62 posts from Saturday, January 3, 2026

Well let me start by asking you, where have you been? 522.2 million dollars shortfall. Working the line right now, we doubled the National Guard, we have 1,600. Last year we had a 570. Wait a minute, we had 5.6. Hank, I'm here to talk about tomorrow, today and tomorrow. Now yesterday I've been working my tail off, I've been out, I think I had 69 public events in the last two and a half weeks. You know, I heard you say that on the radio today and then I asked your staff, "Well, where's the printout, where are these events?" and your press person said, "Well, this is stuff he just goes to." Yeah, these are all public events, yeah. But look, you know the criticism that you have been dodging, not just the press, but also the public that you have been sulking after dropping out of the governor's race, that you're having a temper tantrum, what do you want to say about it? You know, it's not just the press, though, that you've been absent from. I mean, I have a list of the events that you have missed. Which ones? Well, you want a few? The Urban Land Institute, you were scheduled to speak before 6,000 people. I had the flu that week. The China SF Conference that was also there, they were counting on you. The Silver Spur Awards luncheon. That was the only one I missed that I actually knew about. - 2,000 people were... - After I, yeah, I think the, you're focused on the spur I actually wish I had made. I was sick as a dog and I was on a Monday and I was gone for three days. Salvation Army Luncheon, honoring your chief of staff. I was never scheduled to be there, I was at actually, I was at three events at the exact same time. That's it. Off the record, I'm amazingly disappointed. Amazingly, and I just am, personally, you know?

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This is Minnesota judge Sarah West. Judge Sarah West was the judge that oversaw a $7 million Medicaid fraud case. And despite the fact that the jury convicted him unanimously, judge Sarah West said, no, we're not going to be doing that today. Now she claims that she threw out this unanimous guilty verdict due to the fact that all of the evidence presented was merely circumstantial. Now what was the circumstantial evidence? You may be asking, well, a Gfata Yusuf and his wife were running a home healthcare service out of their home. And despite the fact that their business is inside of their house, they were able to afford all of these fancy trips and luxury vehicles and these thousands of dollars of shopping sprees. So the math wasn't really quite mathing. So not only in Minnesota can you absolutely rob the state blind with fraud, but even if you get convicted by unanimous jury, a judge will still let you off the hook. Isn't that special?

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We revoked her visa. It's an F-1 visa, I believe. We revoked it, and here's why. And I'll say it again. I said it everywhere. Let me be abundantly clear. If you go apply for a visa right now, anywhere in the world, let me just send this message out. If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you're coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we're not going to give you a visa. If you lie to us and get a visa and then enter the United States and with that visa participate in that sort of activity, we're going to take away your visa. And once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States, and we have a right, like every country in the world has a right, to remove you from our country. So it's just that simple. I think it's crazy. I think it's stupid. For any country in the world to welcome people into their country, they're going to go to your universities as visitors. They're visitors and say, "I'm going to your universities to start a riot. I'm going to your universities to take over a library and harass people. I don't care what movement you're involved in." Why would any country in the world allow people to come and disrupt? We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses. And if we've given you a visa and then you decide to do that, we're going to take it away. I encourage every country to do that, by the way, because I think it's crazy to invite students into your country that are coming onto your campus and destabilizing it. We're just not going to have it. So we'll revoke your visa, and once your visa's revoked, you're illegally in the country and you have to leave. Every country in the world has a right to decide who comes in as a visitor and who doesn't. If you invite me into your home, because you say, "I want to come to your house for dinner, and I go to your house and I start putting mud on your couch and spray painting your kitchen, I bet you you're going to kick me out." Well, we're going to do the same thing if you come into the United States as a visitor and create a ruckus for us. We don't want it. We don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country, but you're not going to do it in our country.

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I just want to talk to you America guys history is being made in real time There are hundreds of people here. Tell me why did you want to be out here? Well, okay before I begin I just want to I just want to talk to you America And I hope you have your coffee when I tell you this, but these are great news all eyes on Venezuela These are historical news. This is history in the making. I mean my chest it feels like it's gonna explode with joy like president Donald Trump and my Just created an opportunity for us to begin working harder than ever because that's what we have always been doing But now we will be working in our country But you know we also have worked so hard here in the United States to build so much things I just want to thank you America. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to work Yeah, come celebrate with us. We love everybody because you America has loved us so much so much Thank you, America.

