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The Trumpet is a bit late to this party, but we can’t overlook one of the biggest stories in U.S. news this month: Fulton County, Georgia, admitted that 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified yet still tabulated in the state’s final count.

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This is a state that, out of nearly 5 million votes cast, Joe Biden won by 11,779 votes.

Remember the mugshots: Authorities censored, then indicted, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Mark Meadows, Jenna Ellis and 14 others for allegations of conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s election. (The whole case was dismissed last month.) Turns out that it’s the election certifiers who should be investigated.

• Only one of Fulton County’s 37 Advanced Voting Precincts complied with Georgia election law, which requires three official signatures on tabulator tapes. Only five precincts certified that the voting machines were reset to zero votes at the start of the day; in the other 32, ballots from a previous election or from a test run could have been included.
• Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other officials dismissed it as a “clerical error.”

The man who extracted this embarrassing admission from Georgia officials, election integrity activist David Cross, found other irregularities, like polling locations being open at “impossibly late hours, like 2:09 a.m.,” and “duplicated scanner serial numbers, where the memory devices were removed from one scanner and printed on an alternate scanner.”

The story of the bitter affliction America suffered during the Obama-Biden years, including the rampant fraud that turned the 2020 election, is told in Gerald Flurry’s book America Under Attack. Biblical prophecy speaks eloquently both about the injustice and about God Himself stopping it and bringing it to light. Staggering revelations like this from Fulton County are certain to keep surfacing as God wants us to get a hard look at the corruption within our political system.

Donald Trump in the Epstein files?: The Department of Justice released 30,000 pages of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein yesterday. President Trump’s connection to Epstein made the front pages of usa Today, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and more. Included in the files are:

• An internal e-mail stating that flight logs show Trump flying in Epstein’s plane eight times between 1993 and 1996.
• 2020 testimony from a man who claimed to have driven President Trump in a limousine in 1995. He says he overheard a “very concerning” phone call, in which President Trump talked about “Jeffrey” and “abusing some girl.” The same man said his ex-partner told him that she was raped by Trump and Epstein.
• A letter apparently from Epstein to Larry Nasser, who was also arrested for child abuse, said that Trump “shares our love of young nubile girls.”

The files, though heavily redacted, are largely unfiltered. It appears that they contain information from anyone who contacted the fbi with statements about Epstein, regardless of the credibility of those statements.

• The supposed chauffeur who recalled details of an overheard phone conversation 30 years ago, for example, also went on to discuss bizarre conspiracy theories involving the Clintons and the Oklahoma City bombing. The fbi recorded a note with his testimony, indicating that agents believed it to be nonsense.
• The supposed letter from Epstein also appears to be an obvious hoax, with the wrong postmark, wrong return address, wrong handwriting and missing information required for correspondence to be processed through the prison system.
• Details about President Trump flying with Epstein might be more reliable, but we don’t have the flight records themselves, just an e-mail from someone who claimed to have seen them.

There’s still a lot we don’t know. Did someone in the Department of Justice include fake testimony to try to smear President Trump? Many reporters are failing to mention the flimsiness of the evidence. Or is this simply part of the cover-up? Throwing in every little piece of gossip about Epstein, no matter how absurd, makes it almost impossible to see the true picture.

The files make Epstein’s perversion clear. He is described as checking the IDs of girls to ensure they were under 18. One document mentions 10 co-conspirators. Most are redacted. One of the few to be mentioned is Jean-Luc Brunel, who, like Epstein, was found dead in his cell, apparently of suicide, while he was being investigated for rape and trafficking of minors. The files name many other rich and famous men.

In our September 2025 Trumpet issue, we wrote, “Before it can truly move on from the Epstein scandal, America must lock up those who have broken the law and dismantle the culture that glorifies pornography, fornication, adultery, homosexuality and pedophilia. The release of these files may help bring some people to justice, though their reliability and legitimacy may be in question. Yet effort is weak to prevent sexual sin from spreading and deepening among both the elites and the people.”

