Actress Unleashes on ‘Fear-Mongering’ Media for Deceiving Voters about Trump Win

(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) Actress Patricia Heaton blasted the “fear-mongering” media in a Saturday post for attempting to convince Americans a Trump win would be harmful.

Heaton discussed the viral videos of feminists shaving their heads in protest over President-elect Donald Trump’s win over Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I’ve also seen a lot of the response videos—especially from women who are crying, screaming, shaving their heads, saying they’re going to be jailed or rounded up or killed or hunted or whatever,” Heaton said.

She called out the “extremists” in the media who convinced leftist women a Trump win would result in rights being taken away.

“Apparently, there are some really vulnerable people here who you targeted, and you fear-mongered to and you need to go back on the air and tell them things are going to be OK,” the Everybody Loves Raymond actress said. “Tell them that they’re fine.”

She continued to lampoon the mainstream media for trying to fuel hate.

“To all these extremists that are allowed television time, who told women that this is what is going to happen to them, shame on you,” she added. “Shame on you.”

Heaton called on people to instead put their faith in Jesus.

“Only Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever,” Heaton said. “Put your faith in Him, not in men, not in man’s institutions, not in human institutions.”

Feminists also promoted the 4B Movement on social media in response to the election results. It encouraged women to not marry, date, sleep with or have children with men.

Heaton also expressed her disgust with the media referring to those who have different political beliefs as “uneducated.”

“Also, stop saying people who voted differently from you are ‘uneducated’,” she said

Heaton told the media it needs to stop smear campaigns and to understand not everyone has the same political opinion.

‘Welcome Back’: Trump, Biden Set Politics Aside for ‘Smooth Transition’ Meeting

(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump visited President Joe Biden at the White House for a historic meeting about the upcoming transition of power between both administrations.

Trump and Biden sat down around 11 a.m. in the Oval Office, where the two delivered civil but brief public remarks before the press was ushered out of the room.

“Well Mr. President-elect and former President,” Biden began as Trump reached out and shook his hand. “Donald, congratulations.”

Trump thanked Biden as the blazing fireplace behind them crackled.

The lame duck Democrat said he looked forward to having a “smooth transition” and promised to do all he could to ensure the president-elect was accommodated as he prepares to begin his second term.

“Welcome, welcome back,” Biden said.

“Thank you very much, and politics is tough,” Trump responded. “And it’s in many cases not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today, and I appreciate it very much. A transition that’s so smooth, it’ll be as smooth as it can get, and I very much appreciate that, Joe.”

Biden said, “You’re welcome,” before thanking reporters, who immediately erupted the moment they knew their time to leave arrived. Members of the media shouted questions for several seconds before footage cut out.

Incoming First Lady Melania Trump broke tradition by opting not to meet with outgoing First Lady Jill Biden on Wednesday.

“Mrs. Trump will not be attending today’s meeting at the White House. Her husband’s return to the Oval Office to commence the transition process is encouraging, and she wishes him great success,” the Office of Melania Trump confirmed early Wednesday. “In this instance, several unnamed sources in the media continue to provide false, misleading, and inaccurate information. Be discerning with your source of news.”

Jill Biden joined her husband to greet Trump, according to Fox News.

She handed the president-elect a handwritten letter about the transition for Melania Trump.

Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by the Daily Caller, Headline USA, The Federalist, and The American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.

U.S. Inflation Rises to 2.6% in October

(Headline USA) Annual inflation rose in October for the first time in seven months.

Consumer prices are thought to have increased 2.6% from 12 months earlier, according to a survey of economists by the data provider FactSet, up from 2.4% in September.

Measured month to month, prices are believed to have ticked up 0.2% from September to October, the same as in the previous month.

Excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called core prices are forecast to have risen 3.3% from a year earlier, unchanged from the previous month.

From September to October, core prices are expected to have risen 0.3% for a third straight month—a pace that, if sustained, would exceed the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target.

An uptick in prices could fuel concerns in financial markets that progress in taming inflation might be slowing.

It might make the Fed less inclined to cut its key interest rate in December and next year, as its officials have previously indicated they likely would.

Consumer inflation, which peaked at 9.1% in 2022, has since fallen, though overall costs are still about 20% higher than they were three years ago.

