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The Collapse of the Democratic Party, Trump's White House Ballroom Controversy, & Isabel Vincent on the Corruption of Former Sen. Bob Menendez
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Foreign Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the no Spin News. Wednesday, October 29, 2025. Stand up for your country. Federal Reserve cuts the interest rate one quarter. Good. And especially if you're looking to buy a house or refinance or buy a car, you know, probably cut another quarter in December. So I'm not worried about the overall economy here in the United States. But tomorrow morning, see Korea is, What is it, 14 hours ahead? I think it is something like that. Tomorrow morning in Korea is the big one for the economy. That's when Trump meets Xi. And I have been talking to the president on a regular basis. He remains very optimistic. The United States is going to secure a good deal, trade deal and that'll bolster the economy more. And that obviously is everything in the midterm elections. So, so the one thing that the Trump administration has not succeeded in is bringing the price of food down. And I can't predict that gas price is coming down. They're below $3 in my neighborhood now. And I think that will continue. But you know, we loyal Americans and that lets out, I don't know, 20, 25% of population. We're rooting for a good deal with China. Very, very important. And I'll give you the nuts and bolts in a moment. But the talking points memo now is about the disintegrating Democratic Party. Now, I don't want to overstate this, but the Dems are in trouble. So there is a think tank named welcome welcome. It's funded by left wing money. Michael Bloomberg, Samuel Walton, Reid Hoffman, James Murdoch, all left wingers. They pump a lot of money into this political action committee. So this study and thousands of Americans said, what do you think about the Democratic Party? Wasn't all Democrats. Now, across the board, 70% of Americans believe corporate. According to this study, Democratic Party is, quote, out of touch. All right. That number was 51% in 2013 when Barack Obama was president. Okay. So the Democratic Party from 51/2 thought it was out of touch back under Obama is now 70. That's a catastrophe. Now, there are strongholds of progressive thought, Boston, New York, Louisiana, San Francisco, Chicago, that kind of thing. But the mass of people are going, you know what, this party's not doing it for us. Now get, let me get specific about the study. So the people who are objecting to the Democratic point of view object to protecting migrants. Top issue they don't like. The Democrats are doing it insisting on tax increases. Democrats want to raise taxes. Right. Involved with the gay trans stuff. That's hurt them. The Democratic Party and basically being woke and politically correct all the time. Okay? So that's where the Democrats stand. They have a very weak hand. Jersey might vote for a Republican next Tuesday. That happens. That's a big signal in Virginia. I don't think the Republican candidate is going to win the governorship and it's not impressing me very much. But Jersey Citarelli could win. Okay. On a GOP side, just for your frame of rec. Frame reference, they have a 65% negative rating with America. 65%, five points less than the Democrats of being out of touch. So you can see that Americans don't like either party. That's because too much games, too many games going. But the Republicans, 5% is a significant amount, particularly because the big urban centers, that's where people are. New York is eight and a half million people. Okay. Can the Democrats reverse it? I don't know how. They don't have a leader, a strong leader. Kamala Harris Newsom. He's as progressive as you get. Who's going to be the leader that brings the Democratic Party back? Fetterman. Senator from Pennsylvania? I don't think so. So that's a problem. The leadership problem. Obviously, Republicans don't have that. They have a very strong leader in Donald Trump. So summon on up. If the Trump administration and the Republican Party can get the food under control, sweep it next November. That's the memo. All right. President Biden's White House Dr. Kevin O'. Connor. All right. On May 19th, your humble correspondent, that is me, said this. Go. The doctor who examined Biden, Kevin o', Connor, kept saying Biden's perfect health, mentally and physically. That just couldn't be true. Dr. O' Connor has to be investigated, number one. And he is. Presto. House Oversight Committee, chaired by James Comer, a Trump ally. Okay? They are referring Dr. O' Connor to the Washington D.C. board of Medicine. Okay? To take some action that he should be disciplined, sanctioned, or even lose his medical license because he misled the American people. That's the conclusion the House Oversight Committee came to. However, the Democrats on the committee dissent. Of course they do. They're not going to admit that Biden didn't know what he was doing. And I wouldn't go that far. But I'll say he was impaired from most of his term. Mentally impaired. And I do believe that he used narcotics to deliver State of the Union address and things like that. Remember that? Remember when he was jacked up? Okay. Anyway, I don't think anything's going to happen to Dr. O' Connor, because it's Washington, D.C. which is 95% Democrat. I don't see it. But that's what's happening there. Bill Gates, billionaire, of course, you know, he pumped $2 billion of his own money into funding global warming stuff, okay? Since 2015, 2 billion. And now he says, well, it's not that bad, global warming. Here's what he posted on gatesnotes.com', although climate change will have serious consequences, particularly for people in the poorest countries, it will not lead to humanity's demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on earth for the foreseeable future. Unquote. Bill Gates. Okay, so why the conversion? He doesn't say Gates, but I can't guess. And I've said from the very beginning there is global warming. That's true. But you don't go crazy ruining economies with windmills when you don't know what you're doing. And the world doesn't know what it's doing right now. So the US government is pledged to spend $500 billion. 