The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: House Moves to CENSURE Ilhan Omar After SOTU Meltdown

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

Ilhan Omar faces new challenges after even members of her own party are unable to defend her actions at the State of The Union. Trish Regan says they have no choice but to censure Ilhan and her friend Rep Rashida Tlabib. Plus, the White House just unvieled it’s “War on Fraud” and Ilhan’s Minnesota is at the center of it. Join Trish Regan for the FULL Trish Regan Show! 🔔 SUBSCRIBE and remember to hit ALL notifications ▶️ https://Youtube.com/TrishReganChannel ✅ JOIN the Team to support independent journalism: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join 📈 For financial insights, subscribe to Trish Regan's own research with The 76 Report: ▶️ https://76research.com — Use CODE: DOLLAR for special offer. ✅🔔 CHECK OUT MY NEW SPOTIFY SHOW AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL DAILY EDITIONS: https://open.spotify.com/show/2blgbg4OaN5dqFhkBy12ii?si=HPdSujPDRrapZWtxbsgAjQ&nd=1&dlsi=979e048c08c04e13 Sponsors--#ad: One Skin Get 15% off OneSkin with the code REGAN at https://www.oneskin.co/REGAN #oneskinpod https://BalanceofNature.com USE CODE TRISH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another day, another biggest story about Ilhan Omar, this time it looks like this woman is about to be censured. They're in the halls of Congress. We'll talk about what that means and how it's going to happen. Welcome to the program, everyone. I am Trishvig. And if you haven't, make sure you subscribe, share, like, make a comment. We are live at this hour. And it does look, it does appear that Ilhan Omar out of Minnesota is about to be censured.

This is what they're discussing anyway at this point in time, given her behavior. And I'll tell you, from my point of view, It needed to happen Monday night. Okay, like it needed to happen, and it's got to happen. She needs to be censured because you can't carry on like this, now can you? Give yourself not standing up. They're blocking the removal of these. Yeah, that was pretty bad.

And it's even worse now that we've learned what Rashida Talib was apparently saying, and of course, in the meantime, you have Ilhan Omar's guess that she brought with her getting hauled out of the place. Oh, she's all upset about that one. Listen, you know what? We got to, like, have some decorum. Please, some decorum. This is kind of a big event, a big night. And these people have just lost their minds. You know, they weren't supposed to do this. In fact, wasn't it, Hakeem Jeffries, who said, listen, if you really get a problem with the whole thing, like, go hold your own events. And so so many of them did. But no, no, no, these two little ladies, they had to go down there as squad members and carry on the way they did. I'll tell you, Mike Johnson didn't have any use for

at all. Centress come and watch. It was shameful, really. And I came this close to stopping them. We could have probably ejected them from the floor. But, you know, I thought, let them, let their action speak for themselves. The president handled it so well, of course. And if they'd gone a step further, we probably would have ejected them. But I think it was good for them to be there. I think it's good for the American people to see the shame that they brought upon their party and upon themselves. And what a stark contrast between them and between the Republican Party. who are standing and cheering for all these great Americans who deserve all this attention tonight, the brave law enforcement officers, military officials who received all the medals and the honors tonight,

the victims of crime. I mean, we're on the right side of common sense on law and justice, on security, and American dominance and strength. And the Democrats stand for exactly the opposite of all that. Their record shows it and their actions tonight, I think, really brought shame on their party. Yeah, we can say that again, right? total shame on the party. And I'll tell you, they shouldn't have done it. They just shouldn't have done it. I would say, here's the beauty of it all. You know, they increasingly just look

like a lunatic's out there, really and truly, like total lunatics. And this is what Hakeem Jefferies was supposed to be avoiding. It's almost like Trump drives them so bonkers that they make themselves look increasingly awful. Here's Nancy Pelosi, unable to defend. Ilhan Omar. to leave in their antics, watch. But people are also watching for the reaction of the opposition party. And your leadership warned the caucus not to have any outbursts, not to take the bait.

There was a moment where a couple of members did not, more than one member, more than one moment, but I wanted to play one of them for you when a couple did not heed that. Just watch. And enact serious penalties for Bubbs Public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens. In many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.

They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself. That was hardly noticeable in the room. No. Okay. Nancy, you've said a lot of things in your time. But that one, that might be one of the best. She's like, that was hardly noticeable in the room.

apparently. Maybe it's different on TV. Hardly noticeable. Listen, the president certainly noticed it. Everybody noticed it. The TV cameras certainly noticed it. I don't know how out to lunch you are where you don't notice it, Nancy. Let's continue. TV, hardly noticeable. And then also when he started talking about corruption, the members were saying, what about you, what about you, what about you? That was another, more of an outburst than that, actually. I don't think that there was that much, shall we say, departure from what the leader had guided us to do. Don't come if you don't want to come, but if you come, we don't want to give him a moment.

And I don't think they gave him a moment. You don't think that that was giving Trump a moment. You don't think that that was causing a ruckus, causing a scene. You heard what Mike Johnson said. They even debated taking them out. Yeah, that's how bad it was. Listen, and on top of it, you've got now allegations that Rashida was saying some really dicey stuff. This being reported, first last night in the Daily Mail, Rashida Taleb's racially charged

slur as Republicans drounded her with USA chants. So remember when the hockey players got out there and they're screaming USA, USA, USA. Well, allegedly, she said something else entirely. This is a graphic courtesy of WABC 77. Republicans are chanting USA. She's saying the words K three times. I mean, Rashida, unacceptable. Okay, just unacceptable. So I'm thinking this is going to be a double censure. You got Ilhan Omar for her nuttiness, and then you get this one for saying that kind of junk here. Let's go to the tape. I worry that my own face was covering hers, which, well, I won't say anything. But here we go. Here's a little more. Did you see that? I mean, so they're saying that this was her saying, K, three times.

Someone's writing as a black American watching to leave a non-black person chance that is pretty darn offensive, that word carries generations of terror and pain. It's not a prop for political theater. Gosh, can we say that about the Nazism and the World War II stuff and the Hitler stuff too? Like, this is not a bunch of little tools and props. You can't just throw these words around, fling them around, and think that that's A-O-K. No, it's actually very offensive to people who went through that, okay, including this person, who's a black American saying unacceptable.