The price spike soured Americans on the economy and on the Biden-Harris administration’s economic stewardship and contributed to Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss in last week’s presidential election.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to reduce inflation, and stock prices surged in the wake of Trump’s election victory.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Gov’t Provocateur Who Promoted Terrorism in Militia Given ‘Time Served’

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A judge sentenced former U.S. intelligence analyst Russell Richardson Vane IV to “time served” on Wednesday, allowing the man who tried fomenting terrorism within a Virginia militia to avoid additional prison time.

Vane, who worked as an analyst for  the Pentagon’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, faced up to five years imprisonment for making  ricin, which is a deadly poison.

The FBI began investigating Vane earlier this year, when the Virginia Kekoas militia publicly expelled him because they thought he was a government provocateur trying to entrap them in a conspiracy similar to the 2020 Gov. Whitmer kidnap case.

In February, Vane IV promoted the idea of collecting Hydrogen Peroxide in a group chat with the Kekoas and other militias. He was then accused of being a provocateur, with other members calling his posts “fed plot shit for real.”

But that still didn’t stop Vane IV, who then asked the Kekoas whether they had plans if the President were to be assassinated.

To top it off, Vane IV allegedly gave another Kekoas leader named “Sasquatch” a batch of purported Defense Intelligence Agency documents about using homemade explosives.

After reporter Ford Fischer broke the news of Vane’s public expulsion from the Kekoas, the FBI raided his home—finding the ricin.

“Kekoas members … believe that VANE might have been a federal law enforcement official attempting to ‘entrap’ members of the group,” the FBI’s acknowledged in its complaint.

The Justice Department later confirmed that Vane stole the DIA documents from his workplace, but he hasn’t been charged for that. The DOJ only sought 30 months imprisonment for Vane, while his lawyers asked for time served—arguing, among other factors, that the ricin wasn’t an active bioweapon.

“The FBI did find ricin, but only because Mr. Vane had done nothing to dispose of the substance in his laundry attic room even though he was well-aware he was being investigated by federal law enforcement authorities. He had created the ricin approximately a year earlier and had not touched it since,” they said—revealing that Vane had tested the ricin on his own skin.

“It was in a closed test tube in a box high on a shelf in the laundry attic room. Mr. Vane forgot about the concrete-like substance because he never intended to use it for any purpose and certainly not to hurt anyone.”

Vane only served several months in prison before he was released on bail, allowing him to stay at home and take work as a plumber.

According to Fischer, Vane will also serve three years supervised release, four months home detention, and pay a $5000 fine.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

REPORT: Trump Team Drafting Executive Order to Fire Woke Generals En Masse

(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump is drafting an executive order that would allow him to fire woke and disloyal military generals en masse, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The order would set up a “warrior board” of retired generals and noncommissioned officers, selected by Trump, who would have the power to review three- and four-star military officers and identify those “lacking in requisite leadership qualities.”

The warrior board’s reviews would focus “on leadership capability, strategic readiness, and commitment to military excellence,” the draft order said.

Trump would then use the board’s recommendations and take quick action and demote or forcibly retire those officers, the Journal said, bypassing the Pentagon’s regular promotion system altogether.

As commander-in-chief, Trump has the discretion to fire any officer.

Throughout his campaign, Trump promised to fire “woke generals” such as former Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, who undermined him during his first administration.

“The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail. He will deliver,” a spokeswoman for the Trump-Vance transition team told the Journal.

To that end, Trump announced on Tuesday night that he will nominate Pete Hegseth, an Army veteran and current Fox News host, to serve as his Secretary of Defense.

“I am honored to announce that I have nominated Pete Hegseth to serve in my Cabinet as The Secretary of Defense. Pete has spent his entire life as a Warrior for the Troops, and for the Country. Pete is tough, smart and a true believer in America First,” Trump said in a statement.

The announcement reportedly rattled Pentagon officials, leading current Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to issue his own statement reminding the military that they must comply with an “orderly” transition.

“The Department will make a calm, orderly, and professional transition to the incoming Trump administration,” Defense SecretaryLloyd Austin said in a memo to the Pentagon this week. “As it always has, the U.S. military will stand ready to carry out the policy choices of its next commander in chief and to obey all lawful orders from its civilian chain of command.”

