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In Surprise Reversal, Trump Now Supports GOP Release Of Epstein Files
In Surprise Reversal, Trump Now Supports GOP Release Of Epstein Files
Less than 24 hours Days after President Donald Trump called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor and mocked Thomas Massie’s dead wife – because they were among four Republicans pushing for a House floor vote to force the DOJ to release the Epstein files, Trump – likely sensing he dun goofed, big time, reversed course Sunday night and now supports their release.
“As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the Public on “Epstein,” are looking at various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON’T CARE!”
Except he cared enough to excommunicate Massie and MTG for wanting the public to know which elites were likely ensnared in a honeypot operation, while both Reps. have also been highly critical of Israeli influence in US politics. And based on widespread condemnation among the base, Trump clearly miscalculated.
Trump did the whole ‘release them, I don’t care’ thing earlier this year after failing to follow through on a core campaign promise, and instead giving a handful of influencers binders full of old information.
“Let’s start talking about the Republican Party’s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein “TRAP,” which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us,” Trump’s ‘truth’ continues.
Following his attacks on Greene, Trump denied her claim that his criticism endangered her – and that he didn’t believe her when she said people are targeting her.
“I don’t think her life is in danger…I don’t think anybody cares about her,” Trump told reporters before boarding Air Force One on Sunday night for a return to Washington DC from Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
Greene, a U.S. House of Representatives member from Georgia who was long known as a Trump loyalist, has recently taken positions at odds with the president. She said on Saturday she has been contacted by private security firms warning about her safety and that harsh attacks against her have previously resulted in death threats.
She attributed her split with the president to her support for releasing records related to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. -Reuters
Massie, meanwhile, cast doubt on the DOJ’s new investigation into Epstein’s ties to notable Democrats – calling it a “a last-ditch effort to prevent the release of the Epstein files.”
“So, this might be a big smokescreen, these investigations, to open a bunch of them to, as a last-ditch effort to prevent the release of the Epstein files,” Massie said, after Trump directed AG Pam Bondi and the FBI to look into Epstein’s relationship with former President Bill Clinton and various other Democrats – writing on Truth Social “This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats.”
Meanwhile, Massie’s position has caused a rift between Trump supporters who seemingly don’t want the Epstein files released, and those who do want them released – with Pro vs. Anti Zionism seemingly the common denominator.
This is literally accurate, dude. You vote against the release of the files, you’re voting to protect pedophiles.
— Impure Hoonter 🇺🇸 ☭⃠ (@Bl00dOld) November 16, 2025
As we noted on Saturday, Massie isn’t just a signatory of the petition to release the files, but its principal champion, having introduced it this summer along with Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna. When Speaker Mike Johnson finally brought the House back into session this week after nearly two months of idleness, Massie secured the required 218th signature on the Epstein-file discharge petition, a parliamentary avenue that overrides Johnson’s ability to determine which bills are voted upon. When the vote on Massie’s bill takes place on Tuesday, a far larger number of Republicans are expected to vote for it, rather than face subsequent attacks for voting to keep the Epstein files under wraps.
Trump’s announcement came days after the House Oversight Committee released tens of thousands of emails handed over by the Epstein estate – which made clear that Trump and Epstein were pals, had a falling out, and then Epstein started helping Democrats ‘get Trump’ – including texting in real time with lawmaker Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) during a 2019 congressional hearing with Michael Cohen…
Plaskett, for those who didn’t know, previously served in the Virgin Islands government – helping to give Epstein tax benefits, and worked for Epstein’s fixer on the island before she was elected to Congress.
Also interesting – Trump weighed in on the controversy surrounding Tucker Carlson’s interview of “America First” host Nick Fuentes, saying “you can’t tell him who to interview… if he wants to interview Nick Fuentes, I don’t know much about him, but if he wants to do it, get the word out, let him… ultimately, people have to decide.”
NOW – Trump on Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes “you can’t tell him who to interview… if he wants to interview Nick Fuentes, I don’t know much about him, but if he wants to do it, get the word out, let him… ultimately, people have to decide.” pic.twitter.com/eFIlO1zR7v
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 17, 2025
Tyler Durden
Sun, 11/16/2025 – 23:14
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stunning-reversal-trump-now-supports-gop-release-epstein-files
Review: ‘Chess’ on Broadway is ridiculously fun ’80s entertainment
NEW YORK — “Chess” had a crazy, ridiculous plot when I first saw it in London in 1986 and in the sizzlingly sexy new Broadway version starring Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, the show ditches its decades-long attempts at serious musical rehab and leans into its own retro ridiculous, cheekily calling itself “our Cold War musical” with eyebrows archly raised and little contemporary anachronisms about Donald Trump and RFK Jr. seemingly inserted on a whim.
