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Dec. 11, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Minnesota's Corruption Crisis
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If you want to join us, it is sad.
It is tragic.
It is growing by the day.
It is just outright corruption at a level that is breathtaking.
And I'm talking about the Minnesota-Somali fraud scandal.
It looks like we just hit the tip of the iceberg.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer warning last night that this fraud found in Minnesota is likely more widespread than Democrats want voters to believe.
We had Brooke Rollins on the program saying, you know, she's trying to get a handle on programs like SNAP.
We had Mehmet Oz, Dr. Oz, talking about how bad it is.
How, you know, for example, in one particular program that they had on autism in 2018, they went from $3 billion to a whopping $400 billion.
It's institutionalized fraud.
And we're learning that Tim Walz was warned about it by whistleblowers.
He ignored it.
And as Minnesota's Somali's welfare fraud scandals widened, Walls is inviting, you know, more people from Somalia to get involved and to his state.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, new documents raise more questions.
This is a flashback from 2019 about Congresswoman Omar's marital history and possible immigration fraud during a deposition.
Omar suggested he was unaware that she violated tax law by filing a married joint return with the wrong husband.
How is that humanly possible?
And don't blame me for that story.
Blame the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Now, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is taking this on.
Don't forget he has his bestseller out, Trump's triumph, America's greatest comeback.
But he's here to break down this fraud.
And he's pointed out four very important points about this.
And, you know, as now the Senate is dealing with, instead of the, you know, Affordable Care Act that's not affordable, and millions lose their doctors, millions lose their plans.
Nobody saves on average $2,500 a year.
No, we're paying about, on average, 300 plus percent more.
And over 40% of the country have but one Obamacare exchange option.
They're talking about giving money directly to citizens so they can better spend their health care dollars.
Anyway, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, now you in Switzerland.
I know Callista, your beautiful wife, is now the ambassador there.
And Lichtenstein, I guess she's doing both, but are you in the States?
I'm actually in Chicago in a series of meetings on health care.
Why the hell would you want to be in Chicago?
You know, it's very dangerous there.
Well, it's not too bad a day here.
It's a great city with a terrible government, I guess is the way I would put it.
Great city where on any average weekend, you can predict how many people will be shot and shot and killed.
And nobody ever pays attention to it.
Nobody ever changes it.
I know.
It's the strangest thing.
And it's partially because most of the killings tend to be on the South side.
And everybody else in the city just shrugs their shoulders.
It is tragic how bad the city government and how corrupt the city politics are because it is a great city and it's contributed a great deal in American history.
But I'm one state away from the corruption you were describing.
And I have gotten very involved in this whole issue of whether or not big government socialism inherently leads to corruption because of the way the bureaucracy works and the way that the money is spent and the attitude people build under socialism.
And I was involved initially from the standpoint of a brilliant book called The Failure Factory, which is a study of the Baltimore schools.
And just, you know, they take money and they don't deliver.
And you think of that, frankly, as fraud or as corruption.
But then along came this thing in Minnesota.
And people need to get their head around this.
We're talking about a city, the city of Minneapolis.
And we're talking about an estimated $1 billion stolen from the taxpayers in the city of Minneapolis.
It has to be, per capita, the biggest corruption scandal in American history.
And what happened in part was that some of the elements of the Somali community, let's be clear, there are a lot of Somalians who are hardworking and honest, but there's a corruption coming out of Somalia, which has been historically rated as one of the two or three most corrupt countries in the world.
And so people arrive and they look around and the bureaucracy says, can we give you money?
And they say, well, sure.
I mean, if you really want to give me money, I don't mind.
So they set up a whole series of small companies that are going to feed the children, except they don't.
They take the money, so they use some of it to buy property back in Somalia.
Some of it apparently ended up with the terrorist organization al-Shabama in Mogadishu.
So in effect, the report, there was a brilliant report done by the Manhattan Institute, starts by asking the question, was the Minnesota, an American taxpayer literally funding al-Shabaab, which is an explicitly terrorist organization in Somalia.
So they learn how to do this, and then they say, well, where else can we go?
And they discover a program to help senior citizens and to help people who need housing.
And so they set up companies to take money there and provide, of course, neither housing nor services, but they keep getting paid by the state government because Tim Waltz, who is just a hopelessly dumb left-wing politician, you can't believe that people, if you offer people money, they will take it.
And then they say, well, where else can we turn?
And they go to a program.
I think in some ways this is the most despicable of the three.
They go to a program designed to help children with autism.
They then pay families a monthly fee for certifying that their child is autistic, even though they're not.
