The Harry Sisson Show - OMG: Trump State Fair Crime Just Leaked

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

Harry Sisson breaks down the bombshell report on Trump's state fair and the Freedom 250 company.

All right, folks, this is incredibly important, and I think you should know about it. Democrats are now dropping everything they know about Donald Trump's Freedom 250 company and the state fair he's holding right now in Washington, D.C., which, of course, has been a total flop. And surprise, surprise, there's allegations of corruption, there's allegations of wire fraud, all of this taking place behind the scenes to protect Donald Trump and his wealthy buddies. And what you're about to hear is the product of a year-long investigation into Freedom 250, and it's been taking place secretly behind the scenes without a lot of media attention, and now Democrats are dropping the bomb on Donald Trump, and I think you should hear it.

So we're going to walk through everything we know step by step, and of course we're going to hear from the congressman leading the charge. But I want to just point out before we get into any of this, that this is not surprising. The incompetence of Trump and the people behind this fair are not surprising. I mean, we just got this footage earlier today of a set, literally falling apart, almost injuring people on stage because of how poorly this. thing has been built. The construction at the event is shoddy. And of course, don't forget about the terrible attendance. Even Fox News can't hide it anymore. They are broadcasting in front of

the state fair, in front of the open grass. And look, they can say there's thousands of people here. They can try to gaslight us into not believing our own eyes, but we can see a lot of empty grass behind Fox News as they are broadcasting live. So when we're talking about these allegations being made and the incompetence of everything, it's not exactly surprising to me. And point I want to make just before we get into the video the congressman dropped. Donors were misled by Trump-backed Freedom 250. House Democrats are alleging as part of this report. Some donors who intended to give money to a bipartisan effort to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary were instead steered to a White House-backed initiative under false pretenses, House Democrats have alleged

in a report released Thursday morning citing whistleblower interviews and newly obtained documents that have been leaked. The donors meant to give money to America 250, a congressionally charted initiative to celebrate the nation's semi-quincennial, according to Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee. They instead were giving routing and an account number that directed their funds to Freedom 250, which Donald Trump established last year to organize anniversary events. The report does not identify the donors in interviews Democrats said they needed to protect the identity of whistleblowers who worked with the panel,

but they said their report, which includes other allegations of Freedom 250 officials, and allies explicitly steering money away from America 250 and toward projects shaped by Donald Trump shows how the president transformed a bipartisan celebration of the nation's anniversary into an initiative that benefited him and his allies. And of course, Freedom 250 have been asked about this, the White House have been asked about this, and they're pretty tight-lipped. But Freedom 250 is saying that the report is nothing more than a partisan smear from politicians who would rather manufacture division than celebrate America's 250th birthday. No, actually not. This report is a comprehensive detailed analysis of allegations of crimes against the administration surrounding America 250. And that's what Representative Jared Huffman breaks down in this video. So let's take a look at what he has to say. It is pretty shocking stuff.

I'm Congressman Jared Huffman. I lead the Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee. We spent the past year trying to uncover the truth about what happened. And I want to walk you through exactly what we've found. So how did this private company end up running America's official 250th celebration, siphoning off millions of taxpayer dollars and harvesting Americans' personal data? Let's start at the beginning. In 2016, Congress did something rare. Republicans and Democrats came together and created a commission called America 250 to plan the 250th. They built it to be nonpartisan on purpose, so no president could ever make the country's birthday his own. The America 250 Commission was well underway to honor the anniversary with expertly planned

festivals, activities, and unifying events to celebrate our country and its founding. Then Donald Trump decided he wanted something different. He wanted a party he could use for his own personal, political, and financial gain. So first, he tried to take over America 250. His appointee to the Commission teamed up with the Speaker of the House in an attempt to push four commissioners out of their seats and replace them with MAGA loyalists. When that didn't work, Trump created his own shadow entity to circumvent and supplant America 250. They call it Freedom 250. On paper, it's a shell company registered in Delaware through the same anonymous vendor the president uses for his other businesses. But this LLC is different. It was lodged in the

the National Park Foundation, the charity that's funded our National Parks for 50 years. Think about why you'd do that. As part of a charity, the LLC could take in huge sums of money without ever naming who or where it came from. This arrangement lets them sell access to the president, collect checks from anyone willing to pay, and keep every donor's name secret, all under the banner of a trusted American institution, the National Parks Foundation. Then they starved America 250. Congress had set aside $150 million to celebrate our 250th. The America 250 commission was promised $100 million of that funding.

