Beltway Insider: Trump, Midterms, Israeli Elections, Eisenhower’s Globes, Alexander Brothers Sentenced, Cornell No Confidence
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- Published on Saturday, 31 October 2026 14:42
- Written by Janet Walker
President Trump has been hitting the campaign trail like a man seeking a third term, and while he is barred from another term, if the mid-term elections swing democrat the remainder of his presidency is effectively terminated.
The President's job approval rating, according to The New York Times for the period ending October 31, 2026, of those polled who approve of his effectiveness as President has remained consistent at 37% and those who disapprove of his effectiveness has remained consistent at 60%. A slight 3% of the population polled have no opinion. Ratings are calculated weekly.
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Mid-Term Elections
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, a date which will expose to the world the temperature of the people of the United States. With the possibility of radical upsets in both houses, the elections are the bellwether for the upcoming 2028 election.
"Whether either party wins or loses Tuesday, the end of the 2026 midterms marks the beginning of a high-stakes fight over the country's political future in the twilight of the Trump era — a fight that will swiftly surge to the forefront of American politics as new members of Congress descend upon Washington and the 2028 presidential contest takes off," PBS.org reported.
With two years before the 2028 Presidential election, the Republican should they endeavor to remain in control will see these mid-terms as a test to the political style the wish to build on. The mud-wrestling, unscrupulous, aggressive, and nasty days may be over, if the democrats make significant gains or flip either house.
If the House of Representatives swings democrat the possibility of President Trump facing third impeachment investigation, without a matching democratic majority in the senate it would be unlikely and it would be seen as more of the same revenge fueled retaliation rhetoric.
Could the mid-terms actually usher in a retro civility? Who knows, manners and political decorum may be an election away.
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Israeli Election: Netanyahu Wins Reelection
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have won the election, but the embattled leader has lost his voting bloc, and possibly his ability to wield power without restraint. While not a lame duck government, his administration has been significantly weakened.
"Results released by election officials early Friday showed Netanyahu's bloc winning 53 seats in the 120-member assembly, well below the 68 seats it had controlled at its peak in the previous parliament. His main opposition won 48 seats and Arab-led parties secured the other 19," reported APnews.com.
The loss of the majority has Netanyahu taking a page from President Trump's playbook, and crying foul, suggesting the election was stolen and to press the fear button even further, he has suggested it is the Arabs, the most feared and hated neighbors.
The October 7, 2023 Palestine invasion which killed 1200 Israeli citizens, and resulted in an ongoing war in Gaza, ultimately killing more than 70,000 Palestinians, also weighed heavily in the election.
Netanyahu's Liked Party's main rival the Yashar Party led by Gadi Eisenkot secured 48 seats in the Knesset, or the ruling Israel legislature, and the remaining 19 seats were secured by Arab politicians.
As Eisenkot was a former military general it will be more difficult for Netanyahu to steamroll his polices through the Knesset.
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Hegseth Team Destroys WWII Artifact Reveals Department Wide Sloppiness
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth expressed an interest in securing two world globes, used by former president and General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II, for his office.
With a treasure trove of priceless artifacts and other precious historical items from presidents and military generals housed in Pentagon or White House storage, the items are available for use by the current administrations.
Hegseth wanted Eisenhower's globes.
"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by trained curators. Instead, Hegseth's staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They lost control of the artifact and dropped it, sending the globe crashing onto its base and impaling the fragile shell near Antarctica, according to those familiar with the incident. The resulting gash appears to be several inches wide," The Washington Post reported.
Unfortunately, the failure by Hegseth's team highlights more than simply carelessness, it reveals a top down pattern which spills over from his leadership within the Department of Defense and his wartime ability to provide adequate care to his own troops.
In a letter from Pennsylvania Representative Chrissy Houlahan, she details how the Department of Defense failed to provide adequate care to injured soldiers in an off-target drone strike, stating, "In April, Senator Warren and Representative Ryan led investigations into reports that Secretary Hegseth failed to take basic steps to protect troops during President Trump's war in Iran, including during a strike that killed six service members and injured dozens in Kuwait. Following new reporting revealing that service members warned of safety issues ahead of the strike, the lawmakers pressed for answers on why troops injured in the attack have not received timely access to medical care and why the Trump administration failed to prepare for attacks on troops in the Middle East."
The letter continues to explain the lack of wartime and military preparedness exhibited by Hegseth his subordinates.
His lack of ability to ready operations is not limited to moving priceless artifacts or gamifying wartime scenarios or leaving his own troops to die, it also involved the use of outdated data before firing a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile on February 28, 2026, which hit an Elementary School in Minab, Iran, killing over 150 people, including more than 120 children and school staff. Even after an investigation proved U.S. Forces were responsible, and represented with litany of preventable failures, Hegseth and President Trump still attempted to blame it on the Iranians.
The failure to adequately prepare to move the priceless Eisenhower globes is an analogy of his failure to gamify or be ready for every wartime scenario and moreover, be prepared for those feared moments when those serving under his leadership are met with the ultimate sacrifice of service and move expediently to aid and assist.
