(VIDEO) “THEY’RE ALL CROOKS!” – Trump Goes Off on Somali Welfare Fraudsters and Ilhan Omar, Says Massive New Findings to Be Released: “You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet”

 

President Trump went off during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, highlighting the billions of dollars in waste, fraud, theft, and abuse of federal tax dollars his administration is uncovering through schemes across the nation.

“The Somalians, they’re crooked as hell, Ilhan Omar, crooked as hell, they’re all crooks. And we got them, we got them,” Trump said, noting that they could balance the US budget “without having to do anything” if JD Vance and his anti-fraud task force end the fraud.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Vance, Chairman of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Task Force Vice Chair, held a roundtable on Tuesday with over a dozen State Attorneys General to discuss the Trump Administration’s nationwide crackdown on federal benefits fraud.

Vance highlighted the task force’s success, telling reporters that his team has already identified tens of billions of dollars in fraudulent loans, reimbursement claims, and payments from federal benefits programs.

Trump applauded the work of Vance's task force, revealing that this is only the beginning.

"You haven't seen anything yet," Trump said. "Wait till you see. I'm getting reports from Todd, from JD. I've never seen anything like it."

Trump further highlighted the draudulent Social Security payments going to people who are 115 or 125 years old, suggesting again that more bombshell information will be released. "That's the least of it, the numbers that we're finding out," he said.

"Last week," he continued, "they took down two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota history, as well as the largest autism fraud case ever charged by the federal government." Trump added, "Everybody had autism, everybody had autism! They said it was incredible, actually."

Finally, Trump congratulated Vance on the success once more, telling him, "Be vicious like they are. They're violent people. They're violent, vicious scum.

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Trump: They're finding billions and billions and billions of dollars, and I just said that's good. He said, "You haven't seen anything yet,” just said that. And you know, if he does really great, we'll have a balanced budget without having to do anything. This is the kind of money they stole. They're crooks, they're thieves, and I hope that Todd is going to do a real job. These are crooked people, these are thieves.

This isn't like a mistake. Just talking about one person, he got hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars, for securing one man, for taking care of one elderly man. He was a service; he got paid millions of dollars for taking care of one man. A Total crook, they're all crooks. The Somalians are— what they've done to Minnesota, the Somalians, they're crooked as hell, Ilhan Omar, crooked as hell, they're all crooks. And we got them, we got them. Now, we're putting the clamps on, but boy, I tell you, that's an impressive group of guys that you have behind you. I was watching that, and a couple of very strong women too, but I was watching that last night. I said, "I'm proud of you guys.”

In two months, we've exposed 10s of billions of dollars of defrauded taxpayer money, prosecuted numerous fraudsters, Todd, and stopped billions of suspicious payments, very suspicious. Oh, you haven't seen anything yet. Wait till you see. I'm getting reports from Todd, from JD. I've never seen anything like it. The kind of— just hundreds of billions of dollars was stolen, and no other administration would do what we're doing. They’d let it go. Everybody was getting rich, and I think we have a chance to save Social Security without doing anything to it by just that the numbers of fraudulent people on social security, people that are 115 years old, 125 years old, getting payments.

It's funny, I said, "Oh, do those payments get turned back?” No, they accept them. Somebody’s getting the payments, not a person that's 125 years old, but that's the least of it, the numbers that we're finding out. We have great people in Social Security. We're going to make our Social Security so strong, so good, that you'd never see anything like it. We're going to protect, I said right from the beginning, we're going to protect our people in Social Security. If the Democrats ever got in, you wouldn't have, social security would be bankrupt, people wouldn't be getting anything.

Last week, they took down two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota history, as well as the largest autism fraud case ever charged by the federal government. You saw that with millions of dollars just being stolen. Everybody had autism, everybody had autism. They said it was incredible, actually. And I really, I mean, I've just seen, I see what they're doing. You haven't seen anything yet. So, congratulations, JD. Be vicious like they are. They're violent people. They're violent, vicious scum.