Report: ‘Power Lesbian’ Murdered Father w/ Ice Axe on Election Night

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The “power lesbian” partner of a prominent transgender author allegedly murdered her father with an ice axe at her Seattle home after she “freaked out” on Election Night, according to the Daily Mail.

The alleged murderer, 33-year-old Corey Burke—an employee of Jeff Bezos’s aerospace firm, Blue Origin—reportedly confessed to her crime.

“After emerging from the house with blood ‘dripping’ down her face, she confessed to police that she ‘freaked out,’ claiming there was ‘something important about Election Day.’ Burke reportedly told detectives that ‘she knew that she could not convince her father to keep the lights off’, so went upstairs and retrieved the murder weapon,” the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

“She then tripped her father and strangled him before attacking him with the ice axe. Burke then bit him and hit him several times in the head and side with the blunt and sharp ends of the ice axe, cops say.  His body was found in the basement.”

According to the Daily Mail, Burke’s wife is Samantha Leigh Allen, an editor at Conde Nast’s transgender news website Them. Allen previously worked for The Daily Beast and Fusion media.

Burke and her father, Timothy Burke, also reportedly live together. The Daily Mail didn’t clarify whether Allen lives with both of them, too.

Burke was reportedly taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation, before being charged with first degree murder. She’s set to appear in court on Nov. 21, according to the Daily Mail.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Elizabeth Warren Demands Judicial Confirmation Blitz to Undermine Trump Presidency

(Headline USA) Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., pushed her Democratic colleagues this week to use “every” remaining “minute” of the legislative session to jam through dozens of judicial appointments before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Following Trump’s sweeping victory this month, Warren proposed a “path forward” for Democrats to combat the incoming Republican-controlled government, which includes confirming as many judges and “key regulators” as possible so they can become a part of the bureaucracy’s permanent resistance.

“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer must use every minute of the end-of-year legislative session to confirm federal judges and key regulators—none of whom can be removed by the next President,” Warren wrote on X.

She added, “While still in charge of the Senate and the White House, we must work with urgency and do all we can to safeguard our democracy.”

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., seemed less enthusiastic about Warren’s Hail Mary.

“That may mean some long sessions,” he told the New York Times.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., agreed with Warren’s plan and argued Democrats need to get ready for longer hours.

“It can’t be business as usual in the remaining days of this session. We have to focus and devote the additional hours. All hands on deck has to be the mantra,” he said.

Senate Republicans made their opposition to Warren’s proposed confirmation blitz much clearer, vowing to undermine any attempt at lame-duck politicking.

“I can assure our colleagues that Senate Republicans are no more inclined today than we were in July to rubber-stamp radicals for the federal bench,” Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said earlier this month.

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., who is running to replace McConnell as the Republicans’ Senate leader, issued a much stronger statement.

“We will strongly oppose Democrats’ nominees between now and President Trump’s inauguration,” he said. “The American people have spoken loudly and clearly that they support the Trump agenda, and we will oppose any effort to block the will of the American people.”

Musk Tweet Reveals Secret Meaning in Name of New Gov’t Efficiency Office

(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Billionaire Elon Musk and former 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, President-elect Donald Trump announced in a statement Tuesday evening.

With a deadline of America’s 250th birthday, Trump tasked both influential entrepreneurs with driving “drastic change” by dismantling government bureaucracy, slashing access regulations, cutting wasteful expenditures and restructuring federal agencies.

“They will work together to liberate our Economy, and make the U.S. Government accountable to ‘WE THE PEOPLE,’ Trump wrote. “Their work will conclude no later than July 4, 2026 – A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence.”

Musk posted a DOGE logo featuring American flags and an illustration of the popular Shiba Inu dog meme that first emerged in 2013.

The agency name “Department of Government Efficiency” was written in an arch above the cartoon dog in a banner.

Musk announced all actions of DOGE will be posted publicly only for full transparency. He said the agency will keep a leaderboard of the “most insanely dumb” wastes of taxpayer dollars as it reforms the government.

“Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!” Musk wrote on X. “We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining.”

Ramaswamy said he and Musk will “begin crowdsourcing” to determine what government waste DOGE should eliminate.

“DOGE will soon begin crowdsourcing examples of government waste, fraud, & and abuse. Americans voted for drastic government reform & they deserve to be part of fixing it,” Ramaswamy wrote.