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Coronavirus Total
At the order of the President of the United States, the U.S. no longer recognizes the value of The World Health Organization. The CDC has recommended every person from age six months, including senior citizens should receive at least one shot of an updated COVID-19 vaccine, annually. The death toll from Covid-19 has dramatically decreased, as has transmission of the virus. Even as confirmed new cases continue each week, fewer are dying from each new variants.
For the 14 days ending October 31, 2026, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases reported by the World Health Organization increased by 58,077 to 779,528,472. The total worldwide death toll did not increase over the past 14 days has increased by 455 to 7,118,114 deaths. The United States has stopped providing Covid data to the World Health Organization. (Data updated September 11, 2026, from the World Health Organization.
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Alexander Brothers Sentenced
The Alexander Brothers, once elite real estate brokers for high net worth clientele in Manhattan, Miami, and other regions synonymous with wealth, were each sentenced this week to 30 years in prison by Judge Valerie K. Caproni.
The brothers, Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander, known as The Alexander Brothers, were convicted earlier in the year after a jury deliberated 21 hours over the course of three days, subsequently finding the brothers guilty debated them of running a sex trafficking ring prosecutors successfully when a federal judge sentenced each of the brother
"What happened to me was not a misunderstanding," said a woman using the pseudonym Maya Miller who spoke at the sentencing in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday. She had testified at trial earlier this year that Tal Alexander assaulted her in a shower while she was visiting him in the Hamptons in 2014. "There was no confusion. Tal Alexander raped me," The New York Times reported.
Many of the victims read victims statements before the sentencing, hoping their words would resonate with the judge in making her decision. Many of the victims spoke with candor, others ventured into the unknown, wondering what their lives would be like without this trauma.
The first victim to file a civil lawsuit against the brothers, Kate Whiteman, which resulted in prosecutors initiating an investigation, was found dead earlier this year. Suicide among sexual assault survivors is not uncommon as one-third of sexual assault survivors contemplate suicide, moreover for affluent predators a victim's unexplained suicide is the simplest method available to silenced the accusers voice and reputation. The dead cannot defend themselves and indictments against a victims character after death are often the punctuation to the victims life.
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Cornell Administrators Face No Confidence Vote
The fallout from the lack of effort by Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff and other top level university administrators continues to plague the university as the efforts to ameliorate the negative publicity and connotations from the gang rape allegations have proven inadequate.
"On Wednesday, Cornell's chapter of the American Association of University Professors called for [Cornell President Michael] Kotlikoff, the vice president for student and campus life and other administrators to resign. It demanded an immediate suspension of Interfraternity Council fraternities, and for a student- and faculty-led effort to build an independent system to investigate and adjudicate allegations of sexual assault," The Washington Post reported.
Kotlikoff, a former biomedical researcher and veterinarian, which has been the subject of intense scrutiny since mid-September when shocking revelations of a fraternity gang rape and the subsequent effort by all levels of the university to cover-up the horrendous allegations has become widely known after the filing of a civil litigation by the victim.
The efforts to facilitate a more permanent end to the allegations were immediate, as the victim reported the crime, believing the campus police had the authority to make decisions and were sufficiently capable of handling an investigation of this magnitude. As the victim continued to seek assistance from University professional, she was repeatedly rebuffed and made to live "the walk of shame" in hopes that shame would incapacitate her.
Even as Kotlikoff has publicly offered contrition for his lack of judgement, and pledged new awareness, and yet as the key leader at a prestigious private university, quite possibly his tenure as an educator is completed.
Kotlikoff is not an anomaly. His actions, the playbook of covering the entire ugly situation and forcing the victim to suffer through humiliation, shame, and revictimization, is what has long been called the second rape, and journalists have labeled the action of reporting rape to any authority, especially police, 'the second rape,' as the victim is then considered the offender, or she is portrayed as a whore, a liar, or any number of slanderous terms to erode her character and weaken or undermine the facts of the case.
As the vote of no confidence is likely to proceed, it is time for Kotlikoff and his senior administrative staff, as well as the campus police who disregarded the crime, to be relieved of their duties. It is not the time for reeducating the educated on the sexual assault reporting procedures, rape, and campus sex crimes. It is the time for terminations and clean slates.
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Hudson County NJ Victim
The Hudson County, New Jersey victim who has repeatedly sought legal assistance, has once again been turned down by a prestigious Manhattan law firm who specializes in assisting sexual assault victims.
As the victim has continued to explain the allegations, what has become glaringly obvious is that exposing the world of entitled elite rapists has its limits and when it exposes members of the legal community, that is where the powerful litigators draw the line on representation.
As those members of the legal community who believed winning the day equaled winning the war, it is obvious that had they known the Hudson County SAVA Unit would implement a no investigation policy, the victim believes she would have been murdered. What is clear to the victim is that when a police unit fails from the beginning the likelihood of a total blacklisting including no assistance, no investigation, no prosecution, and no further contact, is the only certain outcome. It is not a stretch to believe that all records, attesting to the victim's report, would also be destroyed.
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Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade. A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Ms. Walker has completed five award-winning screenplays "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She has also published "Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story," a non-fiction narrative, "Days, Times, Seasons, and Events: A Collection of Poetry & Prose," and "Songs of Freedom: A Collection of Biblical Teachings," which can be purchased here. She is a member of the Authors Guild, the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a member of the International Federation of Journalists.
