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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,276 posts)
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 11:13 AM 9 hrs ago

New trump admin "fraud czar" will focus on blue states

How is this sh*t legal???

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5814748-vance-crackdown-democrat-fraud/

Vice President Vance’s 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.”

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Walleye

(44,862 posts)
1. Trump is convicted 34 times of fraudulent business practices. A convicted fraudster.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 11:15 AM
9 hrs ago

He can just go fuck himself

Midnight Writer

(25,420 posts)
6. Want fraud? Check out GOP Senator Rick Scott's antics in Florida, largest Medicare fraud in history.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 11:24 AM
9 hrs ago

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

(13,989 posts)
7. It needs to be all states
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 11:28 AM
9 hrs ago

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

(14,276 posts)
10. Its already been happening..DOJ has been doing theses fraud stings in California followed by press event
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 12:18 PM
8 hrs ago

Blue states haven't said much. Its hard to fight back against the apparatus if the US govt

Qutzupalotl

(15,827 posts)
8. Distraction from the administration's corruption and bribery.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 11:41 AM
8 hrs ago

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 Trump’s pocket.

Blue Owl

(59,128 posts)
11. I'm ready to fucking cut the red states off
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 12:43 PM
7 hrs ago

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.

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