America’s love affair with the road endures: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4570231/america-love-affair-roads-automobiles/
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Senator Ashley Moody is doing a tremendous job representing the incredible people of Florida, a State I love, and WON BIG, in 2016, 2020, and 2024!
A fifth generation Floridian, Ashley served as State Attorney General for six years prior to becoming a very distinguished and well respected U.S. Senator. Ashley is working tirelessly to Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Champion American Energy DOMINANCE, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Murderers, and other Criminals from illegally entering our Country, Strengthen our Great Military/Veterans, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment.
Ashley Moody has my Complete and Total Endorsement! Election Day is Tuesday, August 18th. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR ASHLEY — SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!
Find your Voting Location here: https://swampthevoteusa.com/florida/
State Representative Bill Conerly is an America First Patriot doing a fantastic job representing Florida’s 72nd State House District!
A Fifth Generation Floridian, and a Brave U.S. Navy Veteran, Bill knows the Wisdom and Courage that is required to Defend our Country, Support our Military/Veterans, and Ensure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH. In the State House, he is working hard to Protect Florida Values, Stop Migrant Crime, Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Champion Small Businesses and American Ingenuity, Ensure U.S. Energy DOMINANCE, Safeguard our Elections, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment.
Bill Conerly has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!
Trump Announces Nearly $10 Billion in Defense Industrial Base Investments in Pennsylvania at McCormick’s Summit: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/15/trump-announces-nearly-10-billion-in-defense-industrial-base-investments-in-pennsylvania-at-mccormicks-summit/
Congressman Ryan Mackenzie is an America First Patriot, who is doing an incredible job representing the Great People of Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District! In Congress, Ryan is fighting tirelessly to Create Jobs, Cut Taxes, Secure our Border, Support our Incredible Military/Vets, Champion American Energy DOMINANCE, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment. Ryan Mackenzie has my Complete and Total Endorsement — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!
McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-03/mcmahon-asks-colleges-to-pledge-campus-reforms-by-end-of-2026
It is my Great Honor to endorse America First Patriot, Jeff Ellington, a terrific Candidate for Indiana's 39th State Senate District (which I won by a whopping 55 points!). Jeff will be a fantastic replacement for RINO Eric Bassler, who may not even run again because Republicans are so angry with him over his betrayal he committed when he, for whatever reason, voted against Redistricting in Indiana, which essentially made him a partner to the Radical Left Democrats in their quest to take control of the United States House of Representatives, and reverse the great progress we have made in the last year. Bassler and his RINO friends made Indiana, a State I love that is full of Patriots who love America, the only State in the Nation that would rather turn over our Country to Democrats than fight back against their corruption, and finish the job we started over 10 years ago. We could have easily picked up two seats in Indiana, but Bassler, an America Last politician, was played for a fool by the Democrats who want to destroy our Country.
Now, because Bassler looks to be getting “run out of town” by his Voters, Indiana’s Chief RINO Rod Bray has recruited a new “pawn” in his game named Kristi Risk to run for this seat. She, like Bassler and Bray, was nowhere to be found for Republicans during Redistricting, which means she will never be there for you when the going gets tough. She said there were “more important things” than keeping the House Majority, and protecting the progress we have made over the last year to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. No smart, reliable Republican would ever say such a thing because they would never even think it. For that reason, and more, she cannot be trusted any more than the Failed and Weak “Senator” Bassler.
Jeff Ellington, on the other hand, is a Successful Businessman, Retired Firefighter, Horse Farmer, Greene County GOP Chairman, and former State Representative, who has dedicated his life to serving his Community. As your next State Senator, Jeff will work tirelessly to Protect "Hoosier" Values, Champion our Amazing Farmers and Ranchers, Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Advance American Energy DOMINANCE, Support our Brave Military, Veterans, and Law Enforcement, Safeguard our Elections, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment.
Jeff Ellington has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next State Senator from Indiana's 39th Senate District. Unlike Eric Bassler or Kristi Risk, JEFF ELLINGTON WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!
