The convicted founder of Feeding Our Future is now pointing the finger at Rep. Ilhan Omar. Aimee Bock told the New York Post from jail that she struggles to believe Omar would not have known about the massive Minnesota meal-fraud operation tied to the congresswoman’s own district. That is an allegation from a convicted fraud defendant. No court has made such a finding against Omar. The claim lands on top of trial exhibits, committee records, and unanswered questions that Democrats have tried very hard to keep from turning into a full-blown accountability moment. The story was already exploding across conservative media after the jailhouse claim surfaced. BREAKING: Aimee Bock, the ringleader of the massive Feeding our Future $250 million COVID fraud scheme, told the NYP that Rep. Ilhan Omar was IN ON IT LOCK UP @IlhanMN https://t.co/Y4b9nTJAph — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 17, 2026 Trending Politics summarized Bock’s jailhouse allegation from the New York Post interview: Aimee Bock, the founder of Feeding Our Future, told the New York Post that Rep. Ilhan Omar “knew” about the $250 million fraud scheme that prosecutors say was engineered through the nonprofit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bock was convicted in March 2025 on federal conspiracy, bribery, and wire-fraud charges. She has maintained that she did not knowingly participate in fraud and has argued that she tried to alert state officials to irregularities. Speaking from jail while awaiting sentencing, Bock said of Omar, “I struggle to believe that she wouldn’t have known.” She described contacts between Feeding Our Future and Omar’s office over USDA waivers that allowed pandemic meal programs to operate with reduced oversight. The report says court exhibits from Bock’s trial showed Omar’s name appearing at least six times in emails and text messages. One February 2021 email chain reportedly carried the subject line “help with USDA food program,” and another exchange involving Bock was labeled “Ilhan’s Office.” The report also says a text string between Bock and Omar was recovered during a raid of Bock’s home. The contents of those communications remain sealed, which is exactly why the pressure for subpoenas and document production is not going away. There is a careful distinction here, and it matters. Bock’s statement alone does not prove Omar committed a crime. It puts a serious allegation directly into the middle of a $250 million taxpayer-fraud scandal. That is especially true because Omar’s office was already under scrutiny before Bock gave this interview. The Washington Examiner previously reported on trial exhibits and the Minnesota fraud committee’s fight for records: Lawmakers on the Minnesota House fraud-prevention and oversight committee said Omar was refusing to turn over records of her office’s past correspondence with Aimee Bock, the convicted Feeding Our Future figure at the center of the case. Documents containing communications involving Omar’s office were entered as government exhibits in United States v. Bock. The contents were sealed by the court, but the exhibit list and descriptions were public. One exhibit cited a February 5, 2021 email chain between Bock and Omar’s deputy district director, Ali Isse. Omar community representative Natasha Rice was carbon copied, and the thread carried the subject line “Re: Help with USDA Food Program.” Another exhibit described a February 18, 2021 email from Bock to Feeding Our Future employee Abdikerm Eidleh with the subject “Ilhan’s Office.” A separate exhibit mentioned a text-message string between Bock and “Ilhans Office,” recovered during the January 20, 2022 search of Bock’s home. State Rep. Kristin Robbins argued Omar had some role, “whether inadvertent or not,” because Omar passed the MEALS Act in March 2020 and Robbins said that legislation took guardrails off the federal school nutrition program. That is the part Democrats want to bury under process arguments. If the records are innocent, release them. If Omar’s office simply helped constituents navigate legal programs, then show the public the communications. Instead, Minnesota lawmakers have been fighting to get basic answers. A second viral post highlighted the same point after Bock’s interview: Omar faced the accusation after lawmakers had already asked her for records. HOLY SMOKES. Minnesota fraud mastermind Aimee Bock just revealed that Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar *KNEW* about the $250M Feeding Our Future fraud scandal No WONDER Omar just refused to hand over documents to the fraud committee! Bock told the NYP: “I struggle to believe that she https://t.co/yfuLyh8ixS — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 17, 2026 The official Minnesota House letter to Washington makes clear this controversy had already reached formal oversight channels. In a May 7 letter to House Oversight Chairman James Comer, State Rep. Kristin Robbins asked for federal help: Robbins wrote that her committee had invited Omar to an April 21, 2026 hearing to answer questions about her role in creating the