Even David Rockwell’s arch, self-aware set — basically a neon title, digital images of whatever, illuminated music stand and lots of little chess pieces — feels like part of book writer Tim Rice’s decades-long joke, telegraphing to audiences that the musical with perhaps the most loathsome group of characters ever written is, as the song goes, what it wants to be and where it wants to be. Again.
No other musical has featured chess grandmasters, a “second” to two rival players who happens to be sleeping with both of them, and even a pair of not-so-cuddly KGB and CIA agents. Each and every one of them out for themselves and not a moral conscience to be found anywhere in the Imperial Theatre.
Nobody cared much about all that ridiculousness in London back then (snobbier Broadway was another matter) and nobody will care much now, not with three powerhouse, love-triangle voices to belt out an anthemic score packed with knockout ballads that I for one have been listening to (at high volume) for nearly 40 years: “Someone Else’s Story,” “Pity the Child,” “Heaven Help My Heart,” “I Know Him So Well.”
I mean, with Michele, she of the flawless technique and ability to make half the audience think she is singing just to them? With Tveit, all sexy hair and plaintive notes? With Christopher, all Euro-angst landing right in the middle of every thrilling note?
Bryce Pinkham (The Arbiter) and the cast in “Chess” on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy)
Come on. What better way do you have in mind to pass your leisure hours? Playing board games?
This just in: Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA knew how to write lasting pop songs. And if you’re sick of the peppier ones in “Mamma Mia!,” “Chess” has some classics of the genre, too.
Cynics among us will note that after all that pandemic-era talk of systemic change, “Chess” reveals how little Broadway actually has changed. Stars still sell. Songs still sell. Sex still sells. “Chess” cannot help but be “Chess.”
Before the absurd “One Night in Bangkok” Act 2 opener, one that would never be written today and that is famous for the immortal lyric, “I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine,” the ensemble does not just dance in skimpy clothing. They jolt the post-intermission returnees by disrobing at breakneck speed in full view of the audience. Just to amp up the gestalt.
“My god, that was hot,” says the show’s narrator, very dryly played by Bryce Pinkham, presumably just in case the audience had not discerned the main point of Lorin Latarro’s choreography.
Aaron Tveit (Freddie Trumper) and cast in “Chess” on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy)
There are no ensemble members with that “variety of body shapes and sizes” anywhere to be seen here, and if you are looking for moral righteousness, head elsewhere on 45th Street, folks. Director Michael Mayer knew what he was directing and, aside from casting the show perfectly, he just turned up the brightness and definition on what has always been a guilty musical pleasure.
This is the Broadway show of the fall that some will claim to dislike and yet most everyone will enjoy, even if that has to be in secret. Happily, that’s a match for one of the main themes of a 1980s musical that always saw geopolitics, even the dangers of nuclear proliferation, as games played by those who enjoyed the strategizing.
All of the performances are bravissimo or bravissima, and there’s an especially impressive turn here from Hannah Cruz, playing the estranged wife of the Russian chess god played by Christopher. That was a sour, throwaway role in the original, since the show was structured as a love triangle with the American (watched by a CIA minder played by Sean Allan Krill), the Russian (watched by a KGB minder played by Bradley Dean) and Florence (Michele), a Romanian of complex agendas.
But Cruz says a pox on all that and, despite her absence from the pic on the front of the program, she gives her character such a vocal and dramatic shove that “Chess” actually becomes a love quartet, which is the first time I have ever thought that.
That said, it is Michele who most people will have come to see and Mayer knows how to not rain on his star’s solo parade when it matters most. This mega-talent plants herself firmly in Italy or Thailand or Stockholm (who cares, since we’re really just in Broadway pastiche land?), and exceeds all expectations.
“Chess,” I should note, has a new surprise ending, its sentimentality suggesting that Rice has softened his acerbic self some in his older age, or maybe that was Danny Strong, who is credited with a new book, although surely Rice gave his nod. It’s asking way too much, given all that has gone before, for the audience to experience genuine pathos, let alone catharsis. But it’s also kind of perfect as a game-changer, just as long as you are all-in on the match.
At the Imperial Theatre, 249 W 45th St, New York; chessbroadway.com
Chris Jones is a Tribune critic.
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Dodgers adquieren al lanzador derecho de ligas menores Tyler Gough de los Marineros
LOS ÁNGELES (AP) — Los Dodgers de Los Ángeles adquirieron al lanzador derecho de ligas menores Tyler Gough de los Marineros de Seattle a cambio del también diestro dominicano Robinson Ortiz, anunciaron el domingo por la noche los equipos.
