The DeVory Darkins Show - DOJ drops MAJOR WARNING for Fraudsters as Democrats admit failure

Episode Date: May 24, 2026

DOJ drops MAJOR WARNING for Fraudsters as Democrats admit failure. This comes after 15 more fraudsters have been arrested. Also, Spencer Pratt's CNN interview goes viral. And the DNC finally admits out loud why they lost by a landslide.EPISODE SPONSOR: Go to http://kalshi.com/devory and get a $10 credit to trade on any market of your choosing! FOLLOW ME:⁠https://www.x.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.rumble.com/c/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://devory.wtf.tv⁠BUY ME A COFFEE:⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/devorydarkins⁠SHOP OUR MERCH STORE:⁠https://store.devorydarkins.com⁠BUSINESS INQUIRIES:⁠[e-mail]⁠

DOJ just issued a huge announcement regarding fraud. They've arrested 15 more individuals out of Minnesota. Spencer Pratt sat down for an interview with CNN, and that has gone viral. And finally, the Democrats admit why they lost the 2024 election. Let's start with this announcement from the DOJ. Take a listen. The Justice Department announcing charges against 15 people for allegedly defrauding Minnesota health care programs out of a total of $90 million.

dollars. That announcement comes shortly after the so-called mastermind of the feeding our future fraud scandal was sentenced today to decades in prison. Correspondent Rich McHugh is live in Minneapolis. You were at that press conference. You asked several questions. You also caught up with Dr. Oz. Yeah, hi, Nicole. There's a lot going on in Minnesota today. For those of us that have been paying attention and reporting on this story, this was a big one. As you mentioned, they announced arrest or one of them is actually on the run, but 15 individuals who stole $90 million. He said they said they treated Minnesota as their piggy bank. That was assistant attorney general Colin McDonald. Okay, a couple of things. When someone steals $243 million, yeah, that person

should probably go to prison for 40 years. I think that is fair. Okay. Secondly, now that they're arresting, more people just shows you that what we were exposed to a few months back regarding fraud is nothing. There's so much more to come. And this is exactly what you'd want your tax dollars being spent on cracking down on fraud. So this is a big win, a big announcement, and hopefully we hear more of this as we continue here, or the DOJ continues with their investigation, and hopefully we hear that coming out of California as well. The 15 arrest today, denning $90 million is a very important symbol because it's a shot across the bow, and we've all going to say this in our different ways, but I'm telling you if you're a fraudster, do not walk away from this press conference, run, because we are coming

after you. We have lots of weapons to be able to use in order to accomplish that. The kinds of reprehensible behavior that we've identified with individuals, bribing parents to lie that their children have autism will carry that diagnosis for the rest of their lives. As a physician, that bothers me to my core. Not only are we selling our licenses as doctors when we allow this to happen, we're selling our souls, and there were doctors involved in some of these issues as well.

It's rampant failure of this program is addressable, but we've got to be able to deal with it from within. There's a whistleblower. Her first name is Faye. She's on Capitol Hill today, testifying, I believe. But she's spoken to me about the fact that there was a general fear within the health agency here of being called the racist. A fear that you'd be politically inappropriate, politically incorrect. And that's fear is what stifled much of the action that should have taken years ago, taking place in an effort to prevent why we're here today. Now, he touched on two points that I want to cover. The first point is what he said.

There was a culture that nobody should criticize the Somalia community, even if they come across fraud, because you would be looked at as a bigot or a racist. So put that there. Secondly, you now have people claim that him knocking on doors is threatening people, it's causing people to live in fear, and that he has put businesses out of business essentially because of his false reporting.

So let me get this straight. When we have results that show that the fraud has exceeded $1 billion, you're blaming people like Nick Shirley and you're trying to protect the criminals because you think it's racist by exposing corruption, that's a totally different planet. I have no interest in living in that planet. It was still some good investigative journalism.

On Nick Shirley's part? That's the guy that exposed everything in Minnesota, right? I wouldn't say he exposed everything. I mean, he did, or didn't he expose the whole Minnesota? This is the dude. I'm going to make confusing people. No, no, no, because I think you might be confusing the fact that in Minnesota, the stuff that he was talking about was already being investigated.

So he just amplified. He just amplified it. And he also incorrectly amplified it because this dude, because he's not a journalist, doesn't know, like, protocols, doesn't know what to do. So then this dude also just shows up as. daycare and it's like, let me in with a camera. It's like, they were like, no. And they're like, well, you must be doing fraud. It's like, no, you are a grown man with a camera that wants to come in. Yeah. No, that's crazy. Yeah, that's what some people think about what Nick Shirley did.

