Trump Freaks Out Over Epstein Files and Newsom Roasts Him Globally, While Gallego Drops A “Gift” At Mike Johnson’s Door and Grijalva Slams Him On House Floor

The walls are closing in

Scott Dworkin

Nov 13, 2025

While Trump becomes more unhinged daily, I’m glad to have more great news for you today. I hope it gives you some relief from his madness—even if just for a moment.
Thanks for being here. Let’s jump in.

NEWSOM KEEPS SLAMMING TRUMP AT UN SUMMIT

As we’ve covered over the last week, CA Gov. Gavin Newsom is in Brazil essentially replacing Trump at the UN Climate Summit. Newsom has been constantly swarmed by the Press, activists, and other delegates, as he’s welcomed with fanfare normally reserved for heads of state.
While speaking to a packed room of elected officials from around the world, Newsom once again laid into Trump. “He wants to bring us back and ... try to recreate the 19th century,” Newsom said. “They’re doubling down on stupid ... This idea that somehow we can ... put up tariffs, we put up our middle fingers and just turn our back, is lunacy.”
Newsom added: “Trump is temporary—and I hope folks around the globe remember that. He will be remembered in years, not in decades.” Absolutely right.

NEWLY RELEASED EPSTEIN EMAILS

The House Oversight Committee released thousands of emails from and related to their Epstein investigation yesterday. Several of them mention Trump directly.
In one of the emails from April 2, 2011, Epstein wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump. [Victim name redacted] spent hours at my house with him.” Maxwell replied: “I have been thinking about that…”
Ranking Member of the Oversight Committee, Dem Rep. Robert Garcia, stated: “The more Donald Trump tries to cover-up the Epstein files, the more we uncover … These latest emails … raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding.”

TRUMP FREAKS OUT

After the new batch of emails were released, the Trump regime went into full panic mode—launching an intense pressure campaign to bully GOP Reps. Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert into removing their signatures from the Epstein files discharge petition.
It was such an urgent matter that they called Boebert in for a meeting with AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel in the White House Situation Room. Trump also spoke directly with Boebert and tried calling Mace, but couldn’t reach her.
It all failed miserably, as Mace and Boebert refused to remove their names. I’ve said it countless times: this scandal warrants Trump’s resignation or removal from office. I know the votes aren’t there, but it needs to be said.

GRIJALVA SWORN IN

After fifty days of waiting, Rep. Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn in to represent Arizona’s 7th Congressional District on Wednesday.
During her first speech on the House floor, Grijalva slammed Mike Johnson’s “abuse of power” for stalling her swearing in. “One individual should not be able to unilaterally obstruct the swearing in of a duly elected Member of Congress for a political reason,” Grijalva said.
Immediately after being sworn in, Grijalva became the 218th signature on the Epstein files discharge petition. A House vote on the release of the Epstein files is now set for next week.

GALLEGO GIVES “GIFT” TO MIKE JOHNSON

Dem Sen. Ruben Gallego delivered a “gift” to Mike Johnson’s office this week. It was a copy of Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous account of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, titled “Nobody’s Girl.”
“This guy Speaker Johnson, and other Republicans, have done everything to protect Epstein and all these powerful men,” Gallego said. “There is some type of coverup that’s happening, and for Virginia and for all the other people that have been victimized, we are going to get that information out.”
Gallego is right—we must keep pushing until the files are released. For ten years, I’ve been covering Trump’s Epstein scandal, and there’s no way I’m stopping now.
We’ll continue using our Contact Congress effort and our massive social media reach to keep the pressure on. Just yesterday, we trended the hashtag “Stop Johnson’s Epstein Coverup” on Twitter/X—where GOP members of Congress spend most of their time online.
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Onward!
Scott
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I have two questions for you today.
What do you think about Mace and Boebert refusing to take their names off the Epstein files discharge petition?
What are your thoughts about Grijalva calling out Mike Johnson in her first speech from the House floor?

Today we are focused on these two actions:
Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act: https://tinyurl.com/3yfw2m7a
Pass bill on unmasking ICE and displaying clear ID here: https://tinyurl.com/bp8cau82

+ 300 COMMENTS - JUST A FEW:

Going to share this goodness above since I was late to the party.
I want to share a new discovery this morning. I switch up new reads on Substack. Many I just skim a bit here and there. I particularly liked this post by The Resistance Report and pondering what this moment means now January (next CR vote).
https://substack.com/@rosietheresister/note/p-178743629

I love everything about Newsom being in Brazil instead of Donny. It’s great to have representation by a sane, rational man, and for the world to see it.

Not just sane and rational, but also pretty invested helping with climate change, science, remediation etc. California's always led the way with getting lead out of gasoline, solar roof tops (Schwarzenegger is to thank for that), low lead and low flow faucet's and toilets (Tump's worst nightmare) etc. You can't even buy a full flow faucet from an out of state website, it tells you the item cannot be shipped to your state! All of Trump's crazy shit about water to LA was so insane and not the least bit helpful to the fires, but no one in the legacy media called him out on it.

