It seems as though every week there's a new bombshell revelation regarding deceased, convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and this week was no exception, even involving a member of the Royal Family.
According to the Daily Mail, an email obtained by the outlet showed that Epstein "asked Prince Andrew to arrange a dinner with the attractive daughter of the former Australian prime minister."
"Would you ask Katherine Keating if she would like to come for dinner with Woody Allen next week in New York?" Epstein asked Prince Andrew in the email.
The email was reportedly from February 16, 2011, and is part of the trove of Epstein documents currently being reviewed by members of Congress.
Just before Prince Andrew's 51st birthday, Epstein emailed the prince about his birthday plans, noting that he was sorry he couldn't be there.
"What will you do tomorrow? Sorry I cannot be there as you get older," Epstein wrote.
Prince Andrew responded, "Having a very quiet day. But a dinner party in the evening. On the Keating case."
The Daily Mail noted:
Socialite Ms Keating, who was 29 at the time, is the daughter of Paul Keating, the Australian PM from 1991 to 1996 who was dubbed 'The Lizard of Oz' in 1992 when he placed his arm around Queen Elizabeth.
Ms Keating confirmed Andrew 'fixed' her 2011 dinner with Epstein.
The outlet added:
Addressing her links to Epstein for the first time she told the MoS: 'I did attend a February dinner at Andrew's invitation – a large social event.'
The brunette was famously photographed waving goodbye to Andrew two months earlier when he stayed at Epstein's New York mansion and the financier hosted another dinner.
Keating responded, saying, "It was a large social event. A sizable chunk of NY society was there, including [American broadcasters] Barbara Walters, Charlie Rose and Katie Couric."
She added, "At the time, I had only lived in NY about ten weeks, and was happy to accept the odd social invitation."
It wasn't suggested that Keating was aware of any the illicit activities going on in Epstein's world.
The emails surfaced as questions remain regarding Prince Andrew's involvement in that world, and how much he knew.
Only time will tell what else is discovered regarding his connection to Epstein.
Canada just found out the hard way that misrepresenting and/or disrespecting the late, great President Ronald Reagan is not a wise move, at least not while President Donald Trump is in the White House.
According to Breitbart, President Trump announced an extra 10% tariff on Canadian imports, "saying Canada aired a deceptive advertisement using altered audio and video of former President Ronald Reagan to undermine his administration’s tariff policy."
Trump announced that Canada had been caught "red-handed" using altered and out-of-context clips of Reagan, which didn't sit well with him, to say the least.
The anti-tariff commercial aired during the World Series, which was enough for Trump to levy the extra tariffs on America's neighbor to the north.
Breitbart noted:
The advertisement, produced by the government of Ontario, featured Reagan appearing to denounce tariffs, prompting an immediate response from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.
President Trump, in his response to the situation, cited the respond from Reagan's institute.
Breitbart added:
In his Truth Social post, Trump cited a statement from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute that said that Canada had “created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan,” and that the material “misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address.”
Notably, the institute added that Canada “did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks” and was “reviewing its legal options."
"The sole purpose of this FRAUD was Canada’s hope that the United States Supreme Court will come to their ‘rescue’ on Tariffs that they have used for years to hurt the United States," Trump wrote.
He added, "Now the United States is able to defend itself against high and overbearing Canadian Tariffs (and those from the rest of the World as well!). Ronald Reagan LOVED Tariffs for purposes of National Security and the Economy, but Canada said he didn’t!"
Many Canadians were angry at its country's leadership over the ad, which will cost them.
🚨Breaking: Donald Trump is increasing tariffs on Canada by another 10% because of Ontario's anti-tariff add using Ronald Reagan.
How did Doug Ford, his advisors, and Prime Minister Mark Carney - who knew about it, all think this was a good idea?! pic.twitter.com/dejdxO46VZ
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) October 25, 2025
"Undiplomatic morons are in charge of this country," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "And more adds are coming from other Canadian premiers. I for one don’t understand what their strategy is, but if I were Canadian I would think it’s beyond reckless. Trump Admin officials are basically fed up with Canada."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) officers are being harrassed and even attacked at an unprecedented rate, and President Donald Trump's administration is making it clear that it has a zero-tolerance policy on the matter.