conditions for the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. The letter identified Omar as the chief author of the Maintaining Essential Access to Lunch for Students Act, or MEALS Act, which passed as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act in March 2020. Robbins said the MEALS Act removed important guardrails in the federal School Nutrition Program and allowed restaurants to participate in the program. She wrote that Omar had documented ties to people convicted in the Feeding Our Future case. The letter specifically noted that Omar held her 2018 election party at Safari Restaurant and later appeared in a video promoting the MEALS Act that was filmed at Safari. Safari was one of the locations tied to the Feeding Our Future scandal. Robbins asked Chairman Comer for assistance because, in her view, state investigators needed answers about Omar’s role and could not get them through normal voluntary cooperation. And the underlying fraud was not small. This was one of the ugliest COVID-era scandals in the country: money meant to feed poor children allegedly turned into luxury cars, real estate, and fake meal claims. The Department of Justice announced Bock’s conviction last year: The Justice Department said a federal jury found Aimee Bock and Salim Said guilty for their roles in a $250 million pandemic-fraud scheme involving federal child nutrition programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bock was the founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future. Said owned Safari Restaurant and other companies that operated under Feeding Our Future sponsorship, making the Safari connection especially important given Omar’s prior public appearance there. The jury convicted Bock of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, and federal programs bribery. Said was also convicted on multiple counts tied to the scheme. Federal officials said Bock, Said, and others took advantage of a global pandemic to rob food programs aimed at serving people in need of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. That is the context for the new allegation. This is a massive public-corruption scandal involving money that was supposed to feed children. There is one more reason to be cautious and still demand answers. Bock is a convicted defendant awaiting sentencing, and prosecutors have accused her of trying to shift blame. MPR News reported on that prosecutor allegation: Prosecutors accused Bock of trying to minimize what they called her starring role in the Feeding Our Future fraud by leaking protected documents from jail before sentencing. The accusation came as Bock was awaiting sentencing after her conviction. Prosecutors argued that the leak effort was designed to shift attention away from her own conduct and toward public officials. That matters because her allegation against Omar should be treated as a claim that needs evidence, not as a proven verdict. The proper answer is not to pretend Bock is automatically credible or automatically lying. It also shows why sealed records and unanswered document requests matter. The public needs evidence, timelines, and communications, not partisan fog around stolen child-nutrition money. The proper answer is to open the records, subpoena the communications if necessary, and let the public see what Omar’s office knew, when it knew it, and what it did. That is the bottom line. If Omar had nothing to do with the largest pandemic-fraud scandal in Minnesota history, she should want the documents released and the questions answered. But if her office was communicating with Bock and Feeding Our Future while the fraud machine was taking off, taxpayers deserve to know every detail. The children were supposed to get meals. The fraudsters got rich. Now an insider is pointing at one of the most protected Democrats in Congress, and the American people deserve the truth.

The Trump administration is doing something that should have been standard practice decades ago: checking whether the people on America’s voter rolls are actually eligible to vote. The Department of Homeland Security’s SAVE database, run through USCIS, is now being used at massive scale for voter registration verification and voter list maintenance ahead of the 2026 midterms. That means citizenship checks. It also means checks for people who appear to have died but remain on the rolls. Democrats and their activist lawyers are already calling it a “purge.” MAGA lawmakers see the issue very differently: if America is going to have elections, America has to know who is legally voting in them. Voter ID and the SAVE Act have overwhelming bipartisan support, yet @LeaderJohnThune continues to block it. President Trump mandated this get done, and I’ll make sure the SAVE Act is included in FISA or housing. Thune cannot ignore it now. https://t.co/M7TKpPIgxv — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) May 17, 2026 The numbers behind the Trump administration’s push are enormous. AP laid out the scale of the checks now underway: The Trump administration has run at least 67 million voter registrations through government databases as it searches for people who may be ineligible to vote, including possible noncitizens and people who appear to have died. The review is being carried out through a strengthened federal verification program at the Department of Homeland Security. Tens of thousands of registrations have been flagged for additional review, according to the figures described in the report. At least 25 states have used SAVE to check their voter rolls since April 2025, after the Trump administration expanded the program’s search abilities. USCIS said 60 million voter-registration checks identified roughly 24,000 potential noncitizens. