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Another Minnesota money pipeline just got shut down, and this one leads straight back to Rep. Ilhan Omar.
The funding, which was tucked into a federal spending bill, was purportedly destined for a “substance abuse clinic” in Omar’s home state of Minnesota.
However, a shocking investigation led by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) revealed that the “clinic” was anything but legitimate.
During an interview on Fox Business, Senator Ernst detailed the absolute absurdity of the proposal, describing a trail of red flags that would make any honest taxpayer’s blood boil.
We're not quite sure if Democrats don't understand how the Internet works, but it is forever. That's why we're able to call out guys like Senator Chris Van Hollen, who really hated Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro...right up until President Trump ousted Maduro from office, that is. Or Chuck Schumer, who was angry that President Trump didn't depose Maduro during his first term, but whined he wasn't "informed" of this operation.
It's also why we can rewind to 2022, when Jill Biden (still masking for COVID two years after the pandemic, we'll note) went to Minnesota to tout the billions spent on the state's daycare system, thanks to the American Rescue Plan.
When Leftist Renee Good hit an ICE agent in Minneapolis yesterday, it wasn't the first time ICE agents were the targets of vehicle rammings. Cars are deadly weapons, and there's plenty of legal precedent to justify the ICE agent shooting Good after she struck him with her vehicle.
In the last year, ICE and CBP agents have been involved in more than 100 such incidents. [Tweet,video]
Basham's thread continues with the Fox News report of the vehicle ramming in St. Paul. [Tweet]
Senate Republicans introduced a measure on Wednesday that would make it easier to denaturalize and deport immigrants convicted of fraud.
The bill, called the Fraud Accountability Act, appears to be a response to recent revelations about rampant fraud in Minnesota. Several organizations defrauded federal welfare programs by falsely claiming to be using taxpayer funds to benefit low-income children. In reality, the fraudsters pocketed the cash and used it for luxury expenses and to fund terrorism in Somalia.
The bill would alter the Immigration and Nationality act so that a wider swath of fraud crimes could lead to serious consequences for immigrants who entered the country legally and illegally.
Today’s White House press briefing was absolute fire. Not only is Karoline Leavitt excellent at her job, but so is Vice President JD Vance, who announced a new assistant attorney general position being created at the Justice Department: a federal fraud czar. This office will have national jurisdiction, and it will begin in Minnesota to combat the rampant (alleged) Somali fraud network that’s stolen billions from taxpayers. Leavitt began by saying this administration stands with ICE and that the immigration enforcement agenda will continue.
Wrecking Crane Comes for the Minneapolis
Hampton Inn Sign As Hilton Hotels Does
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Hampton Inn Sign As Hilton Hotels Does
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Sometimes, you have to give credit where credit is due. Since we regularly slam corporations that go wrong and buy into the destructive progressive mythology — see Target, Bud Light, and Jaguar, to name a few — it’s only fair that when they do something right, we cover that too.
It would appear that Hilton Worldwide stepped up to the plate after the Department of Homeland Security reported that a location in Minneapolis was refusing to allow ICE agents to stay there.
As Rusty Weiss and I reported, DHS was furious at the chain for the discriminatory, anti-law enforcement effort, and they let Hilton know it in no uncertain terms.
Federal agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon. Update: DHS says the driver and passenger are affiliated with Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. DHS statement to Fox News: "At 2:19 PST, US Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon. The passenger of the vehicle is a Venezuelan illegal immigrant affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and involved in a recent shootout in Portland. The vehicle driver is believed to be a member of the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (snip)."
Details are scarce at this hour, but local media outlets are reporting that two people were shot by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents earlier in the day on Thursday in Portland, Oregon.
From KATU:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the FBI, Portland police and city officials.
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Portland police said at a 2:24 p.m., they had learned that a man who had been shot called to request help near Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside. Arriving officers found a man and a woman wounded from apparent gunshot wounds. Police confirmed federal agents were involved.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) authorized his state’s National Guard to be “staged and ready” Thursday, amid protests after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis.
Citing “potential capacity concerns from local leaders” in response to demonstrations against the shooting and the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the city, Walz ordered Maj. Gen. Shawn Manke, the adjutant general of the Minnesota National Guard, to call up personnel, equipment and facilities “at a time deemed appropriate.”
As you review this latest data on trade, remember any drop in trade deficits has two big picture functions: First, lower trade deficits generally mean the accompanying GDP release will be stronger than anticipated because imported products are a deduction from the valuation of all goods and services created in the U.S. economy. Lower imports mean less is deducted. Secondly. and perhaps most importantly, a drop in the trade deficit created by diminished imports means more wealth remains inside the USA.
Employee Of MN Marriott Hotel Who Stole
ICE Agent's Info, Doxed Them Online Learns
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ICE Agent's Info, Doxed Them Online Learns
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What's worse than Immigration And Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents being banned from checking into a major hotel chain? A rogue employee (snip) who takes it upon his or herself to steal the agent's personal information and crib surveillance video (snip) [and] then posts the images and information to left-wing social media. (snip) An independently owned Marriott Hotel in Bloomington, MN confirms to Fox News they have ID'd and fired an employee who Doxed ICE agents by leaking their names, emails, and surveillance images as they checked in at the front desk.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Triggers
the Clock with Notification of U.S. Withdrawal
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the Clock with Notification of U.S. Withdrawal
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Giddy up. Yesterday, President Trump and Marco Rubio announced the U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). {GO DEEP} Today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent makes the official notification to the UN.