But in November of 2025, the White House told the America 250 chairwoman she would only get $50 million. And in the months that followed, they whittled it down to just $25 million. The rest of the money was taken by Freedom 250. Between this and other redirected funds, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are now unaccounted for. Now follow the money, because this is where it gets worse. Freedom 250 went after the real commission's corporate sponsors, not just donations, but a quid pro quo of access to Trump in exchange for cash. Lockheed market, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, MasterCard, United Airlines, United Health.

Most of these corporations are lobbying and trying to win contracts from the same government that's now selling them special access. And as they wrote their checks to Freedom 250, the president was trading their stocks and posting their ticker symbols online to juice their values. Trump's cronies were then deployed across the globe to solicit money from foreign governments. The CEO of Freedom 250 flew to Davos, stood in front of a room of foreign governments and asked them, in his word, how they wanted to shape America's birthday.

Foreign governments shaping our 250th. He called it marketing freedom. According to a whistleblower, not everyone who donated money to Freedom 250 knew that's what they were doing. Fundraisers misled donors who intended to support the America 250 commission by giving them Freedom 250's banking information.

And through this bait and switch, contributions meant for the nonpartisan Birthday Foundation were routed to Trump's Shadow Corporation instead. This is potential wire fraud. And Freedom 250 has been collecting more than money. Its website runs through a company owned by Brad Parcali, the president's longtime digital strategist. Every American who signs up for a free event,

even the families who registered for the World Cup fan zone on the national mall, hands over a name, a location, and a phone number that feeds straight into a political operation, built to profile and target voters. Americans just wanting to celebrate our nation's 250th birthday are unknowingly signing up to potentially have their data harvested and added to Trump's campaign operation.

While Trump and Freedom 250 are pretending this celebration is about America's history, they've been forcing public servants across the country to erase our country's real story from parks and public spaces. Park Rangers were given marching orders to take down factual signs about slavery, climate change, and the forced removal of Native Americans. And in their place, Trump and his political allies have been pushing their sanitized and distorted version of history. They paid out $10 million taxpayer dollars for a fleet of trucks running Prager You videos

and an AI-generated George Washington that tells school kids that their rights are a gift from God. something the real Washington never said. They're parading these proselytizing propaganda trucks in front of schools on your dime. They've turned what should be a non-political unifying celebration of America's 250th into a right-wing Christian battering ram aimed at breaking down what Thomas Jefferson called the wall of separation between church and state, enshrining their extreme version of Christianity as our de facto national religion. This agenda is not subtle.

It fuses white Christian supremacist identity with history revisionism, insisting the nation's founding, its laws, and our fundamental rights are rooted in the Christian Bible rather than the revolutionary principle of self-government. I mean, this is stunning. Like, it is stunning in the sense of how wrong it is, but not stunning in the sense that it's Donald Trump doing it, Because it's entirely believable and predictable, I would argue, that Trump would take something so good,

America's 250th anniversary, that we all should be celebrating. Realistically, we all love the United States. Democrats, I always argue, are the most patriotic people in the country. He took something so good and mangled it, as he does with everything. I mean, we talked about different examples on the show of this, when he went to the Knicks game, ruined it for everybody who wanted to go, wanted to watch the game outside the stadium. He ruined it for them.

And now he's also ruining things like, America's 250. And it's not just that. It's not just, oh, they put on a crappy event, the state fair sucked, right? That's bad enough. They're not only putting on crappy events. They're stealing our information and wiring at, I should say, lying to donors to get them to wire money to Donald Trump's operation as opposed to the congressionally authorized America 250. Look, you know, we can't say that a crime has been committed definitively because, you know, Trump, maybe he has a problem with that. Maybe he'd say, oh, we're going to sue you.

But this doesn't sound good. It has a lot of elements of fraud, wire fraud, and just crimes across the board. So I wanted to bring this report to you. And there's so much more to it. You can find the Democrats' full report online if you wanted to dive into it and read it word for word, which I would recommend. It's great.

They've done a lot of good work here. But wow, the amount of corruption in this country under Donald Trump and his cronies is revolting. It is sickening. It makes me want puk. Anyway, I will leave the video there. Just had to bring this to you. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comments. Let me know what you think about everything we just went through. Have an amazing rest of your day and we will talk soon.