Trump admin marks 15 straight months with zero border releases as apprehensions plunge 94%: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-marks-15-straight-months-zero-border-releases-apprehensions-plunge
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Trump is landing back in America tonight after a pretty busy 48 hours in Davos when he was in Switzerland, not sure if you heard he demoted the UN and Created the Board of Peace and packed it with his golfing buddies. I think let me see Yeah, every one of them is a friend of my couple a couple let's see a couple I like Couple I don't like no, I like actually at this group. I like every single one of them Can you believe it? Usually I have about two or three that I can't stand And in a shocking development Trump named himself the chairman of the board and called it an honor and Hired the UN as his secretary once this board is completely formed We can do pretty much whatever we want to do and we'll do it in conjunction with the United Nations, you know I've always said the United Nations has got tremendous potential Has not used it on the eight wars that I ended. I never spoke to the United Nations about any of them This is what happens when you sabotage Trump's escalator and Jimmy with his teleprompter The Trump Board of Peace already doing more than the UN. We're building golf clubs in Gaza The only thing they'll be fighting over now is tea times This is a great location It all begins. I'm a real estate person at heart And it's all about location and I said look at this location on the sea Look at this beautiful piece of property what it could be for so many people. It'll be so so great People that are living so poorly are gonna be living so well Look into the future. The Board of Peace is envisioning what looks like Dubai on the Mediterranean Kind of looks like a Muslim Miami Beach But just because it's the Board of Peace doesn't mean we're not going to get a piece of the action What about the formation of the the peace summit and I was like is that? That PI easy You know a little piece of Greenland a little piece of Elon Scott Gutfeld writing his jokes poor guy But he's right. It's not just a little piece of Greenland. Trump says we're getting full access I'm not gonna have to pay anything. We're gonna have total access to Greenland We're gonna have all military access that we want We're gonna be able to put what we need on Greenland because we want it We're talking about national security and international security so we're gonna not have to pay anything other than the fact that we are building the The Golden Dome and the Golden Dome is going to be something that's going to be very amazing the deal right now And it's still being hashed out. We'll give the United States pockets of sovereignty basically Huge chunks of territory run like American embassies all over the island right now. We just have one military base there We'll be adding dozens more. We're also getting major mineral rights We'll get rights of first refusal and we'll get veto power over Russian and Chinese mining operations the deal also includes missile rights for the Golden Dome and an enhanced NATO presence and Greenland not saying no We are willing to discuss and do more we need we have a responsibility So let's talk about it through the right channels in a respectful manner Then I I'm sure we can work something out that benefits all of us If Greenland keeps behaving we might let him have a hockey team and maybe we'll film some movies up there open up a Walmart See that Europe that's good parenting you behave you get a treat NATO isn't even getting in the way the chief says it's basically a done deal All of this is not about Greenland or the Arctic first of all This is about how can we protect ourselves against our adversaries our main adversary is Russia? For NATO and of course, we see China massively building up So let's not be naive about China, but Russia has our main adversary the Europeans through a tantrum and finally daddy came home But the Germans are jealous But let's be honest the Germans have daddy issues protect Denmark Greenland the north from the threat post by Russia well the last time Germany tried to protect Somebody Austria got invaded the Germans need to settle down Germany's like an abusive father They ignore you until they want something and then they hit you and tell you it's only because I love you President Trump says if anything happened to Greenland, we'd be there for NATO But when something happened to us on 9/11 was NATO there for us We've never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them You know, they'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan or this or that and they did they stayed a little back little off the front lines We think NATO for helping us in the war on terror We thank them a lot The president's point was we can't rely on a small country like Denmark to protect a huge island in our own atmosphere Even Zelensky gets it. He's calling the Europeans weak wafflers with their hands out Europe needs to know how to defend itself Europe looks lost trying to convince the US president to change But he will not change President Trump loves Who he is and he says he loves Europe, but he will not listen to this kind of Europe Wow, look at Zelensky All grown up he put on a suit got a job stop asking for money And at first Zelensky cried and stomped his feet remember, but then he realized dad was right That's why he's calling Trump strong and Europe weak Sure Europe was throwing money at them. But does money solve everybody's problems? sometimes it spoils them a good parent teaches their kids respect and gives them deadlines a bad parent just gives them cash and never checks in like the auto pen Biden threw cash around all over the world tried to bribe his problems away and the world walked all over him Biden and Barack Obama got along so well with Europe because they both believed the West was in decline and they never did anything About it. They just managed their own decline Now this may be acceptable in Europe, but when Donald Trump was elected president of the United States everything changes We're in a moment of radical change these moments come maybe like once a century AI the Arctic Trade China, it's all happening and America is taking the lead Iranian nukes, Maduro, Gaza now the Cuban communist regime might be about to collapse NATO's back together the tic-tac deal just went through the Taiwan trade deal just got papered and the board apiece Look at its shops wondering how to price seaside condos on the Mediterranean Everything is falling into place
