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Back to episode — Episode 3055 CWSA 12/27/25

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pped and the percent who said the economy is improving jumped 25 points from 37 to 62 while pessimism plummeted from 56 to 33. So the allegation here is that the mainstream media has to hide the truth because the truth would tell people that the economy is doing well. Maybe, maybe. The other possibility is that the Democrats have some data of their own. And since most data is fake, even if you ag…

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there have been allegations that the Somalis especially have been stealing mass amounts of money. And I guess he was trying to figure out how hard it would be to spot the frauds. And the answer is it is alarmingly easy.

So he went to a number of places that alleged that they were taking government money and using it for charitable reasons and almost every one of them was a storefront or an empty store and very obviously not in the business of helping anybody. So the shocking part is that he alleges he found $110 million in one day of what looked like fraudulent money transfers to fraudulent fake entities. And if he could do it with just his microphone and his camera and a plane ticket, how hard was it for Minnesota itself to know that that was going on?

If you could uncover it that easily and it's — I'm not adding to the story that the fraud exists, that part we knew. What he added to the story is that anybody could have seen it. It was just right out in the open. I mean, you had to ask a couple questions and walk around a little bit, but you didn't have to be like Sherlock Holmes. It was right there.

So Elon Musk commented on that video with just three words. "Prosecute Governor Tim Walz." Four wor

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ds. Now, do you think that you could prosecute the governor or that if you looked into it, you would find evidence so you could because there's no way to believe that he was unaware? Well, here's the weird thing. Governor Walz does not have obvious signs of wealth, does he? Does it look like he made millions of dollars? Because he doesn't live any kind of a lifestyle as far as we know that would…

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