced a project allowing cryptocurrency investors to buy into Trump-branded real estate projects.

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) speaks to Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia as they walk on the colonnade at the White House.

It also has several Trump-branded projects, while Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, runs a private equity firm that has taken $2 billion from a fund led by the crown prince.

But speaking on CNN on Wednesday morning ahead of Trump and the crown prince attending a Saudi investment forum, Vindman said the call he reviewed was equally disturbing and shocking “in light of the enrichment that the Trump family has received in the ensuing years.”

The call between Trump and the Crown Prince is believed to have taken place around June 2019. Around the same time, the Trump White House released details of a phone call between the two leaders, in which they discussed escalating tensions between Iran and the US.

The New Yorker said Trump’s family signed [sic] [LI: Notice the fake compassionate smile Trump puts on his stupid face when he is currying favors from people he hates]

They also talked about “Saudi Arabia’s critical role in ensuring stability in the Middle East and in the global oil market”, the White House said at the time, but there was no mention of Khashoggi in the readout.

The call is not the only one to come under scrutiny. In a 2019, Trump also asked Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, which led to accusations of a quid pro quo - and Trump’s first impeachment.

Vindman’s twin brother Alexander, a decorated combat veteran and former director of European Affairs for the NSC, testified in that impeachment trial.

Would You Put it Past Trump to Destroy/Sanitize/Doctor the Epstein Files?

No sane person would. He has a fantastic record of cheating on everything. His whole life is on gigantic crime spree. The sneaky bastard has already asked Pam Bondi, his DOJ lapdog, to investigate Democrats' connections with Epstein, which means that Bondi can now claim she can't release the Epstein Files because (some of) their materials are part of ongoing investigations.

Meanwhile, the "Files" are in the custody of DOJ and the FBI who could very well be, as we speak, tampering with the Files in order to exculpate Trump.

The US has become a "Rotten Banana Republic". 

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Could Trump destroy the Epstein files?

Michael Wilner

Tue, November 18, 2025

President Trump answers questions from reporters Monday in the Oval Office. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)

In political exile at his mansion in Florida, under investigation for possessing highly classified documents, Donald Trump summoned his lawyer in 2022 for a fateful conversation. A folder had been compiled with 38 documents that should have been returned to the federal government. But Trump had other ideas.

Making a plucking motion, Trump suggested his attorney, Evan Corcoran, remove the most incriminating material. "Why don't you take them with you to your hotel room, and if there's anything really bad in there, like, you know, pluck it out," Corcoran memorialized in a series of notes that surfaced during criminal proceedings.

Trump's purported willingness to conceal evidence from law enforcement as a private citizen is now fueling concern on Capitol Hill that his efforts to thwart the release of Justice Department files in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation could lead to similar obstructive efforts — this time wielding the powers of the presidency.

Since resuming office in January, Trump has opposed releasing files from the federal probe into the conduct of his former friend, a convicted sex offender and alleged sex trafficker who is believed to have abused more than 200 women and girls. But bipartisan fervor has only grown over the case, with House lawmakers across party lines expected to unite behind a bill on Tuesday that would compel the release of the documents.

Last week, facing intensifying public pressure, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 files from Epstein's estate that referenced Trump more than 1,000 times.

Those files, which included emails from Epstein himself, showed the notorious financier believed that Trump had intimate knowledge of his criminal conduct. "He knew about the girls," Epstein wrote, referring to Trump as the "dog that hasn't barked."

Rep. Dave Min (D-Irvine), a member of the oversight committee, noted Trump could order the release of the Justice Department files without any action from Congress.

"The fact that he has not done so, coupled with his long and well documented history of lying and obstructing justice, raises serious concerns that he is still trying to stop this investigation," Min said in an interview, "either by trying to persuade Senate Republicans to vote against the release or through other mechanisms."

A spokesperson for Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said that altering or destroying portions of the Epstein files “would violate a wide range of federal laws.”

“The senator is certainly concerned that Donald Trump, who was investigated and indicted for obstruction, will persist in trying to stonewall and otherwise prevent the full release of all the documents and information in the U.S. government’s possession,” the spokesperson said, “even if the law is passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.”

After the House votes on the bill, titled the Epstein Files Transparency Act, bipartisan support in the Senate would be required to pass the measure. Trump would then have to sign it into law.

Trump encouraged Republican House members to support it over the weekend after enough GOP lawmakers broke ranks last week to compel a vote, overriding opposition from the speaker of the House. Still, it is unclear whether the president will support the measure as it proceeds to his desk.