According to Breitbart, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi made it crystal clear this week to several high-profile Democrats that she will not tolerate anything that puts ICE officers and their families in danger.
One of the Democrats who received a letter stating as much was none other than former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker also received a warning from the AG.
The Democrats were warned that they face arrest should they attempt to impede ICE officers from doing their jobs, or making their identities public.
In recent days, Democrats have threatened to expose the identities of ICE agents who are simply performing their assigned duties, putting them and their families at great risk. Bondi isn't having it.
“You cannot disclose the identity of a federal agent, where they live [or of] anything that can harm them," Bondi said last week as she warned Democrats to cool it.
AG Bondi added, "Pelosi got a letter today from Deputy Attorney General Toddd Blanche. So did Brooke Jenkins, that DA [District Attorney] in San Francisco."
Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli also issued a warning regarding exposing the identities of ICE agents or otherwise putting them in immediate danger.
"We will not tolerate threats to arrest federal agents engaged in enforcing immigration laws enacted by Congress," said Essayli. “If you touch our agents, you’ll be arrested."
Pelosi issued a particularly nasty warning to federal agents, claiming California could arrest them if the state deems it necessary.
"While the president may enjoy absolute immunity courtesy of his rogue Supreme Court, those who operate under his orders do not," Pelosi wrote in a statement. “Our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law — and if they are convicted, the president cannot pardon them."
Many on social media commented on the ongoing fight between the Trump administration and TDS-ridden Democrats.
California politicians want to arrest federal agents for enforcing
federal law.
We just sent them a letter: Stand down or face prosecution.
No one threatens our agents. No one will stop us from Making America Safe Again. pic.twitter.com/xe0EK8QssO— Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) October 23, 2025
"If these politicians want to go to jail, put them in jail. It’s one thing to play negative politics, it’s completely different to endanger the safety of law-enforcement," one X user wrote.
Despite Kamala Harris’ recent assertions that the 2024 presidential election was among the closest in American history, voters, in fact, overwhelmingly sent Donald Trump back to the White House for a second term.
Now, amid suggestions from Harris that she may mount yet another bid for the Oval Office, new polling indicates that even the likes of former wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson have a better chance of victory than she does, an embarrassing revelation she has done her best to downplay, as the Daily Mail reports.
The ex-vice president recently sat down for an interview with the BBC, offering insights into what her future might hold in the aftermath of last November’s loss.
Notably, Harris firmly declared, “I am not done, I’ve not decided yet what I will do in the future beyond what I am doing right now.”
She even went so far as to say that she could “possibly” be president someday, though it was in the context of that question that she was confronted with a very awkward truth.
When recent Polymarket predictions placing Johnson at a 3% likelihood of becoming the country’s next president and and Harris’ chances at just 2% were mentioned, the former VP did her best to minimize their relevance.
Harris replied, “I think there are all kinds of polls that will tell you a variety of things. I’ve never listened to polls, adding, “If I listen to polls I would not have run for my first office or my second office, and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here in this interview.
Conservatives and others who tend to view Harris in an unfavorable light were quick to take aim at her comments in the BBC interview.
One online commentator expressed enthusiasm about a potential Harris’ presidential bid, saying, “Please let this be true, she will guarantee a JD [Vance] victory.”
Another mused, “Repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Definition of insanity.”
Referencing the effectively undemocratic coronation that put Harris at the top of the Democratic Party ticket last summer after Joe Biden bowed out, another observer wrote, “Never won a primary election and never will. She’s done and incompetent to boot.”
Yet another netizen opined on the idea of a 2028 Harris run by stating bluntly, “Hahaha, I didn’t know she did comedy.”
However, it is not just Republicans who have scoffed at the prospect of Harris serving as her party’s standard-bearer, with Fox News reporting that Democratic Party donors recently declined involvement in a major fundraiser that was set to feature the former VP as its headliner.