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Drone companies, admin leaders meet for first White House ‘Drone Dominance’ meeting: https://breakingdefense.com/2026/08/drone-companies-trump-admin-leaders-meet-for-first-white-house-done-dominance-meeting/
https://nypost.com/2025/10/31/us-news/judge-hands-doj-win-in-letitia-james-mortgage-fraud-case/
Iran Parliament Speaker: 'We Are Hungry, We Cannot Survive': https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/iran-bagher-qalibaf-hungry/2026/08/23/id/1267062/
From crisis to comeback: How Trump’s war on fentanyl cut deaths by more than 10,000: https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/crisis-comeback-how-trumps-war-fentanyl-cut-deaths-more-10000
President Trump eyes ‘crushing’ economic blockade to bring Iran to its knees: https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/president-trump-eyes-crushing-economic-blockade-bring-iran-its-knees
So cool!!! President DJT
Ignore Failing New York Times, Trump Remains Most Accessible, Energetic President in History: https://amac.us/newsline/politics/ignore-failing-new-york-times-trump-remains-most-accessible-energetic-president-in-history/
Trump to the rescue for California drivers — despite Gavin Newsom: https://nypost.com/2026/08/21/opinion/trump-to-rescue-california-drivers-gavin-newsom-hardest-hit/
Mueller probe cut corners, broke rules to ‘get Trump,’ whistleblower claims: https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/mueller-probe-cut-corners-broke-rules-to-get-trump-whistleblower-claims/
When America thrives, our partners thrive — and our alliances thrive…
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-When America thrives, our partners thrive, and our alliances thrive with all of the countries. The Indo-Pacific thrives, and that's good for all of us, and the entire world becomes safer and wealthy and greater than ever before. We get along with a lot of countries. We solved a lot of wars and a lot of problems, and that's all good for all of us. The extraordinary American turnaround that I've just described has been achieved, not by just continuing business as usual back in Washington.
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All right, a couple more things. Back to January 20th of 2025, President Trump did this, right? He set the stage for this potential compensation fund, writing that executive order, issuing the pardons, great stuff. And I like to point out from time to time, as President Trump told me, every now and then, Greg, you gotta blow your own horn or else somebody will steal your horn. We helped, we helped, and we helped President Trump. Because sometimes, you know, you wanna make sure the president is getting all the information. No one has spoken as boldly and with as much truth as you about Ashley Babbitt. It was a bad shooting. My father, can you tell me that? Anybody. That's a terrible thing. I don't know if you know this, but the Department of Justice right now is still kind of fighting that case. The family of Ashley Babbitt is suing the government, wrongful death. The DOJ right now officially is still opposing that lawsuit, trying to justify it. Shouldn't that be something that can just be settled at this point? - Well, I'll look into that. I mean, you're just telling me that for the first time. I haven't heard that. I'm a big fan of Ashley Babbitt, okay? And Ashley Babbitt was a really good person who was a big MAGA fan, Trump fan. And she was innocently standing there. They even say trying to sort of hold back the crowd. And a man did something to her that was unthinkable when he shot her. And I think it's a disgrace. I'm gonna look into that, I did not know that. - He sure did look into it. And a matter of weeks later, a settlement was reached with the estate of Ashley Babbitt for nearly $5 million. Awesome. Now we also asked President Trump about maybe a compensation fund for all the other January Sixers, right? And now here we are, right? This is being actively discussed and considered. And we were part of the, I don't know, the conversation to make this happen. I'm kind of proud of that actually. Here we are. I do want to talk about something else though that kind of escaped my scan, all right? Have you heard of Matthew Perna? Here's Matthew Perna in Happier Times, right? Great guy, beloved by his family, community. Now he was there on January 6th. He didn't hurt anybody, all right? And they threw the book at him. They treated him like a terrorist. Ultimately, he committed suicide. And I have come to believe that he is a real victim in all of this. You know, they say the January 6th cops who committed suicide, I don't buy it. So his aunt put a tweet up today that got my attention. Oh wait, I thought Michael Fanon suffered these injuries on January 6th, according to his many appearances on CNN, a heart attack, a concussion, post-traumatic stress, burns, loss of consciousness, multiple Taser industries, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is just one component of the story that Jerry Perna, his aunt, reminded me about Michael Fanon. This guy is out there, still being treated as a hero. If we could see his picture, please, there he is. Yet he lied, and we have incontrovertible evidence that he did, and he's still walking around a free man. This guy needs to be arrested. And so do those other Capitol Hill cops, some who testified, even some who didn't. This was a conspiracy. This was a plot to destroy a political movement. And in the process, they destroyed a lot of lives.