Rashida Taleb. I mean, that's censoring material right then and there. That word carries generations of terror and pain. It is not a prop for political theater. This is conduct unbecoming of a member of Congress. Censure her. So this is what the outcry is about. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Taleb.

It is time to be censored. On top of which, I had to like X this out, right? Because it's not appropriate for the kids, shall we say. She's got an F-Ice button if you're looking at the screen. take a look at that. This woman is out of control, and this is what they think is somehow fine? No, they both need to be censured, and that actually has to happen soon. It has to happen now, because we actually need to look like we stand for something in the United States of America, and that we can't be overrun by these hoodlums trying to get up there and hijack the situation.

Right? I mean, not to mention the allegations against Ilhan, which we're going to get to in a second, being more than just hijacking, shall we say. They're coming out with possibly having stolen. All right, we're talking now stealing. That's the allegation against one, Ilhan Omar and all her cronies back there. Doesn't she say Kunis? All her cronies, we're going to say it the correct way in English back in Minnesota. But I would say that Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar right now are very much on the verge of getting just thrown out.

Okay, censured, they're dumb with them. You've got the Ethics Committee looking into Ilhan. We could do an entire show on Rashida and the concerns and allegations about her and where her campaign money comes from. Maybe we should do that. I will do that at some point because we've got to get into that. But anyway, let's go to the CNN's take on this. They had a New York Post reporter on who pointed out that one of the great things about Trump

is, you know, he really is like Teflon. And it's like one of his superpowers. He just has the ability to get under their skin and make them do crazy. crazy things. Like I said, they seem like total lunatics. I mean, they're just wacky people, right? And she said it. Here, here, I want to go to this reporter on CNN. I think Trump's entire speech was actually pretty unifying. I think Donald Trump's superpower is positioning himself as the common sense guy who's advocating for positions the vast majority of Americans want. And there was one moment at the beginning where he invited the

USA hockey team, and of course, the crowd went wild, chanting USA, USA, and then the camera panned to Rashida Talib, who appeared to be mouthing KKK. And then again, you had another moment where Trump says, stand up if you want to support American citizens over illegal aliens. And instead, Ilya Omar is screaming and heckling the president. And those are the best kind of sound bites and visuals that the GOP can have for the midterms, because a lot of people might not like Donald Trump and might be kind of hemming and high. And then they look at the alternative and they say, oh, well, this really angry woman, gosh, I don't know about her. So that's what Trump set out to do. Highlight the 80-20 issues. In response to his. Okay. She's right. So it is like

a little superpower he's got, he just has the ability to drive him crazy. And when you drive him crazy, they do crazy stuff. Like say the words K three times. Okay, that's pretty crazy. and deserves to be censured. And Ilhan Omar doing what she did, even after Hakeem Jeffries had said, please, please, pretty please, with a cherry on top, do not behave like some kind of reckless nut job? And yet, what did she do? She behaved like a reckless nut job because I guess she is a reckless not job.

How are we left to conclude anything else? Meanwhile, you've got all the poll numbers coming out and one by one. What are they showing us? That was a pretty darn good performance by one dollar JT, right? Trump, that was an excellent performance, so much so that the Democrats lost even more ground on the issue of immigration. Let's go to Harry Anton over at CNN. Take advantage on this issue.

And a look at the polling suggests actually, no, they're in a worse position, in a worse position than they were at this point during Donald Trump's first term. Take a look here. Trust which party more in immigration. In 2018, Democrats had an edge of about six points. You come over to this side of the screen now. Look at that. Republicans are the ones who actually have an edge on immigration. So this whole idea that Democrats are going to be able to take advantage of the immigration group,

of the immigration issue, actually doesn't bear itself out in the polling, despite everything that's been going on. In fact, Democrats are in worse position than they were during Donald Trump's first term. Yeah, maybe they don't like what Donald Trump, the president, is doing, but they don't think Democrats will do a better job. Correct. They think Democrats will do a worse job on immigration than Republicans. All right. What about border security? in general. Okay, border security in general. So this is immigration at large. What about border security? Look at this. Look at these numbers. Hello. Party trusted more on border security. Again, at this point, Trump's terms. Look at this in 2018. Republicans had a 13 point

advantage. If anything, the advantage is a little bit larger now. Republicans up by 15 points. So when you put it all together, you put immigration with border security and the idea that Democrats will be able to take the ball and run away on it, the polling data suggests no, no, no. This is actually an issue that Republicans should be. more comfortable running on than Democrats. Democrats running an immigration may actually be to the Republicans advantage. It's amazing how it all works out, huh? Oh my gosh.

I just, I can't believe it. I really can't believe it. And yet I can because, you know, stranger things have happened. Listen, I want to get to some more of what is plaguing Ilhan Omar right now, including the war on fraud just initiated by the White House. And they're going after everyone. And by the way, the ground zero for all of this happens to be Ilhan Omar's district. What do you know in Minneapolis?

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Maybe you don't think so. We won't go there, okay? Oh, I'm getting delirious. It's only Thursday, for goodness sakes. to leave Ilhan Omar definitely looking at the possibility of censure right now. And I would just say that there seems to be no remorse. No remorse whatsoever. Ilhan just doesn't have that in her DNA, I guess.

None. I mean, you remember when they were asking her on CBS, I think it was Margaret Brennan's show on Face the Nation, she was like, you know, gosh, you know, all these people are from your district that had been stealing this money, and she turns it around and tries to say, you know, we are this, that, and the other. and, of course, always pivots back to, well, you're just being racist if you're going after me for these things. So, no remorse. And then when CNN tried to say, do you feel just a little bit bad about what happened? I mean, Hakeem Jeffries did warn you. They didn't want to have a ruckus like this. They didn't want to have a scene like this. And yet you got somebody that

you brought as your guest who gets thrown out. You two are up there, cackling up a storm where we get receded to saying things like, you know, K3 times, whoa, while somebody else is saying USA, while the hockey team is out there. I mean, it's bonkers. And yet, listen, to her first response. Listen to her first interview, census ordeal came down. Many members of your Democratic Party criticized their Republican counterparts

when they interrupted President Biden's State of the Union address. As a lot of us remember, do you have any regrets at all about the interaction we played between you and President Trump just last night? I do not. And I think many

Shocker. No, I'm perfect. Just the way I am. People look at that moment when the president says it is our responsibility to protect Americans. And he does not acknowledge the fact that two Americans, two of my constituents, two of our neighbors were killed. And it was important. She really wants to go and have that debate all over again. She wants to hash that one out.