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said in a recent Fox News interview that the checks also identified about 350,000 people who appear to have died. The left’s legal machine is already moving. Voting-rights groups have filed at least six federal lawsuits over SAVE checks, either against the Trump administration or against states using the program. That is the real story. Democrats call it frightening because the federal government is checking the voter rolls. Most normal Americans hear those numbers and ask a different question: why was this not already happening everywhere? The official USCIS guidance makes clear that SAVE is not some mystery tool created out of nowhere for partisan drama. USCIS explains how the program fits voter verification: SAVE is operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services inside the Department of Homeland Security. USCIS describes it as a service that allows registered government agencies to verify immigration status and U.S. citizenship for authorized purposes. The agency’s voter-registration guidance states the basic legal point plainly: federal law allows only U.S. citizens to vote in federal elections. State election agencies can use SAVE for voter registration, voter list maintenance, and oversight of those processes. USCIS says SAVE optimized its service in 2025 to better serve voter-verification agencies. The agency also says the system can use Social Security Administration data to verify the U.S. citizenship of most U.S.-born individuals and check the SSA Death Master File. In practice, that gives states a federal tool for finding records that deserve a closer look before another national election. A flagged record should still be reviewed carefully, but the existence of review does not make the entire effort illegitimate. The key issue is simple: a country that can verify eligibility for benefits, licenses, employment paperwork, travel, banking, and taxes can verify eligibility for the ballot. President Trump has been making this point for years. His position is not complicated: every legal vote should count, and illegal votes should never be allowed to cancel them out. Sen. Mike Lee thanked Trump over the weekend for continuing to push the SAVE America Act, which would put stronger citizenship and voter-ID requirements into federal election law. Thank you, President Trump, for continuing to push for the SAVE America Act https://t.co/veic3AW7XS — Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 16, 2026 The SAVE database push is part of a larger Trump election-integrity agenda, not a one-off bureaucratic move. The White House described that agenda in its citizenship-verification fact sheet: The White House says President Trump is working to ensure citizenship verification and voter eligibility in federal elections. The administration’s position is that federal elections should be protected by confirming that voters are eligible American citizens. The fact sheet points to existing federal tools, including Social Security Administration records and DHS’s SAVE program, that can assist in verifying voter identity and eligibility. In other words, the government already has tools that can help states separate eligible voters from ineligible records. The White House also tied the effort to Trump’s March 2025 executive order on election integrity. That order included verifying state voter-registration lists, enforcing federal law against counting ballots received after Election Day, and banning foreign nationals from interfering in U.S. elections. That is the policy backbone behind the current voter-roll checks. It is not merely about one database search. It is about forcing the system to treat citizenship, Election Day deadlines, and foreign interference as serious issues before ballots are cast. The left’s objection is revealing. They say they are worried about eligible voters being wrongly flagged. Fine. Build a fair review process, notify people clearly, and let citizens prove their status. But that concern does not justify ignoring noncitizens, dead registrants, duplicate records, outdated rolls, or obvious holes in the system. Cleaning voter rolls is not an attack on democracy. Letting corrupted rolls decide close elections is. Trump is putting election integrity back where it belongs: at the center of the midterm fight. Now the question is whether Republican officials in every state will use the tools they have been given.