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It is my Great Honor to endorse America First Patriot, Ralph Alvarado, M.D., who is running to represent the incredible people of Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District.
A true friend to MAGA, Ralph was a featured Speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention, and a Member of the National Hispanic Advisory Council for “TRUMP” – RALPH HAS BEEN WITH US FROM THE VERY BEGINNING! A very successful Family Physician, and former Kentucky State Senator, Ralph has dedicated his life to serving his Community. As your next Congressman, Ralph will fight tirelessly to Grow the Economy, Promote our Amazing Farmers and Ranchers, Advance American Energy DOMINANCE, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Support our Brave Military/Veterans, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment.
Dr. Ralph Alvarado has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Representative from Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!
Congressman Andy Ogles is doing a fantastic job representing the incredible people of Tennessee's 5th Congressional District! Andy is a Conservative Warrior who has strong support from his Community. In Congress, he is fighting tirelessly to Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A. and American Energy DOMINANCE, Safeguard our Elections, Keep our now very Secure Border, SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Strengthen our Military/Veterans, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment. Andy Ogles my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election – HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!
Congressman Brian Babin, D.D.S, is an incredible Representative of Texas' 36th Congressional District! As the Highly Respected Chairman of the House Science Committee, Brian is fighting hard to Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Champion American Energy DOMINANCE, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Keep our now very Secure Border, SECURE, Strongly Support Law Enforcement and our Military, Deliver Quality Care to our Brave Veterans, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment. Brian Babin has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!
It is my Great Honor to endorse America First Patriot, Jerry Carl, who is running to represent the wonderful people of Alabama’s 1st Congressional District!
A Highly Respected Legislator, and Successful Businessman, Jerry has been an incredible Voice for MAGA, and has been with me from the very beginning! In Congress, he will fight tirelessly to Grow our Economy, Support our Amazing Farmers and Ranchers, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Champion our Military/Veterans, Safeguard our Elections, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment.
Jerry Carl has my Complete and Total Endorsement to, once again, be the Representative of Alabama’s 1st Congressional District. Election Day is Tuesday, August 11th. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR JERRY — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!