SCOTUS sides with lawless Chicago over Trump: Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s emergency request to allow him to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago to deal with rising crime. The 6-3 decision left in force a lower court ruling that has blocked the troop deployment since October 9 on the basis that “the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois.”

• The court’s most conservative justices dissented from the ruling. Justice Samuel Alito wrote, “The court fails to explain why the president’s inherent constitutional authority to protect federal officers and property is not sufficient to justify the use of National Guard members in the relevant area for precisely that purpose.”
• Justice Clarence Thomas joined Alito’s dissent, while Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a separate dissent that also argued for granting the Trump administration’s request.

These conservative justices raise good points. The president is the chief executive officer of the federal government. So while he does not have constitutional authority to overrule state and local officials to use “the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” as the majority characterized it, he does have constitutional authority to protect federal property.

The fact that the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago are not taking action to reduce crime has encouraged mass lawlessness. And the fact that they sued President Trump for trying to do their job for them shows that this lawlessness is not the result of carelessness. Chicago Democrats are willing to actively fight to prevent the law from being enforced. They don’t want to police the city of Chicago, and they don’t want anyone else to either.

• President John Adams told the Massachusetts Militia in 1788, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

As long as the people of Chicago keep electing lawless leaders, the city will remain lawless. The federal government has only limited authority to protect federal properties, and the Supreme Court is currently denying it even that authority.

IN OTHER NEWS

China deploys new icbms: The Chinese now have more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles operational across three new silo fields, according to a new Pentagon draft report seen by Reuters. The DF-31 missiles are designed to deliver nuclear warheads to targets up to 7,500 miles away. They are solid-fueled, enabling quicker launches and improved survivability over older, liquid-fueled missiles. Altogether, China now has 600 nuclear warheads, according to the report, and is expected to have more than 1,000 by 2030. Last month, U.S. President Trump announced plans for America, Russia and China to denuclearize. But the new report says China has “no appetite” for arms control discussions. To understand how close mankind is to a stunningly destructive nuclear conflict, read Gerald Flurry’s free booklet Nuclear Armageddon Is ‘At the Door.’

Iran’s supreme leader ordered the development of nuclear warheads, the Italian Institute for International Political Studies reported today, per “sources in Tehran.” The report says Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had resisted constructing warheads or enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels—but changed his thinking after joint Israel-U.S. strikes on its nuclear program in June. Iran could soon become the world’s newest nuclear power.

UN spends $100 million a year targeting Israel: Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations released a report claiming the UN spends $100 million on different mechanisms to specifically target Israel. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said, “Sometimes they do it directly, such as through committees that address Palestinian issues. Many times it is disguised under different names and organizations, but the actual activities are pure propaganda against the State of Israel.” The Trumpet has stressed for years that the UN’s disproportionate and even slanderous campaigns against Israel are evil and dangerous: They are among the causes of the October 7 massacre. Even in the aftermath of that horrific event, the UN continues to treat Israelis with deadly hatred.

Foiled terror plot in UK: Yesterday, three Islamic immigrants were found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on Manchester’s Jewish community, with two directly participating and the other failing to report what his brother was about to do. Walid Saadaoui, originally from Tunisia, said he wanted to “run rivers of [Jews’] impure blood,” with any murdered Christians being “a bonus.” Thankfully, the plot was infiltrated by British police and the men are now in prison, but this demonstrates how close the British people are to experiencing prophesied curses of terrorism and race riots.

“After two years of terrible war, we are still here,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, said at a Christmas mass on Sunday at the Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Church in Gaza City. The building was struck in July by the Israeli military during its operations against Hamas. Israel stated that the strike was accidental, but Pizzaballa claimed it may have been intentional. Even though only 100 or so Catholics can live in Gaza, this cardinal seems to harbor greater animosity toward Israel than Hamas. In recent decades, the Catholic Church has disputed Israel’s rule over the Holy Land. It has a centuries-long history of seeking to Christianize the area, by violence if necessary, and Bible prophecy reveals it will happen again.