She wants to keep going back to that. I mean, forget about the fact that so many innocent Americans have died at the hands of people who have been here illegally, all right, that are already criminals. They have already been arrested, in many cases, already deported, and they come back in and they do something. And guess what? We can't do anything about it because we have states like Minnesota

where they are actually releasing the criminals back onto the streets. Like, that makes any sense. It's only because it's Donald Trump, for goodness sakes. I mean, if it was Barack Obama saying, hey, I need them, round it up. I would get a puff piece done on them. did get a puff piece done on them by CNN. But when Donald Trump tries to do it, for goodness sakes, oh my gosh, the end of the world is upon us. This is fascism. This is Naziism. This is this, that, and the other. And she thinks it's okay for her to stand up there during the state of

the union address. I'm sorry, kind of a classy event and carry on the way she did. He gave her a second chance, by the way. Wolf Blitzer on CNN saying, you know, she must feel somewhat bad. I mean, she was told if she was going to act like that to go to her own event, not to come, just to boycott it. So watch her the second time around. With hindsight, Congresswoman, do you think you would have been better off boycotting the speech like so many other Democratic lawmakers did? Or did you do the right thing by actually showing up there? I brought four Minnesotans as guests for the Minnesota. That's an interesting accent.

But, you know, I probably shouldn't pick up. or too much. I still say Mittens because I'm from New Hampshire and we say Mittens and Putin. So I guess they say Minnesotans. Anyway, we continue with Ilhan. Delegation, it was important for us to be there, to bear witness, to hold the space for our constituents that have lived through an occupation from federal law enforcement that have been terrorized, that have seen our neighbors been killed and traumatized in so many ways. And so, no, I think it was really important for my constituents to see me there. It was really important to my constituents to hear. You understand how bonkers this is? She wants her constituents to hear how upset she is.

She wants her constituents to see her carrying on. All the more reason, ladies and gentlemen, for this woman to get censored and censured and censured hard. That I was reminding the president that Renee Good and Alex Prady were killed under this administration. Okay. So she's using it as a political stunt, a political opportunity, joining the Circus Act once again at a time when, you know, the nation is supposed to be tuning in listening to the president, but she wasn't going to lose that opportunity. She didn't want to go hang out with the frogs where they were singing funny songs. No, no, no. And Chris Murphy, the senator from Connecticut carrying on. And, oh, I think it was Joy Reid, a whole bunch of it. It was like Loser City. Sorry.

I mean, it was, though. I mean, it was like Loserville City. Is that too harsh? Did you see them? Oh, my goodness. One of my team members said, Trish, you should play this on a short because it's just so pathetic. Anyway, I'm not going to bother you with it. Maybe we will play it on a short, but they were just pathetic. And they're dressed up in frog costumes and giraffe costumes. And I'm like, what is the furry thing back in town? I don't get it.

Anyway, back to the importance now of censuring this woman. It's got to happen. It really does because this is not okay. Lady, why don't you just get out to Democratic Party? Honestly, start your own move. All right. Let's do the simple math. Probably 69 percent down there. We call Jim Garstein or Jeff Garrett. Roughly 69 percent of people going to vote in November. This is James Carvel that we're listening to. Don't forget. He's the guy who coined as the economy stupid. We're talking about

the success he had with the Clinton campaign. And he's weighing in. This was a while back. I want to say like six months ago. And he was saying like Ilhan Omar basically is a lady who just needs to go get her own party because she's not doing her party any good. I'd agree with that. I mean, occasionally he comes out with little pearls of wisdom. What do you know? I would agree with that. She's not doing her party any good. Just look again at the polls. We're going to go to more polls. We're going to talk more about the reaction to the State of the Union, which was just phenomenal. And listen, it's all upside right now for Donald Trump and for Magan for the conservatives. And they got this one, you know, like a ball and chain around their neck, for goodness sakes, dragging them down,

and they're going to sink with her. So he's on to it. Let's do 70 for just round mayor. Are going to be white. Of that 48, Maybe a little more going to be mayor. So that's roughly, let's just call it 33 and a third percent of the entire election. Well, let's just run against them because that's so goddamn smart. All right. So now we're going to have a campaign by a progressive left against white men who vote about a third of everybody that votes in the election. Why don't you, lady, start your own party.

And then when it's over, if you want to caucus with the Democrats, Fine. We agree with a lot of things that you do, but we don't believe we ought to be running against white men. In fact, we don't think we ought to be running against any gender, any ethnic group, any race, any religion, or anything else. God damn, these people are just helpless. They cannot be helped. There's nothing you can do to help them. They don't want to be helped. And if they had any guts that start their own goddamn political party and get out of ours. Get them out. Get them out. Don't be sorry. James Carville, that was like one of the few times you really did make a heck of a lot of sense. Actually, you know, like I said, occasionally he just sort of surprises you.

Occasionally these guys actually know what they're talking about because you know what? They want to win. Like anyone, they want to win. And Ilhan's not getting them there and neither is Rashida Taleb and neither is Ayanna Presley. And neither, frankly, in my estimation, is AOC. Okay, they're all dragging them down. Heck, you just have to look at what Kamla Harris did to your party, right? You see, when you go so narrow and you just say, we're all about this one particular group,

and we hate all the white men, and we hate all the white women for that matter, and we hate all the maga folks, and we just hate most of the country, that's not going to work. When you have the hockey team, for goodness sakes, I'm wearing like my winter sweater here. We've got a lot of snow outside. I live in the northeast. Lots of snow outside. We've had a few storms and another one coming next week, lucky me. Anyway, when you've got the hockey team there in D.C., and they just won the first gold medal since 1980, that's a big freaking deal.

