Somali fraudsters bribed a juror with $120,000 cash during Ilhan Omar's "Feeding Our Future" trial, exposing $250 million in taxpayer fraud where 87 defendants were charged. The report also details President Trump firing DHS Secretary Christy Noem over a $220 million ad campaign linked to her husband's firm and her failure to deny Corey Lewandowski's influence. While Omar failed to curb presidential war powers regarding Iran, these revelations highlight deep corruption within Minneapolis district programs and federal administration, suggesting systemic vulnerabilities in both local justice and national security oversight. [Automatically generated summary]
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$120,000 Cash Bribe Exposed00:03:34
Well, Ilhan Omar is certainly in trouble now.
I mean, it's like one thing after another.
Her day just went from bad to so much worse, right?
Ladies and gentlemen, a $120,000 cash bribe has just been exposed in her district, Minneapolis.
They were trying to get some people, you know, maybe off the hook.
Plus, we just got word that the President of the United States has fired one, Christy Nome, from DHS.
We're going to tell you about her replacement.
We're going to tell you about why the president wanted this to go down.
Plus, the president also firing someone else from his team, if you could call it his team, one of his fans.
Well, maybe not his biggest fan.
Tucker Carlson is getting slammed by the president.
He said, well, you know what?
This guy, he's really just not MAGA.
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Anyway, we begin today on the $120,000 cash bribe that has just been exposed in this whole feeding the future, our future scandal.
This is a big story, guys, okay?
So you know the drill.
Ilhan Omar's district got $250 million of your taxpayer dollars courtesy of her, well, and all of us, because we didn't know about it.
She introduced this program, and then what do you know?
Everybody's signing up in Minneapolis.
They all, for the most part, happen to be of Somali descent, and they get this racket going, and they've all been discovered.
So now they're all getting in trouble and they're all going to jail.
But somebody decided maybe we can find a workaround, a way around this, and it'll just take $120,000 cash.
Listen to the report out of Minneapolis right now.
These defendants engaged in a chilling attack on our justice system.
It's been three weeks since $120,000 in cash was dropped at the home of a juror in the Feeding Our Future trial.
U.S. Attorney Andy Luger describing it now as a sophisticated scheme.
And they plotted carefully and deliberately during the trial, waiting for the right moment to act.
Fortunately for all of us, Juror 52 could not be bought.
Charged are three of the Feeding Our Future defendants, Abdi Aziz Farah, his brother Saeed Farah, And Abdi Majid Nur.
Also charged are Abdul Karim Farah, another brother, seen here in an evidence photo.
And Ladan Ali, recruited to fly in from Seattle, also seen in this evidence photo.
Ali's fingerprints were found on the bag used to deliver the bribe.
Ali's rental car was seen waiting for juror number 52 to leave after court and then following her.
License plate readers found 19 times over three days.
Ali's car was near the juror's home.
They studied her, followed her.
And determined that she would succumb to their scheme.
Stuffed inside a water bottle in Abdi Aziz Farah's home was a typed list of the jurors' names.
And though deleted, the FBI still recovered evidence from defendants' phones, including text messages arranging the bribe, about staking out the juror, and a video of Ali actually delivering the bribe.
They also found lengthy instructions to the juror on how to convince others to vote not guilty, and it heavily plays on race.
We are immigrants, it reads.
Juror Targeting Scheme Uncovered00:09:14
They don't respect us.
And care about us.
In the indictment it alleges that she was targeted for two reasons, one, she was young, and two, that they believe she was the only juror of color.
Yeah okay, so there you have it.
We're back to that again.
Oh, you know, let's all bond over color and, you know, maybe they can't come after us because we're of color.
Is that what you're supposed to say now, of color?
I can't keep track of it.
I thought it was just well African American, Somali American or whatever.
I digress.
The point is, you can't do that stuff, not in the United States Of America.
I mean, it's taken them a while to get a little used to this.
I loved how Timmy Waltz the other day was trying to tell us that well, you know, culturally it's just sort of different and we need to do a better job at communicating to people that you can't steal.
I'm like, well, maybe you should not be coming to this country.