The notification is important because the 1992 UNFCCC was ratified by the U.S. Senate 34 years ago, making it one of the first UniParty climate change pacts supported by the ¹DC business model.
According to the terms of the treaty, withdrawal from the UNFCCC requires an official notification to the United Nations, and the dissolution takes effect one year later.
18-Year-Old Pleads Guilty to Murdering
His Mom and Stepdad to Fund His Trump
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His Mom and Stepdad to Fund His Trump
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A deeply unsettling story from Waukesha, Wisconsin, reveals that a teen murdered his parents — with a greater goal of killing President Donald Trump.
According to local Fox station WITI-TV, 18-year-old Nikita Casap admitted and pleaded guilty to murdering his own mother and stepfather in their home.
That alone is horrific, but Casap’s reason for the monstrous act is raising even more eyebrows. The Associated Press reported that Casap killed his parents with an intent to steal their money to help fund a plot to assassinate President Donald Trump.
“The killing of his parents appeared to be an effort to obtain the financial means
Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis ‘ICE
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MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.
Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.
“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post
People in Iran’s capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic. Internet access and telephone lines in Iran cut out immediately after the protests began.
The protest represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could be swayed by Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, whose fatally ill father fled Iran just before the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Demonstrations have included cries in support of the shah, something that could bring a death sentence in the past —
A Democrat lawmaker contended during a hearing on Wednesday about alleged widespread fraud in Minnesota that her colleagues should focus on crimes perpetrated by “white men” and American citizens instead of demonizing Somalis.
During the U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Emily Randall (D-WA) used her time during the questioning of Republican Minnesota state Rep. Kristan Robbins to launch off on a tirade about white men and Jan. 6 “insurrectionists,” Fox News reported.
“What percentage of sexual assaults in the United States are committed by White men?” Randall asked Robbins. “Fifty-seven percent.”
Randall went on to cite dozens of people she described as “Jan. 6 insurrectionists”
A freshman congressman out of Texas just walked into Washington and lit a match. While most new reps spend their first term learning where the cameras are and how to sound important on cable news, Brandon Gill came in like a freaking house on fire and put his name on the map, thanks to one hearing. This guy, the youngest in Congress, just unleashed a series of rapid-fire questions that exposed exactly how deep and dirty the Minnesota Somali fraud actually goes.
Former Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has been closely watching the situation after the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and outlined what needs to happen next for Cuba to transition away from its socialist grip."As the Secretary of State said, I would not be the president of Cuba or any Cuban official sleeping well at night, knowing what I just saw in Venezuela," Suarez said on "Varney & Co." Wednesday."The first thing that has to happen, of course, and I think what the president and what the secretary of state is focused on, is step two in Venezuela —
The day after elite U.S. forces captured wanted narco-terrorist and former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah will no longer have operations in the South American state.The Iranian regime-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization is responsible for both the bombing of the U.S. embassy, which killed 63 people, and the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut in 1983, when 241 U.S. military personnel were killed.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday rejected the latest US-backed offering to end the Russia-Ukraine war, issuing a blistering rebuff that threatens to blow up President Trump’s peace plan.
A terse statement from Moscow’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs slammed the US-European proposal for security assurances for Ukraine, saying the protection plan amounts to “a true axis of war.”
“The document turned out to be extremely far from a peace settlement. The declaration is not aimed at achieving a lasting peace and security but rather at continuing the militarization, escalation and further conflict aggravation,” the ministry claimed.
The threat of a steep new wealth tax in California has reportedly prompted at least six billionaires including Larry Page and Peter Thiel to cut their ties with the state — and as many as 20 others could be heading for the exits.
The half-dozen billionaires made their moves before New Year’s Day — the cutoff date to avoid a potential one-time tax of 5% on fortunes exceeding $1 billion — which California residents will vote on in November, according to Bloomberg News.
David Lesperance, a tax adviser who specializes in relocating ultra-wealthy clients out of high-tax jurisdictions,
Democrats and their media allies spent the last day pushing a narrative that the Minneapolis ICE shooting was unjustified. We even have Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz out there claiming they watched the video and concluded that the ICE agent wasn't acting in self-defense. But NBC News did something unexpected. The network aired a frame-by-frame breakdown of surveillance video that actually showed what happened. The conclusion vindicated the ICE agent.
The Office of Legislative Auditor (OLA) found massive problems and a lack of oversight concerning the Department of Human Services' Behavioral Science Administration (BHA) grant program. (snip) These problems include failing to use a competitive bidding process, lacking authority to issue contracts, and backdating contracts to meet requirements. (snip) Judy Randall, the legislative author, told Minnesota lawmakers that she has never seen a "systemic effort" like this in her three decades with the office. "The office found too many instances of what seemed to be an attempt to fabricate documentation that didn't previously exist."
The ICE agent who opened fire Wednesday in Minneapolis was dragged 100 yards by an illegal migrant in Minnesota last June after his arm was trapped inside the vehicle during a traffic stop, the Post can reveal. (snip) The suspect then sped away with the ICE agent's arm caught between the seat and the door frame, according to the Justice Department. Prosecutors said he was violently dragged 100 yards as the suspect weaved back and forth in an attempt to shake him loose from the car. The agent was hospitalized with significant injuries to his arm and hand but made a full recovery (snip.)