# Post ts_116582148716425394 - Post ID: `ts_116582148716425394` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-05-16T03:33:35.810Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: yes - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116582148716425394 ## Post text _A repost of his own earlier post, with nothing added._ > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/116582147871969484 ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116582147871969484 (2026-05-16T03:33:22.897Z (UTC)) > - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/582/147/595/013/775/original/d910694087a058d7.mp4 ## What the media says **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 3:46), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > We'll do one more question, then why hit the road. Thank you Mr. Vice President for taking questions. I'm Phil Hirschkorn from News Center Maine. So it turns out that Maine does have a Medicare Fraud Control Unit. You mentioned that a few minutes ago. I'm wondering, you said Maine could be the third worst state after states like California and Minnesota, which have proven tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud and many federal convictions. So far what we've heard about from the federal government in Maine is questionable $45 million in the autism services which you mentioned. We've also heard about $1.7 million in questionable billing by a Somali immigrant run NGO. My question is... It's alright. Now, I appreciate you all standing up for me, but trust me, I've had a lot worse. Hey, we still have innocent and proven guilty in this country. My question is, what else do you got? What else has your task force flagged that we should be concerned about? Because those amounts are a lot, $46 million, $1.7 million, but they don't really compare to California and Minnesota. What else should we expect from your task force? Thank you. Well, let me say a few things. Ladies and gentlemen, we've got biased reporters in all states. It's okay, trust me. I can handle it, but here's what I'd say a few things. Number one, you talk about the scale of the fraud being less in Maine than it is in California. Well, California has a population that's much higher than Maine, so that's not necessarily a fair question. A fair comparison. Number two, we've frankly been at this less long than we have in Maine than in other states, okay? This is something where what we, I would say, you notice a pattern. And you're right, innocent until proven guilty, but what I've noticed is a pattern. That when you see certain types of fraud in certain types of programs, that's the tip of the iceberg. And when I see that autism services fraud in the Medicaid program in the Somali community, but not just that, I see local and state politicians who don't care about policing that fraud, that's the tip of the iceberg. And we're going to find out just how deep that iceberg is, and I suspect, I can't promise, but I suspect we are going to find hundreds of millions of more dollars every single month that we look in the state of Maine, because this is not a state that takes it seriously. And this is the third point and the most important one. I do not actually like having a contentious relationship between the state government and the federal government. We want people to help us find the fraudsters. It goes a lot quicker, it's a lot easier, it requires fewer resources from the federal government, but you find more fraud when you're working with people at the local level. What I find so preposterous about Maine, it's not just that we found tens of millions of dollars of fraud in a relatively small state, it's that we've had no cooperation from the state government. So when I say that the state government, when I say this is the third, maybe the fourth worst state when it comes to fraud, what I mean very simply is that you've got a governor and you've got a seven of bureaucrats that don't care about fraud, and all I'm saying is Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance, we care about fraud, we care about the people of this state, and we care about your tax dollars going to where it's actually supposed to go. ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/582/148/505/257/867/original/2ae9c1142cbcd662.png ## Engagement - Likes: 10,699 - Reposts: 2,845 - Replies: 496 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-05-16T16:01:09.301Z (UTC) # Analysis _No analysis has been generated for this post._ Analysis for other posts is at https://trump.fm/post/{id}/analysis. ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, May 16). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116582148716425394 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 16 May. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116582148716425394. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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