And yet what is Rashida saying? Apparently, when they talk, she says something else. They chant USA, and she has not disputed this for what it's worth because all the media reports are alleging that she said K three times. Do I have it? Do I have it? Do I have it? Yes, let's just watch. It's like two seconds. I want you to see it, and I'm going to get my sort of face and picture out of the way so you can watch. Okay? So, yeah, people are mad. This one person put up on Twitter, for goodness sakes, that's a pretty loaded thing to say.

What are you talking about, ladies? She has no respect for history. She has no respect for this country. She has no respect, frankly, for herself or her constituents or anybody. I mean, it's just, she's a disgusting, disgusting person to have there, and I'm sorry, but, like, we got to do better, ladies and gentlemen. We just got to do better than the likes of Rashida Taleb. And Ilhan Omar, Ilhan Omar, who feels absolutely no remorse, so much so that the party's like, what are we going to do?

They're going to have to censure her, right? That's step number one. But the bigger thing is, does this woman get deported? Ilhan Omar, I'm talking about. Is she going to be deported? Because that's what the president is talking about. He was disgusted by their behavior. Donald Trump said, you know what, we're going to send him home.

Forget about it. He said, quote, when you watch low IQ Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tili, as they scream uncontrollably last night at the very elegant State of the Union, this is what he sent out yesterday afternoon, such an important and beautiful event. They had the bulging bloodshot eyes, crazy people, lunatics. Like I said, he jaws them wild. He jars them crazy. I mean, maybe it's a good thing. They're all just nutty, mentally deranged and sick, who frankly, look like they should be institutionalized. When people can behave like that and knowing that they are crooked and corrupt, politicians. So bad for our country, he writes, we should send them back where they came from as soon as possible. Wow. And he's not kidding around. I mean, he's just, I mean, again, if you aren't off to speed on this, or if you just want to watch it, again, like I do, for the heck of it, to see how awful these women are. Just remember what went down. You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up.

You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens. In many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country, they're blocking the removal of these people out of our country. country and you should be ashamed of you saying. And perhaps most importantly, I'm asking you to approve the Save America Act. The Save America Act. That's, that's, you know, the Voting Act that would require ID that 86% of voters actually want. And before they go and tell you, it's Jim Crow 2.0.

Just remember that something like 76, 78% of black voters would like to see this in place. So that argument is not working. So the latest and greatest they've come up with is how the heck are you going to be able to find your birth certificate? Well, I'm going to just tell you a little hint, because I've had to do this several times myself. You can get your birth certificate. You just call the state, all right? You can actually go into the state office and get your birth certificate. It's not that hard. Maybe unless you live in a blue state and they're just incapable of doing anything, right? Anyway, again, back to what he said. Not only did he say that they need to go home, but he did say that they were crooked and corrupt politicians. That to me was a really

important line that he sent out just moments before he was announcing, of course, the war on fraud, which we're going to get to. But think about what he's saying in terms of send them home, because that's also an important component of that you already have a bill being introduced in Congress called the Scam Act that's designed to go after anybody that engaged in this fraud. So if it turns out that she had some kind of hand in it, and these are just allegations at this point, But what is being alleged, keep in mind, is that Timmy Minut, her husband had a hand somehow in basically facilitating this feeding our future platform. And the idea is if you wanted to buy into this, you kind of had to buy into his stuff, which meant, oh, I don't know, the winery or perhaps the venture capital firm. And that's why he was giving it such a high valuation on her income statement, saying that she was now, and he was worth,

$30 million, which would have been something like a 3,500% increase in their net worth in the span of one year. Like, that doesn't happen. Okay, remember, I have a financial research company, too. We have a stock, actually. We have a stock, not to be on a tangent here, but we have a stock that just went up 35. It's actually up 44% since we picked it. And we actually picked it and added it to our portfolio on February 11th, two portfolios, actually, the resilience portfolio as well as the inflation protection portfolio.

portfolio at 76research.com. So that's up 44% okay, but not 35, 100% in one year. Like, that's a whole other ballgame, okay? That's a special, special kind of upside. Only left for the likes of members of Congress? I don't know, but it's certainly darn suspicious. Anyway, when you think about the deportation that's coming about, possibly, you get the president calling for it. You got Tom Emmer calling for it, the Minnesota Republican who introduced the scam and you've got Marshall Blackburn joined by a whole slew of other senators calling for it in the Senate. So here's what Amber's saying. Watch. We're expanding and clarifying existing law to include anyone who comes to this country and defrauds

the generosity of Americans and our government. And in this case, you know, the feeding our future scandal is one of the many in Minnesota, but that's the largest pandemic fraud case in the country. It was $250 million. Over 90 people were charged and 85 of them are from the Somali community. If you come to this country, and I understand that in Somalia, you gotta lie, cheat, and steal just to survive. But if you come to this country

and you continue to lie, cheat, and steal, you should not be allowed to maintain your citizenship. You should be denaturalized and shipped back to where you came from. And by the way, that would include marriage fraud. Oh, okay, you know who that was meant for. You know, I know. The New York Post knows and the Daily Mail

news because they've done some reporting on this and we've talked about it here on the show. The allegation is that she may have married the brother in order to help get him his education here in the United States. And I'll tell you, they don't even have to prove that it was the brother. All they have to prove is that it was a sham marriage. Okay, so even if it, let's go, let's forget about the brother for a second. Let's just say that she really didn't like the guy. And I really wonder how much she liked the guy because apparently she was still having kids with the other guy. You know, some Muslim she is, right? Anyway, all they have to prove is, that it was somehow a sham. And if they get her on that, boom, she's out. They're going to take away

the naturalization. You don't even need new laws for that. That's actually a law that's already on the books. So I know we're like, you know, when are they going to do this? When are they going to do this? When are they going to do this? I mean, I'm with you, right guys? And we're like, uh-huh, you know, and you burned us, you burned us on Latisha for goodness sakes. Pam Bondi, it's too early in the day for me to get upset with you. We're going to save that till next week, okay, but listen, I'm happy because you've got J.D. Vance leading this war on fraud right now. You've got Treasury Secretary Besson who's all over it and he's got the IRS now all over it. And the president is introducing the war on fraud designed to go after the likes of Ilhan Omar or any other person in Congress that is doing funny stuff or alleged to have done funny stuff.