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The 76-day period you're talking about, that's the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office, is that right? That is correct. And during that short period of time, 76 days, how much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy? From the loan program office in loans and commitments, 93 billion dollars. Well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years. So how do you vet and do due diligence on a loan in 76 days? One loan, much less 93 billion dollars. How do you do it? I think it's probably pretty clear it wasn't done in many cases. As I mentioned, I'm told I'm holding back clearly in place stuff. There are lots of funds that have gone out the door and commitments that were made from businesses that provided no business plan, no numbers about their own financial solvency or how this project worked. So you're telling me that the Department of Energy in the 76-day period before their boss was going to leave office gave our loan money to entities that had no business plan? Correct. No financials? Correct. A number of those were before the 76-day period as well. I've come in with great concern about how this institution, this great American institution has been run and how American taxpayer money has been handled. I'm sorry everyone's upset that we're taking some time to do it, but what we've seen and what the record shows is just responsible. I'm not upset. A lot of people say you haven't returned your calls. Could it be that you and your colleagues have returned the calls but the people calling just didn't like the answer? Could that be a possibility? I'm not aware of that. I give my cell phone number to any senator that wants it and I return my calls. Has your department gone dark? Somebody said your department's gone dark. Is it dark over there? It doesn't look dark behind me. I don't see any of you sitting on your hands. Somebody made that charge. I see everybody's hands. Let me ask you something else, Mr. Secretary. Does anybody ever come to the Department of Energy to get some of this free money and lie to you? I have not experienced that, but I think it's a reasonable assumption that that has happened. Does anybody ever come to you? Is it conceivable that some of these folks that heard about this free money came to you with a half-baked idea? I think it's very conceivable. In fact, I've seen such plans that were half-baked would be charitable. You said plans that didn't have a business plan, right? Correct. A promise to develop one, to find a location. Just give me the money and I'll develop the plan later. Correct. And now you're going back through, not money that's already been contracted, but you're going back through and checking each one of these loans and these grants to make sure there was no stealing, aren't you? We are. We are. Make sure there was no incompetence, aren't you? Is that correct? We're looking at that, and yeah, my blood pressure is rising right now, just thinking about what we have seen and what did happen at the Department. And you're going to tell some of these boondoggles no, aren't you? That's correct. And they're going to be upset, aren't they? That's correct. And they ought to be upset, shouldn't they? I don't think they should be upset. I think they should be ashamed. I am. It's rare that I'm speechless, but I want to be sure I understood the people running the Department of Energy for President Biden's administration shoveled 93 billion dollars, not million, 93 billion dollars out the door in 76 days. And it just happened to be the time between when President Trump was elected and President Biden, their boss was leaving. Is that right? It is correct and distasteful confidence undermining. My God. Look, I hope you take whatever time you need to go through all of these projects penny by penny. I mean, I've heard this testimony today. Well, it'll cost jobs in my state. If somebody steals 50 million dollars and goes and spends the money in their state, that's going to stimulate the economy, isn't it? Yes, it will. But that's still stealing, isn't it? And it's still illegal, isn't it? Yes. I mean, they were spending money at the Department of Energy like it was ditch water. Their budget went from 60 billion dollars to 160 billion dollars since fiscal year 2021. It just sounds to me like there were a lot of people coming to the Department of Energy who had all four feet and their snout in the trough. And I hope you'll turn down the boondoggles and refer the thieves to the Department of Justice. We will indeed. Senator, the one complication in there too is mixed in there are good companies doing good things honestly with credible plans. And you're trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. Yes, that's what we're trying to do. That's our job. And we're doing it. But there's a lot of chaff.

