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After a scheduled follow-up evaluation on Friday, President Donald Trump’s physician said Trump “remains in exceptional health” and is showing “strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological and physical performance.” Trump, 79, was at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for about three hours and underwent lab tests and preventive health assessments. Trump’s doctor, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, said in a one-page memo that the president received a yearly flu shot and a COVID booster vaccine. Barbabella noted that Trump’s cardiac age is 14 years younger than his actual age, adding that the president “continues to demonstrate excellent overall health.” “His cardiac age — a validated measure of cardiovascular vitality via ECG — was found to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age,” the memo said. “He continues to maintain a demanding daily schedule without restriction.” “President Donald J. Trump continues to demonstrate excellent overall health.” – Captain Sean P. Barbabella, D.O. Physician to the President pic.twitter.com/BfBsJTUOGh — The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 11, 2025 Back in July, Trump underwent medical testing and received a diagnosis of “chronic venous insufficiency” in his legs, The Daily Wire reported. “I know that many in the media have been speculating about bruising on the president’s hand and also swelling in the president’s legs,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at the time. “So in the effort of transparency, the president wanted me to share a note from his physician with all of you today.” Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout A memo from Barbabella said there was “mild swelling” in Trump’s lower legs and that the president’s concern was “thoroughly evaluated by the White House medical unit,” out of an “abundance of caution.” Ultrasounds to assess blood flow in both of his legs found “chronic venous insufficiency,” Leavitt relayed. Barbabella called this a “benign, common condition, particularly in individuals over the age of 70.” Trump’s health update comes as his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, released an update on his cancer battle. Biden is receiving radiation treatment for about five weeks for his advanced prostate cancer, according to a spokesperson. “As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment,” the spokesperson said. Biden has been taking the pill form of a hormone medication, according to NBC News, and the former president’s team says Biden is “doing well.” The 82-year-old first disclosed his aggressive cancer diagnosis back in May, mere months after he left office. At the time, it was reported that Biden had metastatic prostate cancer that had moved from the prostate all the way to his bones. Related: Biden Team Provides Update On Cancer Battle, Radiation Therapy

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Virginians with even a modicum of decency were rightly repulsed by vile 2022 text messages from Jay Jones, the Democrat nominee for state attorney general, made public last week, in which he wished for two bullets to the head of then-Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Todd Gilbert—and for the killing of Gilbert’s two young children. In purely “CYA” mode, Jones’ Democrat ticket mates running for governor and lieutenant governor were quick to join in the deserved condemnation of Jones’ despicable remarks. But now, more than a week later, they still have not taken the next step and called on Jones to quit the race. Appalling as that is, it comes as no surprise to those of us who remember the equally shocking case of Susanna Gibson, a Democrat who ran for the House of Delegates just two years ago. More on that in a moment. At a candidate’s debate Thursday night, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican nominee for governor, repeatedly pressed her opponent, Democrat former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, to call on Jones to quit. Even a debate moderator repeatedly asked Spanberger about it, but the Democrat ducked, dodged, and weaved. Spanberger refused to answer whether she thought Jones should leave the race with what should have been the obvious one-word answer: “Yes.” “We’re all running our individual races,” Spanberger stammered, when asked point-blank for a “yes or no” answer. “It’s up to every voter to make their own individual decision.” Abigail Spanberger’s silence says it all. pic.twitter.com/orrgAzULKK— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 10, 2025 No profile in courage, Spanberger’s unwillingness to declare Jones unfit for office makes clear her condemnations of him were as performative as they were perfunctory. The same can be said of Jones’ abject apologies for the damning texts. Spanberger and the Democrat lieutenant governor nominee, state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, apparently can’t bring themselves to pull the trigger—metaphorically—and call the despicable text messages of the man who aspires to become the state’s top law enforcement officer what they are—namely, disqualifying for the job. At Thursday night’s debate, Spanberger again denounced Jones’ violent rhetoric as “absolutely abhorrent,” but offered up only Kamala Harris-like word salads when asked repeatedly whether she thought Jones should quit the race. ?SHOCKINGAbigail Spanberger refuses to say whether she still supports Jay Jones despite his political violence texts.Deanna Allbrittin asks repeatedly, but Spanberger does not respond.? pic.twitter.com/gVkeBXjrj2— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 9, 2025 The failure—not just of Spanberger and Hashmi, but also of other high-ranking Virginia Democrats, among them U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine—to call for Jones to step aside calls to mind a onetime favorite adage of the Left, albeit one used in other contexts: “Silence = Assent.” That brings us back to Gibson, who refused to end a 2023 bid for the state legislature after it was revealed in September of that year that she had posted videos of sex acts with her husband on a pay-for-play pornographic website. Then as now, top Virginia Democrats circled the wagons and refused to demand Gibson get out of the race. State Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton, the Virginia Senate majority chairwoman, criticized the release of the videos as “an invasion of privacy” and insisted that Gibson’s purported qualifications for office were all that really mattered. (Despite the sex scandal, and perhaps because of the wagon-circling, Gibson came shockingly close to winning, garnering 48.8% of vote.)Fast-forwarding