HUGH HEWITT: As Minnesota’s fraud scheme explodes, Trump gains a golden opening for accountability

George Washington Plunkett was born into poverty in 1842, but rose through the ranks of New York’s famous Democratic Party machine.Tammany Hall“, becoming a state representative and senator. He also became very wealthy along the way.

Plunkett was always protective of his machine, its methods, and the money he made from it. Plunkett would gladly defend Tammany’s practices, refuting accusations of corruption with the usual answer that “No one thinks of distinguishing between graft and dishonest gain. There is a great deal of difference between the two.”

Plunkett’s impudence lives on in the machines of the modern left, based in the deep jurisdictions of the country. With the focus on Minnesota taxpayers being defrauded by the Somali community in the Twin Cities (many citizens, many not), voters across the country remain in shock as the story unfolds from 2022. Gopher state It should get brighter now, and then, I have a follow-up that will make the Twin Cities Swamp look like a puddle.

The Minnesota story has been hiding in plain sight, with brilliant reporters from one of the original blogs founded more than 20 years ago, Powerline, who have been studying the scandal for years.

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Powerline’s founders, John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson, and more recently their colleague Bill Glahn, have continued to dig and report, dig and report, dig and report on the “Somali connection.”

In recent weeks, the story has caught fire with the help of reporting by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal and Fox News. The statement that “Minnesota is drowning in fraud,” as Thorpe and Rufo put it, is now a national story. Pray that he will be the first of many.

“There’s graft, and I’m an example of how it works,” says Boss Plunkett. “I can sum it all up by saying: I saw my opportunities and I took them.”

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Turns out the Gopher State’s defendants, defendants, and convicts saw their opportunities, too, and they put Tammany to shame when it came to volume and speed.

Minnesota scammers have scammed the state out of huge piles of money through a variety of plays, the most famous being, at the moment, “Feeding our future“It took truly extraordinary efforts by the Governor of Minnesota. Tim Walls And the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, should turn their eyes the other way to allow this fraud and soon others to flourish. The possessed girl in “The Exorcist” had nothing on Walz and Ellison when it came to turning their heads.

We have a former Attorney General Eric Holder And former White House Counsel Dana Remus deserves credit for bringing the nation’s attention to the massive fraud network emanating primarily from the Somali and Somali American community in the Twin Cities.

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Why? Because this pair made Walz more than just an obscure governor of a deep blue state. This duo was primarily responsible for “vetting” the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee as one of the Democratic presidential candidates. Kamala Harris“Potential running mates. The dynamic duo of Holder and Remus either completely missed the massive downsides that occurred on Walz’s watch or deemed them insignificant enough to derail his candidacy.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota during a campaign event at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 20, 2024. (Ping Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

During a “naughty summer” the legacy media abandoned their previous practices and joined the effort to push to the end the worst candidates since Roosevelt had ousted Alf Landon and Frank Knox in the 1936 referendum on Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Park Holder fells, and Holder’s fans followed him into the Manhattan-Beltway auditorium. Media elites also blessed Holder’s rule.

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Big mistake.

Walz is now part of the national Democratic Party’s banner and refuses to go, choosing to focus his efforts on running for a third term as governor next year — and apparently hoping to be the party’s standard bearer in 2028. Instead, the “Feed Our Future” campaign has taken off from the Minnesota ghetto to the national stage.

“Run Tim Run” should be the Republican Party’s anthem, along with “Run Gavin Run,” because just like Walz, the governor of California. Gavin Newsom He has some industrial level explaining to do.

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No, I’m not referring to Governor of California French laundry disaster. And no, not the devastating fires that swept through Los Angeles in January. Not even his accused former chief of staff. No, the exact parallel to Walz’s tragedy is the Newsom administration’s handling of coronavirus-era jobless relief — a statewide sham run by political cons.

The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, like the Lost Wages Assistance plan, is designed and funded by Congress to keep Americans left out of work or with their businesses shuttered by coronavirus lockdowns. Like standard unemployment programs, COVID-era programs have been run primarily through state unemployment insurance offices and other government agencies.

The coronavirus lockdowns have been unprecedented, and the public health “authorities” responsible for providing and managing advice should never be taken seriously again.

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Many of these bureaucrats, intoxicated with new power, stepped forward when elected officials asked for guidance on what to do about the mysterious and deadly disease imported from China. (Their rejection of the laboratory leak theory reflects their actual experience, not their supposed experience.)

When lockdowns became the order of the day, Congress rightly recognized that they were shutting down the livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans and flooding the country with life-saving funds — three times over.

It was not just the Somali community in Minnesota that “saw the opportunities available to them and took advantage of them.” So did California Cons: the real, honest cons of California’s penal system – inmates who have time to scheme and defraud.

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Ask your favorite AI engine, “How much fraud has been committed against the California Employment Development Department during the coronavirus outbreak?” Answers will vary, but the minimum cost of fraud is $20 billion. The ceiling is more than $30 billion.

The Golden State’s EDD is managed by a director, and Governor Newsom, who took office in 2018, has appointed two: Rita Saenz and Nancy Farias. Covid arrived on Newsom’s watch, and he and his appointees must own up to the fraud that has followed. They make the Walz–Ellison team look like racers when it comes to ignoring fraud.

In his first term, President Trump opposed Operation Warp Speed, and Congress rightly decided to (1) spend federal dollars to ease the pain of the shutdown and (2) leave payment of most public goods to state agencies, while coronavirus business loans were handled by private sector banks as the Federal Reserve and Treasury devised a variety of ways to prevent economic collapse.

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The years following the mishap at the Wuhan laboratory have demonstrated the enormous incompetence of the American administrative state, but they have also shown the necessity of a federal government to foot the bill when “scientists” lose their collective minds and recommend, for example, school closures.

The official timeline shows the coronavirus emerging in Wuhan in December 2019 and reaching US shores a month later. We may never know when the first cases were diagnosed by the Chinese Communist Party, and we are not in a position to investigate the horrific fraud and subsequent debacle committed by the Secretary-General. Xi Jinping He is responsible.

But President Trump could order a six-month deep dive into the financial fraud that followed in the United States, not just in Minnesota and California — though those are the “patient zeros” to never let the crisis pass without enriching the state’s worst actors.

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Can President Trump stand up? Limited time panel To investigate fraud committed on state agencies during the coronavirus? Yes. Could this committee burn some of the GOP’s reputation along the way? Definitely.

But attention to Somali extortion in Minnesota should signal demands for accountability across the country.

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President Trump often acts in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt, who, like 45-47 year olds, was never afraid of a headline, provided it provoked him.

Now is the time for the president to ask a handful of the smartest and most respected people in the country to sort through the many wreckage of the coronavirus era. Responsibilities of state governments and “initiatives” and report quickly – and in plain English – the extent of fraud committed against state agencies.

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Make your research and publishing team smart and fast. Appointing Johnson and Hendricker as co-chairs of a strike team dedicated to compiling the facts as we know them today would ensure accuracy and quality writing.

And give them a deadline: August 31, 2026. Voters deserve to know how their state governments have operated during the coronavirus — or not — before voting again.

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