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Far-left Frauds Exposed, Plus Remembering a Great American Scott Adams | Triggered Ep.308

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Hey guys, welcome to another massive, some would say huge episode of Triggered.
We've got a lot to cover today from historic immigration numbers that the fake news does not want you to see to absolute chaos in Minnesota, where journalists are being hunted by the leftist mobs.
And at the end of the show, I want to pay tribute to a friend, a patriot, and someone who really understood what was happening in this country, honestly, before almost anyone else did.
Scott Adams, who passed away earlier this week.
So let's get into all of it.
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And now, let's get into all of the top headlines.
Let's start with an absolutely historic number that the media is trying to bury.
For the first time, for the first time in almost 50 years, let that sink in, 50 years, half a century, the United States has experienced negative net migration.
Okay, more people leaving than coming.
Okay.
And the people leaving are the ones we definitely want leaving.
And we're also revoking naturalized citizenship of those migrants convicted of fraud.
Okay, you come here, we try to give you an opportunity.
You commit crimes, you commit frauds, you're out.
Okay, this is common sense.
This makes total sense.
This is what should happen.
Okay, this is what should happen.
This is what happens anywhere else.
So for those migrants convicted of frauds, they're out, which of course makes you wonder why we always haven't been doing just that.
Take a look.
We're also going to revoke the citizenship of any naturalized immigrant from Somalia or anywhere else who is convicted of defrauding our citizens.
We're going to get them the hell out of here, Fed.
And if you come to America to rob Americans, we're throwing you in jail and we're sending you back to the place from where you came.
We're throwing you right in jail.
And they know it, too.
Under Biden, we were seeing two to three million illegals flooding across our border every single year.
Two to three million, guys.
You know, it's insane.
Two to three million.
That's like a percent of our population every year just coming across.
Again, not the finest, usually.
Okay.
And what did the fake news tell us?
It's a humanitarian crisis, remember?
They're just asylum seekers.
There's nothing we can do about it.
Yeah, they're asylum seekers.
They went through eight other countries coming from wherever country they were, but managed to go through all eight of those.
They didn't seek asylum in those other eight countries.
They just wanted to come to America for the free stuff.
It's over.
Enough.
My father actually did something about it.
The Brookings Institution, not exactly a right-wing think tank, by the way, estimates that net migration was somewhere between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000 in 2025.
That's not a typo.
Negative for the first time in half a century.
That is a really big deal, guys.
It's yet another example of how we all needed a new president.
We just needed it.
That's it.
We just needed a new president.
This stuff was doable if you had someone with the balls to actually do it.
Everyone had the chance.
Everyone talked about it.
They were all talk, no action.
Now it's different.
And at the same time, guys, shockingly, shockingly, with the net migration being negative, crime nationwide is plummeting thanks to the historic work under Kash Patel's FBI.
Just so we're clear, a 20% drop, 20% in national murder rate compared to Biden, a new historic low, with 2025 projected to see the largest one-year drop ever recorded in murders.
That's a big deal.
Okay?
And we're just starting.
Okay.
We're not even a year into this thing.
Over 6,000 innocent child victims recovered.
That's up 22%.
Another really big deal.
6,000 children victims recovered.
A 210%, 210% increase in violent gang takedowns.
We're getting rid of the bad guys.
A 31% increase in fentanyl seizures.
Those are huge numbers.
They're making a difference.
They're saving lives.
They're stopping crime.
And speaking of promises kept, let's talk about what Team Trump has done for American families in less than a year.
We've increased real household net wealth, okay?
What you actually end up being able to take home by 7.1%.
And that's just in three quarters.
Compare that to Biden's pathetic 2.0% over four years.
Yeah, four years.
And they want to tell you that Bidenomics was working.
It was so great.
Bidenomics, it's wonderful.
Give me a break.
American families are wealthier under my father.
American families are safer.
And American families have hope once again of actually owning a home and building a life.
That's what real leadership looks like.
Check this out.
As part of those efforts at Davos, next week I'm going to provide much more detail about our housing policies so that every American who wants to own a home will be able to afford one.
We have some great things happening with housing.
As you know, you saw the $200 billion buy-in on bonds and mortgages.
This will include a ban on large institutional investors buying up single-family homes all over the country and making it impossible for people to buy home.
And I've also announced that the U.S. government is purchasing $200 billion of mortgage bonds to bring down mortgage rates, and it's had a huge impact.
It's already started.
And just last week, the average 30-year mortgage dropped below 6% for the first time in many years.
