Tea at Trianon: Andy Ngo’s Near-Death Story Rocks the White House Roundtable

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, October 10, 2025

Andy Ngo’s Near-Death Story Rocks the White House Roundtable

From Overton News:

President Trump then invited journalists to share firsthand accounts of encounters with Antifa, putting the real faces of the threat front and center.
Andy Ngo, an independent journalist who has repeatedly faced violence from Antifa, delivered one of the most powerful testimonies of the day.
His voice shook as he recounted an ambush that nearly cost him his life.
You could hear how painful it still is.
“In 2019, it led to me nearly losing my life. I was covering another Antifa protest turned riot in Portland, and then I was ambushed in a mob beating.”
“I didn’t even realize that I was being assaulted until seconds in. The punches came from everywhere on my head and my face, and I was bleeding out of my eyes and ears, and then they threw all the drinks in my eyes to humiliate me further and to laugh at me.”
“I was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and CT scan, and I had subarachnoid hemorrhage, which is bleeding in the brain and nearly died.”
“And after surviving that, the reporting that I saw in liberal media was, it seemed to suggest that I had deserved it because they branded me far-right. And some even went so far as to suggest that I maybe faked my injuries.”
The room was silent as Trump listened intently.
For Americans watching at home, it was an unfiltered reminder of the real danger posed by organized left-wing extremists — and why the administration has made combating them a priority.
This was a harrowing tale told by a man who had seen the evil up close, and he knows exactly what this administration is fighting. (Read more.)