A source close to the situation told the Wall Street Journal that after receiving an invitation, one potential contributor “replied with a profanity-laced rejection,” while others said they were withholding participation in such activities until the party “produced substantive plans to win elections,” something they apparently do not feel should include Harris, at least in a prominent role.
From the earliest days of his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made clear his intention to reverse the Biden administration’s border failures and to get control of the criminal operations that thrived during his predecessor’s tenure.
Amid news that a well-known Mexican cartel boss was arrested earlier this month, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has stepped forward to praise the president and the “seriousness” with which he is taking the thorny challenge organizations such as the Sinaloa group represent, as the Daily Caller reports.
The DNI’s comments came during a Saturday interview on Fox News, when she left little doubt about her position on Trump’s commitment to curtailing cartel influence once and for all.
Gabbard referenced the Oct. 15 arrest of Leonardo Daniel “El Pato” Martinez Vera, a Sinaloa Cartel Plaza chief whose underlings had reportedly been involved in everything from kidnapping to murder.
The DNI was asked whether the apprehension of El Pato – an operation aided by her agency’s Counterterrorism Center -- is likely to send a strong warning shot to cartel leaders who were able to run rampant at the nation’s southern border during Biden’s time in office.
Gabbard declared in response, “Yes, it’s very significant,” adding that she wished she could reveal details of the operation itself, one which was orchestrated by agents currently working without pay “because of the Democrats’ government shutdown.”
She underscored the importance of Trump’s no-nonsense approach to battling the cartels, stating that “people are seeing President Trump is not messing around with this. If they try to resort to their own games of bribery and all of this other stuff, then they will be putting themselves in the target.”
From the first days of his second term in office, Trump made no secret of his plans to tackle the cartels, issuing an executive order on Jan. 20 designating cartels and other organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists.”
In doing so, the president declared that the “cartels functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force, nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States.”
The order went on to state that the activities of the cartels “threaten the safety of the American people, the security of the United States, and the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.”
In furtherance of the presidential order, on Feb. 20, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the designation of a host of groups, including Tren de Aragua, MS-13, Cartel de Sinaloa, and more as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” and “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
The designations, Rubio explained, “expose and isolate entities and individuals, denying them access to the U.S. financial system and the resources they need to carry out attacks,” and they also “can assist law enforcement actions of other U.S. agencies and governments.”
In the wake of El Pato’s arrest, Gabbard’s ODNI took a victory lap, stating in a press release, “We will not allow cartel gangs who target Americans to roam freely, whether in the U.S. or across the border in Mexico.”
The agency added, “Now, thanks to President Trump’s leadership, we are surging resources against cartels and gang leadership, disrupting their networks, and working alongside our Mexican partners to make communities safer and protect American lives,” not to mention undoing the damage Biden’s open-borders philosophy wrought for four straight years.
Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir has dropped more bombshell allegations about the late billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein and his child trafficking operation.
Giuffre, who passed away earlier this year, has been leading the charge in exposing Epstein's sordid empire and has been responsible for the outing of Britain's Prince Andrew as a pedophile.
Giuffre made shockwaves when she accused Prince Andrew of raping her when she was only 17. She had been trafficked by Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, to powerful figures, many of whom have remained unnamed.
Her book, titled "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice," chronicles her meetings with many powerful figures, including former President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump.
She did not accuse either of wrongdoing, but nonetheless, the meeting reinforces already known connections between Clinton and Epstein, who were close. Epstein and Trump were also connected but became estranged in 2004.
Giuffre's collision course with Epstein began when her father got her a job at Mar-a-Lago, where he worked as a maintenance worker. This brought her into contact with high society, as Trump often used the location as a meeting place for the business world's powerful leaders, which included Epstein.
Trump plays a minimal role in Giuffre's story, but things took a turn when she met Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000, and that began a tragic tale that ultimately culminated in Giuffre's death in April of this year at just 41 years old.
Giuffre wrote, "It couldn’t have been more than a few days before my dad said he wanted to introduce me to Mr. Trump himself. They weren’t friends, exactly. But Dad worked hard, and Trump liked that—I’d seen photos of them posing together, shaking hands. Trump couldn’t have been friendlier, telling me it was fantastic that I was there. 'Do you like kids?' he asked. 'Do you babysit at all?' He explained that he owned several houses next to the resort that he lent to friends, many of whom had children that needed tending."
