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How is this sh*t legal???
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5814748-vance-crackdown-democrat-fraud/
Vice President Vances new role as fraud czar will primarily focus on Democrat-led states, President Trump announced Friday morning.
We will call him the FRAUD CZAR, and his focus will be EVERYWHERE, but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS, like those in California, Illinois, Minnesota (Somalia beware!), Maine, New York, and many others, have had a free for all in the unprecedented theft of Taxpayer Money, the president posted on Truth Social. The numbers are so large that, if successful, we would literally be able to balance our American Budget.
Walleye
(44,873 posts)He can just go fuck himself
Jerry2144
(3,277 posts)as in, committing fraud
Walleye
(44,873 posts)spanone
(141,653 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,438 posts)Billions and billions in passes
bucolic_frolic
(55,190 posts)Midnight Writer
(25,422 posts)Or how about GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton of Texas, who has been under indictment since 2015? As Attorney General of Texas, his office has not got around to prosecuting him yet. No wonder he thinks he deserves a promotion.
Or how about GOP guru Elon Musk, who bought an obscure government position and used it to fire everyone investigating him and his businesses and his billions in government contracts?
Which brings us to the biggest fraudster: Donald Trump. Hundreds of billions, if not trillions, in government contracts going to his cronies. "Fraud, Waste and Abuse" is on the Trump Family Crest.
gulliver
(13,990 posts)Trump would obviously do this, because he wants to see the blue state politicians "defending fraud." Our job is not to supply him with election advertising.
Blue states should call out strongly for anti-fraud enforcement. Throw the book at them. But make sure you do it in red states too. That's how you take an issue.
We, as progressives and liberals, should be the absolute strongest opponents of criminals who would defraud and damage social programs. I know I am. I think anyone who defrauds a social program like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, etc., should have to pay full restitution, and any jail terms should be multiplied by three or four times.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,287 posts)Blue states haven't said much. Its hard to fight back against the apparatus if the US govt
Qutzupalotl
(15,827 posts)Arbitrary and capricious rescissions. Selective enforcement of laws. The hush money that prevented an important story from being aired before an election. Pretending to return all the documents he stole. The crypto grift that lets foreign money go right in Trumps pocket.
Blue Owl
(59,134 posts)These fuckers freeload off the blue states but keep voting in these goddamned economy-killing repukes -- time for them to live in the conditions of their own filth without the blue states bailing them out. ENOUGH.
republianmushroom
(22,343 posts)fraud in red states.