I'm not saying she did. But I do think it's peculiar. Okay. Like, so do you. So do all. All of us, the president, calling out her district in Minnesota in the state of the union. Watch. There's been no more stunning example than Minnesota. We're members of the Somali community of pillaged and estimated $19 billion from the America taxpayer. We have all the information. And in actuality, the number is much higher than that. And California, Massachusetts, Maine, and many other states are.

even worse, this is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation, and we are working on it like you wouldn't believe. So tonight, although started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President J.D. Vance. In other words, a smart guy. Okay? He is. He's a smart guy. He's got a great education. He obviously, you know, came from nothing and made quite something of himself. He's married to a smart guy. He's got a great education. He's got a great education. He's married to a smart woman. So I'm happy that J.D. is going to be leading this one as opposed to Pambondi, who is a great politician and is very, very liked by the president and actually is very loyal to him. I'm not suggesting she's not. It's just that, you know, we need the big

guns in town for this one. And so J.D.'s taken over, listen to what he had to say. This is from a press conference. Actually, it may be from an interview. One's from a press conference, once from an interview on Fox. Let's watch. The war on fraud has begun. Ground Zero, Minnesota. going to start very aggressively in the administration cracking down on the people and the organizations that are defrauding Americans. So we're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligation seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money. This is disgraceful. It has happened for too long.

far too many people have gotten rich by taking what is the best of the American spirit and getting rich off of it instead of providing services to kids who need it. That is stopping today. Got it? Amazing. Oh, look at Don Bacca's in the house. He said, hey, let's break 5,000 likes. We had during the stream yesterday.

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I would say that JD is the adult in town that you want, along with Mr. Scott Besson, who I'm just going to tell you, I know a lot of people that have worked with him. he is considered one of the very brightest minds in all of Wall Street. They just say he absolutely is phenomenal. He's super smart and he's tenacious and he's not going to let this one go. So he's on to her and J.D.'s on to her and the president is on to her. So I don't think that, you know, if there's any funny stuff there

and in my own sort of personal belief, like what do I think deep down, yes, there was some funny stuff there. There may be a lot of funny stuff there. And don't forget the Huala Network, which I've done a lot of reporting on over the years. I did a big, big, big, big look at Islamic terror funding out of South America. And it won all kinds of awards. And this was for CBS News at the time. And let me just tell you, Treasury was on Huala way back when.

And they have ways of finding this money. It's harder because they're using sort of a cash-to-cash person-to-person system. And that's probably why you had $700 million going out in suitcase. is out in the Minneapolis airport in the span of two years, more than any other airport in the country, but they're going to find it. And Besson is determined to, I want to go again back to J.D., who's saying this is so atrocious, and he specifically calls out Minnesota and those Minneapolis daycares that Nick Shirley did some dynamite reporting on.

60 minutes can't bother. But, you know, on YouTube, we've got real people, real folks, real reporters, real commentators, freedom. Watch. Ilhan, watch out. They're on to you. How many fraudulent daycare centers have been set up where that money should go to American citizens to help their kids get into child care? Instead, it's being stolen from them by illegal aliens in our country. How much has, have government officials actually been complicit in this fraud because some of them have gotten wealthy or at the least they've

gotten campaign donations from the people who have gotten rich from that fraud? Yeah, Ilhan, they're on to you. I like it, I like it. Peace of my mind is kind of leaving a bit of a threat there. I know you're not, but it's sort of funny. He says, or she, we don't know, at peace of my mind. This could be the doom of JD's presidential run if nothing comes to this fraud. And you know what, peace of my mind, you're right.

So it's good that he's taking this on in that he's got to know that he can't pull a Bondi. Because if he pulls a Bondi, people are going to be really mad. If I pull a Bondi, I mean, you know, get us. all worked up and then say, oopsie daisy, you know, couldn't happen, didn't happen. Look at Comey. Look at Letitia. I mean, I'm kind of tired of it, right? And the disaster that was the whole rollout of those files. By the way, Hillary Clinton testifying today, she didn't say anything interesting. I mean, maybe it was mortifying and embarrassing for her, but clearly the woman has no pride because she's been mortified and embarrassed many, many times over. I have only to go back and think of the

atrocious monolowewinsky scandal to think of how much that woman has just been mortified in her past. So I'm sure it wasn't pleasant. She didn't have anything interesting to say. Bill, of course, testifies on Friday, and I'll be monitoring it for you. Of course, if he does say anything interesting, you will be the first to know about it. I want to get back to the State of the Union and just share with you what the polls are saying, because it's amazing how well he did. Not amazing, not amazing to me, but it's sort of amazing for the Democrats that they just can't figure it out.

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into this. I mean, it's like he is Teflon Trump. They can't fight them. Take a peek. Among speech watchers tonight, 64% say his policies will move the U.S. in the right direction. And look at the growth President Trump made over the speech.

So pre-speech, it was 54% of speech watchers said his policies will move the U.S. in the right direction. After the speech, that number goes up 10 percentage points. So Donald Trump made some progress with people watching the speech from their pre-speech expectations to what they saw in the speech itself. And that's 64% number. That's pretty much in range across all of his State of the Union addresses in his first term. Last year, the joint session, that's about what we've seen as roughly two thirds have walked away from his speech as thinking he's going to move it in the right direction.

So a lot of red meat for the base. Yeah. There's no doubt about that. If you're a Republican on the ballot in 2026, I think you leave this speech being as happy as you could possibly be that he sort of stuck to the script on the economy. He gave the red meat to the base on immigration, and they can leave the home tonight and sort of take that out on the campaign trail. Isn't that great? I'm being distracted because I'm looking at your chat, and someone was messaging Leslie. Is Leslie in the house, guys?