However, it was Maxwell who recruited Giuffre as a masseuse despite her lack of experience, and that led to her traveling with Giuffre and Epstein around the world.
Of course, this led to Giuffre being asked for sexual favors by Maxwell and Epstein for the wealthy and powerful people that they would meet with. Giuffre was young and taken advantage of but her admiration of Epstein and Maxwell quickly deteriorated.
Giuffre wrote, "This was a man who displayed framed photographs of himself with the Dalai Lama, with the pope, and with members of the British royal family. A photo in his Palm Beach house showed Epstein posing behind the podium of the White House briefing room. This was a man who’d had former president Bill Clinton over for dinner (I was at the table that night) and who’d hosted Al and Tipper Gore as well (again, I was there)."
Later in her book, Giuffre detailed being handed over to an unnamed but supposedly famous Prime Minister by Epstein. She claims she was brutally raped by him on Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2002.
When she begged not to be given back to the unnamed Prime Minister, who she says laughed at her and choked her, Epstein told her that it was simply part of the job.
Giuffre is just one of dozens of Epstein's victims, and the fact that Epstein and his associates went unpunished for so long is a crime. Epstein would die by suicide before being convicted in court and Maxwell did eventually get convicted, but all of their associates are still out there free men.
A federal judge has ordered the top official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection to appear in court to respond to a Chicago lawsuit over immigration enforcement, ABC News reported. District Judge Sara Ellis has called CBP field operations leader Greg Bovino to attend a status hearing on Tuesday over the so-called "Operation Midway Blitz" in the Windy City.
As President Donald Trump sends federal agents to America's cities to clean up the rampant illegal immigration and crime problem, leftists are at the ready to make sure that doesn't happen. This has taken the form of punishing agents through legal action.
Bovino is expected to answer a lawsuit brought by demonstrators and journalists who allege that he used tear gas "without justification." This standard was set by Ellis, who previously issued a temporary restraining order preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP agents from using non-lethal action without proper "warning and justification."
However, Bovino's defenders point out that rioters were throwing rocks and other projectiles at Border Patrol agents as they were conducting official immigration business in the Little Village section of the city. Bovino was even struck in the head by one, though he did not sustain serious injury.
Most sane people would contend that anyone under attack from a crowd has more than enough justification to deploy tear gas. Indeed, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said as much, noting that they had also been warned before the detonation.
"Border Patrol agents repeated multiple warnings to back up and that chemical agents would be deployed if warnings were ignored. Riot control measures were deployed, including by Chief Bovino, and arrests were made," McLaughlin said in a statement on Friday.
"Agents properly used their training. The use of chemical munitions was conducted in full accordance with CBP policy and was necessary to ensure the safety of both law enforcement and the public," McLaughlin added.
This has become necessary after a massive increase in attacks against ICE agents, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in August, according to Fox News. Noem noted that they "are now facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them as they risk their lives to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens."
Meanwhile, Noem charged that these "acts of violence are fueled by sanctuary politicians' rhetoric vilifying our law enforcement," which has come mainly from Democratic politicians and pundits. "We will not and have not let this violence stop us or slow us down. Every day our law enforcement continues to enforce the law and arrest the most depraved criminals, including pedophiles, terrorists, murderers, gang members, and sexual predators," Noem said in a social media post.
While Bovino and other federal agents are literally dodging projectiles, politicians like Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker are launching political attacks against the agents. On Thursday, the governor signed an Executive Order, using his newly minted Illinois Accountability Commission to track alleged civil rights abuses by federal enforcement agents.
Pritzker said that the "unlawful attacks" in Operation Midway Blitz have prompted this move. "They are attacking people on the ground — ICE, CBP — going after people just because they're Brown or Black," Pritzker claimed without evidence.
"No one above them is holding them responsible. Greg Bovino, who is running the operation in Chicago, isn't holding them accountable," Pritzker claimed, calling out Bovino by name.