It's coming down very rapidly, and that's not with the help of the Fed.
If I had the help of the Fed, it would be easier.
But that jerk will be gone soon.
Now, let's talk about what's happening in Minnesota because this is getting more and more out of control each and every day.
You've seen the anti-ICE protests.
You've seen the media defending the rioters.
But what you might not have seen is what these leftist mobs are doing to journalists, journalists who actually dare to do their job and maybe cover some of their leftist violence.
I mean, you know, I know there's not a lot of guys that will do it, but they're out there.
He was on the show last week, maybe two weeks ago now.
Independent journalist Nick Sordor was covering the chaos in Minneapolis when a mob surrounded his vehicle, smashed his windows, spray painted his truck, and repeatedly threatened to kill him and his colleague, Cam Higby.
Watch this. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yes.
There's some bullets.
Uh-uh, that's a .47.
Oh no.
Uh-uh!
Tourniquet there.
Did he get...
Okay.
Hey, don't film that.
He's out of the...
He's out of the...
Yeah!
Yeah!
He's out of the...
No, no, no, no.
Shit
Think about what you just saw.
Think about it.
A citizen journalist being hunted by a violent leftist mob.
This is Democrat America.
You expose their fraud.
You try to save probably billions in American taxpayer dollars.
You want those taxpayer dollars going to causes to actually help people, not quality leering center that's not actually teaching anything.
It's just a funding arm of the leftist organizations, money that's being sent to terrorist organizations in Somalia, etc.
A citizen journalist having his windows smashed with frozen water bottles.
And here's the kicker.
When Sorter called 911, the police told him to go somewhere else.
They wouldn't even come to help him.
I imagine they've been told they're not allowed to help anyone who's not one of these rioters, you know, Democrat voters.
This is Tim Waltz's Minnesota.
This is what Democrat leadership looks like.
The police are told to stand down while journalists are attacked in the streets.
One of the leftist militants refused to understand is the more you harass, threaten, and try to kill independent journalists, the more they're going to expose you.
Nick Sortor isn't going anywhere.
He's not in hiding.
And neither is Nick Shirley, who was on our show again two weeks ago, or any of the other brave voices out there investigating these stories on the ground.
They're doing the job of what, you know, the mainstream journalists are supposed to be doing but would refuse because it doesn't go along with the narrative.
But as violence against ICE and real journalists gets worse in Minnesota, the media and Democrats still want you to believe that it's ICE that's the problem and not the out-of-control lunatic leftists that are destroying Minneapolis.
Watch this.
If there were neighbors and others who came out to help this person, that is just an example of Minnesota being a place where we help our neighbors.
And we are clear that the ICE agents have been coming here and there's over 2,000 of them.
And they've been attacking and terrorizing our state.
So yes, neighbors will come out and be helpful.
I'm not certain if they had brooms or shovel that is to be further investigated.
If they did, in fact, have some sort of weapons to use to attack the ICE officer, would that change your opinion of whatever unfolded next?
Actually, no, right?
Because from our vantage point, we wanted to make sure and always wanted to make sure that Minnesotans are being dealt with properly.
And when we think in terms of any pursuit or any apprehension of anyone, there's a way for you to do your work where it's respectful and it's fair.
We unfortunately have seen ICE not be respectful, not be fair, but to be illegal and to attack and to be very aggressive with Minnesotans.
And to see that the federal government has made a decision to attack and send more and more agents here and allow them to be allow them to misbehave.
We think that's a tragedy and a travesty.
Thanks to incredible work by investigative journalist Nick Shirley, whose viral video exposed massive amounts of fraud in Minnesota's daycare programs, we now have a fuller scope of what was happening under Tim Waltz's watch.
Remember, Tim Waltz could have been the vice president of the United States.
This guy's insane.
I can't come up with any other conclusion than he was clearly in on all of this.
Federal prosecutors estimate that criminals in Minnesota have stolen an estimated $9 billion, okay, billion with a B, billion, $9 billion in taxpayer funds.
Think about that.
$9 billion.
Money that was supposed to feed children.
Money that was supposed to support autistic kids.
Money that was supposed to house low-income Americans.
Those Americans didn't get any of that money.
It went to Somali extortionists.
And who were these criminals?
As state lawmakers, state lawmakers testified before the House Oversight Committee in Washington, D.C., 90%, 90% of the individuals charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud alone are of Somali descent.
And some of that money, there's evidence.