Find your Voting Location here: https://swampthevoteusa.com/alabama/
White House takes victory lap as drug prices dip 3.1% in past year: ‘Steepest drop since 1963’: https://nypost.com/2026/08/17/us-news/white-house-takes-victory-lap-as-drug-prices-dip-3-1-in-past-year-steepest-drop-since-1963/
Trump in Davos: 'When America Booms, the Entire World Booms': https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-davos-economy/2026/01/21/id/1242951/
Trump Rx Delivers Massive Price Relief on Prescription Drug Costs: https://amac.us/newsline/economy/trumprx-prescription-drug-savings-deliver-lower-costs-for-americans/
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You know, President Trump takes a lot of heat. They claim he's doing these horrendous things. Horrendous things to government, to the culture, horrendous things to the Constitution. All lies. I tell you this from a historical and legal perspective. In fact, it is they, his opposition, the abuse of power, the Department of Justice, the prosecutors, the indictments, the different jurisdictions, the abuse of the 14th Amendment to keep them off the ballot and over and over and on and on. Two unconstitutional impeachments, already plotting another impeachment, already plotting to destroy the independence of the Supreme Court and the judiciary, to stack the Senate, to stack the House of Representatives, and God knows what else they have in store for us. How dare they point a finger at him or any of us, what it is they who are tyrannical and have a totalitarian mindset. And look what they're doing in New York City, destroying it, absolutely destroying it. And in fact, the blue states are depopulating. People are trying to get out of there if they can get new jobs. Many people, they feel they can't leave. They have a generational attachment. But the only states that are actually growing, and I don't mean with illegal aliens, I mean with American citizens and naturalized citizens, are red states. Are red states. And there's a reason for that. There's a reason why the Democrats want to take over the whole country. So there's no escape. No matter what state you go to, the iron fist of centralized big government will be thrown at you. President Trump has a very small, small majority in the House and the Senate, and he's trying to get things done as fast as he can because he knows that there's a midterm election. We pray that we win, but we don't know. And he knows he has less than three years left in his presidency, and he's a doer, and he wants to get things done, and he's reaching into the culture, not just politics, to try and reform and protect and defend this nation. And people say, "Look at this. He knocked off a senator from Louisiana. He knocked off a senator from Texas. He knocked off this crazy congressman from Kentucky. Who does that?" A little bit of history. FDR tried to do that. The great FDR, according to the Democrats, greater than George Washington, greater than Abraham Lincoln combined. Nobody liked FDR. Why? Because he was a big socialist. That's why. But that for another day. Our friends at TeachingAmericanHistory.org, frustrated by the setbacks that his administration encountered in its second term, President Franklin Roosevelt took the bold step of intervening in the 1938 Democratic primaries. His targets were conservative Democrats, mostly Southerners, who had joined Republicans in opposing New Deal measures. In races across the country, he stumped from liberal candidates and denounced conservative incumbents as traitors to the cause of his reform. He explained his efforts in a speech, a fireside speech, that he gave on June 24, 1938. I'm not going to read the whole thing, but let me give you a taste of it. He said, "After the election of 1936, I was told, and Congress was told by an increasing number of politically and worldly-wise people, that I should coast along and join easy presidency for four years and not take the Democratic platform too seriously. They told me that the people were getting weary of reform through political effort and would no longer oppose that small minority which, in spite of its own disastrous leadership in 1929, is always eager to resume its control over the government of the United States. Never in our lifetime has such a concerted campaign of defeatism been thrown at the heads of the President and the Senators and Congressmen as in the case of this 75th Congress." He had gotten a lot of his new deal through, once he threatened the Supreme Court and many of the senior members started retiring, replaced with his appointees, but he was now being blocked by several of the more moderate Senators, Democrats in Congress, who said, "We understand why you're trying to address the Depression, but we're not all in for this socialist stuff." He says, "Never before have so many copperheads." That's a copperhead. During the Civil War, these were Northern Democrats who sided with, not the South, but with bringing the Civil War to a quick conclusion. They opposed war. They were anti-war. They opposed the warmongers who were trying to win the Civil War, and they turned on Lincoln, and they wanted to negotiate peace with the confederacy. See, we've been through a lot of these things before, whether it's World War II, the Civil War, and now the war with Iran. We've had the so-called anti-war types who don't want victory, and so you don't get victory. He complains about them. He says, "This Congress has ended on the side of the people. My faith in the American people and their faith in themselves have been justified, and I congratulate the Congress and the leadership thereof, and I congratulate the American people on their own staying power." So he slaps them around and then pats them on the head. He does this in a lot of his speeches. He goes on, "Following out this line of thought, I want to say a few words about the coming political primaries." Here we get to the gist of it. "Fifty years ago, party nominations were generally made in conventions, a system typified in the public imagination by a little group in smoke-filled room who made out the party states. The direct primary was invented to make the nominating process a more democratic one, to give the party voters themselves a chance to pick their party