 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/video-theyre-all-crooks-trump-goes-somali-welfare/

Canada morphing from good neighbor to serious threat?

 But China, being China, through its belt and road initiate, and outright purchasing of ports, farmland, and other sensitive areas, is poised to simply absorb Canada in the long run.

What’s happening in Canada is no longer simply odd, sad, or irrelevant.

It is deeply concerning.

Canada has morphed into a crazed killing factory, one that performs Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) procedures on its own citizens, even those who aren’t facing a terminal illness.

Seriously depressed? Canada will off you. And why wouldn't Canadians be depressed, as the radicals that have been running -- and ruining -- the country for decades now have destroyed their economy, made many things unaffordable, and made some large cities almost uninhabitable due to crime from the massive hordes that they have let in from Third World nations.

And, due to the fact that they've let so many of these immigrants in, Canada is on the cusp of becoming a Third World nation itself.

But there is an even more existential threat to the United States than this. And this is that Canada appears hell-bent … on going all-in on the WEF, global governance, and especially on cozying up to communist China.

Liberals chided President Trump for wanting to purchase Greenland in defense of the U.S., due to its strategic position and copious quantities of precious metals and minerals.

But China, being China, through its One Belt, One Road initiative (also known as Belt and Road) and outright purchasing of ports, farmland, and other sensitive areas, is poised to simply absorb Canada in the long run.

At first these efforts will appear as a friendly gesture to help out and lend a hand.

But, in truth, these so-called efforts will be nothing more than bribery and coercion. And then will come the threats.

China plays the long game better than anyone else. But that game may not take that long, because Canada does a better job of anyone else at destroying itself in the short run. At some point, China may simply try to take what's left of Canada by force, since Canada no longer has a viable military, and probably could not successfully fend off Costa Rica or Paraguay.

Not a good look for the world's second-largest country in terms of landmass. (And good luck to the Muslim immigrants from the Third World at that point! And the LGBTQ community. And Republicans. And …)

When it is not busy trying to exterminate its citizens, the Canadian government is taxing the hell out of them … and it is using that money not to prevent an invasion by foreigners, but to give the invaders free stuff, like education and health care. Parts of Toronto and Montreal, among other cities, have already been conquered.

Many say that the Free Alberta movement is traitorous and that those leading it should be ashamed of themselves. The truth is that the Canadian government has been traitorous to Albertans ... and all other Canadians as well. The Free Alberta movement exudes patriotism and shows a love of a country called Alberta, and it was only made possible by the Canadian government's denial and usurpation of its citizens rights. Free Alberta? Yes, but perhaps we could free all of Canada, as well.

For a very long time Canada has been an excellent neighbor to the U.S.

For a very long time, The United States has been an even better neighbor to Canada, protecting it and aiding its economy.

But, if the U.S. itself doesn't sink into the multicultural abyss, the time may come when acting in its National Defense may have to include essentially annexing Canada.

I never wanted to think like this. Never wanted it to get to this point. Fervently hope this can somehow be avoided. It would be wonderful if that were the case. And if all Canadians could be truly free. But Canada simply cannot he allowed to potentially become a proxy of the Chinese communist party, effectively making communist China the largest nation on Earth, the one with the most natural resources … the world’s hegemon.

Canada may arguably still be the “true north,” but it is no longer strong, and it is no longer free.

Oh, Canada, who truly stands on guard for thee? It is unquestionably not Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government. Regrettably, it may one day have to be the United States.

Oh, wait, I guess it always has been.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/05/canada_morphing_from_good_neighbor_to_serious_threat.html

The Democrats’ Luciferian Beauty Play

 Take a look at why Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won their elections, and then look at Texas Senate candidate James Talarico.

Pundit Bill O’Reilly recently said he was “surprised” that ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lost to Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City mayoral race.

“I thought,” he told Cuomo during a May 14 discussion, “you were going to wax them [your competitors].”

Do you know when I realized Mamdani would win?

The very first time I saw him on TV.

