The Patriot Post® · Monday Executive News Summary
Thwarted terror plot in Dearborn: On Halloween morning, FBI Director Kash Patel reported that conspirators in a potential ISIS-inspired terror attack had been arrested. The arrests in Dearborn, Michigan, came months after the Arab-majority city’s mayor called a resident an Islamophobe for opposing a street named after a pro-jihadi. Undercover FBI agents discovered the plot in an online chatroom. Suspects had visited a shooting range to practice high-speed reloads with AK-47s. Those involved range in age from 16 to 20; two have been arrested, and three were questioned. A lawyer for one of the suspects asserts no terror plot existed, and the arrestees were just gamers with a legal interest in firearms.
Obama campaigns in VA: With election day tomorrow, Barack Obama has hit the campaign trail in Virginia. Why did Obama choose Virginia when Democrat Abigail Spanberger has maintained a consistent lead over Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears? It appears that Obama’s primary aim was to gin up flagging support for controversial VA attorney general candidate Jay Jones, who infamously texted his murderous desires against the then-VA Republican House speaker in 2022 to a fellow lawmaker. At a rally with Spanberger and Jones, Obama expressed absolute cognitive dissonance: “[Spanberger] knows that if we want to make progress on the things that we care about, we have to be able to disagree without calling each other nasty names or demonizing each other.” Obama is employing this sleight-of-hand rhetoric to dismiss Jones’s highly problematic record because he knows Democrats need the state’s AG to lead legal efforts against President Trump’s agenda.
Maine Nazi-tattooed Dem candidate loses another campaign member: Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner of Nazi tattoo infamy is having trouble keeping campaign staff. Just days after his second campaign manager quit, his treasurer, Victoria Perrone, decided to throw in the towel on Tuesday. Then, on Friday, Platner’s national finance director, Ronald Holmes III, announced his resignation from the campaign. “Somewhere along the way, I began to feel that my professional standards as a campaign professional no longer fully aligned with those of the campaign,” Holmes explained. On Saturday, Platner avoided addressing the resignations, simply posting on X, “Our movement is powered by the people of Maine. The people of Maine will not be propagandized. And they will not be bought.”
Trump designates Nigeria as Country of Particular Concern: China, Cuba, North Korea, Tajikistan, and eight other countries have some new company on the Countries of Particular Concern list after President Trump added Nigeria due to the ongoing slaughter of Christians in that country. Trump announced the change on Friday after arriving at Mar-a-Lago, where he asked House Appropriations members Riley Moore and Tom Cole to investigate and report back. Nigeria is home to the Islamist terror group Boko Haram, which is responsible for the attacks. At least 7,000 Christians are believed to have been killed this year, with more than 7,800 abducted. Political pundit Bill Maher brought attention to the issue in September, when he summed up the situation: “They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.”
Illegals DO get healthcare money: CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz has found in a preliminary audit of five states that taxpayer money is going to healthcare for illegals. More than $1.35 billion in federal Medicaid funds was spent in the “last few months” by California, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington, DC, on illegal immigrants. This is only the most egregious example of taxpayer dollars being given to illegals, as Medicaid funding responsibilities are shared between the states and federal government, and the law only prevents federal dollars from going directly to illegals, allowing blue states to routinely skirt the law by using federal funds on their lawful citizens and state funds on illegals. The Left claims such funding is impossible because “it’s illegal,” but Dr. Oz has found the receipts to give the lie to their claim.
Border Patrol prevents over 6,000 terrorists from entering U.S.: According to the National Counterterrorism Center, 6,525 known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) were prevented from entering the U.S. this year. Furthermore, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol arrested over 3,000 KSTs in FY2025. During Joe Biden’s entire tenure, a total of 1,903 KSTs were apprehended, with the vast majority — 1,216 — arrested at the U.S. northern border with Canada. The big increase in KST arrests this year is due in large part to President Trump’s designation of criminal cartels Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and others as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). Designating these criminal cartels as FTOs has helped authorities prevent more KSTs “from entering our country that under the previous administration would have been allowed in,” noted National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent. “This is just the tip of the iceberg. We’re doing this and more every day.”
Expanding suicide in Canada: Canada’s euthanasia program, known as MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying), was started back in 2016 for people whose natural death was “reasonably foreseeable.” Now the advocacy group Dying With Dignity Canada is not only pushing for 12-year-olds to be included but also clamoring to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to be killed by a doctor without their parents’ consent. The group says “maturity,” not “chronological age,” should be the determining factor, but the problem with that argument is who decides or defines “maturity.” Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a psychiatrist and director at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, correctly states, “Once you cross the line of accepting the basic premise of the euthanasia movement — which is that some lives are not worth living and therefore these people should be killed by the medical profession — then it’s very hard to argue that there should be any limitations.”
Federal judge rules Trump can’t require citizenship proof on voter form: District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Washington, DC, ruled on Friday that the president is unable to add a proof-of-citizenship requirement to federal voter registration forms due to the separation of powers. Kollar-Kotelly explained that the Constitution grants election regulation to the states and Congress; therefore, the president and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission lack the authority to make these changes. Other parts of Trump’s order, such as a requirement that ballots be received by Election Day rather than merely postmarked on that day, still face legal challenges. If Americans want safe and fair elections, they will likely need to pressure Congress to address the issue.
AZ school under fire over mistaken mocking of Charlie Kirk’s assassination: Cienega High School in Vail, Arizona, finds itself in hot water over a controversial Halloween photo featuring the school’s math teachers wearing white T-shirts with the words “Problem Solved” printed on them and the left sides covered in blood-red paint. District Superintendent John Carruth claimed that the shirts had nothing to do with Kirk and were “part of a math-themed Halloween costume meant to represent solving tough math problems.” Carruth further noted that these shirts had also been worn last year, adding, “We are truly sorry for the hurt or upset it has caused.” Amazon did have an ad for this shirt as early as 2024. TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet responded, “We’ve seen enough evil since Charlie’s murder that I’d actually be relieved if this isn’t another example.”
Headlines
Trump says tariffs critical to national security as Supreme Court prepares landmark decision (Fox News)
Sean Duffy says flight delays, cancellations will continue amid government shutdown (The Hill)
Judge blocks Trump National Guard deployment to Portland, citing lack of justification (Fox News)
FDA official steps down, sued by drugmaker (WSJ)
How the U.S. economy has defied doomsday predictions on tariffs (WSJ)
Kimberly-Clark to buy Tylenol maker Kenvue for nearly $50 billion (Just the News)
Humor: Embarrassed Democrats admit they can’t remember why they shut the government down (Babylon Bee)
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