Maybe we shouldn't be giving you denaturalization status.
Maybe we shouldn't be giving you a green card or asylum if you don't understand the basic concept of let's not steal.
All right?
I mean, it's kind of basic.
It seems to me you don't have quite the moral character that one would want.
coming to this country if you don't understand those basics if timmy waltz has to lay it out for you ilhan omar was also caught saying well you know it was just so easy they made it so easy i'm sorry guys that's no excuse no excuse at all she's the one that introduced the whole shebang okay back in 2020 on march 11th right On March 11th,
right around the same time that she decided to get married to that Timmy Minette, I wonder how much he had to do with this.
After all, he had been a campaign worker, a campaign manager for her, and they introduced this thing.
And the next thing you know, every Tom, Dick, and Harry, or Mohammed and Ahmed, and I'm running out of names, signed up.
The Somali restaurant owner, that Ilhan decided to have her big party when she celebrated her win at, he was part of this.
One of her former campaign staffers.
He was part of this.
I'm betting he knew from Timmy Meinet, whom he worked with on Ilhan's campaign, that this thing was coming down.
So these are just allegations, of course at this point, but it's sort of amazing to think that Ilhan Omar went from negative 50 000 to 30 million in the span of a couple years since she married to this, this guy, and as soon as they came out with feeding our future, Oh, she thinks she's the victim, though.
And of course, all the people in her district are victims that stole $250 million.
Of the 87 people charged, all but eight are of Somali descent.
And that has added to the spotlight being put specifically on your community.
Why do you think this fraud was allowed to get so widespread?
I want to say, you know, this also has an impact on.
On Somalis, because we are also taxpayers in Minnesota.
We also could have benefited from the program and the money that was stolen.
And so it's been really frustrating for people to not acknowledge the fact that we're also, as Minnesotans, as taxpayers, really upset and angry about the fraud that has occurred.
Please, please, we're upset.
No, you know who's upset?
We're all upset.
Because when you tally it all up, when it's all said and done, we're talking about $19 billion, ladies and gentlemen.
$19 billion.
And you know what?
There are people that have to go to jail for this.
Not just the fraudsters, but the people that look the other way.
I mean, certainly the person that introduced this, if it turns out that she profited off of this in some way, shape, or form, which I happen to believe she did, then yes, she's going to go to jail too.
But you know what?
And probably be deported and denaturalized along with it.
But Timmy Walsh?
He's under fire.
You saw the hearings just yesterday.
And Keith Ellison, he's under fire.
And our friend Brandon Gill down in Texas, the representative who happens to be my friend, Dinesh D'Souza's son-in-law.
I always have to work that in because I love Dinesh and I love his daughter.
And therefore, I love Brandon.
Plus, I love what Brandon has to say.
Listen to Brandon Gill saying he wants somebody in jail.
What I'd like to see is I'd like to see people going to jail.
Yeah, we want that.
Some more of it.
Okay, Brandon Gill.
Again, to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, that you can commit fraud, you can defraud American taxpayers, we're going to look the other way, and we expect you to vote Democrat.
That was sort of the bargain that was made.
I think we were able to highlight that during this hearing, it was very, very clear what's been going on for a long time.
This was not just, you know, Governor Waltz not doing his job, it was much more sinister than that.
It was a way to buy off votes, and it was unbelievably corrupt.
And again, we're the ones who are footing the bill for it.
He was pressed further by Rep. Byron Donalds in that room.
Watch.
We lowered the standards for proof of administrative fraud.
We lowered what it took to show that fraud was happening.
And what did you do with the results of lowering the standards to prove fraud?
What did you do?
Put 79 people in prison and.
But Governor Walls, the fraud continued to increase.
It increased under your tenure.
Do you acknowledge that?
Did the numbers increase?
Yes.
Your takeaway from that?
Yes, of course the numbers increased.
We saw organizations such as some of the autism centers.
where you saw payments to Medicaid going up by 500 times over the course of his administration.
There were not 500 times more autism patients during that period, but that's what was being paid out.
I mean, this is so over the top, it's really hard to wrap your head around how egregious this was.
And again, the administration knew about it.
They didn't do anything.