And the unfortunate part, they missed the whole point of it. The fact of the matter is he never demanded to go into any buildings. They can't show you a video clip of that. This is a guy who didn't even watch the actual videos, of course, but they always have something to say about it. The bottom line is Nick Shirley did what the local affiliates were doing already. The local affiliates were already knocking on doors. He knocked on the same doors. The difference is he had a social media following versus the local affiliates did not. But he won't tell you that, obviously.

Okay. Let's get back to the DOJ because here is what the assistant attorney general had to say about this. This is Mr. McDonald. Take a listen. Today, we are announcing criminal charges against 50s. defendants in Minnesota for fraud schemes that targeted over 90 million in taxpayer dollars. Let me be clear up front about something. This is not the end of our work in Minnesota.

This is not the end of the beginning of our work in Minnesota. This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota. The fraud here in Minnesota is shocking. Our cases today involve seven different state-managed Medicaid programs that have been systematically pilfered by fraudsters who treated Minnesota-run programs as their personal piggy bank. One of the programs has been completely shut down because there's no money left. It's all gone. Again, I'm still kind of stunned at this reaction to Nick Shirley because I'm like, okay, so your definitive conclusion is he amplified it in the wrong way. Okay. Based on these recent announcements, these arrests, national attention that has sped up the process, more resources that's been dedicated to Rudy not fraud, I guess he did it the wrong way.

See, this is the problem with people who lean left. They wave their finger and say, you're not doing. this right. You're not saying this right. You shouldn't do this. You shouldn't do that. But what have they been doing? They haven't been a part of the solution at all. That's the thing about politics. Everybody has an opinion, but most people are not actively doing something to obviously solve the issues that they care about. Okay, I'll tell you someone who is, obviously, this is a perfect segue, Spencer Pratt, not a career politician, but he decided to get off his couch and be a part of the process. And now, as a result of that, he's gained a lot of momentum and people might actually think

he may win. Well, I think it's easy to say that and to feel that way based on his latest interview with CNN, which is what we're going to get into. So let's kick this off with the first clip that I felt was really good. Watch this. When I was a hated reality star, I got so many death threats. I had so much security and police. And what did they tell me to do? Get a gun. This is real. I know people don't like guns, but LA was dangerous if you're hated. So I got a gun. And then we needed CCWs. The only people that supported the CCW was the Republican. That was what I aligned with my safety, my personal safety, my family's safety. All right, so let's check in on the status of the mayoral race here and they still have Karen Bass at 66%. Can you believe it? This is calci.com,

by the way, prediction market. If you guys want to check out Kalshi for yourself, you can get a $10 credit on your first $100 by using my promo code DeVore. That's Kofi.com 4 slash DeVore or scan the QR code on the screen. So 66% Karen Bass, 27% Spencer Pratt, and Rahman comes in at 8.7. She's falling off a clip, by the way, council member. I'm telling you, this is an IQ test for our politics. Okay, so this interview with CNN is exactly what Karen Bass just went through. The difference is she had to try her best to defend her failed record. Maybe she had perfect intentions. Maybe she really cares. But the problem, and in my own personal opinion here, I might be biased on the issue here. I think the cardinal rule that

she broke is she wasn't there when the city needed her most. So I'm not too sure how she could ever recover from that politically. But at any rate, so CNN turns around and does this interview with Spencer Pratt, and he just knocks it out of the park. Let me show you another example that watched this. Who is your political role model? Jesus Christ. Okay, I mean, that's what. He was a politician.

He had to go in and speak. Are there any modern politicians that you're especially studying or drawn to? No, I'm not a politician. I want to be a fighter for the people. But you've mentioned, though, that. Obama, yeah, I'm most similar to Obama. Okay. And I know the view lady said I don't have a law.

degree so I'm going to work on that online in the next before November I probably can get one you know do the baby bar but as you've pointed out that you know as mayor you need a lot of advisors and help because it's a giant job in a giant city and you don't have as much managerial experience of a city and you've said that you've talked with a lot of different potential advisors who are willing to come on board with you but don't want to say so publicly because of fears about their own safety is there anybody though that that names that you can get us or the type of people that you're talking to to get a better sense of what a Pratt administration would actually look like.

Well, first, let's rewind to what Mayor Bass's past experience running a city when she got elected. Right. All she ever did was name a post office. So this idea that she came from... She'd been the Speaker of the Assembly. She'd run the Community Coalition, and she'd been a Congress member and chair of the congressional black conference. None of that connects to managing running a city.

