A 205-page House report alleges Keith Ellison and Tim Walz knew about Minnesota's massive fraud schemes years earlier than they publicly claimed.
An examination of voter rolls from every county in New Jersey has revealed that many noncitizens had been registered as Democrats despite not being allowed to vote […]
Gregory Bovino, the former Border Patrol commander-at-large who led President Donald Trump's immigration crackdowns in major cities, including Minneapolis, launched a 2028 presidential exploratory committee, positioning himself to challenge Trump's publicly backed Vance-Rubio ticket. Bovino accused Trump of going soft on immigration, stating, "If I were President, I'd lead that [deportation] effort from the front and be on the front lines from time to time," reports The Daily Beast.Bovino's campaign website slogan reads "House Bovino — Men Fight Back," and describes immigrants as "foreign hordes."His candidacy carries significant baggage. Bovino was fired in January after federal agents under his command shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) criticized his appearance Davos, suggesting Bovino "literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb," referring to the long dark coat he wore, reports The Hill. Bovino later attended a far-right "Remigration Summit" in Portugal alongside organizers invoking Weimar Republic mass deportation models. The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin dismissed Bovino as irrelevant. Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
President Donald Trump told reporters he had a meeting locked in with the biggest names in artificial intelligence to discuss the government taking ownership stakes in their companies. There was just one problem — nobody had told the companies.Leading AI companies were "blindsided" by Trump's announcement Friday that he planned to meet with "all the big" firms about taking "pieces" of their companies, "possibly as soon as next week," three sources told NOTUS."I actually have a meeting scheduled in the very short, in the very near future, with — did you know that? — all of the companies," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. "And we're talking about it, where the American people can benefit from the success of AI."The executives learned about the meeting from the president's public comments, not from the White House, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. As of Monday afternoon, the administration had provided no details on timing or location.Trump framed the idea in populist terms. "There's something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public," he said. "It would be a beautiful thing."But the proposal — which would rank among the most consequential federal interventions in the private sector in modern history — has drawn sharp pushback, including from within Trump's own party.When Trump took a 10% stake in Intel in August 2025, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) fired back on X: "If socialism is government owning the means of production, wouldn't the government owning part of Intel be a step toward socialism? Terrible idea."Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told CBS: "For so many of my self-described true conservatives, you're going to have to explain to me how this reconciles with true conservatism and true free-market capitalism. I don't see it."Even Trump's former AI czar, David Sacks, pushed back against the idea. "Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we're already sliding toward," Sacks wrote on X. "America won't win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S."OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first pitched the idea of giving Trump shares in his company in early 2025, NOTUS reported. But Anthropic — now the world's most valuable AI company at a $965 billion valuation — had not yet discussed the concept as of last week, according to a fourth source. Spokespeople for OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, and Google all declined to comment.
President Trump on Monday formally nominated Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to fill the role permanently, tapping his former personal criminal defense attorney to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ). Blanche, previously the No. 2 at the DOJ, has led the department for the last two months after Trump fired former Attorney General Pam Bondi.…
Republican members of Congress are accusing Minnesota Democrats of knowing about massive fraud in the state and looking the other way.On Monday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report on fraud scams in Minnesota.The report claims that top Democratic officials knew about the scams as far back as 2019."It's always worse than we thought," reads a statement from the committee. "Democrat-run Minnesota knew about rampant fraud since 2019. State officials failed to act. $9 billion was stolen from taxpayers."The report said billions of dollars were potentially paid out to fraudsters while Minnesota Democrats like Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison did nothing to stop the scams."The report includes testimony and documents obtained by the Committee showing that Minnesota state leaders consistently failed to address known fraud concerns and retaliated against state employees who sought to protect taxpayer funds, allowing criminal schemes to flourish and diverting critical resources from vulnerable Americans," reads the press release announcing the report.The report claims that top Democratic officials knew about the scams as far back as 2019.Rather than trying to stop the fraud, Democrats allegedly allowed the scams to continue in order to avoid the possibility of litigation as well as discrimination claims. The report also accused Walz of retaliating against whistleblowers who alerted officials about the fraud.The committee called on Vice President JD Vance to fully review social services programs in Minnesota. Vance is heading up the president's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.RELATED: Tim Walz says Minnesota is 'at war' with the federal government after fatal ICE shooting Blaze News' requests for comment to the governor's office and the attorney general's office were not immediately answered.House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York was asked by reporters to respond to the accusations, and he refused to address them directly. "House Republicans are not serious about rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the United States of America," he said. "You know why? Because the biggest fraud being perpetrated on the people of this country right now is coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