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Do you guys remember Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota state rep that had her life taken from her by Tim Waltz's aide after voting to take away health care from illegal immigrants? She was unalived in her home by Vance Bolter, who was later caught after a manhunt. He then sent a letter to the FBI and Cash Patel saying that it was Tim Waltz who forced him to do it. Both Vance Bolter and his wife worked for Tim Waltz for years in different states. Was Melissa Hortman unalived because she voted against a multi-billion dollar money laundering fraud? The fraud that she voted against that heavily implicated illegal aliens? Specifically Somalians who have been racketing this kind of child care, health care, rackets, and cooperating with our corrupt government? Today it's breaking news that the money laundering scam in Minnesota of billions of dollars for health care offices, child daycares, Medicaid, and various forms of care agencies, these money laundering frauds have been exposed. And it all comes back to Tim Waltz. I did what leaders do, I stepped up and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota. Very shortly after this, she was unalived in her home by Vance Bolter. Vance Bolter and his wife worked for Tim Waltz for years in different states.

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Two F's come to mind. The first being fraud by design. This wasn't an accident. This didn't just happen. It's a system that's designed by the left for people in their social circles. It starts all the way at the top of the federal government with the Obama administration, promulgated even more by the Biden administration. It runs down to the states, to governors across the country, including governors Walt and Governor Mills. And even at the local level, you see the bad actors, you read the headlines, you see what's happening right here in Maine, certainly in Minnesota, and I would agree with what's been said so far that this is just the tip of the iceberg, folks. The other F is financial Armageddon. That's what we're heading for. If you don't think that the Trump administration is serious about getting a handle on this, you're probably on another planet. This is going to have implications for the state of Maine in the billions with a B of dollars. This will spell financial Armageddon for our state. We have got to get a handle on this problem.

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Why would a thousand people be registered to vote from one single location? 201 Washington Street, Southwest, and when you come here you realize that this is actually a church. What was happening when we were looking through the voter registration list from the previous election cycle is I noticed well over a thousand people registered from one single location. Come to find out it's a church. When we looked into it further, we realized what was actually happening here. It's actually a very well organized plan by Democrat donors like George Soros. George Soros poured in millions into an organization here in Atlanta that did what? They went around this entire place and signed up all the homeless people. It's during the day right now so you don't see all the homeless people but usually this place is filled with homeless people so an organization that supports Democrats received money from people like George Soros to go and register homeless people to be able to vote from one single place. And to make things even crazier, if we turn around this place is directly across the Georgia Capitol. All it took for me is to find the voter list and to see why is there more than a thousand people able to register from one place to realize that something is wrong here. The building right next to 201 Washington Street is actually a Catholic church. Well guess what? This place, 48 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Southwest, has registered over 2,000 people to vote from one single location. And guess who it was? It was a progressive organization signing up homeless people that are literally right across the street. It's freezing here in Atlanta. It's actually 35 degrees at 1 p.m. but usually all of this area is filled up with the homeless people. And again we're outside one of these mega churches that ended up registering more than a thousand people to vote from just one single place.

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Did you know that in 2008, 500,000 voters or nearly 19% of all voters in Minnesota registered on election day? And did you know that former Senator Al Franken was elected by 312 votes? So I'm not alleging anything on the program, but what I am saying is that this vouching system, which clearly opens the door for potential fraud, could swing statewide elections.