Right. She'd never run a city. Thank you. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. So if we're doing like, who knows how to yell at the time? the LADWP for having two reservoirs empty, I am going to be better at that. And then she clearly...

Now, imagine a world where you live in, where you can't even say that you're going to be a part of a potential Pratt administration because of fear of being targeted. I mean, that's what's broken in our society. And it's a shame. It should be that way, obviously. Secondly, his comment about Jesus, I'm assuming he really meant it. And I think that is the right answer overall. but obviously I'm biased. I am a Christian. So of course I would love I'd love to hear that. I just don't think there's anything negative by

you know professing your relationship with Jesus Christ for some reason in society that seems to be the worst thing a person could do based on what the internet says. But as we know, the internet is not really reality, of course. And number three, the again, I have to repeat myself, right? What can Republicans learn from Spencer Pride? What, Can politicians overall learn? Just speak like a regular human being. I think that's fair to say. Let's go to this next clip. Mayor Bass lied on the debate.

The amount of firefighters that message me and said, I showed up to my station, left my family, and when I wasn't even working, and we didn't have kit, we didn't have gear, we just couldn't even respond. So she just, it's actually scary, you know, these politicians, how they can just, I don't, I honestly am to the point where maybe they don't know the truth. And so it's not lying.

Nobody tells them the truth because they just, you know, let's give her the benefit out. Maybe she has no clue about the truth. So those aren't lies. She just doesn't know everything she's saying is a lie. And for the record, Bass says that she did not fire Crowley because of retaliation. She says it was for job performance. That's her perspective.

That'll be litigated in court. I think at this point it's safe to say most people understand who Spencer Pratt is. He's authentic. He's the type of person you want running for office who can communicate issues like. a basic human being can and not a career politician. I think that's fair to say. And he's not someone that you're really going to find filled with a bunch of hypocrisies like Karen Bass,

which takes us to this update, where she was getting interviewed by Politico, and she was asked point blank, do you believe non-citizens should be able to vote in elections that are in the local area of Los Angeles? Listen to her answer. Councilmember Hugo Sotom Martinez, who has endorsed you. He wants to explore ways to let non-citizens vote in city elections.

I know that there are some cities that already do this, but politics is all about timing. With Donald Trump in the White House, is this the right time for Los Angeles to go down this path? Well, I think we need to explore it. Now, I've not seen exactly what he's calling for. I have a little familiarity of what happens in other cities. And for example, some cities will allow people to vote in like city council and school board elections because they pay local taxes. But they are not necessarily undocumented. They might be here completely legally, but have not finished the citizenship process.

So we'll wait and see. Now, the interesting thing about this particular update is she's lying at this point. it's the hypocrisy, the lack of consistency, not being who you truly are and what you truly believe in. Just stand on principle. If you believe non-citizens should vote in our elections, you should just say that. But see, she has a problem. She's in the middle. That's the worst position to be in, technically, when you're running for office because your message isn't clear.

And let me show you an example of that. If we go back to the debate between her, Pratt, and Rahman, here's what she says. when she was asked about non-citizens being able to vote in the election. Take a look. This is a yes or no question and answer. So there's an L.A. Council member he wants voters to decide. He is saying that non-citizens should they be allowed to vote in local elections. Is this a yes or no?

Mr. Pratt? No. Mayor Bass. It depends. It's not a yes or no. Depends on what? Well, first of all, when you say non-citizens, it doesn't mean they're illegal. It doesn't mean they're undocumented.

They could have green cards. They could be here perfectly legal. And there's a lot of states and cities that do that on very, very local elections. We have to see what the councilman is proposing. Council Member Bremen. Yeah, I would say, again, it does depend. In other places, school boards have non-citizens. Yes, I know.

Mr. Fred, I have a question for you. You told NBC News. You see, that's the worst position to be in as a politician. I mean, you got to have a clear message. It's sales one-on-one. If you're confusing your prospect or you're confusing the voter, they're probably not going to be likely to vote for you, if that makes sense. So I just want to kind of cap this story off with those two clips for you. Let's move to our next update.

