Trump Just Turned Minnesota’s Welfare Scandal Into a Terror Finance Case
Treasury and House Oversight, under Trump, are treating Biden–Walz-era fraud in Minnesota like a national security breach — not a bookkeeping error.
Trump’s team didn’t just open another “fraud investigation” this week — they pointed the federal firehose straight at Minnesota and asked the one question Democrats never want on the table: did blue-state welfare mismanagement let U.S. tax dollars brush up against a Somali terror group? Treasury’s Scott Bessent and Oversight’s James Comer are now dragging the Biden–Walz machine into the sunlight, and the usual suspects are already screaming about “rhetoric” instead of explaining where the money went. Tonight’s brief is about that pivot: how a “local” scandal just became Exhibit A in Trump’s case that Democrat governance isn’t just expensive — it’s dangerous.
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Pen Moves – Policy & Paper
Food Supply Chain EO (economic/national security play)
Trump signed an executive order targeting price fixing and anti-competitive behavior in the food supply chain, especially by foreign-controlled companies. It creates DOJ/FTC task forces to go after cartel-style behavior in meat, groceries, etc., framing grocery prices as a security issue, not just “inflation.” Read
America 250 / Values Messaging
The White House pushed out an America 250 message on the 13th Amendment plus a message on the anniversary of recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital — history + culture + base alignment in one shot (patriotic, religious, law-and-order notes all hit at once). Read
Stagecraft – Where He Was, What He Hosted
Kennedy Center Honors – Trump Takes the Room
Tonight, Trump and Melania are at the Kennedy Center Honors, with Trump not just attending but effectively owning the gala — AP and Reuters are already writing it up as Trump “taking the spotlight” and “solidifying his takeover” of the Kennedy Center. Stallone, KISS, Gloria Gaynor, etc., get the medals; Trump gets the frame: I run the town now, including your cultural temples. Read
Last Night: Medal/Dinner Circuit
In the 24-ish hours leading in, he did the medal presentation at the White House and the State Department Honors dinner, working the elite crowd while still playing populist-in-chief on policy. Read
Message War – What He Said & Who He Hit
Kaitlan Collins vs. Trump (Ballroom + Venezuela)
Trump went on a Truth Social tear calling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “stupid and nasty,” ranting about his White House ballroom renovation — press is milking it as another “attack on female journalists.” Collins clapped back with a six-word IG Story pointing out her question was actually about Venezuela and the boat strikes, which keeps the Venezuela fight and his “I end wars but hit hard” narrative in the conversation. Read
Indiana Redistricting Pressure
In the background, stories dropped about Indiana GOP legislators getting threats as Trump leans on them over redistricting — media spin is “Trump intimidation,” but the underlying fact is he’s personally leaning on map-drawing to lock in a Trump-aligned House. Read
Somali / Immigration Narrative Still Burning
Blowback from his Somalia/Minnesota line is still hot:
Ilhan Omar is now comparing Stephen Miller’s immigration rhetoric to Nazi talk. Read
A Minnesota GOP state senator publicly scolded Trump’s “garbage” language about Somalis while inviting him to visit.
All of that actually reinforces Trump’s central claim to his base: I’m the only one willing to say the thing you’re not allowed to say about imported crime and fraud. Read
Trump Turns Minnesota Welfare Scandal Into a Terror Finance Question
Scott Bessent doesn’t tweet that Treasury is probing whether Minnesota welfare money reached al Shabaab by accident. He’s doing two things at once: targeting fraud and tying it directly to Biden–Walz “feckless mismanagement.”
Comer jumping in with an Oversight investigation turns this from a state-level embarrassment into a federal problem for Democrats: what did Walz know, and did his team slow-walk or screw up the response while hundreds of millions were getting looted?
The media wants to keep this at “fraud, but don’t you dare generalize” and insists there’s “no proof” of terror links. Trump doesn’t need proof today — he needs the frame: Democrat welfare machines are so loose, we now have to seriously ask whether taxpayer money is brushing up against terror networks.
That’s the political nuke: even the possibility of U.S. welfare dollars touching al Shabaab becomes Exhibit A in Trump’s case that blue-state governance is a national security risk.
RECEIPTS
Bessent says Treasury is investigating whether Minnesota tax dollars under Biden/Walz mismanagement may have been diverted to al Shabaab.
Comer demands documents from Walz on how “millions of dollars” were stolen and what the governor’s office knew.
Minnesota has already seen massive fraud cases: $250M Feeding Our Future scandal plus housing and autism program abuse.
A 2019 state audit couldn’t prove terror funding but admitted it’s possible state money went overseas and ended up with terrorists.
Biden-aligned prosecutor insists the fraudsters were just “trying to get rich,” which ages badly if links look worse over time.
Trump’s team is turning a blue-state welfare disaster into a test case on whether Democrat-run systems are not just wasteful — but potentially dangerous.
Minnesota thought it had a fraud problem; Trump just upgraded it to a national security investigation.
FIELD INTEL
Hegseth / Boat Strike Video
Trump’s Pentagon is “reviewing” whether to release the Venezuela drug-boat strike video while Hegseth openly defends the campaign and basically says: yeah, we hit them, and we’ll do it again. Democrats are trying to turn this into a war-crimes drama, but Trump’s frame is simple and potent: we’re at war with the cartels, and we’re not apologizing for hitting them hard — roll the tape if you want, strength is the message.
“Stronger Vetting” Won’t Fix Imported Chaos
The D.C. National Guard shooter coming in through Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome is now Exhibit A for the argument that you don’t “vet” your way out of importing unstable societies — you stop importing them. This piece basically gives Trump intellectual cover for going beyond tougher screening to outright bans and asylum shutdowns from high-risk countries: not “be nicer and more careful,” but stop gambling with Americans’ lives to feel compassionate.
Bessent on Trump Accounts: No Training Wheels
Bessent is out saying there will be no use restrictions on Trump Accounts once kids hit 18 — it’s real capital, not a government-approved allowance. Critics wanted these accounts locked into education-only or “responsible” spending lanes; instead, Trump is branding them as mini-ownership stakes in the U.S. economy, with actual freedom attached. Translation: every child gets a MAGA starter stake, not another nanny-state program.
This week, watch who panics, who stonewalls, and who suddenly discovers “process concerns” the minute Trump’s Treasury and Oversight start asking for emails, wire trails, and internal memos. Minnesota thought it had a PR problem; Trump is methodically turning it into a national security x-ray of how the Biden-era welfare state really works.
~ Scott 🇺🇸
PS: Hegseth backing hard power against the cartels, a brutal takedown of “vetting will save us” immigration fantasy, and Bessent making Trump Accounts real capital, not kiddie socialism. And if you want the full war-room picture, don’t skip today’s Trump Command Log — every pen stroke, post, and pressure point from the last 24 hours is there.
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