I was just thinking about Leslie this morning. No joke. Leslie, I was like, I haven't seen you in a while. I'm getting worried. You know, we all kind of know each other here now. And I have not seen Leslie in the chat. And then I see somebody messaging her that just went by, Anke Ante, 47, we missed you, Leslie Kimbrall, he writes. So I missed you too, so much that I was actually

this morning. I kid you not. I was like, gosh, I haven't seen Leslie. I hope she's okay. I hope you're okay. I hope you are and we're delighted to have you back. It's special that we've created such a community here. But I would just say, look at those numbers, right? You see CNN having to admit this, that he's doing well. He excited the base. He's got this sort of energy about him that gets everybody really worked up and I think optimistic about the future. And that was one of his goals, right? He had to. And I said this.

Actually, I was on with you guys, of course. And then I went on newsmax ahead of time. And I said, the biggest thing for him tonight is to lay out the economy and to remind people that we're doing well. We are doing well. I realize it doesn't feel that way. No joke. Because look at what Biden did.

That's like generational style damage. When you're looking at upwards of 9% inflation on consumer prices. in one given month. And then, you know, everybody's like, woohoo, because it's only down to up 7%. It's only down to up 6%. Cumulatively, it was something like 21% over the time that he was in office. So that's a big, big increase. I mean, it's only supposed to go up like 2% a year. And so all in, we had something like 21%. And as a result, even though prices are getting better, it still doesn't feel that way, right? Because we're not back to where we were in 2019. We can't go back there because of the damage that he did.

back to his speech, his excellent, magnificent speech that was only marred, but I'd say actually maybe even aided by the likes of Ilhan Omar, because she made herself look like a total lunatic and a total fool, which just reinforces this idea that he's the only sane adult in the room. Let's go to David Axelrod, another key damn who sort of begrudgingly says, yeah, he did a pretty decent job. Okay, so this is David Axelrod who ran Obama's campaign. He also basically kept control of himself, which I think will be a great relief to his strategists and AIDS there. But the question, I mean, and I think he did well from their perspective for the reasons that you say, John, and he used the gallery very skillfully to kind of simulate empathy, which is a thing that he's been lacking,

and that's sort of a surrogate for that. The question is he started off the speech by saying, we've gone, this is the turnaround for the age of it. And as you know, because you're traveling around the country, people don't think the direction is right. And I don't think this cured that. So we'll see. But I don't think a lot of the people who needed to be persuaded probably were watching this speech. Okay. So he's sort of saying like only the base was watching the speech.

I got to tell you the ratings are huge. So I don't actually think that's the case. And I think surprisingly for most Dems, or it's a surprise to them, I should say, a lot of people are still in the middle and a lot of people in the middle, they like Trump. And they voted for Trump. And they want a reason to keep voting for him and to keep voting for conservatives as we go into a very important election. I sat down moments ago with my friend Kent Strang from Americans for Prosperity. He's a wonderful, wonderful policy geek. So I love talking to him about this kind of stuff to get his reaction, listen.

me right now with reaction to this, I thought, magnificent state of the union address. My friend Kent Strang from Americas for Prosperity, it is good to see you back. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Great to be back, Trish. It's been a while, but wow, what a great time to meet up with you again, because I'm just going to say, look, I know he's not for everyone, right? We get a lot of people out there that they're never going to like him, no matter what he does. But I thought it was a really tremendous speech and he kind of hit everything really importantly. I mean, the big issues, right, facing this nation right now, economy and immigration. Your take, Kent? My take is President Trump inherited an absolute economic disaster. We want to talk about affordability. Well, what caused it? Joe Biden

and his allies in Congress spent $5.5 trillion. It led to 40-year high inflation and it cost the average American family, $11,400 more just to maintain their lifestyle. That is a big hole they dug for this Republican president and Republican Congress to dig out of. And so what do we see at the state of the union? He touted the work that the one big beautiful bill did, the working family's tax cut, to help put more relief in Americans' pockets. They're predicting that Americans are going to see over $3,000 in tax returns, more money in their pocket. We did away with the green new energy scam. We see gas prices, not $5 anymore. We're seeing gas prices sub three dollars again. Again, Americans can thrive. They can grow. There's so many good provisions in that bill where we can put

money back in Americans' pockets, but they have to go further. They have to continue not to just tell the American people that the economy is good. They have to show them. So I really call on President Trump and Congress. Don't stop. Don't wait for midterms. Continue to pass good policy so Americans can see it. important to do. And important to kind of give, as I keep saying, the power back to the people. I think that we learn through Joe Biden, the more money you print, the more money you give to these boondoggle programs I think about Minnesota fraudsters, for example. I mean, you look at what's going on there. It's outrageous. What they're uncovering in California is outrageous. And it sort of shows you once again that who is the best allocator of capital, the individual American,

not the government. Because when the government gets in there, well, I don't know. Like with over and over again from 2020 on, people started stealing. That's 100% right. This is unfortunately not a new phenomenon. If you print money, you have big, massive, unaccountable government programs. People are going to take advantage of them. Let's look back even to the COVID era. People were using the PPP loans.

People are using every chance they get to be held, not to be held accountable. And they fraud and fleece taxpayers. This is why we need strong accountability for these sort of programs. We need to rein in government spending. We need to make sure that these programs have accountability. And one thing that we can always do is we can limit the size and scope of government. We can reframe how we spend money in America. We can make sure that the money goes out is for things that help American families and help real programs,

not just out for wasteful spending that might make people feel good, but they don't really have an impact on our communities. Well, look, I mean, it's what the founding fathers intended. and I put up a 250 toolkit because this is what Americans for Prosperity is reminding people to go to and, you know, to sign on and say, listen, I want to, I want to remember the true values, right, of this country and our founding fathers and what they had intended. And it was always for small government. It was for checks and balances as well. And I know some people aren't thrilled about the Supreme Court decision. I'm okay with it because I look at it and say, okay, well, at least, you know, you can't have things getting put in for,

years at a time, I worry about, well, you know, AOC, which one should be worried about, or Kamala Harris, God forbid she had won, doing things that would be sort of way out there and not have the opportunity for those checks and balances. So he'll have a chance to continue doing his tariffs, and he will, and they've made it clear there's other ways you can do it on a temporary basis. Fine. But, you know, let's get back to that smaller foundation. And I think that's really important to think about. But again, A250 Toolkit, I encourage people to go there and sign up and remember what this nation stood for is we're looking at our 250 birthday, right? What the founding fathers really cared about when they declared independence from Great Britain. And yet what is terrifying is the corruption that we're going back to right now.