500 billion on climate tech, clean energy over the next decade. I'm not opposed to clean energy. I think that's worthy. But you can't be building the windmills out in the middle of the ocean. Look, I got windmills near me. I can see them from my house and they're broken all the time. And the windmills only give power to Block Island. That's Rhode island territory. That's it. So it had to cost a couple of billion to put those windmills out there in the water. And what, 12,000 people get power from them? No. Okay, no. Let's face it, the US economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. 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Government shutdown day 29 is on Hannity. Talking about this today. Andy radio program we posted on billoriley.com and you know, I don't want to be boring. I've gone over this. Schumer and Democrats knew that the Republicans were not going to extend the COVID Obamacare supplements indefinitely because it was supposed to end after Covid ended. But the Democrats want trillions of dollars to extend Obamacare when it's already costing a bloody fortune. And Republicans are going, no, they need to revamp that whole thing. The whole thing's got to be revamped. We're going to go broke. We're almost broke now, this country. All right, so this whole thing was set up to influence the election next week. I don't think it's going to work for the Democrats. And I think, but I was wrong because I didn't think it was going to go on nearly this long. So I'm not even going to make a prediction. US Troops are going to get paid on Friday. Vice President Vance made the announcement. Pentagon has $8 billion in kind of discretionary money, but they're going to pay the troops and they should. 1.53 million military service members active right now, 1.3 million. Trump's in Asia. All right. So as you know, I've been texting back and forth. He, he remains very, very confident that tomorrow's big meeting with XI will work out well for America. So far, it's worked out well in Malaysia. It's worked out well in Japan and in Korea. Okay, so everything's going our way. But tomorrow, local time Korea, the XI meeting takes place at 11:00am I guess. All right. Yep, 11:00am Local time. And then after that meeting, the president gets on a plane and comes back. And on Friday, no, this is crazy. I can't believe this is going to happen. But tomorrow, Thursday, so you gain a day when you come back from Asia. He's going to do a Halloween thing, take a nap, do it on Friday. That's Halloween. Anyway, everybody should be rooting that we, the United States get a good deal with China, but everybody isn't. And I don't respect those people. You got a problem with me if you're in that Category, rooting against your own country because you hate Trump. Guy named Richard Haas, the liberal guy was on all the liberal stations. Here's what he said about Trump's trip. Go. This could not have gone better. Let's just take a step back. Japan is arguably the single most important ally of the United States, the world's third largest economy, one of the most powerful militaries. If you want to deal successfully with China, you need Japan on your side. Now, he said that to all the lefties watching Ms. They're very, I don't think they break a million now on any of their shows. But, you know, it's notable that he said that. Of course, the Ms. People. Oh, what about the White House? I'm agnostic on this. I'm going to write a message of the day for tomorrow billorilly.com about the history of changing the White House. It's not going to be boring. Our pal George Will, who despises Trump, is coming down on Trump for the renovations. You know, he's like, crazed. I don't care one way or the other because it doesn't cost the taxpayer any money. Trump raised all of the money himself and his friends. All right, so 37 donors. Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Comcast, T Mobile gave him the money and he's building a new ballroom. Is this a big deal? I don't think it's a big deal. He, Donald Trump wants the United States to be the grandest nation in the world. And he didn't like the confined space where you had to run events in tents out in the White House rose garden. So he revamped the rose garden and now he's doing the big ballroom. Okay. Would I have done it? Probably not. But, you know, but anyway, I'm going to put it in the proper perspective. So you might want to read that. There is a poll. Yahoo poll. Okay. Do you approve or disprove of the plan to add 90,000 square feet for a ballroom to the White House? Approve. 25%. Disapprove. 61. Not sure. 14. Now, I'll submit to you that most people don't even know what this is about. Second question from Yahoo. Do you approve or disapprove of funding the ballroom with 300 million in private donations from corporations? Approve. 32. Disprove. 53. Why would you disapprove of that if they're going to pay and it comes out well, why would you disapprove of that? Crazy. Not a big deal. So we have been telling you, and I get nasty mail Donald Trump can run for a third term. And from the very beginning, I said no, because I know the Constitution. I'm a historian. Well, yesterday, on his way to South Korea from Japan, here's what the President said. I have the best numbers for any president in many years. Any president. And I would say that if you read it, it's pretty clear I'm not allowed to run. Stupid. All right, he knows. How does he know? Because I told him. I did it a nice way, though. A funny way. Okay. But he knew anyway. Come on. Constitution is the Constitution. All right, Nancy Pelosi. So here's something I should change. If you're a sitting member of Congress, Senator, or in the House, you should not be able to actively trade stocks because you get all kinds of inside information about legislation that influences the prices of stocks, particularly in a drug industry and things like that. Pelosi. Listen to this. Pelosi and her husband made 4.7 million in one day. Okay. That was reported in May. In one day.