They went after whistleblowers, and we're paying for it.
I'm glad to see that Governor Wallace isn't running for reelection because somebody who is that flagrantly corrupt shouldn't be in any elected office.
But second of all, I think what we want to see, and we're going to continue doing this work, we're not done yet.
Is I'd like to see prosecutions even more than we've seen now.
About 100 people have been indicted so far.
This was far, far bigger than that.
I mean, you had open markets where different members of the community were trying to see which autism center they could get bigger kickbacks from.
I mean, this is so much deeper than just what we were able to get into in a short hearing one day.
So what I'd like to see is I'd like to see people go into jail, and I think that's what the American people want to see.
You bet it's what the American people want to see.
Absolutely.
A lot of people are going to have to go to jail over this.
And I'll tell you, if Keith Ellison and Timmy Walls as the committee. concluded, in fact, deliberately looked the other way because there were political opportunities for them to do so, as in political funds for their campaigns, then boy, oh boy, oh boy, do we have a problem, ladies and gentlemen.
A huge, huge problem.
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Ilhan Omar has been humiliated.
Okay, just humiliated.
I don't know if you guys saw this last night, but it was pretty epic.
Epic because, you know, she deserves it.
So what happened?
Happened?
The House decided that they wanted to prevent the president from being able to take any kind of strike as he did on Iran.
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And so they wanted to curb his war powers.
Well, it turns out that thing didn't go through.
But it didn't stop her from trying.
Okay, here's Ilhan Omar.
Guys, watch.
Is unilaterally dragging this nation into an illegal and unjustified war with Iran.
As someone who survived the horrors of war, I know that bombs do not build peace or create stability.
Military strikes will not make us safer.
They will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos.
Every time we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction.
We know who will bear the cost of this decision innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, and young service members sent into harm's way.
The American people are exhausted by endless wars built on false promises and paid for with American and foreign lives.
Congress must reassert its constitutional authority.
I urge my colleagues to vote yes to stop U.S. involvement in another illegal forever war.
Thank you, and I yield back.
Oh, goodness.
Well, you know what?
They voted no.
They voted no.
So, sorry, Ilhan.
You know, sometimes we really question who exactly you're working for, because it doesn't really feel like us.
No, doesn't feel like us as at all at all, at all at all.
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Big news today, Christy Gnome, you know, Ice Barbie, she's out done, you're fired.
The president said, wow, this was a big, big story, a huge news development this afternoon.
And you know, some people kind of saw it coming because once Tom Holman got in there, I told you, you know, Tom's great and he's steady Eddie, and he kind of got Minneapolis and Minnesota back in shape.
It kind of just exploded in this humongous controversy, as you well know.
We don't need to rehash all that.
But there are a few other reasons why the president sought to get rid of Christine Nome today.
So again, out as head of Homeland Security, we'll talk about her successor in just a moment.
But I would point out that, again, the president had his concerns, which we'll get to.
He did say, I'm pleased to announce that the highly respected U.S. ender from the great state of Oklahoma Mark Wayne Mullen will become the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security effective March 31st.
So she's got a couple of weeks.
The current Secretary, Christy Noam, has served us well and has had spectacular results, especially on the border.
We will be moving to the special envoy of the Shield of America's, whatever that is, I guess, our new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere, as we announced, as we are announcing on Saturday in Durrell, Florida.
Okay.
So she's out.
That was quick.
And then he goes on and on about Senator Mullen.
So why is she out now, you might ask?
Well, you see, there was this little hearing yesterday, and we didn't really get into it because we had a lot going on with the fraudsters in that hearing yesterday.
But this hearing was kind of a big deal, and she didn't do so well.
I mean, it's hard, right?
Because they were just out for blood, let's be honest.
They were like, you know, sharks circling the water, and they were just out to get her.
And boy, oh boy, they did.
According to the WALL Street Journal, at the hearing, Noam told various senators that the president had signed off on a big, giant ad campaign hundreds of millions of dollars, where her picture would be everywhere.
You know, you go into an airport, you see a picture of Christy.
You, you go into anything, you see a picture of Christy.
There's like a social media campaign.