two years, Locke and state Senate President Pro Tem Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, issued a joint statement in which they called Jones’ texts “deeply disturbing”—but apparently not “disturbing” enough to give up the chance for Democrats to win back the state Attorney General’s Office from Republican incumbent Jason Miyares. Locke and Lucas insisted—laughably and evidence to the contrary notwithstanding—that Jones “has demonstrated the character and compassion the Office of Attorney General deserves.” “There is no place for political violence or violent rhetoric in our public discourse,” Locke and Lucas tut-tutted and tsk-tsk’d, adding, “Jay must take accountability for his actions. But we will not allow this moment to distract from the urgent fight we are in for Virginia’s future.” Likewise, after condemning Jones’ texts, Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, urged voters to keep their attention on the broader stakes of the election, the Virginia Mercury reported. “We can’t get distracted, because they want us to get distracted by the text message here or something else. Stay focused,” he said. For its part, the Democratic Attorneys General Association has given no indication it would ask for the $3.1 million it has donated to Jones’ campaign back. In other words, for Democrats, it’s party and political power uber alles. How do these Democrats propose that Jones ‘take accountability for his actions’ if not by quitting the race in disgrace? If not wishing death on a political opponent (or a sex scandal), what would it take to get Democrats to throw one of their candidates under the campaign bus? No one doubts that if this had been Miyares, Virginia Republicans would have rightly demanded that he not only end his bid for reelection, but also that he immediately vacate his office. You could ask then-U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., who in 2012 rejected calls from fellow Republicans to quit his bid for Senate after causing a political firestorm with insensitive remarks about rape and abortion. Like Gibson, Akin insisted on remaining in the race, but unlike Gibson, he lost in a landslide. There might be a lesson there waiting for Jones on Nov. 4. ?'WE'RE TALKING ABOUT M*RDER'Winsome Earle-Sears asks Abigail Spanberger point-blank: "I don’t understand why you just can’t come forward and say he needs to go."Spanberger claims Earle-Sears has not condemned political violence on her side. pic.twitter.com/9KVTvaLwvu— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 9, 2025 The post Virginia Democrats Won’t Force Jones Out of AG Race. Here’s Why. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that could reshape counseling freedom across America. The law at issue is one of several so-called “conversion therapy bans” that restrict what therapists may say to their clients.The Ruth Institute calls them what they are: “Must Stay Gay” laws.The fight for counseling freedom isn’t about forcing anyone to change. It’s about defending every person’s right to seek help aligned with their own beliefs and goals.These laws silence counselors and harm families, especially young people struggling with trauma, anxiety, and sexual confusion. The question before the court is simple: Does the First Amendment allow a state to dictate which viewpoints a licensed therapist may express?A strong signal from the courtThe central issue in Chiles is viewpoint discrimination. Colorado’s law allows therapists to affirm a child’s same-sex attraction or gender confusion — but forbids them from helping a client resist or change those feelings.Justice Samuel Alito captured the absurdity in one hypothetical, which I paraphrase (the whole argument is here): An adolescent male comes to a licensed therapist; he feels uneasy and guilty about feeling attracted to other boys. He asks the therapist to help him feel better as a gay man. Colorado law permits this. Another adolescent male goes to a licensed therapist and asks him to help him feel less attracted to other boys. Colorado law forbids this.That’s government picking sides in a moral debate, not equality under the law.When pressed, Colorado’s attorney stumbled badly. Alito then asked whether “medical consensus” has ever been wrong. She hesitated, and he reminded her of Buck v. Bell, the notorious 1927 decision that upheld forced sterilization based on “progressive” science. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes expressed the common progressive opinion at the time: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”In closing, Alliance Defending Freedom attorney James Campbell, who represents therapist Kaley Chiles, delivered the knockout line:The state of Colorado allows a 12-year-old girl to seek counseling to affirm her so-called gender identity as a boy without parental consent — but forbids her, even with her parents, from seeking help to accept herself as female.That’s blatant viewpoint discrimination. On this point, the justices seemed receptive.Junk science and the ‘born this way’ mythThe state also claimed that no one has ever changed their sexual attractions — a claim as false as it is arrogant. One counterexample disproves it, and there are thousands. Our amicus brief cites studies and testimonies from men and women who experienced real change, often through talk therapy.Colorado’s attorney dug herself in deeper, asserting that all theories linking abuse or family dynamics to sexual identity have been “debunked.” They haven’t. The research she relies on doesn’t distinguish between minors and adults, licensed and unlicensed therapists, or talk therapy and coercive “aversion” practices.That’s ideology, not science. And the justices noticed.RELATED: Christian counselors fight for freedom of speech before the Supreme Court Photo by Sakorn Sukkasemsakorn via Getty ImagesThe state’s lawyer also leaned on the claim that being gay is innate and immutable. She presented no evidence for that assertion, only the assumption that it must be true. But twin and genetic studies contradict it. Many people once identified as LGBT and no longer do. They exist, they matter, and they expose the lie behind the “born this way” narrative.What comes nextThe court offered no hints about how it will rule on the immutability question. But the justices heard enough to know that Colorado’s law enforces one approved orthodoxy and punishes dissent. That’s unconstitutional — and morally indefensible.The fight for counseling freedom isn’t about forcing anyone to change. It’s about defending every person’s right to seek help aligned with their own beliefs and goals.Here at the Ruth Institute, we’ll keep pressing the truth: “Must Stay Gay” is not OK.

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