No, it wasn’t that Mamdani was promising to rob Peter blind to pay Paul and then send both home to rent-frozen apartments on a free bus. It was that I understand the Luciferian Beauty Principle.

Now, you can take the following as metaphor if you’re not a theist. In Christian theology, Lucifer chose pride over God, rebelled and became the purest manifestation of evil: Satan. But he also was something else: As Lucifer, whose name means 'light bringer,' he was known as the most beautiful of angels.

There is an all-important lesson there. It’s not just that evil doesn’t appear comic-book style, with a pitchfork and horns; it masquerades as something beautiful and impressive.

The malevolent know how easily humans are seduced by what pleases the eye and ear. We see this, for example, whenever a man is deceived by a comely gold-digger.

As for Mamdani, the power- and national grave-digger, he’s a good-looking young guy with an easy smile, charisma on command and the most silvery of tongues, eloquent and articulate to the hilt. Note here the studies showing that it doesn’t matter what you say; if you say it well, you will sway people. It’s a testimonial to the power of style over substance.

Mamdani isn’t alone, either.

In fact, it appears that the hard-left (e.g., socialists) have possibly been purposely, actively applying the Luciferian Beauty Principle for a number of election cycles now. It’s a dangerous phenomenon, too, one threatening to vault us into tyranny.

I wrote about the appearance imperative in 2011 in “That Presidential Look: The Bad, the Beautiful and Voting-booth Realities.” I asked, essentially: When was the last time an unattractive, bald, fat and/or bespectacled candidate won the presidency?

If you say, “Prior to the television era,” go to the head of the class.

In fact, the last time we elected a balding president was 1956 (Dwight Eisenhower). Four years later we witnessed history’s first televised debate between presidential candidates — Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy — and got an immediate lesson in the Luciferian Beauty Principle.

That is, Americans hearing the debate only on radio thought the more intellectual, but pale, sickly-looking and sweaty Nixon won. Those watching it on TV supposed that the younger, far more handsome Kennedy won.

Donald Trump would seem an exception to the appearance imperative with his generous girth. But, first, he carries it well; second, he did generally shed pounds during campaigns. Most importantly, however, Trump is a singular, historic, transformational figure (e.g., the first to win the presidency despite no military or prior political service). He’d long been a celebrity and a star on television, a member of the glitterati.

Speaking of which, the late Rush Limbaugh would say that politics “is just showbiz for the ugly.” Well, the Democrats generally, and their far-left fringe puppeteer crew in particular, may be applying a formula: Put an uber-attractive, ultra-articulate candidate who delivers his lines splendidly in ugly-people showbiz and “Voilà!” He perhaps can’t lose.

Lest you think I exaggerate, question: Do you know how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) entered politics?

She was chosen by “progressive” PAC the Justice Democrats, from about 10,000 applicants, through what was, essentially, an audition-like process. 

Yes, really.

The result was one of the biggest upsets in recent congressional history: Ocasio-Cortez trounced 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in the 2018 Democrat primaries by 14 points.

By the way, don’t kid yourself, Ocasio-Cortez does fit the bill. She is attractive (I know some make fun of her), especially relative to the ugly-showbiz, female-pol norm. She certainly can talk chicken off the bone, too.

Oh, it’s empty talk, you say? Ocasio-Cortez is ignorant?

Sure, but you are not going to vote for her no matter what. You also probably wouldn’t buy snake oil. But the snake-oil salesman doesn’t need your business. He doesn’t have to know anything about medicine. He just has to be sufficiently charismatic and glib to convince enough suckers that he does, and he becomes wealthy. That is Ocasio-Cortez.

Rest assured, too: If she bested 10,000 other applicants, she has some skills — not at being a statesman, but a politician. 

To cement the point, it’s instructive noting why professional commentators, and politics wonks generally, under-emphasize the Luciferian Beauty Principle. Such people are more likely than average to proceed intellectually, to evaluate candidates on their positions. But even the smartest among them can make a very human mistake: projecting your own mindset onto others.