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Mail-in ballots counted without being observed. Those are the ballots we were talking about that were not observed in Allegheny County and in, and in, and in Philadelphia. Correct. Is that right? 682,770. Now this is the part that is a mystery. Mail-in ballots sent out, 1,823,148. But when you go to the count of the final count of the vote, there are 2,589,242 mail-in ballots. What happened? How do you account for the 700,000 mail-in ballots that appeared from nowhere? So our cyber team uses white hat hacking techniques. They gather a lot of publicly available information, and that information was from the Secretary of State's website. That website has been updated as late as 11/16 this morning with provisional and mail-in ballots, so those numbers are still changing. They changed last night, so it's a continual target. This is 22 days after the election. That number, the $2.5 million number is no longer on the website. It's just been taken off? It's not there anymore. Is there any explanation for why it's been taken off? There is no annotations. I mentioned of the deputy sheriff who was there stationed who was a senior law enforcement officer, and I brought it to the attention of the clerk of elections. I brought it to their attention. I objected, and I said this person is not being observed. He's not part of the process that I can see, and he's walking in with baggies, which we have pictures of, and it was submitted in our affidavits, and he was sticking these USBs into the machines. So I personally witnessed over that that happened 24 times, over 24 times. We have multiple other witnesses that saw it, including Democrat poll watchers. I was told the next day by the solicitors, well, actually not the solicitor, but the attorney that we had secured, that they said every election they leave a couple of USBs in the voting machines, and they're brought back, and generally the warehouse manager comes over and puts them in. So in talking to the U.S. Attorney General McSwain and other law enforcement officers, I found out that was not the case, that generally more than two is unusual. So they denied they did it, but as of today, 47 USBV cards are missing, and they're nowhere to be found. So I was told personally that these 24 to 30 cards that were uploaded weren't there. Those cards, I demanded that they didn't update the vote live time, they only updated it about once every two or three hours. I demanded they updated the vote so I could see what the result was, and it was 50,000 votes. And I think as a computer scientist, an American, and a patriot, it doesn't matter who those 50,000 votes were. I'll tell you they were Vice President Biden. But what was shocking to me as an American, as someone who has gone to sea, gone to war, that could even happen. So in the most upsetting, really upsetting to me, in the most upsetting was I had spoke to multiple law enforcement agencies and literally begged multiple law enforcement agencies, they said go in, and it's in order to prove, you know, prove that nothing's happening. You either exonerate yourselves in the process or refute what I'm saying, please, it's a very simple process. Just go get the forensic evidence from the computers. It's a simple process, you turn the computer off, it's non-destructive, takes moments, maybe half an hour, 20 minutes to do it properly and collect the evidence. You open the computer up, you take a device called a bit blocker, you put it in the hard drive, it's done under the observation of law enforcement officers. They take a forensic image of the drive, put it all back together, it wouldn't have taken more than an hour to image all five machines. That was never done, despite my objections, and that was three weeks ago. Lastly, when they said, they said, well, we've got all the forensic records and so forth, we just learned two days ago that virtually all chain of custody, logs, records, yellow sheets, everything was gone. All forensic evidence, all custody sheets in Delaware County are gone. They had a signing party where they sat down and poll workers were invited back to recreate those logs and our understanding as of today was that they were unsuccessful in getting them all. So we have a situation where we have 100,000 ballots to 120,000 ballots, both mail-in and USB, they're in question. Now, there's no cure for this, there's no remedy for this. As a home charter, we could have a re-election in Delaware County for our own representatives within our own town, but there is no cure for that for the President of the United States. And I believe as a citizen and an observer to this that anybody could certify that vote in any good conscience.

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Started as a daycare fraud investigation in Minnesota, is now entering a far more serious phase. After the first arrests, investigators say the case did not stop at fake daycare centers. According to new sources close to the investigation, authorities are now tracing where the money actually went and what they're finding is raising even more alarm. Bank records show public funds being moved through layers of shell accounts, routed across states, and withdrawn in cash within days. Some accounts were linked to individuals with no childcare background at all. Officials say this was not sloppy fraud. It was organized. Several properties tied to the case are now under surveillance. Others have been quietly shut down. Federal agencies are reportedly expanding audits beyond Minnesota, reviewing similar programs in other states. Meanwhile, families who depended on legitimate daycare assistance are now facing sudden disruptions as payments are frozen and facilities close overnight. Investigators warn this may not be a single state scandal, but a blueprint. And now a new question is spreading fast. If this system was exploited here, how many others are still operating unnoticed? More updates expected.