It's 100% right. America is founded on these principles. And one of those principles is limited government. And when you have a government that means all things to all people, it doesn't allow people to thrive. It doesn't allow people to pursue their American dream. And so what we want is a system where government is there for some important functions. I can't pretend that it's not, right? But we want to make sure government is limited so people can't defraud taxpayers.

We have programs that are in place that help provide an important social safety net. But it's not there for people to get rich off of. It's there to make sure that we're protecting the best interests of Americans. Politically speaking, and I hate to be so crass, right? But politically speaking, I think this is a really important thing for Republicans to hone in on. And I get the sense that they're doing it. I mean, J.D., taken on the mantle there with the whole war on fraud. You've got the president really highlighting this.

You've got a lot of people paying attention. The Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, now conducting an IRS investigation and offering rewards to people who will blow the whistle on those that were committing this fraud. I think it's important politically speaking. Economically, of course, when you're talking about $650 billion that the GAO is estimating, gets absorbed into fraud. Some people have said it's even higher than that. But you might be able to actually fix a lot of our budget issues if you were able to address this fraud. But again, from a purely political standpoint, if you were handicapping that, don't you think that that's important?

Especially as you go into midterms? I think it's important for this government and this administration. to deliver for the American people. And I think this is one way to do it. Show them that you're going to crack down on fraud, waste, and abuse. Remember, this administration started with that very principle with the Doge effort. That kind of fizzled out a little bit, but it uncovered lots of crazy, wasteful spending that I think no American wants to see happen.

And I think what we're going to do is we're going to continue to find more and more of that. Anytime we can limit how much fraud, waste, and abuse is going out there, we absolutely should do that. There has to be accountability. for these programs. But it all comes back to how do we spend our money? How do we budget? How does Congress budget? Putting Congress back in charge of budgeting rather than going from continuing resolution to continuing resolution is another way to address this, make Congress do its constitutional authority as we celebrate 250 years of America and actually budget and put that money where it

belongs rather than in big government programs. But accountability is key. I'm looking forward to see what they uncover. And I think taxpayers will certainly welcome that. Nobody wants to be fleeced because of big government programs. So can you tell me about a 250 toolkit. Can one go on and sign and sort of go back and read the Declaration of Independence, for example, and sign on to that? And, you know, I mean, look, I don't mean to be corny, but it's kind of a big deal. 250 is like a really big deal. I need to come out with my patriotic album for two, you know, like I got to get on it. now, okay? But I think like in the interim, I can go and maybe sign the declaration myself. Well, at a minimum, you should be able to go to the 8250 Toolkit.com and sign, but I'm with you

on the patriotic album. If I can come and sing a duet with you, please let me know. I'm in on that. Oh, my gosh. There is, look, America is founded on such incredible principles of limited government. And that's what makes us great is our founding principles. And America is too important and too amazing. One, not to celebrate, but also not to fight for. And so whether you're listening in on the internet and you've been thinking about getting involved and they've been listening to you, Trish, about all the great news or all the bad news that's happening in this country,

it's too important not to get out there and do something. One small step for America, whether that sign a letter you remember. of Congress, whether that show up to a town hall meeting and make your voice heard or a school board meeting, or maybe that's you're going to go out in midterms and you're going to knock on doors or you're going to make phone calls, or maybe it's you're going to wave the flag at a parade on the Independence Day celebration, fight for this country, make your voice heard because America is a special place and we need to remember that we are a special country. And so celebrate 850 with Americans for prosperity or your own way by taking small steps for freedom because

the greatness of America didn't start with people, people became great because of small steps along the way. And you can do it too. One small step. Go to A250 toolkit. Hey, thank you for that. I enjoyed that. You know, anytime we, it's rah, rah, rah. My friend Kent, thank you so much for being here with us today. Ken Strang, Americans for Prosperity. It is good to see Ken's back on the show. So, wow. Look, I think we get some takeaways here. Number one, you got it, at the very least, censure the likes of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Thalib, because the behavior was unacceptable, period, full stop. Number two, that investigation is really important that the IRS is doing into all of those

fraudsters that we know about in Minnesota. So what they have already is all of their names, all of their information, many of them are already in jail, so now they can go to the banks. And this is like the kind of, you know, investigation one should do into the banks, like what we saw with Donald Trump getting his accounts shut off. They got to go to the banks and they got to look at where all the money was going. And if they can trace any of it back to Timmy Minette and his venture capital firm, his little silly venture capital firm that he claims, you know, he's worked and had 80,

is it 60 or 80 billion dollars under management? Did you see? This is insane. Okay, just absolutely insane. This is his venture capital firm. Oh, there we go. Okay. You know, he's 60 billion. Forgive me. It's 80, 60, whatever. You know, I mean, it's all so darn preposterous. He claims he's had $60 billion in assets under management, just to give you some frame of reference, that would, like, make him one of the largest asset management firms, you know, hedge funds, venture capitalist firms in the country, in the world. So apparently he's not saying

he has that much under investment right now. He's saying that he has, in the past, worked to manage that much money. It's a bonkers claim. But, you know, this is a guy who's had a whole history. Don't forget. A whole history of fraud allegations. One after another, right? They've apparently all been settled, but I don't think it's a very good sign.

I mean, the cannabis stuff indeed, you know, his company that he had, he had a cannabis company. He and his partner before they decided to get into the venture capital business. Or shall we say, the feeding our future. business. I digress. But the point being, they've got to get a handle on this. Okay? So when we think about what's going on right now, one, yes, full stop, you get a center of these women. And I think that there's going to be support on both sides of the aisle for that one, because you saw Nancy Pelosi did not have a very emphatic defense, only that, well, you didn't really hear it. Yeah, no,

we heard it. And we're still talking about it. Yeah, that's how much it was heard. So you get that. Rashida, allegedly saying the word K and then, you know, three times. instead of USA. Well, now we know how you really feel about us. Okay, Rashida, you really like this country? Why bother? Anyway, those women must be censured at the very least. The next step is proving whether there was real fraud there.