On Monday, Trump said he would sign the bill if it ultimately passes. "Let the Senate look at it," he told reporters.

The bill prohibits the attorney general, Pam Bondi, from withholding, delaying or redacting the publication of "any record, document, communication, or investigative material on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary."

But caveats in the bill could provide Trump and Bondi with loopholes to keep records related to the president concealed.

"Because DOJ possesses and controls these files, it is far from certain that a vote to disclose 'the Epstein files' will include documents pertaining to Donald Trump," said Barbara McQuade, who served as the United States attorney for the eastern district of Michigan from 2010 until 2017, when Trump requested a slew of resignations from U.S. attorneys.

Already, this past spring, FBI Director Kash Patel directed a Freedom of Information Act team to work with hundreds of agents to comb through the entire trove of files from the investigation, and directed them to redact references to Trump, citing his status as a private citizen with privacy protections when the probe first launched in 2006, Bloomberg reported at the time.

"It would be improper for Trump to order the documents destroyed, but Bondi could redact or remove some in the name of grand jury secrecy or privacy laws," McQuade added. "As long as there’s a pending criminal investigation, I think she can either block disclosure of the entire file or block disclosure of individuals who are not being charged, including Trump."

Destroying the documents would be a taller task, and "would need a loyal secretary or equivalent," said Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a professor emeritus and FBI historian at the University of Edinburgh.

Jeffreys-Jones recalled J. Edgar Hoover's assistant, Helen Gandy, spending weeks at his home destroying the famed FBI director's personal file on the dirty secrets of America's rich and powerful.

It would also be illegal, scholars say, pointing to the Federal Records Act that prohibits anyone — including presidents — from destroying government documents.

After President Nixon attempted to assert executive authority over a collection of incriminating tapes that would ultimately end his presidency, Congress passed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act, asserting that government documents and presidential records are federal property. Courts have repeatedly upheld the law.

While presidents are immune from prosecution over their official conduct, ordering the destruction of documents from a criminal investigation would not fall under presidential duties, legal scholars said, exposing Trump to charges of obstructing justice if he were to do so.

"Multiple federal laws bar anyone, including the president or those around him, from destroying or altering material contained in the Epstein files, including various federal record-keeping laws and criminal statutes. But that doesn't mean that Trump or his cronies won't consider trying," said Norm Eisen, who served as chief ethics lawyer for President Obama and counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during Trump’s first impeachment trial.

The Democracy Defenders Fund, a nonprofit organization co-founded by Eisen, has sued the Trump administration for all records in the Epstein investigation related to Trump, warning that "court supervision is needed" to ensure Trump doesn't attempt to subvert a lawful directive to release them.

"Perhaps the greatest danger is not altering documents but wrongly withholding them or producing and redacting them," Eisen added. "Those are both issues that we can get at in our litigation, and where court supervision can be valuable."

Jeffreys-Jones also said that Trump may attempt to order redactions based on claims of national security. But "this might be unconvincing for two reasons," he said.

"Trump was not yet president at the time," he said, and "it would raise ancillary questions if redactions did not operate in the case of President Clinton."

Last week, Trump directed the Justice Department to investigate Epstein's ties to Democratic figures, including Clinton, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn's co-founder and a major Democratic donor.

He made no request for the department to similarly investigate Republicans.

Times staff writer Ana Ceballos contributed to this report.

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

 

Watch as Epstein Victim is Seized by Fear When Asked about Dictator Trump

This is what America has come down to because of Trump: Fear of speaking. Fear of victims speaking while criminals run the country.

 No audio, but you can follow the conversation with the captions.

 

 

America's Finest Criminals are US-Born White Christians

Trump is obviously at the top of the charts, the King, in this genre. But down the ladder of criminal imbecility are many other fine Americans with white skin whose devotion as Christians stems from their hope for redemption by their "personal" Savior Jesus Christ. Like Catholics, they commit crimes with the escapist knowledge that they will be forgiven by Jesus Christ and God. 

And the nutbags in this story are from.... where else? One of the most backward pro-slavery,  secessionist confederate states, Arkansas, where the KKK thrives alongside one-tooth inbred moonshiners. 