Ramaswamy assured Americans he and Musk “will not go gently.”

Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by the Daily Caller, Headline USA, The Federalist, and The American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.

‘Warrior for Truth’: Trump Picks Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to Lead CIA

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(Matt Lamb, Headline USA) President Donald Trump said “warrior for truth” John Ratcliffe will be his nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.

Ratcliffe previously served as Trump’s director of national intelligence and represented Texas in Congress.

“From exposing fake Russian collusion to be a Clinton campaign operation, to catching the FBl’s abuse of Civil Liberties at the FISA Court, John Ratcliffe has always been a warrior for Truth and Honesty with the American Public,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday night.

“When 51 intelligence officials were lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop, there was one, John Ratcliffe, telling the truth to the American People,” Trump wrote.

The president-elect said Ratcliffe will be a “fearless fighter for the Constitutional Rights of all Americans.”

Ratcliffe previously exposed the Russia collusion hoax while working as director of national intelligence.

“But what I did see in intelligence documents, some of which I’ve now declassified, that there was collusion involving the Clinton campaign and Russians to create a dossier, everything related to the Steele dossier was known to be untrue,” he told Fox News in 2021, as previously reported by Headline USA. “[B]ut yet it was the predicate for moving forward with an unjust, unfair, and ultimately now, everyone accepts, a criminally negligent investigation against the Trump campaign.”

Ratcliffe also fought to expose China’s role in the spread of COVID-19.

Conservatives expressed support for Ratcliffe’s nomination, with some mentioning his work on Hunter Biden’s laptop, among claims by intelligence officials who quickly tried to dismiss it as the work of the Russians.

“The intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that,” Ratcliffe said in Oct. 2020.

Ratcliffe is the latest national security pick for Trump.

He has previously announced he intends to nominate Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, for ambassador to the United Nations, and Fox News host and war veteran Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense.

Meanwhile, Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is considered the frontrunner for secretary of state.

‘Ladies, Pay Attention’: Megyn Kelly Calls for MSNBC to Fire ‘Racist’ Joy Reid

(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly called for MSNBC to fire host Joy Reid on Monday’s episode of her radio show.

Kelly, joined by Undercurrents host Emily Jashinsky and Free Beacon editor Eliana Johnson, blasted the network for its prolonged employment of Reid, who she called one of the “most racist people on television.”

“It’s a tick-tock situation until her ass is fired. There’s no way MSNBC, which is in a full meltdown now about how bad their losses were, there’s no way they can keep this woman,” Kelly said. “I realize they’re the same problem that the Democrat Party is like, they have a base that they need to keep. But she and her little friend Ellie Mystal are truly the most racist people on television.”

MSNBC’s primetime ratings dropped 54% the day after Trump won a second term, according to Neilsen Media Research data reported by Fox News.

Jack Posobiec announced Tuesday on X that he is forming a team of investors to discuss purchasing MSNBC.

Kelly mocked “bitter” Reid’s recent new hairdo, which she said resembled Republican President-elect Donald Trump before the MSNBC host shaved it all off.

The SiriusXM star compared Reid’s newfound baldness to that of outraged leftist women taking to TikTok to post videos of themselves shaving their hair off in protest of Trump’s win.

“First of all, where is your hair? What happened to your hair, Joy Reid? It’s gone… it looked like Trump’s hair, and now it’s gone all together,” she commented. “Anywho, this is what happens when you get bitter and bitter and bitter.”

Kelly next commented on the viral videos of feminists shaving their heads in response to the election.

“And we’ve seen all these women shaving off their hair online. Have you seen this? This is like part of the resistance effort to telegraph that you hate Trump,” Kelly said. “These somewhat okay-looking women are shaving off their hair. So I don’t know if that is what she did there, but we already knew that you were for our lefty, you didn’t have to shave your head.”

Kelly advised white progressive women not to fall for Reid’s guilt-tripping.

“Second of all the nerve… she looks at the white progressive women… What more self-flagellation could white progressive women have done to earn the little pat on the head from the Joy Reids of the world?” Kelly said. “Ladies, pay attention. It doesn’t get you anywhere.”

Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by the Daily Caller, Headline USA, The Federalist, and The American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.