Democrats have now come out publicly. And finally, admit it what we've always known, that they are a party who is truly disconnected with reality. And that was one of the main reasons they lost the 2024 election. And so this is becoming news because the DNC, finally admitted all of that publicly in their autopsy, as they like to call it. Listen to this. We've obtained the Democratic National Committee's so-called autopsy report examining Kamala Harris's 2024 election loss to Donald Trump after President Biden ended his campaign. The document finds the party has steadily lost ground since President Obama's successes and blames the former Biden

campaign and the White House for failing to set Harris up for success. The DNC report, also uncovered a broader inability to define Donald Trump and criticizes the Harris campaign for taking too much for granted. It urges Democrats to shift away from identity politics and move toward a middle class appeal. That sounds really good when you hear that. A political party focusing on the middle class and quite frankly, both parties have failed. Let's be fair here. Let's not be tribal, both parties have failed. This is why a lot of people have hope in Donald Trump. Because we look at him and say, hey, maybe he's the anomaly. Maybe he's the guy who will break the system and put some pieces back together that will work for the middle class. I guess at the end

of his presidency in this second term, you guys will know whether or not he was able to do that. Bottom line, though, political parties are absolutely disconnected from voters. They're not doing anything that's in our best interests. I can give you a million reasons or a million, million examples, whether it's the Pelosi Act, which will never pass, whether it's our food system that continues to poison us, whether it's both parties protecting large corporations, particularly pharmaceutical companies and experimental pills and vaccines

that have clearly injured us, but we can't sue. I mean, I can go down the line. They're not working for us. And that's why locally, and if you really want to get engaged, encourage candidates who are not establishment approved, some outsiders. At any rate, let's go to Chuck Schumer. You guys want to know what his reaction was? I think you won't find it surprising, but here's what he said.

So this afternoon Republicans so divided, so dysfunctional, so disorganized, are fleeing Washington. Their majority can't melt down fast enough, not when Americans' financial situation is melting down every day. Republicans are in complete disarray. They're at each other's throats, and the American people are suffering for it. Republicans are divided over things that Americans don't want, but Democrats are united around things that the people do want

for us to lower their costs, rain in the chaos, fight the corruption that is endemic, to this administration. Yeah, I mean, it's no secret why he's not going to give that report any attention because he knows that it's true already. Most people already knew what the problem was, but think of this. You know, I don't know what's worse. What the report had to say about the Democrat Party or the fact that the Democrat Party

publicly couldn't admit that until what? May of 2026? That's stunning. That's an indictment on society. an indictment on the political system. You can't even be honest without being called a bigot a racist. It's just, it's insanity. It really is.

Now, this Democrat, on the other hand, I think he knew what the assignment was. Here's his reaction to it. Take a listen. The American people know that's why the election wasn't close. We had never seen anything like this in our history. Look, Joe Biden served for 50 years in Washington, right? He is an amazing legacy. And he will go down as someone who gave his entire.

life, right, to the political process and public office. But the American people saw that debate, and then they saw how we transitioned and got out of it. We were in a box at that point, and that's not what the American people wanted. And that's why we got shellacked in the last election. I mean, we lost every single solitary swing state. And so... It wasn't even close. Wasn't even close. Now, listen, now we got a whole other problem as a result of that, right? We got 18 months of the Trump administration, right? Gas prices in the mid-5 dollars. there's affordability is even worse. Inflation's even worse.

Food prices are even worse. So those very issues that were going on in the last campaign when we were talking about Bidenomics and all of that, and we were trying to tell people how to feel. Donald Trump has adopted that strategy. He's telling people how to feel in really bad economic times. And that's also not going to work for him. And so Democrats now need to be going out and telling that story,

which is he told you it was going to be better and it's worse. And this is why I've been saying over and over, politics is illogical. because everything he just said there was spot on. The president cannot continue to allow gas prices in the mid-fives and think politically, that's going to work for the Republican Party because it won't. It's the economy, stupid. Everybody knows that quote.

At the end of the day, that's what it's going to be about when this midterm elections finally come. And the interesting part is everything you would want as a Republican, has happened. If you are competitive, the congressional maps have absolutely worked in your favor. Now you've got to bring it home. And the way to do that is to focus on the basic things. So it's May 21st. The midterm elections are in November. A lot can still change between now and then. But at this point, we're looking at the watch here. We're like, hey, how long is this going to go on for? because from a political strategist point of view, it's not going to work. Now, the good news here is Democrats are in disarray.

There's no doubt about that. So, you know, they have nothing to sell the American people. So it's almost the Republicans' election to lose if the congressional maps go their way, that is. That's a key variable, by the way. But, yeah, I think it says a lot about a political party that it took them until May of 26, what is that almost a year and a half to finally admit out loud what the truth is? Yeah.

Again, I think a lot from both sides could learn from Spencer Pratt. I think they really could. Well, that's what I think about these stories. What about you? Put your thoughts in the comments section below. What did you make of the fraud announcement? New arrest. Spencer Pratt's interview and this autopsy for Democrats.

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