It took about a week, but it is our duty to report that the Minnesota Somali welfare scam has finally been reported on Elitist Media nightly news. Unsurprisingly, the network to break the seal was NBC.  Watch as Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez does the right thing and exposes NBC’s viewers to an egregious theft of public funds via fraud, regardless of the fraudsters’ ethnic origins: NBC Nightly News cracks the ICE, if you will, on reporting the Somali welfare scam currently rocking Minnesota pic.twitter.com/Q1P9y02YWZ — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 3, 2025 GABE GUTIERREZ: It comes as the administration ramps up its crackdown on illegal immigration. A senior law enforcement official tells NBC News ICE is planning an operation this week in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, where there’s a large Somali population. KRISTI NOEM: You told me to look into Minnesota and their fraud on visas and their programs. 50% of them are fraudulent. GUTIERREZ: Federal prosecutors have charged dozens of people in Minnesota's Somali community for allegedly stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money meant for social service programs. DONALD TRUMP: This beautiful place and I see these people ripping it off. (VIDEO SWIPE) Their country stinks and we don't want them in our country. (VIDEO SWIPE) Where they come from: hell. And they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don't want ‘em in our country. Let ‘em go back to where they came from and fix it. I didn’t say that Gutierrez’ mention of the welfare scam was expansive- it’s still just one sentence within a White House roundup. But that one sentence is the first mention of what would undoubtedly be a national multicycle story had the fraud happened in a red state. It’s (D)ifferent like that. That one throwaway sentence provided NBC’s viewers with important background and context for President Trump’s subsequent remarks- an important context missing from ABC and CBS, which presented only the disembodied statements but with no context. Here’s ABC: STILL FAKE NEWS: ABC World News Tonight stripped all context from President Trump's remarks so as to avoid having to report on the MN Somali welfare scam, making "Trump lashes out" the story instead. pic.twitter.com/1fEC8e4r6U — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 3, 2025 DAVID MUIR: Let's bring in Mary Bruce. Because, Mary, I know there's another breaking headline tonight from The White House. President Trump lashing out at immigrants from Somalia saying “I don't want them in our country.” I wanted to get you to report back on this. Here's what the president said first. DONALD TRUMP: We're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work. These aren't people that say, “let's go, c’mon, let’s make this place great.” These are people that do nothing but complain. They complain. And from where they came from, they got nothing. You know, they came from paradise, and they said this isn't paradise. But when they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don't want them in our country. David: And Mary, you learned tonight that this comes as ICE prepares to target Somali immigrants in Minneapolis? MARY BRUCE: David, the president is increasingly going after Somali immigrants and now sources tell us that ICE is preparing for a surge operation in Minneapolis, which has a large Somali population. But tonight, the mayor of Minneapolis says President Trump is wrong, and that these immigrants have only greatly improved their community. David. MUIR: Mary Bruce live at The White House tonight. Mary, thank you. And CBS: The CBS Evening News, also presuming their viewers are morons, stripped context from Trump's remarks about the Minnesota Somali welfare scam. pic.twitter.com/jTbaytmAkm — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 3, 2025 WEIJIA JIANG: At the cabinet meeting, the president also talked about his new efforts to pause migration and singled out Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who came to the U.S. as a Somali refugee. DONALD TRUMP: Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren’t people that work. They complain and do nothing but bitch. We don't want them in our country. JIANG: Congresswoman Omar responded on social media posting, quote: “his obsession with me is creepy.” Tonight a U.S. official tells CBS News this week ICE is planning to surge resources to Minneapolis and Omar's district and to St. Paul, targeting people with deportation orders, some of whom are also from Somalia.   JOHN DICKERSON: Weijia Jiang at The White House. Thank you. Both of these items focused on the ICE surge in Minneapolis and on depicting Trump’s remarks as somehow being the impetus for these ICE raids but, again, there was no mention of the massive welfare fraud scandal, or the also-underreported visa fraud scandal.  