Gough, de 22 años, tuvo un récord de 7-4 con una efectividad de 4.33 en 23 aperturas para los Nuts de Modesto de Clase A Baja en 2024. No lanzó la temporada pasada debido a una lesión. A lo largo de dos temporadas con los Nuts, Gough tuvo un récord de 8-7 con una efectividad de 4.66 y 123 ponches en 125 entradas y un tercio. El lanzador derecho fue seleccionado por los Marineros en la novena ronda del draft amateur de 2022.
Ortiz, de 25 años, terminó la temporada 2025 con los Comets de Oklahoma City de Triple-A después de pasar partes de la campaña con los afiliados de Clase A Alta y Doble-A de los Dodgers. En 48 apariciones en ligas menores en 2025, Ortiz tuvo un récord de 5-2 con una efectividad de 3.19 y 72 ponches.
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Durant anota 35, Sengun 30 y 12 rebotes y Rockets vencen 117-113 a Magic en tiempo extra
Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — Kevin Durant anotó 35 puntos, Alperen Sengun sumó 30 puntos y 12 rebotes para ayudar a los Rockets de Houston a remontar y lograr una victoria el domingo por la noche de 117-113 en tiempo extra sobre el Magic de Orlando.
Orlando lideraba por un punto cuando Amen Thompson puso a los Rockets al frente con una clavada asistida por Durant con menos de un minuto restante en el tiempo extra. Jabari Smith Jr. bloqueó una bandeja de Franz Wagner y el tiro en suspensión de Durant aumentó la ventaja a 113-110 con 9.2 segundos por jugar.
Wagner encestó dos tiros libres con 8.7 segundos por jugar, acercando al Magic a un punto. Pero, Reed Sheppard encestó dos tiros libres para Houston, ampliando la ventaja a 115-112 con 4.1 segundos restantes.
Wendell Carter Jr. encestó un tiro libre, pero fue sancionado por una violación de carril en el segundo intento, dejando a Houston liderando 115-113. Thompson encestó dos tiros libres después de eso para asegurar la cuarta victoria consecutiva de Houston.
Wagner anotó un máximo de la temporada de 29 puntos y Desmond Bane también estableció su máximo de la temporada con 26 puntos para liderar a los Magic en una noche en la que no contaron con Paolo Banchero y Jalen Suggs debido a lesiones en la ingle.
Los Rockets estuvieron detrás por hasta 11 puntos en el cuarto cuarto antes de usar una gran racha para volver al juego.
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McDermott dijo que Keon Coleman estuvo inactivo con Bills ante los Bucs por llegar tarde a una junta
Por JOHN WAWROW
ORCHARD PARK, Nueva York, EE.UU. (AP) — Keon Coleman está nuevamente en problemas con los Bills.
El receptor de segundo año fue descartado por razones disciplinarias por primera vez en su carrera después de llegar tarde a una junta del equipo, comentó el entrenador Sean McDermott tras la victoria de Buffalo por 44-32 sobre Tampa Bay el domingo.
Es la segunda vez esta temporada que McDermott envía un mensaje a Coleman, quien fue dejado en la banca durante la primera serie de la derrota 23-20 ante Nueva Inglaterra en la semana cinco, también por llegar tarde a una reunión.
“Sí, es decepcionante, pero todavía creo en el joven,” expresó McDermott. “Creo que aprenderá de esto. Se lo toma en serio y seguirá creciendo a partir de esto, y ese es el objetivo principal.”
El coach señaló que la infracción de Coleman ocurrió al final de la semana, lo que significó que el coordinador Joe Brady tuvo que ajustar su plan de juego.
“Simplemente tengo que ser mejor,” dijo Coleman después del partido. “No puedes cometer ese tipo de errores. Eres un profesional.”
Coleman también enfrentó medidas disciplinarias en la semana tres de su temporada de novato el año pasado, cuando observó el primer cuarto de una victoria 47-10 sobre Jacksonville desde la línea lateral.
“Ahora está en el punto de mira, y necesita presentarse y dar la cara por nosotros,” afirmó el tackle izquierdo Dion Dawkins. “El pasado ya quedó atrás, y es hora de que madure. Y él lo sabe.”
Con Coleman fuera, los Bills intentaron revitalizar un juego aéreo inconsistente elevando a Gabe Davis desde el equipo de práctica y firmando a Mecole Hardman para el roster activo. Buffalo también dio la bienvenida al receptor Joshua Palmer, quien regresó después de perderse tres juegos por una lesión en el tobillo.