In a quiet Washington suburb, a married couple thought they were raising their three children in a safe and supportive community. Instead, they say they found themselves locked in a years-long battle with school officials and state policies over their daughter's gender identity. The couple spoke anonymously to Heywire News.According to the parents, their 10-year-old daughter was assigned one of her elementary school therapists after she reportedly spoke to a classmate about harming herself. Over the next few months, the parents were left in the dark by the school, not receiving any information on their daughter's progress, they claimed. 'The school was hiding things from us, the teacher was hiding things from us.'One day, the therapist finally informed the parents, but it was not what they expected to hear. "[The therapist] was using male pronouns and a different name to explain to me that our daughter wanted to come out to us as a boy, and she was giving us a few days to process this," the mother said.According to Washington state law, all school districts must adopt a policy that prevents employees from disclosing "a student's transgender or gender nonconforming status to ... the student's parents" unless the student consents.Traumatized by the news and worried for their daughter's future, the parents decided on homeschooling. Years later, she returned to school as a high school freshman.RELATED: Librarian refuses to move LGBTQ+ propaganda away from kids — and seals her fate The choice to allow the girl to attend public school again would only end up worsening the situation. “The school was hiding things from us, the teacher was hiding things from us. … There were other students that were working against us,” the mother said. A staff member in an after-school program even provided the girl with a burner phone and set up a host family so that she could run away from home, the parents claimed.“They had devised a plan for her to run away. Adults planning with the child to take them from the parents. And hide them and allow the state to control them,” the father exclaimed to Heywire on the brink of tears.Since Washington state law allows minors seeking gender-related treatment to remain in a licensed youth shelter for up to 90 days without parental permission, the father decided to uproot his family and move across the country to the East Coast in fear of losing control of his daughter. “The state can house your child, not divulge any details as to their location, physical health, mental health. You’re essentially separated from your child, and the state knows where they are, but the parents don’t. That was the primary concern,” the father explained.He added, “There’s a lot of kids that we know and families that we know that have been torn apart by this. Not only in our neighborhood, but in the county, in the state. I mean we're not a one-off here. This has become pervasive."Vicki Murray, the director of the Center for Education at the Washington Policy Center, focuses her research on school choice and parental rights in education. In a statement to Blaze News, Murray said, "When there is a real concern about a student's safety, mandatory reporting and child welfare protocols are the appropriate mechanism — not a blanket policy of withholding information from parents. ... Outside of documented safety concerns, the default should be transparency with parents."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
The scandal that has rocked Minnesota politics just got even worse. The post Confirmed: Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison Knew FOR 6 YEARS of Rampant Minnesota Fraud But Said Nothing in Order to ‘Keep Somali Votes’ appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Conservative columnist Bill Kristol wants the Senate confirmation of Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s stated nominee for U.S. attorney general, to become a referendum on the administration’s handling of the Epstein files — tying Blanche directly to the “coverup” he says Trump rewarded him for managing.Writing at The Bulwark, Kristol calls Blanche “the prime orchestrator and key executor of the Trump administration’s Jeffrey Epstein coverup.” He argues that the senators’ vote on Blanche “should become” a vote on Epstein, and sees the confirmation process as “a chance to force a real public debate, with real Senate votes, on the Epstein coverup.” Kristol points to Bondi’s testimony that Blanche “was leading the Epstein matter and the release of everything from the beginning” and supervised the “entire process” of how the files were handled. He also calls Blanche “the most visible public defender of the coverup, and of the decision not to investigate or prosecute anyone else for crimes.”Blanche has worked to bury the Epstein files, Kristol argues. While still deputy attorney general, he told Fox News, “And so I think that to the extent that the Epstein files was a part of the past year of this Justice Department, it should not be a part of anything going forward.” Kristol says the “Epstein coverup should be part, a key part, of one thing going forward: It should be a key part of the upcoming debate on Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general. The Blanche confirmation fight can bring the Epstein coverup back into the spotlight this summer.”In February, when Blanche was asked by Fox News’ Laura Ingraham whether there was “any chance that any of these individuals who partied with Epstein and engaged in relations with minors” would be prosecuted, Blanche responded, “I’ll never say no, and we will always investigate any evidence of misconduct, but as you know, it is not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.”“And some of these men may have done horrible things, and if we have evidence that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will,” Blanche continued. “But it’s also the kind of thing that the American people need to understand that it isn’t a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.” Kristol latches on to that remark and repeats it, before writing that the DOJ “could now be following up on the testimony of scores of survivors to finally, properly investigate those crimes and their perpetrators. But Blanche’s Justice Department hasn’t even pretended to be seeking further evidence.”He accuses Blanche’s DOJ of having “no interest at all in investigating or prosecuting the men who have done truly horrible things. After all, ‘it isn’t a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.'”