In recent weeks, Cuba has increased its hostility towards the United States, and it appears that hostility has heightened. A classified intelligence report that was obtained by Axios reveals the Cuban government has bought more than 300 military drones and has begun discussions on possibly using them against the United States. The new report comes as President Trump has warned on several occasions that the United States will “take over Cuba.” Read Axios‘ exclusive report here: Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels and possibly Key West, Fla., 90 miles north of Havana, according to classified intelligence shared with Axios. The intelligence — which could become a pretext for U.S. military action — shows the degree to which the Trump administration sees Cuba as a threat because of developments in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisers in Havana, a senior U.S. official said. “When we think about those types of technologies being that close, and a range of bad actors from terror groups to drug cartels to Iranians to the Russians, it’s concerning,” the official said. The new report comes just days after CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Cuba to discuss the ongoing hostilities. Take a look: Havana, Cuba pic.twitter.com/7S7TtJPyf5 — CIA (@CIA) May 14, 2026 The New York Times provided further insight into Ratcliffe’s visit to Cuba: John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, traveled to Cuba on Thursday, a day after Havana admitted that its fuel oil supplies have been exhausted for consumers and businesses. Mr. Ratcliffe made the visit to deliver a warning to the government that it had to make economic changes and stop allowing Russia and China to operate intelligence posts in Cuba, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Mr. Ratcliffe is the highest-ranking Trump administration official to visit Cuba. His trip is part of a multifaceted campaign to escalate pressure against the Communist government and fulfill President Trump’s demand for regime change. In a statement, the C.I.A. said that Mr. Ratcliffe had traveled to Havana to personally deliver President Trump’s message “that the United States is prepared to seriously engage on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes.” The C.I.A. said Mr. Ratcliffe had met with Raúl G. Rodríguez Castro, known as “Raulito” or “El Cangrejo” (the Crab), the influential grandson of former president Raúl Castro. Mr. Ratcliffe also met with Lázaro Álvarez Casas, the minister of the interior, as well as the head of Cuba’s intelligence services, a C.I.A. official said. At the same time, federal prosecutors in Miami were working toward securing an indictment of the elder Mr. Castro, who remains a force in the country’s politics, according to several people familiar with the matter. The scope of the indictment and the number of defendants is being debated, but it could include drug trafficking charges and accusations connected to Cuba’s downing in 1996 of planes run by the humanitarian aid group Brothers to the Rescue, two of the people said. At the beginning of May, President Trump, during a speech at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in Florida, joked that the U.S. would be taking over Cuba immediately. Watch here: JUST IN: PRESIDENT TRUMP announces that the United States will be taking control of Cuba almost immediately. pic.twitter.com/wtGLOIx66e — Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial (@TruthTrumpPost) May 2, 2026 In February, Trump offered similar remarks and said that the U.S. may conduct a “friendly takeover” of Cuba. New: President Trump speaks about Cuba: “Maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.” pic.twitter.com/a1uIbH5RKE — The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) February 27, 2026 Conservative commentator Mike Cernovich doesn’t buy the latest report from Axios: Even as someone who supports U.S. governing Latin America, this is too much slop to stomach. Yeah sure, they are about to drone us. We totally believe that. https://t.co/ZNnAIvGWNY — Cernovich (@Cernovich) May 17, 2026 What are your thoughts? This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

This is a developing story. Police in Austin, TX are currently searching for a suspect, or potentially multiple suspects, after a series of shootings took place. Nine random shootings have happened in the region since last night. So far, four people have been shot and injured. Law enforcement has issued a shelter-in-place order for the area while the search for the suspect(s) continues. Here are the details: BREAKING: Austin, TX Police have issued a SHELTER-IN-PLACE warning for a large swath of the city, seen in the below map, as a shooter is going around firing AT RANDOM in the area Up to NINE shootings have taken place since last night, and four have been shot. Two fire stations… pic.twitter.com/ux5TkXY5AZ — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 17, 2026 BREAKING: Austin, TX Police have issued a SHELTER-IN-PLACE warning for a large swath of the city, seen in the below map, as a shooter is going around firing AT RANDOM in the area Up to NINE shootings have taken place since last night, and four have been shot. Two fire stations have also been shot at, and police are looking for suspect(s) possible in their late teens. Supposedly, they’re switching between the vehicles seen below. Anyone in Austin with info is encouraged to call 911 immediately. The Austin Police Department shared the shelter-in-place order on social media: SHELTER IN PLACE: Austin Police officers