There's a television, whatever they had billboards, etc.
And it cost a lot of money.
And not only did it cost a lot of money, she hired her pr person's husband to run the campaign.
So that's a little sus.
I'm just saying.
I mean, you know, you all have your friends right, but this gets a little bit tricky.
And the next thing you know, she's on a horse, as though she's like the Marlboro Man.
And so everybody was pouncing on this.
I mean, just listen to Jamie Raskin.
Like a personal slush fund, you budgeted an astonishing $220 million for media consultant contracts so you can star in self-promoting photo shoots and lavish ad campaigns like this one of you riding horseback at Mount Rushmore.
I just want to linger on that picture.
Well, she looks great, right?
She sure looks great.
By the way, I never meant Ice Barbie to be derogatory.
I actually think it's great to be compared to a Barbie.
Who wouldn't want to be compared to a Barbie?
And she's a beautiful woman, okay?
If I do say, she's a beautiful woman.
Anyway, the problem is it can be sometimes misconstrued, right?
You know, if you're doing these beauty glamour campaigns and, well, we have things not going so well in, say, the state of Minnesota, or there are other issues.
And now you've got like a funding crisis with DHS not being operational right now.
It kind of starts to weigh on people.
And it wasn't just the Dems, right, pointing this out.
This is the part that might have really done her in because they started pushing her on who was okay with this.
Did the president sign off on the $220 million ad campaign all about Christie?
Watch.
Senator Campbell.
He said, Mr. President, here's some ads I've cut and I'm going to spend $220 million.
Running them, that he would have agreed to that.
I don't think Russ Vogt at OMB would have agreed to that.
It's something we have to defend.
I'm on the Appropriations Committee.
I mean, my research shows that you did not bid them out, that you picked, in fact, one of the people you picked, the strategy group, I'm sorry, Safe America Media was a company formed 11 days before.
You picked them, and that strategy group got most of the money, and the head of that is married to your former spokesperson.
Oh, dear.
Look, we all have friends who are qualified.
I'm not quibbling with that.
I'm just, it troubles me.
Quarter, a fifth to a quarter of a billion dollars of taxpayer money when we're scratching for every penny and we're fighting over rescission packages.
I just can't agree with Madam Secretary.
So she kind of had all sides going at her.
And that isn't great.
That's kind of a problem.
By the way, one of the things that Kennedy was pointing out there, Senator Kennedy, was that this PR company.
Somehow I missed this.
I don't know how.
Like, you know, I was traveling, you know, the last couple of weeks and Trisha McLaughlin, who I really liked.
By the way, I love Christy too.
Don't get me wrong.
And, you know, I feel bad for her.
It's unfortunate.
But apparently her spokesperson's husband was the one who got the bulk of the money for this deal.
And the spokesperson, Trisha McLaughlin, actually sort of quietly exited a couple of weeks ago.
So again, they're kind of clueing in on this, and this seems to be what the president is most upset about.
Watch.
Two of them were inaccurate.
Madam Secretary, I'll read from the notice from your agency.
Given the immediate action to significantly reduce illegal immigration and border crossings, DHS identified four companies.
Four.
Of the hundreds of thousands of companies in the United States, you identified four.
One of those is this Safe America Media company.
Where is Safe America Media headquartered?
I don't know.
I don't know either, Madam Secretary.
We can't find it, we can't find a website.
We did find an address that's registered for this company.
Do you know where that address is?
Is there a problem with this contract?
I'll tell you about it.
It's done according to the contract.
Madam Secretary, the address is registered to a political operative.
Madam Secretary, the company, and then I'll give you an opportunity to respond.
The company is registered to a political operative in Virginia.
Do you know, just by way of example, whether this company that received $143 million in taxpayer dollars has it ever done work for the government before?
I don't know.
I can't.
The answer is it has not.
And do you know why we know that?
Because it was incorporated eight days, eight days before this contract went out.
You want the American people to believe that this is all above board?
That $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before, and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative.
And of course, one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to you.
Back when you were governor of South Dakota.
The reason why I ask these questions is that this is taxpayer money.