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Got to ask you, do you believe votes were manipulated, changed electronically in favor of Joe Biden? And if so, how was it done? Well, I certainly do believe it, sir, because I saw it on TV on the crawls underneath television coverage of the election. At least two cases, one had about 12000 votes that magically went from Trump to Biden and another one about 20000 votes. And both times Trump's numbers decreased by exactly the number that Biden's increased. And so before any of this came about, I just had a strong inkling that something was afoot here. And the more they suggest that the intelligence service, our intelligence service were involved in it, I tend to think that there probably was a great deal of vote marking by people when they found out how many votes they needed to to surpass Trump in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan. I think clearly the Dominion Company, if nothing else, it's foreign interference in American election. It's a Canadian company and it was storing its records in Germany and Spain for some reason. Michael, who was behind this then? Certainly were appeared to be part of the Central Intelligence Agency using for their political operations overseas, they use servers and store materials and and do other things. And the fact that the ones in Germany are were held or grabbed by U.S. forces because they were CIA servers and in Europe, the CIA operates under the jurisdiction of the military. And so the military was responsible for seizing those with the help of the German authorities. And those servers are now in the hands of the FBI, which doesn't make me very comfortable, but at least they're in American hands.

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So you're telling me that DHS has acknowledged that Venezuela, for example, is empty in their prisons and their rehabilitation centers with the understanding you get out if you leave here and go to the United States. Yes. And DHS has in writing said, "We know that's happening. We know they're coming here. We're processing them in and have no idea where they are." Correct.

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Recently released audio recordings reveal conversations that happened between the attorney general and Individuals who were later implicated and in some cases convicted in the feeding our future scandal In those recordings the attorney general order master speaker Stage your point of order Mason's 124 paragraph one in debate members must confine remarks the questions before the body and avoid personalities the debate here is not any Individual it is the policy and the amendment Representative Niska Thank You mr. Speaker the attorney general was asked in those recordings to use his authority to protect businesses under Investigation for wrongdoing and rather than distance himself or remain neutral to allow the legal process to unfold He responded in those recordings of course. I'm here to help mr. Speaker Point of parliamentary inquiry stage your point of parliamentary inquiry mr. Speaker there was a point of order and I didn't hear a ruling Or any resolution of the point of order was there a resolution to it? I'll remind the body that there was no ruling made by the speaker as to the point of order that was just stated Representative Niska. Thank You mr. Speaker The attorney general in those recordings even urged the individuals let's go fight these people he was offered campaign contributions during that meeting contributions that he later accepted the release of those audio recordings raises questions about what's going on in the attorney general's office that go directly to the need to pass the legislation that we had previously debated House file 20 Although he has insisted that nothing came of the meeting His office one of order miss speaker closure of closed investigative order Basins 124 the a11 will help ensure that what happens behind closed doors and the attorney general's office Sees the light of day we can protect people's privacy while shining a light on what the attorney general's office is doing Who is influencing that office whether it's those under a criminal investigation? Nonprofits corporations or billionaires with political agendas because Minnesotans have a right to know when their attorney general's office is working with them Minnesotans have a right to know whether the attorney general is telling the truth that nothing came of that meeting That's why the a11 is so important

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Yeah, so that famous photograph, what we have now learned and the government has had Jack Smith and his prosecutors have had to admit that that was staged and those top secret classified sheets that all the public saw and said, "Oh my God, look at those top secret documents." Those were placed there by the FBI. What Jack Smith admitted in court this week was that in his word, they mishandled the classified documents and misrepresented those to the court. Maria, that's a kind way of saying, "We tampered with the evidence. Then we lied to the court about it." They got caught when President Trump's lawyers and the other co-defendants raised this issue and said, "Look, the documents here don't match up. The documents that were presented to us don't match the digitally scanned records of when they were taken from Mar-a-Lago." Jack Smith, not only did they tamper with that and lie to the court about it, but he's now admitted to the court that he doesn't know how that happened. He's only offered a number of possible explanations for how that could have happened. So he's absolutely blown the chain of custody. And again, he has a prosecutor, lead prosecutor in this case, Jay Bratt, who met with White House counsel and a representative of the National Archives several times in the weeks before Jack Smith was even appointed. This reeks of crossfire hurricane when the Obama-Biden administration fabricated evidence before the FISA court, lied to the court about it to pursue Donald Trump. And now we're seeing it again in this classified documents case. The judge could dismiss this case at any point in time, Maria. I think the only reason-

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I got three things to say god bless our troops god bless america I got three things to say god bless our troops god bless america

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