Coleman fue la principal selección de Buffalo en el draft de 2024 como la primera elección de la segunda ronda. Su desempeño ha sido irregular esta temporada.
Aunque anotó un touchdown en la derrota 30-13 ante Miami el fin de semana pasado, solo atrapó tres de los ocho pases lanzados en su dirección.
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‘Freak Accident’: 13 Injured In Aussie Demolition Derby Crash
‘Freak Accident’: 13 Injured In Aussie Demolition Derby Crash
A pall has been cast over a small country town after 13 people were injured when a demolition derby car ploughed into spectators in a “freak accident.”
Emergency services descended on Walcha’s showgrounds, 90km from Tamworth in NSW, after a crash at the weekend Walcha Motorcycle Rally.
An on-track collision in the demolition derby sent a speedway car with a 27-year-old driver crashing through the fence and into a mobile grandstand, NSW police said.
Thirteen people were injured in the crash.
Two were flown to John Hunter Hospital in a critical condition—a man in his 50s suffered spinal and hip injuries and a man in his 30s had a head injury.
A hospital spokesman told AAP on Sunday morning the condition of the men had improved to serious but stable.
The 11 other victims, aged 20 to 75, were transported to hospitals in Armidale, Tamworth and Walcha.
Six had serious injuries.
🚨🇦🇺Speedway Crash Australia
A mass casualty incident was declared after 9 people were injured when a demolition derby car crashed through a fence into a grandstand at Walcha, NSW.
One person is in critical condition. Police have opened an investigation into the incident. pic.twitter.com/Evpg5meLG4
— Chyno News (@ChynoNews) November 15, 2025
Walcha Council Mayor Eric Noakes said some of those injured were locals.
“I’m up at the showground now and it’s a pretty solemn place,” he told AAP on Sunday.
“Nobody expected this outcome out of a thing like this.
“We’re a very small community … council’s and the community’s thoughts are with the affected people and their families.”
Noakes, who was at home at the time of the crash due to heavy rain, described it as a “freak accident”.
“Freak accidents happen,” he said.
“Not excusing it but you never see these things coming.”
In addition to the demolition derby, the annual rally features a motorcycle street procession, barrel racing, a show and shine, and postie bike events.
The event’s future is set to face scrutiny, with the mayor confirming council will review its position.
“It’s been a five-year event but things like this—we’ll certainly reassess our position,” Noakes said.
“I’m only the mayor and don’t understand a lot of what sits behind reassessing it and our risk analysis.
“That‘ll be something we’ll look at.”
Federal MP for New England Barnaby Joyce and state MP for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan sent their thoughts to those injured and praised the efforts of emergency workers and bystanders.
“Thank you to all the off-duty nurses and first responders who immediately dropped everything to help the injured in the storm,” the former deputy prime minister wrote on social media.
“Such a sad end to such a great event.”
Tyler Durden
Sun, 11/16/2025 – 22:10
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/freak-accident-13-injured-aussie-demolition-derby-crash
Noboa admite rechazo popular a referendo sobre Asamblea Constituyente e instalación de bases extranjeras en Ecuador
QUITO (AP) — Noboa admite rechazo popular a referendo sobre Asamblea Constituyente e instalación de bases extranjeras en Ecuador.
Moses Moody anota 32 puntos mientras Warriors vencen 122-106 a Pelicans
NUEVA ORLEANS (AP) — Moses Moody encestó ocho triples, la mayor cantidad de su carrera, y anotó 32 puntos, y los Warriors de Golden State vencieron 124-106 a Nueva Orleans la noche del domingo en lo que también fue el debut de James Borrego como entrenador interino de los Pelicans.
Jimmy Butler añadió 18 puntos y 10 asistencias para los Warriors, que llegaron a liderar por hasta 25 unidades en la segunda mitad y cuya llegada a Nueva Orleans un día antes coincidió con el despido del entrenador de quinto año de los Pelicans, Willie Green.
Brandin Podziemski anotó 19 tantos, Al Horford añadió 11 puntos y Draymond Green capturó diez rebotes en una actuación que también será recordada por su breve confrontación con un aficionado a lo largo de la línea de fondo.
Trey Murphy III anotó 20 para Nueva Orleans, mientras que José Alvarado añadió 18 puntos y Jeremiah Fears 17.
Golden State acertó un 42.9% (24 de 56) desde la línea de tres puntos, mientras que los Pelicans solo atinaron ocho de 29 (27.6%) desde larga distancia.
Los Warriors abrieron una ventaja de 17 puntos en el primer cuarto, cuando Moody encestó siete triples, estableciendo su récord personal de triples en un juego completo.