candidates." He goes on, "An election cannot give the country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and names as peas in the same pod." In other words, the UNI party. The radicals always talk about the UNI party, whether they're the Woke Right, REICH, the Islamists or the Marxists, or Jess Kooks. "In the coming primaries, all parties, there will be many clashes between two schools of thought, generally classified as liberal and conservative. Roughly speaking, the liberal school of thought recognizes the new conditions throughout the world and they call for new remedies." And of course, the conservatives, Jess, the old school, you know, big business, big government, all the Bernie Sanders claptrap. But he says later, "With the head of the Democrat party charged with the responsibility of carrying out the definitely liberal declaration of principles set forth in the 1936 Democratic platform, I feel that I have every right to speak in those few instances where there may be a clear-cut issue between candidates for a democratic nomination involving these principles or involving a clear misuse of my own name." So he goes out and he campaigns to actually help pick candidates to take on these more conservative candidates. He's wildly popular, FDR won a landslide, but in every case where he tried to knock off a more conservative or moderate Democrat, his candidate lost except one in New York. Every other case, FDR's candidate lost. And it set back his administration. The party was angry. If he had won, they wouldn't be so angry, but he lost. Every one but won. He lost Walter George, a senator in Georgia, George won. Miller Tidings in Maryland won. FDR lost. Ellison Smith in South Carolina won. FDR lost. But he won this chairman of the House Rules Committee in New York, John O'Connor. He defeated him, but that's it. He didn't defeat anybody else. I want you to compare that to Donald Trump. Again, you got a couple vote majority in the House and you got guys like Massey who represent one small congressional district who are trying to undermine the president's landslide victory. One congressman, maybe two or three, because the majority is so tight. So they're trying to take his mandate and destroy it. And the president knows, President Trump, I got to get my agenda through. And I have a few of these senators who do the same thing. I got one senator who actually voted a removal from office in the second impeachment when I already was a private citizen. And he expects me to be supporting him in a Republican primary. What Donald Trump has done is what FDR tried to do, but failed. Not only that in Donald Trump's case, it's not only Louisiana, it's not only state senators in Indiana. It's not only Massey in Kentucky. It's not only the Senate race in Georgia with this Raffensperger. It's not only Cornyn in Texas, but before that, the president got involved in all these primaries in his first term. I don't think he's lost one. Maybe it's one or two, but whatever it is, it's inconsequential. So for those people who say, you know, Donald Trump's lost a step. You know, MAGA's divided. You know, MAGA's tiny, tiny thing that just represents Mark Levin. These are fools and buffoons. MAGA is as strong as ever. In fact, the Republican Party is MAGA. And MAGA is Donald Trump's movement. And we've got the general election. Everything will be put to the test come November. But those are the facts.
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I spoke in the fall about the iceberg I saw ahead. Something's fraud that's much larger than what's been visible to the public. When I said that it wasn't hyperbole or rhetoric, it was a warning. And today I wanna talk and I wanna show here a sense of what that iceberg looks like. 'Cause I think people deserve to know what that is and how big this problem is. Because we can't solve the problem until we grapple with the size of it. So the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services pulled the claims data for these 14 programs, dating back to 2018. And those 14 programs in Minnesota have cost $18 billion since 2018. And more than $3.5 billion in 2024 alone. So that's a sense of the magnitude of the problem. These are the 14 Medicaid programs, which is just a part of Medicaid. These wavered services that have been flagged as having issues with program integrity and fraud. Now I'm sure everyone is wondering how much of this $18 billion was fraud. That's not the million dollar question, that's the $18 billion question. The answer is far too much. And the task ahead of all of us is not only figuring out how much of that money was fraud, because we know a significant amount was, but figuring out how to put an end to the fraud in our state and get control of it. So let me end with this before I take questions. The magnitude of the fraud in Minnesota cannot be overstated. It's staggering amounts of money that have been lost. But it's not just about the money that's been stolen and wasted. This is a problem that's caused all of us to question what kind of state we live in. I think it's eroded our sense of collective statewide self-esteem and confidence. It's caused a state, as I've said before, that has long taken pride in having a strong economy, good schools, beautiful lakes, mini parks, and a sense of community spirit and civic mindedness. This fraud really calls into question all of that. And I think, I know that it's gone on, it's been allowed to go on far too long, and we need to do whatever we can to stop it in its tracks.
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-President Trump is not a racist. I've been with the president recently quite a bit, and when he signed the legislation making the historic site, Martin Luther King's site, in Atlanta, Georgia, a national park, it was introduced by Congressman John Lewis. And believe it or not, that's one thing the two of them did together. It took two to do it. And I'm so glad the president has done it. But what is so outrageous to call a man a racist who continues to acknowledge the significant work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my uncle in a positive way, and he puts his money where his mouth is. He puts his energy behind it.
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