The reality is that many voters, and probably most, often make decisions on emotional bases, not rational ones. This is perhaps especially true of the “undecided vote,” which can be 20-plus percent of the electorate early in campaigns. Also known as the swing vote, capture most of them and you win. And Luciferian beauty will entice them.

This brings me to the last style-over-substance candidate I’ll mention, Texas Democrat James Talarico. Running for the U.S. Senate, he’s polling even with each of his two possible Republican opponents: Sen. John Cornyn and Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton. This is in a “red” state, mind you, and despite Talarico’s radicalism (e.g., he firmly embraces abortion and sexual-distortion — a.k.a., “transgender” — treatments for children; he also believes there are six “genders” and fancies God “nonbinary”).

Now, I know polls can be manipulated and often are. But I warn you: Talarico can win (this isn’t to say he will). He has Luciferian beauty in spades, being young, handsome, charismatic and silver-tongued. He also claims Christian status — advantageous in Texas — and skillfully makes his un-Christian positions look pretty, too, with Luciferian rationalization.

We may wonder at this point how much of the Democrat’s beauty play is conscious strategy. We know it was planned with Ocasio-Cortez, chosen via her “audition.” And though Mamdani rose through the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) ranks more conventionally, his comrades surely recognized and decided to capitalize on his political skill. Talarico’s ascendancy was perhaps more typical still, but this brings us to another point.

With liberals being characteristically emotion-driven, they’re more likely than conservatives to subordinate substance to style. This being so, they’d perhaps be more likely to deliver in the primaries a Luciferian-beauty candidate.

Whatever the case, at issue here is a real phenomenon. Research has shown that in politics, the more charismatic and attractive candidate wins more often than not. Why, one study found that via exposure to candidates’ faces for as little as 100 milliseconds, research subjects picked actual congressional and gubernatorial race winners with 57 percent to 68 percent accuracy.

So perhaps one reason, aside from Americans’ declining virtue, we chose better candidates in the pre-TV/radio age is that most Americans never saw or heard major-office candidates; they perhaps only read about their positions in newspapers.

What’s for certain is that the Luciferian Beauty Principle combined with the idiot vote is a toxic mix. It can deliver an absolutely beautiful package — hiding a demonic inner ugliness that’s deadly to a republic.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/05/the_democrats_luciferian_beauty_play.html

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Dumps His Democrat Party

 This says it all from a Democrat

Three cheers for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht.

A longtime Democrat whose father, Cyril Wecht, was a legendary Pennsylvania Democrat from Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) and one-time U.S. Senate nominee, David Wecht, to say the least, has a distinguished political pedigree. And is currently serving on the state’s Supreme Court. A job to which he was elected.

The other day Justice Wecht issued this statement: 

From 1998 to 2001, years that preceded my judicial career, I served as Vice-Chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. In the quarter century that has passed since then, the Democratic Party has changed. Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled. Acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.  

I can no longer abide this. So, I won’t. I am no longer registered within any political party. It is my hope that Pennsylvanians, and Americans, of all viewpoints and backgrounds will oppose and resist the scourge of Jew-hatred before it undermines what our ancestors have built here.

Mind you, the current governor of Pennsylvania is Democrat Josh Shapiro. Who is Jewish. And Pennsylvania has a long history of electing people who happen to be Jewish to high office. The state’s longest-serving Senator was Republican Arlen Specter, who was Jewish. The state’s Democrat Governor Milton Shapp, who served in the 1970s, was also Jewish. A later Jewish Democrat governor was Ed Rendell.

So it is no small thing that Justice Wecht has taken a long, seriously hard look at the present state of his own party and decided he can simply not tolerate its turn to antisemitism.

As said, three cheers for Justice Wecht. But the larger question out there is what has happened to the Pennsylvania Democrat Party?  And beyond the state’s borders, what is happening to the national Democrat Party? (RELATED: The Spectator P.M. Ep. 211: The Democrats Continue to Miserably Fail)

It may take a look back to realize that it was a Democrat President Harry Truman who made a point of having the United States recognize the creation of the State of Israel in the late 1940s. Writing in his post-presidential memoirs Truman details the political opposition he faced in his support for creation of the Jewish State of Israel, notably from bureaucrats in his own State Department. It was no small thing. 