So you're a local family, and somebody shows up and says, hi, we can pay between $30 and $150 a month if you're willing to sign a paper that your child is autistic.
So they then get that money.
Now here you have three parallel streams of money, all of them stolen.
And the U.S. attorney said, it's clearly the biggest zone of corruption and fraud he's ever seen.
They've already convicted 50 people.
They have another 25 they're putting on trial.
But this is just a drop in the bucket.
The state government, under all this pressure, has now suspended 14 different programs that are being reaudited to see how many of them are also corrupt.
And I would argue that this is the natural outcome of big government socialism because it sets up a system, one, where it says the government should give you money.
Why aren't you getting your government money?
Two, bureaucrats are inherently incapable of catching up with the crook.
You know, the bureaucrat goes home at five.
They take the weekend off.
The crook stays around until eight or nine at night stealing.
If they feel short, they'll come in on Saturday and Sunday and steal.
So the bureaucrat never catches up.
And of course, you've now had whistleblowers come out of the woodwork in Minnesota and say they kept trying to tell them these are people in the government.
He said, look, we tried to tell our bosses that this was crazy, and they just simply would not listen to us.
And they told us to shut up because they were afraid that to look at Somalians would be seen as racism.
And therefore, it was better to let them steal than it was to look bad.
And a number of people have now signed statements to that effect, that they were actively inside the government saying, this can't be legal.
This has to be fraud.
And the government of Tim Waltz just said, shut your mouth or you'll sound like a racist.
Yeah, and there is a vote component to that as well.
And the vote component is, oh, okay, we give people free money.
Why wouldn't they put us back in power?
There's a debate like we're talking about, and what you're describing here is how these outdated bureaucracies are incapable of effectively monitoring, policing, what becomes institutionalized theft.
And this is one of the biggest examples, as you point out, in history.
But that is the history of socialism, statism, Marxism, redistributionism.
I don't care what name you give it, but it always ends the same way.
And that is unfulfilled promises, more poverty than when you started, corruption.
I'll add that to the list.
And at the end of the day, you give up a degree of freedom that you can't calculate till it's all said and done in the name of false security.
The whole Green New Deal is about taking care of everybody from cradle to grave, from womb to the tomb.
And if you look at institutions, they opened up our borders and they compromised our national security and Americans are dying.
We have known terrorists in the country.
If you look at Defund, Dismantle, No Bail, and reimagine the police, that has resulted in a disaster.
When you have regular policing, as the president proved in D.C., guess what?
Lives are saved.
They could do the same thing in Chicago if they weren't so resistant to it.
And you could duplicate that model around the country and lives and people would be able to pursue happiness because they have law and order and safety and security.
But on all of these major issues, the left has doubled down.
It's Jasmine Crockett now running in Texas to be a senator.
It's a woman that hates Nashville, that hates country music, wants to be a congressperson elected in Nashville.
It's Mamdani winning in New York.
It's the AOC, the squad in charge of the Democratic Party, along with Bernie Sanders.
You know, I don't know whether to jump for joy because I think Republicans have better chances of winning elections or to soberly look at this as a real threat to the system of government that has made us the greatest country God gave man.
Yeah, look, I think as we approach our 250th anniversary as a country dedicated to freedom and the rule of law, we have to recognize that there's a substantial number of people in this country who do not share our values,
who do not believe in the Constitution, who do not believe in the rule of law, and that the level of corruption, when you go, for example, big city schools. which routinely lie and routinely steal money because they're not providing services.
When you look at the scale of theft in Medicare and Medicaid, we have become a country in which a significant minority is committed to the idea that if they can steal it and keep it, then they're really smart and the rest of us are really dumb.
And this is going to require, I think, a very deep, profound reshaping of the core values and getting back to a principle which Jefferson and Adams and Franklin and all the founding fathers, George Washington, they all understood this principle that you can have a free government if you have people willing to obey morality, willing to obey the law, willing to be patriots.
But if you lose those values, then you're ultimately going to lose the country.
And I think it's a very big threat.
I'm very sad.
And I'm going to be very curious, for example, to see in Minnesota where people like Amy Klobuchar, who's a pretty decent Democrat, pretty responsible person, well, she's not that a big problem because she has a very large Somali community.
She has a very large left-wing base in Minneapolis, which is you cannot, as a Democrat, win in Minnesota if you lose the base in Minneapolis.
And yet, she knows, she has to know, that this is a scandal of historic proportions and that it is a really sad commentary when the local congresswoman stands up and defends the crooks and attacks the U.S. government for actually wanting to protect the taxpayers' money.