 

Benton County Sheriff's Office Amanda Penny; Michael Hogue [LI: I can see the divine white face of God on their mugshots, though I doubt that God has a tattoo on his skull. Hogue's scalp would be a very prized booty had he lived before the whites exterminated the native Amerindians]

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Pro Wrestler's Wife Divorced Him. 3 Days Later, Police Say Her New Boyfriend Shot Him Dead

Michael Hogue, 51, and Amanda Penny, 40, were arrested on first-degree murder and firearm possession charges in the Nov. 17 death of 41-year-old Kevin Nikel

Christine Pelisek
Wed, November 19, 2025


Facebook Kevin Nikel. [LI: As you can see, he's a fine southern gentleman]

Michael Hogue, 51, and his girlfriend 40-year-old Amanda Penny were arrested on charges of first-degree murder and possession of firearm by certain persons in connection with the death of her ex-husband, 41-year-old Kevin Nikel on Monday, Nov. 17, according to a news release from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office

Nikel, a former WWE wrestler, was found suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen in the area of Arkansas, 12, east of Rogers in Arkansas on July 11

Nikel and Penny finalized their divorce just days before the shooting

A woman and her boyfriend have been arrested in connection with the July death of her ex-husband, a former WWE wrestler.

Michael Hogue, 51, and 40-year-old Amanda Penny were each arrested on Monday, Nov. 17, on charges of first-degree murder and possession of firearm by certain persons in connection with the death of 41-year-old Kevin Nikel, according to a news release from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office.

Nikel was found suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen on July 11 in the Rogers, Ark., area, according to a Benton County Sheriff’s Office press release.

He was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Nikel’s mother, Susan Kinderman, told 5NEWS  that family members “still don't know exactly what happened when he got shot."

Kinderman added, "The detectives have been pretty close lipped on that, which is good, but we'd still like to know exactly what happened and who did what."

Nikel and Penny were high school sweethearts, Kinderman told the outlet. The couple finalized their divorce just days before the shooting, she said, per 5News.

According to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, citing court records, the former couple's divorce was granted on July 8.

Penny and Hogue are romantically involved, per court documents, the Democrat Gazette reported.

At a bond hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 19, Penny’s public defender told a judge that Penny is seven months pregnant and under the care of a doctor, according to the Democrat Gazette.

Nikel wrestled in WWE NXT under the name Knuckles Madsen from 2012 to 2013.

Nikel founded the Ozark Wrestling Academy and the Ozark Mountain Wrestling promotion, according to his obituary.

Hogue is being held on a $750,000 bond. Penny is being held on a $500,000 bond, per the Democrat Gazette.

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Trump: How Dare you Ask MBS About His Murder of Jamal Khashoggi?

Dictators protect each other. They understand each other. Trump was upset that the question was asked directly to visiting Mehmet, OOPs! I meant Mohammad, Bin Salman because the Trump progeny and expanded family are doing billion-dollar tacky business with the tacky Kingdom. 

Trump has promised MBS that his first dance in the new ballroom will be with him, flowing abayas and all.... 
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Donald Trump Says ABC Should Lose Its Broadcast License After Getting Irate Over Reporter’s Questions About Jamal Khashoggi Murder, Jeffrey Epstein Files
Ted Johnson
Tue, November 18, 2025

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images [Iznogood: The looks on MBS's face suggest he's thinking, "We'll see when this reporter goes to visit the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul]

UPDATED: Donald Trump called for ABC to lose its broadcast license after he grew irate at correspondent Mary Bruce after she asked Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and later asked the president about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump has berated ABC correspondents before and has called for networks to lose their licenses, his latest anger directed at Bruce for her questions and the way they were asked.

After chiding Bruce for asking a “horrible,” insubordinate” and “just a terrible question,” Trump chided her, “You’re all psyched up. Somebody psyched you over at ABC and they’re going to psych it. You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter.”

He later accused ABC of being “one of the perpetrators” of a Democratic hoax over Epstein.

“I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and it’s so wrong, and we have a great commissioner, the chairman, who should look at that.” Trump was referring to his FCC chairman, Brendan Carr.

Earlier, Bruce had asked Trump whether it was a “conflict of interest” for his family to be doing business with Saudi Arabia while he is president. Then, she asked, “Your royal highness, the U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist. 9/11 families are furious you are here in the Oval Office. Why should Americans trust you?”

Trump asked Bruce who she was, then called ABC News “fake news” and “one of the worst in the business.”

“I have nothing to do with the family business. .. What my family does is fine. They do business all over. They’ve done very little with Saudi Arabia. Actually, they could, I’m sure they could do a lot. And anything they’ve done, it’s been very good. That’s what we’ve done. We’ve built a tremendous business. …I’ve decided to leave that success behind and make America very successful.”

He then addressed Bruce’s question about the Saudi prince. “He’s done a phenomenal job.”