But for a while in later years the Jewish community in Pennsylvania repeatedly supported Democrats. And, as noted, elected Jewish Democrats to the governor’s mansion, including current Governor Josh Shapiro. Not to mention, in Shapiro’s case, he is frequently mentioned by state Democrats as a potential 2028 Democrat presidential nominee.

With that said it is disturbing — to say the least — that someone of Justice Wecht’s stature feels compelled to say that….

…the Democratic Party has changed. Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled. Acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.

This very year Pennsylvania has an election for governor at hand. Republican Stacy Garrity, the popular former state treasurer, is carrying the GOP flag against Shapiro. She most assuredly is not making an issue of the governor’s Jewish faith. The problem with antisemitism is, as Justice Wecht has candidly pointed out, with Democrats in his own party. (RELATED: The Rising Star of Pennsylvania’s Stacy Garrity)

So as noted, Three Cheers for Justice Wecht. And Pennsylvania.

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https://spectator.org/pennsylvania-supreme-court-justice-dumps-his-democrat-party/

Grifters, Activism, and Thomas Massie

 Massie did this to himself.

This isn’t a column about Thomas Massie. Not really. But he does figure into the analysis, especially since the voters of his Kentucky congressional district decided they’d had enough of him and voted him out of office in the Republican primary election Tuesday night.

The Federalist’s Sean Davis had a pretty good take on why:

It might take a while to surface, but people can generally spot insincerity. And they spotted it with Massie.

Something I’ve noticed is that people on the Right tend to sniff it out a little faster than the ordinary folks on the Left do — which is interesting to me, because the political “insiders” I’ve met on the Left are a million times more cynical and conniving than the ones on the Right are. In fact, there is a problem with naivete among Republican pols that drives me insane when I see it manifested — Bill Cassidy, who was torched by his own party’s base voters in Louisiana on Saturday, is a great example of a born political sucker who has spent the better part of two decades being treated as a mark in Washington, D.C., without learning a thing.

Lots of Republican voters look at their politicians and conclude GOP failure is intentional. The politicians I’ve met plying their trade up there don’t really impress me as schemers. They’re generally just not all that good at their jobs.

And why would they be? The smartest people on the Right are in the private sector, because capitalism is a lot more interesting and lucrative — and moral — than the pursuit of political power.

Unless you’re the kind of psychopath who believes power over your fellow man, and coercive power, at that, is the sexiest and best of all the things.

Here we’re talking about villagers and pillagers again, per my column on that subject a week or so ago. (RELATED: When the Villagers Finally Have Had Enough of the Pillagers)

Massie’s brand was that he was one of the villagers. He was for small government, balanced budgets, sound money, and so on. But as many have noted, Massie went from never talking at all about Jeffrey Epstein before last year to not being able to stop talking about that subject since, without noting that virtually every notable figure tied to Epstein from Bill Clinton to Larry Summers to Bill Gates to Oprah to Tom Hanks is a major-league Democrat figure.

And in doing that, Massie revealed, whether intentionally or not and whether accurately or not, that all of this conservative small-government warrior street cred he’d built up was a fugazi.

Spurious. Not genuine. And not worth supporting.

Conservatives have a deep, healthy distrust of politicians. That accounts for a great deal of the loyalty Trump still enjoys more than a decade after his entry into electoral politics — Trump still doesn’t seem like one of them, and he certainly isn’t part of the D.C. cloakroom crowd, and the things he does are, more often than his predecessors, deleterious to the cloakroom crowd’s interests. At one point it was thought Massie wasn’t part of the in-crowd, either, but then he became the darling of people like Ro Khanna and the editors of Politico by joining in the Epstein chorus.

His constituents noticed, and they pulled the lever for Ed Gallrein, and now Thomas Massie can go and hang with Tucker and Candace.