It was being funneled through Halawa networks to al-Shabaab, the largest al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia.
Think about that.
$9 billion supposed to go to help autistic kids, help kids get fed, help underprivileged Americans.
But no, instead, it's being funneled to terrorist networks.
Okay?
The largest al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, al-Shabaab.
How is that possible?
Heads need to roll.
Here's the latest of what else was uncovered.
Check it out.
Yeah, Trace, great to be with you.
Happy New Year.
Unfortunately, this is not a happy story for my state.
Tim Walz is a fraud himself.
It's not just that he's allowed fraud to happen.
He's a fraud.
You can't believe a word that comes out of his mouth.
He's lied about his military record.
He's lied about something as dumb as when he was at Tiananmen Square and he was caught on national TV.
His whole thing here is to deflect to someone else.
The fact is he has prosecuted no one.
We have been sounding the alarm on this fraud now for years, and no one in the Minnesota media, well, I should say almost no one, would even bother to report on it.
Our U.S. Attorney's Office estimates the fraud, Trace, could be as high as $9 billion.
It's not just daycare centers, it's autism centers, it's housing stabilization funds.
We've got the largest pandemic fraud case, a quarter of a billion dollars in the country.
And this has all been under Tim Walt's watch.
And to show you just how disingenuous this guy is, two weeks ago, he created a new position for someone to investigate fraud because the headline in our worthless local paper was, Tim Walz is trying to get ahead of the fraud.
Well, guess what?
It's seven years too late.
It's cost Minnesota taxpayers billions.
You put on an HHS person who pointed out this money is being stolen from people that need it, children, disabled, single mothers, and it's being shipped to al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia.
Tim Walz needs to be held accountable.
He needs to answer for this.
And God bless President Trump for making this a national issue.
And Trace, thank you for reporting on it.
Let me read you a little bit more of what state representatives testified to under oath.
They said that Tim Waltz knew about this fraud as it was occurring and did nothing about it.
They said that whistleblowers were retaliated against when they tried to stop it.
Remember, you know, under Trump, when whistleblowers even lied about what was going on, they were beyond reproach.
They could do no wrong.
But in Minnesota, if you talk about fraud going to terrorist networks, you're retaliated against as a whistleblower.
They said that Tim Waltz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were protecting fraudsters instead of investigating them.
Secretary of Treasury Scott Besson said it perfectly when he visited Minneapolis last week.
Under Democrat Governor Tim Waltz, welfare fraud has spiraled out of control.
Billions of dollars intended to feed hungry children, house disabled seniors, and provide services for children in need were instead diverted to benefit Somali fraud rings.
You can't make it up, guys.
This is America in 2026, certainly in 2025, and I'm sure it's been going on for a long time.
Waltz announced that he's dropping out of his re-election bid.
I'm actually shocked.
I figured all the Somalis would vote for him.
He'd probably be able to win anyway.
But we can't allow him to escape actual accountability for this.
This wasn't just negligence.
This was a protection racket.
Based on the evidence, it looks like there were essentially votes in exchange for looking the other way while billions were stolen from hardworking American taxpayers.
Okay?
That's the deal, guys.
We all know it.
Okay.
We'll keep doing this.
Who cares if no one shows up at the day care center?
It's like, Oprah, you get a couple million bucks.
You Somali immigrant get a couple million bucks.
You Somali fraudster, a couple million bucks.
Rinse and repeat.
But you better show up and vote for Democrats.
And Nick Shirley just uncovered a new layer to the fraud involving translators for hire at local hospitals.
Check this out.
When a Somali goes to the doctor, magically, they forgot how to speak English, so they needed an interpreter there.
So the county brings in an interpreter at $100 an hour, minimum eight hours to interpret what the doctor is telling the patient.
So that's another layer of fraud that nobody's even talked about or revealed.
And it's millions and millions, hundreds of millions of dollars all on its own.
Interpreter services.
Because what percentage do you think of these people, especially if they were born here in the United States, they speak English, right?
Of course they do.
They should not be saying no English.
And then remember, the interpreter has to get to the doctor's office or the hospital.
How are they getting there?
The transportation company, and then they got to get back home.
And that patient had to get to the doctor's office.
How?
Transportation.
Kids got to get to school.
How?
Transportation.
That's why I said the transportation is the hub of really, I think, all of this.
So basically, what we're talking about between all these fraudulent businesses, the daycare, the autism centers, the adult daycare, the home services, and then the transportation.
