The Minnesota welfare fraud scandal is exploding into the national spotlight as Mike Lindell joins Steve Bannon on WarRoom to expose what he calls a coordinated abuse of government programs across the state. Lindell says child care, Medicaid, housing, and non medical transportation services have been infiltrated, draining billions in taxpayer funds while state officials deflect responsibility.
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Minnesota Welfare Fraud Scandal Exposed on WarRoom
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Mike Lindell, first. Mike, you just see there, it’s so blatant and so obvious. And they’ve had so many investigations looking and they will not stop it, because bringing in hundreds of thousands of the Somalians and others, right, is the way the system works.
And I got to tell you this. I can tell you this. This is every blue state. IRS, Treasury, money laundering, the banks that set up the payrolls here. This is a scandal that’s going to go from state to state to state.
But the tip of the spear and the festering sore before us is Minnesota. Mike Lindell, you’re running for governor against Walz. What say you?
MIKE LINDELL (GUEST): Well, yes, Stephen, it’s everything. It’s education, autism, services, child care, Medicaid, housing. They have infiltrated every single one of these government Medicare or welfare services.
And now they even have one where they’re giving a car. It’s non-medical emergency welfare, where you bring older people to the dentist, say, and they’re getting all nobody in them, just like there’s no kids in these daycare.
And it is. It’s coming out today. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine. This is opening, I think, states’ eyes all around the country.
But the New York Post came out the other day, everybody, on December 21st. $9 billion in Minnesota. That’s half of the federal money given to Minnesota over the last, I think, of six years. And it’s more or real close to the whole economy of Somalia.
All this money being sent out. They’re buying housing around Minneapolis. They’re buying these houses. Nobody in them. They’re getting paid for that, with these high-priced cars out there.
Steve, it’s just, it’s absolutely disgusting. And then we have our governor that is just, he’s going, we got to get rid of the guns. We got to get rid of the guns. He’s totally deflecting.
The Minnesota media, everybody, this is what’s really disgusting. The media in Minnesota is basically like a big cover-up. It’s like you would go there and you’d think everything, all is well, all is well.
And our lieutenant governor, horrible. You know, they’re blaming our great president, saying he’s just attacking this community, the Somalian community that’s a big part of Minnesota.
No. This goes back, Steve, I want to say this too. We warned of this years ago, in 2016. Companies like MyPillow, and then there was Cargill. It was a big thing in the news back then.
Cargill had to fire over 200 of them because they all want Sharia law. They had their prayer times, and it interferes with businesses. So this is when they were maybe working them before they got into all of these government welfare scams, but they fired them.
And then that was a big deal because it wasn’t politically correct. When they don’t come over here and assimilate and say, you know, we’ve got to shut down our lines.
I know I have an Amazon building right next to MyPillow. And Jeff Bezos got into it with them then back then too for that.
But, yeah, it’s really sad.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Well, it’s not sad. It needs to change. It needs to change now.
It’s a crime syndic. And you’ve got a, you’ve got to, you have a Muslim attorney general who’s covering for him, Keith Ellison. So the whole thing’s gotten to the core.
Action has got to be taken today.
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