And I suspect that they've got something to prove and they will prove it. I have a lot of faith in Scott Bessent. I don't know J.D.'s reputation on this stuff as well, but coming from the financial world, I know that he's no joke. All right? So he's on it. He's got the IRS on it. They've got a team investigating all of this. So I think that there could be hell to pay for Ilhan Omar and Timmy Minnet on that front as well as others. I mean, we'll see because the allegation is that the AG out in Minnesota deliberately turned the other way because he was getting campaign kickbacks. But I think there's a lot more than campaign kickbacks. I think there's a lot more money there.

And I think a lot of that money wound up going overseas. I think Treasury has to be looking at this because you wonder about Al-Sabu, even whether or not they were taking a cut of any of this. That's typically how it works in the Huala system, all right? So, problems, problems. And then you get the deportation element of this because I'm just going to say with the laws you already get on the books, if she did anything sketchy to get that second husband into the country, he doesn't even have to be her brother, okay?

We don't even have to go that far. I don't like thinking about stuff like that. But if she married him under false pretenses, if they were not really an item, they can find that out and they can get her on that. And she would be denaturalized. So out she goes on that. So there's a whole host of things. And I don't mean to pick on Ilhan Omar exclusively, although she seems to be increasingly

the poster child for all of this. I mean, there are plenty of others. Right? There are plenty of others that we could be talking about, including Timmy Walsh, because Timmy, he's got quite a track record, too. He's out there. Having said, okay, I can't run for governor of Minnesota anymore. He's admitted that one.

His political career is over, and yet even as recently as just a few hours ago, he's like, no one cares as much about this as me. Oh, Donald Trump can't take over this platform. Listen, buddy, you were the one who, according to the whistleblowers, totally ignored it. I don't think we're trusting you on any of it. Watch. You can trust me on this. The person who's angriest about this fraud is me.

There is certainly no political upside to having fraud in your state. And it undermines the very program that I have spent a lifetime advocating for and trying to implement. And we have got criminals. It seems like the Republicans, the only people they're not concerned about in this is the actual criminals. No, I think that Republicans are quite concerned about the actual criminals. and I think Republicans are quite concerned about making sure we get paid back. He heard JD the other day. He wants reparations from the state of Minnesota because, you know,

we're sitting here having given you apparently $19 billion that you let go off and smoke. So he wants reparations. I want reparations. You know what? The whole darn country deserves to be paid back by the likes of Minnesota. And by the way, California, if California was into this stuff too, and they're going to find every little bit out. I mean, I'm telling you, like this is really, really bad for them.

I love what Besson said the other day. It's pretty aggressive, actually, even for him. But pointed. Remember this? We will find out who's done this. We are going to put in effect a whistleblower program. And my sense is that the rats will turn on each other. It's like the scorpion.

It's in their nature. Ouch. Ouch. Well, they're going to find out. All right, this is I have faith. in this one, guys, only because, look, this is sort of my jurisdiction to finance and following the money. And I know that they can tie up all these loose ends. And I have a lot of confidence in Treasury.

I have a lot of confidence, as I keep saying and saying, but I'm not kidding. Like, I feel full disclosure not so confident in Pam Bondi. I know Don loves her in the chat. Don's like, he's defending her every last turn. But I'm going to just say, like, you know, nothing against her personally. I actually really like her personally, and I think she's a lovely woman. I think she's very attractive and great on camera, and she's very emphatic and all of that. But there's just been a few too many slip-ups for my taste.

So as peace of my mind said, this would reflect very badly on JD and his political career in the future if he comes up empty-handed. As for Scott Besson, Scott's just the real deal. And Scott takes an enormous amount of pride in what he does and takes. his job very seriously. So he's not about to let this thing slip by. And I'm not suggesting that Pam doesn't take her job that seriously. I'm sure she does. It's just that maybe she thinks of her job a little bit differently. And I say this about politicians in general. You know, I'm not really a huge fan of politicians. I like people that have done something else. I mean, at least JD came from a different world. He had come from the venture capital world, like the real venture

capital world himself, working with Peter Thiel, for example, before he became a politician. And Scott Besson was, you know, basically taking down the Bank of England, frankly. Okay, really? I mean, basically brought them to their knees as a real financial professional. So these are smart people that have done things other than politics. And that matters. It really does. I say to people who want to go even into the news business all the time, do something else first.

I mean, I started at Goldman Sachs. I had a background, albeit short, in finance, before I became a financial reporter. And to me, you just bring more gravitas to the situation because you have some other perspective other than, you know, how do I cut a sound bite? How do I tape my stand up? Like, you'll figure all that out. Don't worry about it. But what's important is that you come grounded with some kind of something, right? Like some kind of depth.

And when I look at so many politicians, I don't see that depth. I mean, granted, she's a lawyer, but she's been basically the AG of Florida and has been in the political arena her entire career. So nothing wrong with that. It's just that it's a different skill set. and especially in Republican circles, for whatever reason, you have a lot of people coming in and out of big firms that often service the White House in Democratic circles. But you don't see that same kind of fluency going in and out

of these conservative firms. There really aren't any big conservative firms in D.C. And so as a result of that, you're kind of underserved in terms of your legal bench, right? Like, think about it. I mean, conservatives, we don't like the big, big law firms, right? That's not our shtick. So the Democrats love it.

Like, that is their stick. So when it comes to who you have on your legal team, I think that the Trump administration is a little bit disadvantaged in that sense. I only bring all this up to point out that when it comes to this war on fraud, I have more optimism because I have optimism in the team that's leading it. And I think that the president was smart to take this out of Pam's hands because, you know, she was striking out. And he doesn't want to get rid of her.

He does like her. Trust me, he likes her. And she likes him and she has his best interest. It's just sometimes some people are not quite able to do what they want to do because they just don't have the skill set. They don't have the track record. They don't have the background to be able to pull it off. And so that's where she is right now. And I think you've got a better team on the ground with J.D., Scott Bessent and others, Dr. Oz, that are going to be pursuing all this fraud.

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