And then on top of that, you have it looped in with them going eventually to the doctors for translators to be paid by the state.
That's exactly what's happening, yes.
Now, beyond Minnesota, we have our own little communist experiment underway in New York City with the new mayor there, Zoran Mandani.
This guy is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
He stood up at his inauguration and said, and I quote, we will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
Okay?
You know, rugged individualism, that's like freedom and, you know, the American way of life.
Collectivism is communism.
The warmth of collectivism.
Does that sound familiar, guys?
Because it should.
Collectivism has been tried in the Soviet Union, in Mao's China, in Cuba, and everywhere it's been tried.
It's ended up in poverty, oppression, and death, and misery.
That's all it's ever done.
And his new tenant advocacy director, well, she's saying that white home ownership is a hurdle to fair housing.
Don't believe me?
Here she is in her own words.
I think that United States public policy has done a really, really, really good job of pitting cash poor homeowners and working class homeowners and middle class homeowners against renters.
And we need to figure out how to navigate that as organizers.
It's really, it's really quite difficult, right?
Because like, yes, Blackstone is a bigger and worse target than like, you know, Mrs. Smith, who owns 15 buildings.
But Mrs. Smith, who owns 15 buildings, still like kind of sucks and has a lot more stability than renters.
And there's more of them than there are of the Blackstones.
And so it's just like this challenging dynamic that white middle class homeowners are a huge problem for our renter justice movement.
She called home ownership white supremacy.
She said she wants to seize private property.
She wants to shrink the value of real estate.
Okay, you know, most people, if they own their home, that's a big, big, big portion of their net worth, their life savings, their life's work, and what they can ultimately leave to their children, the American dream.
She wants to shrink the value of real estate.
And she's deleted her X account because even she knows how insane this looks.
It's not going to stop her.
Sure, she doesn't care.
She just doesn't want people actually calling her out on it.
They would rather execute the plan under the cover of darkness than say it out loud, even though she has.
New Yorkers voted for this.
And now they're going to learn what happens when you put a communist in charge of the greatest city in America.
Now, before we go, I want to take a moment to remember someone special.
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilibert and one of the most insightful political commentators of our time, who passed away this week at the age of 68 after a battle with cancer.
Scott was one of the first people to understand what was happening with my father's political movement back in 2015.
Before anyone else got it, he understood it.
He understood the messaging.
He understood why it resonated.
He got it, and it cost him dearly.
Scott recognized that my father was speaking to something real.
He was speaking something powerful in the American spirit.
He was mocked for it.
He was attacked for it, but he was right.
My father posted on True Social, sadly, the great influencer Scott Adams has passed away.
He was a fantastic guy who liked and respected me when it wasn't fashionable to do so.
He bravely fought a long battle against a terrible disease.
He will be truly missed.
God bless you, Scott.
And in his final message, Scott wanted everyone to know something important.
After a lifetime as an atheist, Scott accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior before he passed.
He got it.
Here's his final message.
Whenever I talk about this simulation, and especially when I talk about my own impending death, many of my Christian friends and Christian followers say to me, Scott, you still have time.
You should convert to Christianity.
And I usually just let that sit because that's not an argument I want to have.
I've not been a believer.
But I also have respect for any Christian who goes out of their way to try to convert me.
Because how would I believe you and believe your own religion if you're not trying to convert me?
So I have great respect. for people who care enough that they want me to convert and then go out of their way to try to convince me.
So you're going to hear for the first time today that it is my plan to convert.
So I still have time, but my understanding is you're never too late.
And on top of that, any skepticism I have about reality would certainly be instantly answered if I wake up in heaven.
I do believe that the dominant Christian theory is that I would wake up in heaven if I have a good life.
Yeah, I don't necessarily have to state something in advance.
And so, to my Christian friends, yes, it's coming.
So you don't need to talk me into it.
I am now convinced that the risk reward is completely smart.
If it turns out that there's nothing there, I've lost nothing.
But I've respected your wishes, and I like doing that.
If it turns out there is something there, and the Christian model is the closest to it, I win.
So with your permission, I promise you that I will convert.
Scott understood persuasion probably better than anyone else.
He understood when my father spoke and when the media would mock him for it, what real Americans actually heard, what they got out of it, what everyone refused to listen to.
He understood systems thinking.
He understood why people believe what they believe.
And he spent his final years helping millions of Americans understand what was really happening in our country.
There was truly no one else like him.
Rest in peace, Scott.
You made a difference and we won't forget it.
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