Watch now   Thanksgiving Day News Updates - 11/27/25 As the Trump administration scrambles to explain its role in granting asylum to the D.C. shooter, the nation faces soaring holiday costs, gutted counterterrorism infrastructure, and a president MIA MeidasTouch Network and Ben Meiselas Nov 27 By Ben Meiselas Happy Thanksgiving, all! I’ve got a quick mid-day update for you. On Thanksgiving morning, Donald Trump went uncharacteristically silent. No rage-filled posts, no incoherent rants, none of the typical holiday vitriol. And that silence speaks volumes. Trump is panicking, and for good reason. Multiple sources have now confirmed what we reported on the MeidasTouch Network: the Trump regime granted asylum to the D.C. shooter back in April. That news was forced into the open when Kristi Noem, serving as head of the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed it publicly. Fox News followed suit. The regime’s own officials corroborated it. And yet, Trump has gone dark, holed up in Florida on the taxpayer dime, likely golfing, while his government scrambles to limit the political damage. According to Fox’s Jennifer Griffin, one of the last reputable national security reporters at that network, the alleged shooter “was vetted before working with the CIA by the National Counterterrorism Center and the CIA.” Multiple intelligence sources confirm he worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, that he was part of the task force in Kandahar, and that he was among Afghan allies airlifted out during the withdrawal. Having a CIA badge placed him in a highly vetted category. Griffin reported that “there was nothing in his background when he arrived in the U.S. on September 8, 2021, that suggested links to terrorism.” He applied for asylum late last year. He received asylum in April, under the Trump administration. Yet when pressed at a D.C. press conference this morning, FBI Director Kash Patel refused to take responsibility. Instead, he redirected reporters to Noem, saying, “I believe Kristi Noem put that out… that’s a DHS matter.” Patel, a former podcast host installed to run the FBI, apparently couldn’t bring himself to admit that the very administration he serves granted the asylum he now pretends to question. That’s the throughline of this regime: projection, denial, and deflection. They simply want to blame former President Biden for all the nation’s woes, without providing the American people with all the facts. Just tell us the damn facts and stop gaslighting us!!! The absurdity doesn’t end there. Trump appointed a 22-year-old former landscaper, Thomas Fugate, to head the FBI’s counterterrorism division. No experience. No training. Not a single day worked in the FBI. Just a devoted Trump superfan elevated to one of the most sensitive national security posts in the country. Predictably, the regime then gutted the nation’s counterterrorism capabilities, diverting agents to conduct politically motivated raids on migrant workers at farms, factories, and restaurants. And today, when confronted with the consequences, Trump’s top federal prosecutor in D.C., former Fox host Jeanine Pirro, declared, “This is what happens when people are allowed in who are not properly vetted.” But her own administration performed the final vetting. Her own administration granted the asylum. Her own administration elevated unqualified loyalists into national security leadership. The regime created the very failures it now blames on imaginary enemies. All of this unfolds as Americans sit down to Thanksgiving dinner facing soaring costs. The price of turkey is up. The price of groceries is up. Everything is up, despite Trump’s false insistence that prices are “25% lower” than under former President Biden. Data show that turkey is actually on average 25% higher At every table in America today, families are sharing stories of hardship, worry, and frustration with a government that has turned national security into a partisan loyalty test and economic reality into a gaslighting exercise. Contrast the chaos of this Thanksgiving with the normalcy Americans once took for granted. Now, Trump is angrily calling governors “fat slobs” and joking about sending Thanksgiving turkeys to “terrorist confinement centers,” his term for the notorious mass detention facilities in El Salvador, where he boasts of crackdowns on “barbaric” populations. This is not presidential. It’s not normal. It’s not even remotely funny. And contrast that, too, with former President Barack Obama’s message this morning: “During this season of giving, let’s do what we can to give back to the communities that have given us so much.” It is a simple expression of empathy and something we no longer see in the Oval Office. When Obama was president, we saw him at food banks, volunteering on Thanksgiving, embodying the civic spirit that has always anchored American democracy. Today, Trump sends the National Guard, not law enforcement, but military personnel, into American cities, despite overwhelming opposition from residents and their elected leaders. “These young people should be at home in West Virginia with their families,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said. She’s right. They never should have been deployed there in the first place. Instead of addressing national security failures honestly, the Trump regime responds by further militarizing the nation’s capital and congratulating itself. Instead of acknowledging economic pain, it lies about grocery prices. Instead of leading, it hides. The American people deserve much better than this. We deserve competence. We deserve truth. We deserve leaders who understand that public office requires accountability and not propaganda. On this Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for everyone who continues fighting for a better country, for truth, and for democracy. The work continues. And so does our resolve. Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the MeidasTouch Network, and enjoy my latest report above. Meidas+ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.