"No one is. So we're going to have to keep a record," he added.
Dragging federal agents into court because they defended themselves against the hordes of rioters is unconscionable. This is an attack on the rule of law by the people who run these places that are overrun with criminals and individuals who are in the country illegally.
The New York Knicks have ordered Zohran Mamdani, who is the leading New York City mayoral candidate, to "cease and desist" after his campaign used the basketball team's logo in advertisements, the New York Post reported. The team made it clear that it does not support the Democratic socialist's candidacy.
The campaign used a logo similar to the basketball franchise's, with "Zohran" in the place of the Knicks' team name. The color scheme also mimicked the blue and orange logo with social media ads using the tag line, "This is our year. This is our time."
The organization said the ad was "likely to mislead the public into believing that the Campaign is affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by, or in some way connected with the Knicks." To make matters worse, the broadcast ad was run on Wednesday night during the Knicks' season opener.
NY Knicks issue Zohran Mamdani cease and desist over logo in campaign ad — stressing they ‘do not endorse’ https://t.co/XNQVxNcbck pic.twitter.com/x2c96oziIQ
— New York Post (@nypost) October 24, 2025
The team made it clear that Mamdani was to stop using the version of their logo to sell New Yorkers on his radical ideas. "The NY Knicks have sent NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a cease-and-desist letter for using the NY Knicks logo to promote his candidacy," the letter stated, according to Fox News.
"The Knicks want to make it clear that we do not endorse Mr. Mamdani for Mayor, and we object to his use of our copyrighted logo. We will pursue all legal remedies to enforce our rights," the legal missive added.
This comes as the team's head coach is hopeful for another NBA Finals appearance, representing the Eastern Conference. If they succeed, it will mark the first time in more than a quarter of a century that the team has reached this far since their last appearance in 1999.
The New York Knicks notched a win Wednesday night in their season opener, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 119-111 during the matchup in Manhattan. Perhaps the team owner, John Dolan, is worried that this winning year might be overshadowed by a connection with Mamdani.
After all, it's not like Dolan is not used to leftist politics. In 2022, he donated $70,000 to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's campaign. Mamdani is the favorite to win against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic side and "Guardian Angels" founder and political activist Curtis Sliwa for the Republicans, who will face off on Nov. 4.
There was mayoral race drama surrounding the Knicks even before the latest attempt to co-opt the Knicks' logo. According to The Hill, Mamdani slammed Cuomo for appearing courtside at Wednesday's game alongside the outgoing Democratic Mayor Eric Adams. Cuomo shared a photo at the game with Adams on his account on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. Mamdani took it and ran with it, sharing the post labeled "Corrupting goes courtside," Mamdani said.
Corruption goes courtside. https://t.co/TaEItxMAmc
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) October 23, 2025
Cuomo is the only candidate who has not shied away from accepting Adams' endorsement should he offer it, and it appears Mamdani is positioning himself to attack him for it. Meanwhile, Cuomo has plenty of ammo against Mandani for his radical polices and lack of experience.
"I did things. You’ve never had a job. You’ve never accomplished anything. There’s no reason to believe you merit or qualification for eight and a half million lives. You never showed up for work, and you missed eighty percent of the votes. Shame on you," Cuomo said to Mamdani.
This is an embarrassing situation for Mamdani with the logo change, but it likely won't hurt his campaign. The people of New York seem eager to usher in a communist regime that will be the proverbial final straw that breaks the struggling city's back.
As many states are redistricting, New Hampshire's GOP has declined a plan to redistrict after the state's GOP governor indicated no support for the idea.
There are numerous redistricting battles going on around the nation right now, and the GOP has made serious gains, with states like Texas and North Carolina adding more seats to Congress.
These redistricting campaigns, in combination with an upcoming landmark Supreme Court decision, could easily hand the GOP control of the House of Representatives for decades.
However, those victories won't extend to New Hampshire as State Senator Dan Innis has dropped his plan to push redistricting after Governor Kelly Ayotte (R) refused to endorse the idea.