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Nancy, go. I don't trade my husband. Yeah. So Nancy donates some Apple stock to Cath Catholic University. Trinity. Something. I don't know. No, it's Trinity Washington University. It's a Catholic school. Okay, that's nice, but let's get this legislation passed, all right? Put the money in trust while you're in office, okay? It's the right thing to do now. Not going to happen. And it's because the congresspeople and the Senate goes, well, we have a right to make money, too. We have families to support. Okay, I get it. But the aura of corruption is so heavy that I think the Public good demands that they put the money in trust. There is a new book that you should know about. It's called Gold Bar the Downfall of The Most Corrupt U.S. senator by Isabel Vinson and Thomas, Jason and Anderson. They are reporters for the New York Post. It is a good book. Okay. I am reading it now. Now, to make this interview easier, let us introduce you to former Senator Bob Menendez, who the authors say the most corrupt senator in modern times. He was convicted on July 16th of 2024 conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services, wire fraud, committing extortion under the color of official right, obstruct justice, two counts of bribery, more wire fraud, on and on and on and on. He got convicted of all of these counts, serving 11 years in federal penitentiary in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, if you want to or send him a Christmas card. This is a bad guy. All right. So Menendez I've known for many years. In fact, his daughter is a television person and I helped her when I was at the O'Reilly Factor. All right. Very nice woman, but her father was always, in my opinion, very corrupt. He is the son of Cuban immigrants and he started in New Jersey with the help of a lot of powerful Cuban nefarious characters in Union City. Joining us now is Isabel Vincent from New York City. She's an investigative reporter for the New York Post, as mentioned, and co author of Gold Bar. Bob. So, yeah, the guys grew up and all of us knew it. And he was, he got off in 2022, 2013. He was charged and they had a mistrial. And then the Trump Justice Department didn't go after him, didn't retry him. I was stunned when I read that in your book. Isabel, why do you think the Trump J Department let him go?
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I think they couldn't pin anything on him at that time. And what's interesting is that Bob Menendez has always said that he is a victim of, of lawfare like Donald Trump. After he was convicted, he started saying that on X that everybody was after him. But we have to remember that it was the Biden Justice Department that went after him. And I think they went after him because they had such tangible proof of corruption. I mean, you'll recall that on in the first days of the trial, the prosecutors gave the jury gold bars. They actually gave them gold bullion to hold onto and to just sort of feel the corruption.
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And that was taken from Menendez's house. Right.
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Taken from his closet as well as almost $500,000 in cash was stuffed into his boots and into his and his.
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Defense lawyer said, what about that?
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A few things. That. That because he was Cuban and had been raised in a certain way, his. His father had always said, always have money at home. So he claimed he took out money every week from his bank account and just kept it at home. Unfortunately, the bills that the FBI found were new bills. They weren't bills that had come from 40 years ago. And the other thing he said was that his wife, who is also convicted of bribery and acting as a foreign agent, the same things he was convicted of. She said that she's from Lebanon, and in Lebanon, you know, it's a traditional way to. In families to give gifts of gold. So they tried to say that that gold was from her family in Lebanon, but it was from people who wanted savor.
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It's just foolish nonsense. But Menendez, I guess this week or last week, threw his wife, to use a cliche, under the proverbial bus. How did he do that?
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So he started right from the beginning of his trial. They were indicted together. And then they decided. His lawyers decided that it would be best for both of them, or so they said, to do the trial separately. So during his trial, Menendez. Menendez's main defense was that his wife, Nadine Menendez, his second wife, put him up to all of this and then.
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Made him do it.