Sin embargo, los Pelicans lograron reducir su déficit a un solo dígito en el segundo cuarto, acercándose a 53-49 con los tiros libres de Herb Jones, culminando una racha de 10-0 que también incluyó una clavada de Murphy y dos bandejas de Fears.
Momentos antes de los tiros libres de Jones, Green tuvo un intercambio verbal casi pecho a pecho con un aficionado en la línea de fondo. Los oficiales apartaron a Green sin señalar una falta, mientras que los acomodadores se acercaron al aficionado y hablaron brevemente con él sin expulsarlo.
Mientras tanto, los Warriors cerraron la mitad con ocho puntos consecutivos, culminados por un robo y una clavada en solitario de Butler para poner a Golden State arriba 61-49 al descanso.
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Josh Naylor finaliza contrato de cinco años con los Marineros de Seattle según fuente de AP
Por ANDREW DESTIN
SEATTLE (AP) — El primera base Josh Naylor y los Marineros de Seattle acordaron un contrato de cinco años, dijo el domingo a The Associated Press una persona con conocimiento del acuerdo.
La persona habló bajo condición de anonimato porque el equipo no había anunciado el contrato. ESPN fue el primero en informar sobre el acuerdo.
Naylor, de 28 años, se convirtió en agente libre por primera vez poco después de que los Marineros perdieran ante los Azulejos de Toronto en el Juego 7 de la Serie de Campeonato de la Liga Americana. Poco después de que terminara la temporada de Seattle, el presidente de operaciones de béisbol, Jerry Dipoto, enfatizó la importancia de volver a firmar a Naylor después de adquirirlo de los Diamondbacks de Arizona y lo calificó como una prioridad para traer de vuelta a la primera base.
El mánager Dan Wilson habló muy bien del impacto que Naylor tuvo en los Marineros tanto dentro como fuera del campo durante sus tres meses con la franquicia.
“Necesitas esa intensidad. Necesitas ese impulso”, dijo Wilson. “Creo que su impulso para ganar es increíble también. Y eso es lo que vas a necesitar de todos tus muchachos, y eso es una gran parte de lo que él trajo a este club”.
En 54 juegos con los Marineros, Naylor bateó para .299 con nueve jonrones, 33 carreras impulsadas y 19 bases robadas. En 12 juegos de postemporada, Naylor bateó para .340 con tres jonrones, cinco carreras impulsadas y dos bases robadas.
Durante toda la temporada, Naylor bateó para .295 con 20 jonrones, 92 carreras impulsadas y un récord personal de 30 bases robadas.
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4 Dead After Suspected Migrant Boat Capsizes Off San Diego
4 Dead After Suspected Migrant Boat Capsizes Off San Diego
A wooden boat suspected to have been ferrying migrants toward the United States capsized in this week’s storm near San Diego, leaving at least four dead and four hospitalized, the Coast Guard announced Saturday.
The vessel was found by the US Border Patrol in the surf off Imperial Beach late Friday night (the southern end of San Diego). Six people were found on the beach shortly before midnight – one of whom was pronounced dead, and another who was rescued from underneath the boat.
Around two hours later, authorities received a report of someone in the water near Imperial Beach Pier – to which the Coast Guard responded and found three dead bodies floating in the ocean.
On Saturday the Coast Guard said it would continue to search for others who may have been on board, Several of the survivors claimed Mexican nationality and were turned over to DHS, while others remained unidentified.
“Our crews and partner agencies responded immediately, but this case demonstrates the severe risks posed to aliens attempting to enter the United States by sea in unstable vessels,” said Coast Guard Capt. Robert Tucker, Sector San Diego commander.
A massive storm hit Southern California this weekend – prompting flash flood and mudslide warnings, while the wrecked vessel was a tiny panga – a single or twin engine open fishing boat that’s commonly used by smugglers.
Migrants are increasingly turning to the risky alternative offered by smugglers to travel by sea to avoid heavily guarded land borders, including off California’s coast. Pangas leave Mexico in the dead of night and sometimes chart hundreds of miles north.
There have been several incidents in recent years of migrant vessels capsizing en route to California.
In May, at least three people died when a panga flipped off the coast about 35 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. -AP
In 2023, eight people were killed when similar smuggling boats approached a San Diego beach in heavy fog and one capsized in the surf – one of the deadliest smuggling incidents on record.
In 2022, a San Diego man was sentenced to 18 years in prison for piloting a smuggling boat loaded with 32 migrants, which smashed apart in powerful surf off the coast killing three and injuring over two dozen.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 11/16/2025 – 21:35
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/4-dead-after-suspected-migrant-boat-capsizes-san-diego