Makes sense when California has the fourth largest economy in the world. That alone should make trump's innards turn gangrene : o

Last night while being interviewed about his new mortgage fraud accusation by idiot Bill Pulte, Eric Swalwell stated that California is the greatest country in the world… I had a great chuckle at that. It will make the Felon’s head 🤯😂😎

Scott -- Consider also using an upside-down bowl of mashed potatoes as a reminder of what Mary Trump said was dumped on Donald's head when he was young and misbehaving badly at the dinner table. She said that episode humiliated him when everyone at the table started laughing at him. I'm all for fresh humiliation now!

I was going to remind people of that incident, thank you. It still makes him livid when someone mentions a “bowl of mashed potatoes”.

It seems Gavin Newsom may be taking the idea of a "shadow cabinet" seriously. As for "temporary," - well, yes. As for "years, not decades" - it's already been at least one decade since Trump entered politics and, if he survives this second term, a decade and a half that he will have occupied some degree of space in our heads, no matter how much or how effectively we're able to shut him out. I have long wanted there to be some sort of class action lawsuit in which millions of people sue him for the time we lost thinking about him and having to put up with his corruption, his criminality, and his cruelty - not to mention his incompetence. His presence in our lives is time we will never get back. I never paid any attention to him before 2015 (have not watched one episode of "The Apprentice" or "Celebrity Apprentice"), but during times when I was working in New York City, I'd notice his open-mouthed face blaring at me from some tabloid newspaper or other, and realize, "So, this is what my friends here have to put up with every single day. No wonder they hate him so much." That same toxicity has enveloped the country during this last decade - and it will take years to rid us of the stench, let alone the permission he has given people to act upon their lowest, base instincts and complete lack of civility, respect for the law, and regard for the Constitution.

I totally agree, Paul. Was just saying words along those lines to my partner the other day. We spent the entire decade of our 60s dealing with the awfulness of Traitor Dump and his MAGA minions in our faces every day. And actually, this goes back to my fifties when the traitor was dumping all over President Obama with his "birther" bs. Like you, I always thought the traitor was an idiot and never had any interest in watching his "reality" shows.

I like the idea of a class action suit filed by of millions of us against Trump and maybe include his regime for crimes against us; against humanity; for all the harm this degenerate has done to so many. As punitive punishment to drain his finances to take all the money he stole from us! It should include his whole criminal cabinet! Oh how I wish. I sure like that idea! Charges should include treason, murder, robbery, lying, brutality and pedophilia!

I've thought of that ever since the first time he disgraced this office, and I asked a friend, a retired corporate lawyer. His answer: "before you can form a class to bring a class action you have to have a legal claim, and Trump and his people are by and large protected by "sovereign immunity." You can't sue the sovereign for doing his job. That doctrine was vastly expanded, erroneously, by the Supreme Court in USA v Trump. So the answer is no. Sovereign immunity does not, however, apply if you break the law, which is why some of his minions are having trouble doing what he wants them to do: there's a point at which they are exposed to future prosecution if they follow his whims." The Epstein files quite certainly will show he broke the law.

OK, thanks Jessica but he breaks the law everyday. How is "the sovereign" doing his job? He commits treason. I have a hard time understanding this. I'm not saying you are wrong, just trying to follow. How would Epstein show he broke the law more than him bombing boats without evidence or lying to get National Guards into our cities and his abuse of immigrants? I'm sorry but do you get the difference? Again not arguing, just don't get it.

Oh, I agree, Joanne, he breaks the law every day. And I know you're not arguing 😉. The way I understand this, one can't file a class action suit because he can claim he's just doing his job, too bad if we feel hurt (I wanted to file for emotional cruelty, because I feel battered for over 10 years now by what this monster does, and I know many others do too). But for breaking the law, he CAN be sued -- maybe also with a class action, I don't know, but it has to be something specific, not "emotional cruelty". Clearly, I'm not a lawyer, so I've no idea whether my interpretation is correct. Proof that he raped under-age girls, or illegal bombing of boats, I guess what's needed is something his sycophants in the government can't brush off any longer. I agree, it's ALL illegal, but with the disgusting Supremes and scared GOP legislators, plus the ones who would sell their grandmother to the devil for some gain, he literally gets away with murder.

I fee like there are questions we also need to be asking

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-is-a-pedophile-rapist

The question is why wealth and social connection so consistently insulate men from even having to answer basic questions about what they knew and when they knew it.

The question is how many Virginia Giuffres have to die before we decide that protecting reputations is less important than protecting young people.

Money is power in tangible form. They use it to protect themselves and their cronies.

I like Joyce Vances question/statement (she has said it several times) why is someone supposedly 'not mentioned' in The Epstein files fighting so hard to prevent their release? If he is not mentioned wouldn't they exonerate him?