While this is a setback for the Trump administration, it's less consequential considering the massive gains that the GOP has made.
New redistricting efforts have been extremely successful in Texas and North Carolina, with many Democrat seats eliminated, ensuring that the days of the narrow GOP majority in the House are over.
Furthermore, the Supreme Court is considering a case that could knock down a section of the Voting Rights Act that essentially required racial quotas in creating districts.
If the Supreme Court strikes that requirement down, it will allow GOP states to eliminate dozens of Democrat seats that exist entirely because of the Voting Rights Act's racial district quota rules.
That one provision has allowed Democrats to hold onto seats in otherwise entirely red states like Alabama and Mississippi. Without the Voting Rights Act's current rules, there will no longer be districts drawn on racial lines and that will be devastating for Democrats.
However, in New Hampshire, Governor Ayotte claimed that since New Hampshire is in the middle of a current redistricting cycle, it made no sense to redistrict again.
Ayotte explained, "When I talk to people in New Hampshire … it’s not on the top of their priority list. They want us to continue to work in the legislature on housing issues, child care, keeping the state the safest in the nation, and just making sure that we have the best quality education for our children."
This is a fairly good argument against redistricting, considering the political implications. Should New Hampshire's GOP party choose to push for redistricting, it will be a months-long political battle with Democrats, and nothing else will get done.
In more GOP-dominated states, redistricting battles are less costly. But the Granite State is no GOP stronghold and some level of cooperation with Democrats is needed to get business done.
However, the implications of this decision will be worth keeping an eye on as the GOP tallies up its gains in the House from other states.
At 88, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives, has become the unfortunate target of a brazen scam that raises serious questions about vulnerability and public service, the New York Post reported.
Representing D.C. since 1991, Norton was deceived by fraudsters posing as HVAC workers who charged over $4,000 to her credit card without performing any work, while conflicting reports about her cognitive health—ranging from police notes on early dementia to denials from her office—add a troubling layer to this incident.
On a Thursday afternoon, shortly after 3:30 p.m., multiple scammers arrived at Norton’s Washington, D.C., home under the guise of being HVAC technicians.
Believing the visit was arranged by her house manager, Norton handed over her credit card, resulting in a staggering $4,362 charge for services that were never rendered.
Her house manager, a longtime employee and friend who does not live with her, later reviewed Ring doorbell footage and confirmed no appointment had been scheduled, prompting a swift call to the D.C. police.
While Norton’s office insists she has no caretaker, the absence of anyone to oversee the situation during the scammers’ visit left her exposed to this felony fraud, which remains under investigation with suspects still at large.
An internal police report, obtained by NBC News4, described Norton as suffering from “early stages of dementia” in the victim information section, a claim that has ignited debate about her capacity to serve.
Her office quickly pushed back, stating, “The medical diagnosis included in the police report was based on an assumption the reporting officer was unqualified to make,” dismissing the assertion as unprofessional and unfounded (NBC News4).
Meanwhile, the public incident report from D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department made no mention of any health concerns, leaving the public to wonder where the truth lies in this sensitive matter.
Friends and colleagues, as reported by The New York Times earlier this year, have observed signs of mental decline in Norton, noting her infrequent attendance at House Oversight Committee meetings and difficulty recognizing familiar faces.
They’ve described her as increasingly reliant on aides, family, and close friends, unable to function independently—a stark contrast to the image of a steadfast public servant.
Yet, when asked by Axios last month about her plans, Norton firmly declared, “I say that my seniority is what is very important, and I am not going to step aside,” signaling her intent to run for re-election despite these growing concerns (Axios).
While Norton’s decades of service deserve respect, this incident and the surrounding whispers of cognitive decline beg the question: At what point does personal determination clash with the public’s need for effective representation?
Her office assures everyone that she is safe, the fraudulent charges have been reported to both the police and her bank, and they’ve thanked the Metropolitan Police Department and Capitol Police for their response, declining further comment.
Still, as conservatives who value accountability over feel-good narratives, it’s fair to wonder if staying in office past one’s prime serves the people—or simply a progressive agenda that prioritizes optics over pragmatism.