Referring to Khashoggi, he said, “You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen.”

Then, referring to the crown prince, Trump said to Bruce, “But he knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that. You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.”

Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post who had been a high-profile critic of the Saudi government, was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. The CIA concluded in 2018, during Trump’s first term, that the crown prince ordered his killing.

The crown prince told reporters that “it’s really painful to hear that anyone [who has] been losing his life for no real purpose and not in a legal way, and it’s been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We did all the right steps of investigation in Saudi Arabia, and we’ve improved our system to make sure nothing happened like that. It’s painful, and it’s a huge mistake, and we are doing our best that this doesn’t happen again.”

ABC and Disney did not comment, but Bruce later posted a video in which she noted that Trump “didn’t give a clear answer” on why he does not just order the release of the Epstein files.

Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) posted on X, “Trump again directs the FCC to rescind a broadcast license over a reporter’s question. Thin-skinned. Weak. Un-American. Authoritarian.”

Others spoke out about Trump’s defense of the crown prince and of his dismissal of Khashoggi’s murder as something where “things happen.”

The Washington Post editorial board wrote, “These distortions dishonor Khashoggi’s legacy, stand at odds with the facts and are beneath the office of the president.

CEO of Ford Company - Founded by Nazi Henry Ford - Says America in Trouble

Ford CEO warns America is ‘in trouble.’ Car giant has 5,000 mechanic jobs paying $120K/year unfilled. Why it’s a problem
Jing Pan
Wed, November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM GMT+2·8 min read



Headlines about the U.S. job market haven’t exactly been encouraging in 2025. Wage growth has cooled, big-tech layoffs keep surfacing and worries about a slowdown persist. But according to Ford CEO Jim Farley, there’s another side of the labor market that rarely makes the front page: high-paying jobs that are still out there — and going unfilled.

In a recent appearance on the Office Hours: Business Edition podcast, Farley recalled how his grandfather managed to build a “middle class life and a future for his family” through a blue-collar job at Ford — and insisted that similar opportunities still exist today.

“Those jobs are out there: mechanics in a Ford dealership. As of this morning, we had 5,000 openings. A bay with a lift and tools and no one to work in it,” Farley said. “$120,000 a job a year, but it takes you five years to learn it. Take a diesel out of a Superduty — it takes a lot of skill. You need to know what you're doing.”

It’s a striking contrast to the broader earnings picture. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median weekly earning for full-time U.S. workers in Q2 2025 was $1,196 — about $62,192 a year. Farley’s numbers suggest that thousands of roles pay nearly double that figure.

So why aren’t workers flocking to these jobs?

Farley points to a systemic shortage of training and education for skilled trades.

“We have over a million openings in critical jobs — emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen. It's a very serious thing. We do not have trade schools. We are not investing in educating a next generation of people like my grandfather who had nothing, who built a middle-class life and a future for his family,” he said.

Farley’s grandfather was the 389th employee hired at Ford. Today, the company’s workforce stands at roughly 180,000. Yet Farley argues that the pipeline feeding those hands-on roles has eroded — and that the consequences go far beyond economics.

“God forbid we ever get in a war, Google's not going to be able to make the tanks and the planes. So, this is a self-defense for our country issue,” he said.

It’s not an abstract point: Ford famously produced thousands of tanks and other military vehicles for Allied forces during World War II. Farley’s concern is that America may no longer have enough skilled workers to do the same today.

“We are in trouble in our country,” he said bluntly.

Still, there are signs of a shift. Reports suggest a growing number of young Americans are opting for trade careers instead of pursuing traditional college degrees. Enrollment in trade schools rose 4.9% between 2020 and 2023, according to Validated Insights. Meanwhile, U.S. college enrollment fell by roughly 1.4 million students between 2012 and 2024, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Farley’s concerns come at a time when many Americans are already feeling financially stretched. The cost of living has continued to climb and surveys regularly show that more and more Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. That leaves little room for unexpected expenses, let alone long-term financial planning.

And while skilled trades can offer the potential for strong earnings, not everyone has the training — or the time — to pursue those paths. For many workers, the challenge isn’t just finding a job, but finding ways to build additional breathing room in an economy where day-to-day costs keep rising.

Asked AI if Henry Ford was a Nazi:

Henry Ford was not a Nazi, but he held anti-Semitic views that were admired by Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders. His newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, published articles promoting conspiracy theories about Jews, which contributed to the spread of anti-Semitism in the United States and influenced Nazi ideology.