Dem Lawmakers Urge Military to Ignore “Illegal” Trump Orders

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (11/20/2025): 3:05pm- Michael Knowles—Host of The Michael Knowles Show on The Daily Wire & Author of the book “Reasons to Vote for Democrats” (every page is blank)—joins Rich Zeoli to discuss their PragerU Book Club episode on Animal Farm which was recently released! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmFJ11619bY. 3:30pm- On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Transparency Act which directs the Justice Department to release all the files in its possession related to its investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 3:40pm- During a segment on her MS NOW show, Jen Psaki seemingly tried to exploit a victim of Epstein’s predations by asking her questions which sought to link President Trump to Epstein. Psaki’s attempt ultimately failed, leaving everyone uncomfortable. 3:45pm- Sen. Dave McCormick—United States Senator from Pennsylvania—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his recent editorial in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Veterans Are Not Victims, But Some Need Help.” You can find the article here: https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/guest-columns/2025/11/11/veterans-day-affairs-va-mental-health-dave-mccormick/stories/202511110003. 4:00pm- On Thursday, several Democratic lawmakers—Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep. Maggie Goodlander, Rep. Chris Deluzio, and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan—released a video to social media imploring service members and intelligence officials to disobey “illegal” orders issued by President Donald Trump. Though, they never once mentioned what the orders might hypothetically be. In a post to Truth Social, President Trump stated: “This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???” He added, “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” 4:30pm- Don’t listen to Rich’s Google search recommendations…under any circumstances…your targeted ads will never let you forget it… 4:45pm- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emphatically told the press that “no,” President Trump is not calling for the execution of lawmakers who posted a video urging military service members to ignore orders from the president. 5:00pm- Speaking from the House floor, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) accused several Republicans including EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin of taking campaign donations from Jeffrey Epstein. However, her claim was horribly misleading. The donations were from a Dr. Jeffrey Epstein—a different Jeffery Epstein, with no relation to the predator. 5:20pm- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says she’s finally retiring…because Hillary Clinton lost in 2016? 5:40pm- HE’S BACK! Rep. Al Green is once again calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump—telling reporters impeachment needs to be the Democrat Party’s top priority, even placing it above the economy and affordability. 6:05pm- Are aliens heading our way? Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests an interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, could be a spacecraft from another planet—though, it isn’t likely. 6:30pm- While speaking with Bari Weiss, psychologist Jonathan Haidt explained that research suggests liberal girls spend far more time on social media than conservative girls: “The feeds of the liberal girls get much more taken over by how terrible the world is…Liberal girls are caught in a set of disempowering ideas.” He added: “It’s the liberal girls who really rise first and fastest on depression.” 6:40pm CNN Polling: Americans are noticing President Trump’s numerous foreign policy successes.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osparity Private Wealth.
0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today. Call me at 856-252-010-0-07.
0:15.9	He's the one and only Michael Knowles and he joins me now live on Talk Radio 1210 WPHD. Michael, how are you, man? Rich, I'm doing better now. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. It's great to see you again. The last time we were together was back in March, when I flew out to L.A., we were together for the Prager You Book Club Animal Farm, which was released just a couple days ago. I'd tell you what, man, it was a lot of fun
0:37.7	doing it with you. It really was. Well, thank you for doing it. You know, I love that show. I've been doing, I don't even know how many years I've been doing it now. And I consider it not even like my hobby, though it does give me a great deal of pleasure, it kind of leisure time, but I consider that show in many ways the education that I didn't get.
0:55.3	You know, a lot of us, even if we went to college, even if we went to graduate school, some of us, you know, we didn't read a lot of the great books. And so the book club spans books that you probably should have read in, I don't know, seventh or eighth grade, like Animal Farm all the way up to war and peace the divine comedy canterbury tales
1:11.7	and it's great for me because uh i you know part of our job if we're broadcasters or
1:17.9	political analysts or something is to have read a lot of books and uh if we didn't do it then the
1:23.1	show is a great way to catch up and make up for that lack of education. Yeah, you know, and the thing
1:28.1	about it is that it's very timely right now, that particular book, we did this before Mamdani
1:33.3	rose to the scene. But obviously, you know, we're watching right now as we have a socialist
1:38.7	elected mayor of New York City, a socialist elected mayor of Seattle, and a lot of young
1:43.6	people who voted for
1:45.1	these people. And, you know, it's the problem that we talked about, which is that we are not doing
1:49.7	a thorough enough job of teaching young people the dangers, the horrors of communism, and the
1:54.9	failures of socialism and how it doesn't work, despite all the promises. And all the times
1:58.9	they say, it just hasn't been tried, right?
2:01.2	Which you and I talked about.
2:02.6	And it's very obvious with young people through years of indoctrination.
2:07.0	I mean, at least that's my take on it, that they succumb to this.
2:10.8	Yes, there are a lot of parallels right now.
2:12.8	Obviously, animal farm about a Bolshevik revolution on this farm.
2:17.0	And then it turns out that the pigs
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