And I presume, I don't know this for a fact, but Senator Tillis noted yesterday the way in which your agency is blocking the inspector general from 11 different investigations that it is trying to conduct.
I don't know if this happens to be one of them.
I certainly hope it is because eventually the facts will become public in this regard.
Okay.
So, yeah, I mean, in light of everything that we're dealing with in Minnesota, in light of the $80 billion estimated to have gone up in smoke thanks to fraud out in California, concerns about fraud in Ohio and in Maine, look, Massachusetts too.
Oh, and New York.
Can't forget New York.
Yeah, they just opened an investigation the other day into the Medicaid.
fraud they believe to be going down in New York.
Look, under the circumstances, it's like you got to be squeaky clean, okay?
And Donald Trump is not going to have a lot of rope for you if you're not.
I'm not saying she wasn't, but it doesn't look great, right?
Like it just doesn't look good.
Again, here is the story.
I believe this one, or this is in Fox News.
DHS defends McLaughlin after allegations her husband's company profited from this ad.
They're saying, no, that's not true.
That's ridiculous, totally baseless.
All right.
Well, then there's another issue going on, okay?
And I hate to bring this up because I like both these guys, but it became a bit of a spectacle in yesterday's hearing as well.
It was really unfortunate to see, but she didn't fully deny this alleged relationship with one Corey Lewandowski.
I don't know.
I don't really care.
But for some reason, the Democrat attacking her made this a big line of questioning, and I want you to see the results.
Fireworks.
You've called Corey Lewandowski a special government employee.
I understand what government means.
I understand what employee means.
Okay.
But I don't know what makes him special.
Now, I want to give you an opportunity to answer on the record to Ms. Cam Lager Dove's question.
I know you said it's garbage, and it may be, but I really think you need to say the word no into the record so that you can clear that up.
I think the ridiculousness of this and the tabloids that you are quoting and referencing are insane.
And this has been something that I've refuted for years, and I continue to do that.
So, what I would tell you is what you're doing.
We can move on.
Hold on.
We can move on.
I'm not going to belabor it.
This is what you do.
Hold on.
I'm not doing anything.
The liberal left is you go off and you attack conservative women and you say that we're either stupid or sluts.
That's what you do.
I will tell you, sir.
You were asked by Richard Blumenthal yesterday if Corey was involved in approving contracts.
You said no.
Do you want to correct that?
What I would say is that he, as an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, has no decision to make.
You want to correct it?
Yes or no?
You don't want to correct it?
Fine.
Hold on.
Not a problem.
According to one of the FEMA administrators that you fired, there is nothing, including contracts, that is brought to you that he hasn't reviewed.
In fact, a significant amount of DHS internal routing documents has his signature on it above deputy secretaries.
Okay?
That former FEMA administrator wasn't fired by you, the secretary.
He was fired by Corey.
It was Corey that called him into your office.
It was Corey that made him submit to a polygraph test.
The $100,000 spending rule that you created that comes to your desk, you're not even sitting at your desk.
It's Corey who's sitting there.
ISIS said the Republicans should be happy at the job that you're doing.
Really?
You're looking at the person who single handedly took the president's signature core issue, immigration, the issue that got him elected from 59% to 39%.
200 miles of border walls being held up by you.
They had to bring in Tom Holman, pull out of Minnesota.
I think the country needs a national divorce from you on biblical grounds.
I mean, if Donald Trump was still a pretext to Trump, he would look at you and he would realize you're the weakest cabinet member and he would fire you.
And if the president said to you that only way DHS could reopen is if you resigned, I hope you would take him up on it.
Now, I want to end on a happy note, Mr. Chairman, real quick.
Quickly.
Okay, this just makes me wish he kept her.
Like, what a little schmuck that guy is.
So, Corey Landowski, according to the Wall Street Journal, he had a pretty heated conversation with the president last night.
Following that testimony, according to the White House, she'd apparently lost the confidence of pretty much everyone in the senior aid department.
So, I'm thinking like Susie Wiles and maybe JD, et cetera.
They were sort of left totally baffled by.
Her management skills or her lack of management skills, but perhaps most especially by her empowerment of one Mr. Lewandowski.