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Donald Trump’s administration shares fake trailer for defamatory animated film generated by AI Somali immigrants Day care center operated by Somalia in Minnesota fraudulently claims Millions of dollars in government funding.
administrative officer Right-wing media figures have seized on a series of fraud cases involving government projects, with most of the defendants coming from East African countries.
In artificially generated Pixar-inspired clip posted by and shared by a right-wing podcaster Trump AdministrationX Official Account On New Year’s Day, a group of Somali men traveled to Minnesota to defraud the state’s day care program and live a high life.
“We no longer have to be pirates. I found a better way. Government-funded day care. We have to go to Minnesota,” one character says.
Another character walks down the mansion stairs, lights a cigar with a $100 bill, and says, “Remember when we had to act like thugs and illegally steal from innocent people? Now we’re stealing from innocent taxpayers. Just like the government intended.”
independent The White House has been asked to comment.
The president has used it many times Racist and derogatory language to describe Somali immigrants and U.S. citizens with roots in a country he calls “a bastard” and “not a country at all.”
At a White House Cabinet meeting last month, Trump called them “garbage” people “from hell.”
“We don’t want them to stay in their own country when they come from hell and do nothing but complain,” he said. “Let them go back to where they came from and solve the problem.”
The president also made baseless claims that Somali immigrants were “taking over” Minnesota and “roaming the streets looking for ‘prey,'” while his administration sent federal law enforcement officers to the state and arrested hundreds of people.
Federal prosecutors and state investigators spent years investigating fraud in the state’s child care system and convicted dozens of defendants. Right-wing media figures have also spent years targeting the state, Somalia’s most populous nation. false accusation It is “ground zero for ISIS recruitment within the United States” and is under siege by Somali immigrants. Rigging elections.
But the new accusations from a 23-year-old influencer dovetail with the president’s anti-immigration agenda and his years-long attempts to undermine the state’s Democratic elected officials, including former vice presidential candidate and current Gov. Tim Walz.
Last month, David Shirley’s 43-minute tour of a day care facility, spurred by Elon Musk and Vice President J.D. Vance, went viral and fueled the Trump administration’s latest wave of enforcement actions in the state.
Last week, in response to the video, the Department of Health and Human Services froze Provide federal child care funding to all statesincluding Minnesota, and plans to release the funds “only if states certify that the use of these funds is lawful.”
Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler said the state also suspended the eligibility of nearly 7,000 borrowers after reviewing “thousands” of potentially “fraudulent” federal payments.
Those borrowers received 7,900 loans worth $400 million under COVID-19-era programs, including the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel also announced new business in the state Responding to Shirley’s video.
Noem said in a social media post that federal officials were conducting a “massive investigation into rampant fraud in child care and other areas,” while Patel said agents planned to “disrupt massive fraud schemes that exploit federal programs.”
White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt called the investigation “the administration’s top priority” in an interview fox and friends Wednesday.
“As we speak, the Department of Justice is continuing to execute search warrants and subpoenas,” she said. “People will be handcuffed because Governor Walz allowed fraud to occur [for] Many, many years. The Department of Homeland Security is conducting door-to-door investigations of potential fraud sites, and of course, they are also continuing to deport illegal aliens from Minnesota communities. “
Levitt also said the administration is “not afraid to use non-citizen status” and strip citizenship from Somali Americans in the state.
State and federal prosecutors have been investigating allegations for years, including under the administration of President Joe Biden.
At least 47 people have been charged during Biden’s presidency, and as the investigation continues, the case has grown to at least 78 defendants. At least 57 people were convicted at trial or as a result of guilty pleas.
Last month, a federal prosecutor estimated that more than half of the approximately $18 billion in federal funds supporting 14 projects in Minnesota since 2018 may have been stolen.
Several of Shirley’s accusations, which have not been proven, include filming vacant day care centers that allegedly received federal funding. Minnesota Republican officials also admit Work with him “to get information out to the public and hold the Walz administration accountable.”
The manager of one facility stated that Shirley visited outside of normal business hours, and a facility CNN camera crew While interviewing Shirley outside another centre, people were filmed dropping off their children.
“How do I know [the allegations are] real? “Well, we show you what happened, and then you can go ahead and do your own analysis,” Shirley said in an interview with CNN. “
Tikki Brown, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families, said each of the 10 facilities featured in his video had been visited at least once by state investigators in the past six months.
“While we have questions about some of the methods used in the video, we do take the fraud concerns raised by the video very seriously,” she said this week.