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What was to do the wrongdoing. And then what was strange was that Mrs. Menendez, at her sentencing hearing, you know, put herself out there as a victim of domestic abuse and saying that Bob Menendez was the best guy she'd ever been with, except when he threw her under the bus during the trial. So she then threw him under the bus. But then at the very end of the trial, at the very end of this sentencing hearing, her lawyer asked Judge Stein, Justice Sidney Stein, when can I go visit my husband? Because as a convicted felon, there are rules about, you know, entering the felon.
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Yeah. Visiting, sure.
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So it was just. It was all theater.
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Here's what I don't understand. The first trial, where it was a mistrial and then they didn't bring it back for a second time, was pretty tawdry. You had women involved, and you had, you know, allegations that Menendez had 19 private jet flights paid for him. $750,000 in campaign funds went to him, and the people of Florida still reelected him. How could that happen? Florida. People of New Jersey. People of New Jersey. I'm sorry, all you Floridians, New Jersey.
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Reelected him because he's such a powerful person. He had the backing of you know, he always had the Hispanic vote. He always had the anti Castro vote. So he was able to rally, you know, a lot of the Republicans who wanted the US to be tough on Castro and on and on Cuba. I think that was like a big factor. But also because the trial took place in New Jersey. He's where he is a favorite son.
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This new trial, why wouldn't people turn against him? I mean, this was before the gold bars. This was the first one. But the first one was salacious. He's running around with these guys, and.
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One of them salacious things I discovered was that he had asked his benefactor south, a South Florida eye doctor to. He or his benefactor had asked him to get visas for all of his foreign girlfriends. And Bob just went into the Senate office and you need to get, you know, this was something that had to be done right away. And there were all these, you know, bikini models and stuff like that. I couldn't believe that this was going on.
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You know, what happened. You know, I'm blaming it partially on the media because the local television media didn't give this a lot of play. And I mentioned it, but I wasn't, you know, on it. But I was surprised when the good people of New Jersey reelected Menendez. But he was wired into a lot of gangsters in Union City. I mean, this guy was really bad to the bone from the very beginning, correct?
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Yes. So we're talking about, in my book, in our book, we go back to Menendez in high school. Menendez, the corruption started then when he was given a place on the Union City school board by his mentor, Bill Musto, who was the product of the Democratic machine, the local Democratic people boss in, in Union City. And at that time, we see Menendez dispensing favors to his family members. I mean, his, his mother gets a job with the school board, his sister gets a job with the school board. After Menendez is married, he gets married very early. I think he was in his early 20s. His wife gets a job with the school board.
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Everybody gets a job. But that's Jersey. I mean, the Sopranos, we know that now. Last question for you. Menendez, I understand, is angling for a pardon from President Trump. And it's to the Biden administration's credit that they went after him. The Justice Department are in. Merrick Garland convicted him, and he's in Federal pen for 11 years. And you have to serve most of that time. It's not like state prison. You got to serve most of the 11. And his wife is going to be go to prison next summer. Right. Nadine is on the way. What did she get? I forget what you had in there.
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She got four and a half years.
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Four and a half. Okay.
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The judge felt bad for her because of her breast cancer battle.
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But Menendez, the rumor is that he's trying to get a pardon from Trump. Is that what you're hearing?
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So I've heard that for many months he was trying to get a pardon from Trump just after Trump was elected. But here's the thing. Menendez voted twice to impeach Trump during his.
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Puff daddy. It's like. Yeah, I can't see it. Yeah, I can't see it. No. Menendez was absolutely in a Democrat machine. All right. The book is Gold Bar Bob. That's easy to remember. And if you want to know about corruption in the United States. And believe me, Menendez is not alone. He is not alone. And in Confronting the president, Isabelle, you might have noticed how corrupt Lyndon Johnson was and he became president. My God. And I appreciate you coming on and talking about your book as well. Good luck with it. Back with a final thought in a moment. Here is the final thought of the day. So I'm writing my next book will be out this time next year. It is called Confronting America. What has to change? What a bear. So we got to research and write. You know, you got to start now to get it all done by about April or May so they can then set the type and all that. But everything's changing. So what has to change? Some of it's already changing. So it's driving me nuts. But this is a very personal book and I'm going to say a lot of stories you've never heard before. But this is what I do after I do this. So the old cliche is all work and no play make Jack a dull boy. I don't think I could get any duller. It's Bill, not Jack. But man, I'm working too much anyway. I'm going to take a little breather on Halloween and scare the kids. Thank you for watching the newspin news. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.