Ask you this because there is an appeal to people that the government is going to take away all their fears, all their anxieties, guarantee that every aspect of their life will, in fact, be taken care of.
There's an appeal to that.
The Democrats now seem to have adopted that in their new radicalism that leads their party.
How far does it go?
We have less than a minute.
Well, look, I think this is one of the great crises in American history.
We'll see how big a disaster Mandami is.
But it seems in the biggest cities, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, you can be a disaster for a long time.
If you look at our school systems, we have seen a level of corruption, which people have not talked out about and been open and blunt about, that is astonishing.
So I think this is a genuine fight for the very nature of America.
And I hope that most Democrats will end up being so disgusted by things like the Minneapolis scandal that, in fact, they will insist on a reform wing of their own party beginning to take on the left in its insanity.
Well, we appreciate your analysis.
How are you enjoying Switzerland?
Oh, it's amazing.
You'd have to come visit us at some point.
And later on, when we have time, I want to point out to people that in May of 2008, you launched Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.
I thought of this on the TV show last night.
You now have gasoline under $2 in at least six states.
And of course, Barack Obama, the Democrats ridiculed us and said, you'll never get gasoline prices down.
And we kept saying, of course you will.
You have enough people who drill.
You find the gas and oil.
Prices come down.
Well, guess what?
History's going to prove that.
Oh, down to 250 or less a gallon in like 36 states.
It's unreal.
I mean, it's, and that's happened very quickly.
That's like a major tax cut for Americans.
But, Mr. Speaker, we appreciate it and glad you're back.
We miss you.
I hope you're enjoying your time in Switzerland, and I'd love to come visit you.
That'd be fun.
Take care.
Thanks.
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Is it worth playing again, Tim Walz?
Now, this is the, I mentioned this in the first hour of the program today.
Gavin Newsom, it's nearly a year since the Pacific Palisades fires took place.
Thousands of people lost their fires.
People lost their lives.
You know, we have empty fire hydrants.
We have empty reservoirs.
And Gavin Newsom, when approached by a constituent, I'm talking to the president right now, meaning at the time, President Biden.
Well, I'm going to talk to the president after the lady says, can I talk to him?
And in all that time, they have rebuilt one home, claiming that his hair went on fire during the Pacific Palisades.
I want to see the video.
I am doubtful.
But he's doing a podcast.
This is Gavin Newsom and his special guest, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Now, remember, after the last election, Democrats spent tens and tens of millions of dollars researching how they can connect with men better.
And one of the reasons we were told that Tim Walz was picked because he's a regular dude.
If you don't know how to relate to people, you can't read research and figure it out.
Never mind the fact that it's completely lacking authenticity.
Anyway, so Walls with Gavin Newsom, who should be doing his day job and helping the people in the Pacific Palisades.
And they have the highest poverty rate, highest homeless rate, highest taxes in the country.
No, he's out there doing podcasts, visiting other countries, other states, everything but his day job.
And his track record is atrocious.
You'd think he might want to clean it up before he actually announces he's running for president.
But back in March, Tampon Timmy was on little old Gavin's podcast, full-time podcaster, Tweety Bird, and do nothing governor.
I mean, the whole idea, this is what real men think.
This is broad talk.
This notion of toxicity and masculinity needs to be separated.
And I think it's been conflated.
And I think we're going to have to work on that a little bit.
And I think there's, look, there is a crisis.
I think some of us scare them.
I think I scare them a little bit why they spend so much time on it.
No, I'm serious because I can fix a truck.
They know I'm not bullshit on the job.
I'm not putting this in people's grill.
I don't know if my identity is not hunting.
My identity is not football coaching.
My identity is not, you know, a beard in a truck.
I mean, remember when he had the photo or the video that he put out of him hunting and he couldn't load his own gun?
I mean, it's unbelievable.
I'm going to show everybody I am a man's man.
I'm going hunting with my bros.
I mean, what is that?
It's so fake.
It's so bony.
I don't know.
Maybe Linda, you know, from a woman's perspective, I mean, I'm sure you look at these two as the poster children of masculinity.
My God.
I mean, the hair gel alone.
I'd love to get ready with him.
I think that's all fine.
We could do share a hairstyle.
Get ready together.
And you know, Gavin Newsome, he loves to dance while he talks.
So he must be a fabulous dancer because he never stops shaking it the whole time he talks.
And then, you know, we got Walls, you know, Tampon Tim.
He's in touch with his feminine side.
He is, you know, these are, these are men.
They're just effeminate.
And that's fine.
I'm sure that Walls would use just as much gel if he had any hair to put it in.