continue to search for suspects located to multiple shootings and have issued a shelter in place in the areas of South Slaughter Ln, East McKinney Falls Pkwy, North Ben White Blvd., and West Escarpment Blvd. Residents in the surrounding… — Austin Police Department (@Austin_Police) May 17, 2026 SHELTER IN PLACE: Austin Police officers continue to search for suspects located to multiple shootings and have issued a shelter in place in the areas of South Slaughter Ln, East McKinney Falls Pkwy, North Ben White Blvd., and West Escarpment Blvd. Residents in the surrounding area are instructed to stay indoors until further notice. The Houston Chronicle provided more details on the suspect(s): Investigators described a possible suspect as a White or Hispanic male in his late teens. As of around 2:10 p.m. police said on social media they believe that the suspect or suspects might be traveling in a white KIA Optima. Police have also connected the crime to a black or dark blue 2012 Hyundai Sonata with a broken right-side passenger window. And, here are a few additional photos: BREAKING: Austin, Texas police searching for active shooter who carried out 9 random attacks in recent hours. Multiple victims. Call 911 if seen. – Austin American-Statesman pic.twitter.com/d66r8QZ0vA — AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) May 17, 2026 The Austin Mayor and Police Chief delivered a joint press briefing with more details on the situation. Watch it here: BRIEFING: City of Austin Mayor Kirk Watson and Chief Lisa Davis provide details on shooting incidents. pic.twitter.com/tkYuonctsl — Austin Police Department (@Austin_Police) May 17, 2026 We’ll continue to bring you further updates as they come in. Please pray for all of the victims and that the suspect(s) responsible will be brought to justice! This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

Democrat Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has been making a name for herself by pursuing a range of far-left policy goals since entering office. One of the most controversial thus far involves a new restriction on Virginians’ Second Amendment rights. But a ban is only as good as the prosecutors willing to enforce it … and in one county, it looks like Spanberger is going to face some resistance. Here’s what the Daily Caller reported: Pro-Second Amendment organizations sued to have the bans struck down as unconstitutional minutes after Spanberger signed the relevant bills into law Thursday evening. Commonwealth’s Attorney G. Ryan Mehaffey wrote a letter Friday to Spotsylvania County Sheriff Roger L. Harris, citing Supreme Court decisions as the basis of his belief that the law couldn’t be “lawfully enforced.” “The Assault Weapons Ban (SB 749/HB 217) and the Public Carry Ban (SB 727/HB 1524) are undoubtedly inconsistent with the historical tradition of Virginia, as articulated by Miller [v. United States], and are thus unconstitutional under Bruen,” Mehaffey wrote. “Moreover, Heller secures the right of Virginians to keep and bear the most popular rifle in America, the AR-15,” Mehaffey continued. The news sparked an array of social media posts praising his willingness to stand up to Richmond: My good friend and fellow Oath Keeper, Commonwealth Attorney Ryan Mehaffey is supporting our resolution declaring Spotsylvania County a 2A Sanctuary county. We will not comply with Governor Spanberger’s infringement on our unalienable Constitutional rights pic.twitter.com/XckrpFKNV0 — Andrew "Drew" Mullins (@realDrewMullins) May 16, 2026 And Spanberger’s push for new gun restrictions has attracted scorn from far and wide: 2A has nothing to do with hunting….and it doesn’t matter the justification…SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED — Jeremy Eberhard (@JeremyEber16694) May 17, 2026 The demo-nazi's are continually obsessed with private gun ownership. This year, the 250 celebration year, we need to call out the lies and deception and secure our rights. Rid our land of unconstitutional snakes now. — Daniel Dyer (@_rocky48) May 16, 2026 As TheBlaze reported, Spanberger’s ban was quickly met with a smattering of lawsuits: John Commerford, executive director of the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action, announced on Thursday the filing of “two critical lawsuits in Virginia — one in federal court, with our friends at the Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition along with two NRA members, and one in state court, in Washington County, Virginia, along with our state association of Virginia Shooting Sports Association and Middleton Firearms and Training and two NRA members.” “The NRA will not sit idly by while progressive politicians strip the rights of law-abiding citizens, and our world-class legal team is locked, loaded, and ready to shoot down this outrageous gun-control law,” said Commerford.  Second Amendment Foundation Executive Director Adam Kraut stated, “It’s wild that lawmakers who each take an oath to uphold the Constitution insist on passing bills purposefully designed to gut it.” “The firearms and magazines banned in this law aren’t bizarre and unusual outliers; they’re among the most commonly owned guns and magazines in the country. They’re owned in the tens of millions by peaceable Americans who use them overwhelmingly lawfully,” continued Kraut. “Virginia has now joined the minority of radical states to ban these constitutionally protected firearms and, in so doing, joined the club of states we’re suing over it.” Here’s some additional coverage of the latest development:   This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.