People catch on to the grifters eventually. One of the benefits of a conservative mindset is that you have a natural suspicion of political power and that helps to smoke out the charlatans.

Alternatively there is a certain mindset that seeks the easy deliverance of utopia in our time that our institutions promote. That mindset opens people up to be taken advantage of — sometimes in the most tragic of ways.

Jim Jones did that, and killed more than 900 in the jungles of Guyana.

Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota were more recent examples. Someone convinced them that nonviolent resistance involves trying to run over a federal officer in the execution of his duties, or carrying a pistol into a fistfight with ICE agents arresting a woman for trying to stop them from deporting a child molester. Those same people want you to believe Renee Good and Alex Pretti were martyrs.

They weren’t martyrs. They were marks. They were useful idiots who were sacrificed by schemers at well-funded NGOs for a political narrative — underlying which is the recognition that if Trump’s mass deportation effort is effective, it kills the chance of importing tens of millions of Third World voters who’ll fundamentally alter the electorate beyond just changing the congressional maps to favor blue states and cities.

And it isn’t as well understood as it should be that this is the case.

In a different context, Abraham Lincoln understood this well. “Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts,” he asked in an 1863 letter to Erastus Corning, “while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?”

It was the grifters who ginned Renee Good and Alex Pretti up to sacrifice themselves on the altar of political narrative. The wily agitators never sacrifice themselves; they’re in constant search for sufficiently pliable soldier boys.

And the Left is a movement built on supplying them, in ways which all-too-often confound the wily agitators on the Right.

As Massie found, to his gross misfortune.

One more thing along these lines — here in Louisiana there is a recall effort afoot which seeks to depose the governor, Jeff Landry, and the attorney general, Liz Murrill.

To do this is an impossibility in everything but name. It’ll take just under 501,000 signatures to force a recall election of Landry or Murrill, with only six months to gather those signatures. No statewide official has ever been recalled in the state’s history, and Louisiana has been beset with far, far worse than Landry or Murrill. Everyone knows neither will be recalled.

But a couple of grifters named Marian Gbaiwon and KatilynPatricia Collins — the former styles herself a “Liberian-American creative visionary, entrepreneur, and advocate who builds movements, not moments,” as her website claims (she’s a wedding photographer) — have started up the petition drives anyway. The Landry recall is a second bite at the apple — their initial dry run was an effort to recall Baton Rouge mayor-president Sid Edwards that ran out of gas after it racked up a signature total in the teens — and it’s got a little more juice in the aftermath of the Callais decision and Landry’s executive order suspending the state’s congressional primaries until a legal congressional map could be drawn up.

But again — there will be no recall of Landry or Murrill. And everyone knows it. Moreover, both are up for reelection next year. Efforts to remove them from office would properly revolve around finding electable candidates and running them against the governor and AG.

Yes, but nobody is going to give Marian Gbaiwon and KaitlynPatricia Collins that responsibility. But the recall petition is something they own.

And the signatures on that petition, and the contact information gathered from the signers — that’s something else they own.

You’re free to evaluate the employment pedigree and personal honor of these two individuals and decide whether it’s a smart move to give them your contact information or swallow what guarantees they might offer that you won’t become commoditized and monetized until you’re buried in spam for the rest of your days. That’s precisely what’s going to happen to these people:

The Bywater, in case you aren’t familiar with New Orleans, is the neighborhood in the city — the state of Louisiana as a whole, for that matter — where all the Renee Goods and Alex Prettis are most numerous. Louisiana doesn’t have the volume of useful idiots that Minnesota does.

But like P.T. Barnum said, there’s one born every minute.

Thomas Massie could have chosen to be a Democrat before he made it to Congress. He might choose to be one now that he’s burned himself with Republicans. But in his political denouement, what he proved was that his constituents found him out eventually.

And Massie can’t blame this on Trump. Trump was merely the nemesis to his hubris.  Massie did this to himself. Sometimes, the grifters become the marks, and that’s the end of the grift.

https://spectator.org/grifters-activism-and-thomas-massie/