Why would anybody be advocating for feminine products in grade school boys' bathrooms?
Maybe he is.
Because that's what he wanted.
You know, we should ask him.
Where do you put your tampon?
Listen, I did have one off-the-record conversation, and I'll maintain that confidentiality with him.
I did invite him on my show.
I'm going to go to the Tampon Tim or Gavin Newsome.
Oh, Gavin's last text with me was not very nice.
I know, but who are you referring to at this point?
I'm referring to Tampon Tim.
Copy.
And Tampon Tim.
And I said, I know what's going to happen.
You're going to get off the phone.
You're going to tell your advisors and the people around you.
Sean Hannity invited me to come on a show and they're all going to say, hell no, and you're not going to do it.
And he goes, I don't necessarily know that that's true.
Guess what?
I never heard back from Tim Walz.
Let me tell you how we know that neither one of these two has an entire brain cell between them combined.
When you are intelligent, when you're able to say something, when you're able to fix something, when you're able to do something, you do not talk about it.
You do it.
I guarantee you that if this man actually had to fix a truck or change a tire, he would call AAA.
He has no idea how to do any of that.
Just like, I mean, load the gun you're talking about.
Listen, I don't know how to do it.
You know how to hold the gun.
You don't know how to do it.
And I'm somebody.
No, well, hold a gun.
Yes.
Obviously, I'm a gun enthusiast, as you know, but I'm more, I'm actually a pistol marksman.
Although I got to be honest, with rifles today in a scope, if it's dialed in, you really can't miss from a pretty long distance.
If you just, although you can, because even though I've instructed you over and over again, you've got like, I don't know, you got the yips for shooting.
It's unbelievable because you drop your shoulder every time you're about to shoot and you don't practice breathing and relaxing.
First of all, I think at the end of the day, I am not someone who shoots for sport.
I shoot to practice to defend my family and my children and my home.
Do you still have the yips?
No, I don't have the yips.
I have a target practice in my backyard with my burner.
I didn't ask you that, but you've had a constant problem of last second jerking your shoulder.
Have you gotten any better?
I have.
I'm pretty good.
You have.
I'm proud of you.
Thank you.
You know, you could be on the bro tour.
Maybe, maybe I should train.
You know, we had white dudes for Harris, right?
Remember that?
White guys or white dudes for Harris?
I mean, he was a part of that whole thing.
And then when he came out on stage, honestly, him and Newsom, just skip politics, go to dancing with the stars because the two of them both think that they can dance.
They have problems.
They look weird when they speak.
There's a lot of shaking, uncontrollable shaking with Newsom.
And then Tim, when he used to run down the walkway before he gave a speech and like stumble through it, it's kind of like Elmer Fudd.
That when I think of the story, I love when he was kicking the air and pounding his heart and acting stupid.
I do it.
When I'm on stage, I do it all the time.
I make one of them.
I do the Tim Walz entrance.
Oh, do you really?
Oh, that's great.
Oh, yeah.
You haven't seen it?
No, I haven't seen that.
Yeah, you can see it.
I think I did it not this past year at the Patriots.
No, the last time we were, it was at the Chitterelli thing, but that was short.
That was like a very tight room.
No, but I don't know if I did it there either.
I remember doing it two years ago at the Patriot Awards.
You can get it on Fox Nation.
You should be watching everything I do anyway.
I should.
I'm going to go do that now.
Let's go to Debbie is in New York.
What's up, Debbie?
How are you doing?
Hey, Sean, I'm pretty good.
How are you?
I'm good.
I can't tell you're from New York, though.
Go ahead.
I'm from New York, born and bred.
What's going on?
Thank you very much for taking my call.
The reason for it is I was listening to the program yesterday where you were talking about farm aid, and I'd like to thank President Trump for providing much-needed economic relief for American farmers.
However, one major group of farmers has been left out, and they are often left out of the conversation, and that is our American beekeepers.
And, you know, you're a beekeeper in New York?
I am.
I'm a commercial beekeeper.
It's what I do for a living.
Been doing it about 15 years.
I'm fascinated with bees.
I don't know why.
Well, first of all, if there's ever, and I rarely ever have anything sweet.
I don't have a sweet tooth, but if I did, you know, maybe occasionally, like if I have an upset stomach and I need to like get some bread or carbs in me, occasionally it happens rarely, but I'd have like a half an English muffin with butter and honey, and that helps a lot.
Or sometimes if my throat is sore, I'll use a little bit of honey.
And that by far is the best.
But I'm fascinated by the whole process of beekeeping.
I really am.
Like, if I'm an old man, I might become a beekeeper just for kicks and giggles.
Have you been stung a lot?
Thousands of times, yeah.
Okay, I'm not interested in that part.
Do you wear the hazmat suit or not?
Not really.
No, I wear very little when I'm beekeeping.
Well, that's probably why you're getting stung.
Why do you don't care about getting stung?
It's actually medicine.
So there's a whole another aspect of beekeeping besides honey and pollination, which is api therapy, the use of the products of the hive for health and healing people and animals.
And it's illegal in America to practice this form of medicine.
It's used across the world.
There's whole clinics devoted to it in other countries.
Well, but you probably have immunity to it, but you know, some people get stung and they need like an Epipen.
Absolutely.
They do.
I've been stung before, but it doesn't seem to impact me at all.
I don't like it.
You know what I had to deal with last night?
And maybe you'll appreciate this.
A little baby lizard made it into my house.
And I don't like creatures in my house.
I don't.
Do you want me to tell you what I did to it?
Or should I just keep it to myself?
Because some people will be offended by what I did to it.
I want you to know I'm already offended.
I don't even know what you're going to say.
No, I'm sorry.
It's my house.
Their habitat is outside.
They invaded my house.
Invade your house.
He made a wrong turn.
Are you against giving directions?
To what, to a lizard?
The baby lizard?
Of course.
He's just a little creature.
Okay, what would you do if a baby lizard invaded your house?
I would pick him up and I would take him outside and I would take a look at it.
No, I'm not picking up the lizard.
No, not happening.
Debbie, what would you do?
That's all I'm going to say.
The lizard, I would put it back outside or fry it up.
I'm not sure.
Oh, Debbie.
What happened?
Oh, man.
You're from sweet beekeeper to murderer.
Debbie, you get an A-plus rating for your call today.
By the way, do you?
I assume you sell your honey, right?
I do.
Okay, Linda, I'm going to put her on hold.
I want you to get her address.
Absolutely not.
She's a murderer.
She's a lizard.
Stop.
From lizards?
Oh, my God.
I'm just not saying it because I don't want to deal with the aftermath of phone calls, what I did to the poor lizard.
You know, I don't want to hear it.
So I'm just keeping my mouth shut for once.
Wait, did Debbie have anything else to say?
We're sorry, Debbie.
We got hijacked.
Actually, so what I wanted to say is we only have about 2,000 commercial beekeepers in this country who manage about 90% of our bees.
We have about 2.5 million honeybee colonies.
However, we had the largest IOF ever recorded in American history that occurred between around November and February of last year.
And in the interim, we were trying to figure out what we didn't know.
Now, imagine if two-thirds of the cows died.
Everyone would be freaking out trying to figure out what happened.
Well, we didn't know.
And in the meanwhile, they closed the Beltsville Bee Lab, which was integral to the industry to keep that lab open to help us to figure things out.
We've got extreme biosecurity risks occurring right now.
We've got an invasive mite called Tropilalaps that most people are unaware of.
And this mite was just intercepted on a ship.
I think it was coming over from Africa.
Everyone involved did the right thing.
This bee colony was a stowaway on a ship, and everyone involved did the right thing.
They actually exterminated the colony, tested the bees, and they had the tropo-alapse in the colony.
If that mite, or when that mite gets to America, it will destroy American agriculture.
It is, we have a mic called Varroa, which most people might have heard of by now.
The tropo-alapse mite is like Varroa on steroids.
It is going to make agriculture, I don't want to say collapse, but it could definitely collapse and just change the way we do everything.
So we need research.
We need the beekeepers.
You know, everyone's about saving the bees.
How about we try saving the beekeepers?
We have 2,000 American beekeepers that pollinate much of our food.
And they need to be not only included in the conversation, farmade in particular.
Those farmers cannot survive without the beekeepers and the bees to pollinate their crops.
All right.
Here's what I want you to do.
Give Linda all your information and I'll just pass it on to like Speaker Johnson to make sure he's aware of it.
I can't guarantee you're going to get results, but it may sound like a small problem, but it sounds like a big problem to me.
I appreciate what you do.
I'm not sure if I want to buy your honey now.
Is your honey safe if I buy it?
My honey is delicious.
It's from Sagaponic, actually, is where I keep my bees.
All right.
Linda, get me a couple of jars of her honey.
We'll order it and I'll let you know how much I love it, okay?
People want to buy your honey.
What's your website?
The name of my business is Bonic Bees, B-O-N-A-C, Bonic Bees.
BonicBees.
BonicBees.com.
Okay.
Got it.
I appreciate it.
All right.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
We have a great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
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