Likewise, there was no mention of Attorney General Keith Ellison facing bribery allegations in relation to the Somali welfare fraud scandal OR of the judge who inexplicably overturned a guilty verdict in a $7.2 million Medicaid fraud case. The networks are making sure viewers perceive that the ONLY scandal here is Trump’s reaction to the ACTUAL scandal. We might call this a Trumpwashing in service of a major omission. In case you’re wondering the extent of the context stripped from President Trump’s remarks, here’s the whole exchange with Reagan Reese of the Daily Caller.  Here is the full Q&A between @reaganreese_ of The @DailyCaller and POTUS on Tim Walz, 80% of which was excised by ABC and CBS nightlies so as to avoid having to report on the exploding MN Somali welfare scam. pic.twitter.com/emlvClrHVO — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 3, 2025

NewsNation host Leland Vittert took Democrats and the liberal media to town Monday night over their newfound obsession with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s alleged “war crime” committed in early September. The On Balance host cut through the noise by arguing the reasonable and obvious: the strikes in the Caribbean were warranted and not unprecedented, and that Democrats have always lost when going after President Trump on common sense issues. After reporting the facts of the case, Vittert played a short compilation of clips from CNN’s The Situation Room, Chuck Todd on his podcast with Chris Cillizza, and Joe Scarborough on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, all of which were critical of the Trump administration’s actions: The Washington establishment is simply horrified that the Trump administration is killing drug runners, and they want you to be horrified as well. And they're happy. You can see that in their pensive smiles. Because to them this will be the issue that finally ends the Trump Presidency, or at least defangs Trump. Trump is doing what he does in every one of these situations: he stays defiant. Vittert then provided a brief history lesson to prove that the administration’s recent campaign against drug traffickers in fact had precedent, citing similar actions taken by former Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama in Colombia and Peru: “I don't remember anybody being charged with war crimes. […] Yet when Trump does it, we are to believe that it is completely unacceptable.” Other networks haven't wanted to acknowledge there were similar actions by other presidents.      The other major point of Vittert’s argument: “When Democrats attempt to bring down Trump and Hegseth on the process, on the rules, it's a losing argument.” Vittert didn’t even need to pull out a textbook to recall Democrat-darling Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador: … minor problem for Democrats, he had ties to MS-13, strong ties. Democrats back then were arguing the process, the rules, the due process of how exactly he was extradited and why this was terrible, and then Kristi Noem was gonna get fired, and it was gonna bring down the Trump administration. It didn't work for Democrats then, it's not going to work for them now. Not to mention the “Russia, Russia, Russia” hoax, his two impeachments, and various lawsuits filed against him in-between his two terms. It’s been a futile witch hunt. In conclusion, based on Presidential precedent and the left’s TDS addiction, the inevitable endgame of the last few days’ controversy was clear: Arguing over the ins and outs of international law and whether or not Hegseth violated it is a pointless exercise […] To most reasonable Americans, blowing up boats bringing drugs into America makes sense. Call it common sense. When Democrats tried to defeat Trump on process issues, on common sense issues, they lose every time. They get excited, it's like Lucy and the football. They think this is going to be the time. Every time this happens, it actually makes Trump stronger. Only time would tell whether the latest attacks against Hegseth, Admiral Bradley, Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Caine or whoever else will actually stick. Needless to say, Trump will most likely come out unscathed and quite possibly, for the umpteenth time, vindicate The transcript is below. Click "expand" read: NewsNation’s On Balance with Leland Vittert December 1, 2025 9:01:33 p.m. EST LELAND VITTERT: If you watch TV this morning, much of the media and Democrats could not contain their glee, that a “double tap” strike on a boat that was running drugs might be the end of Pete Hegseth’s time as Secretary of War. The Washington Post reports Hegseth ordered the Navy to, quote, “Kill them all,” speaking of the alleged drug smugglers aboard a boat leaving Venezuela. The Navy admiral in charge of the strike then allegedly ordered a second missile strike on survivors of the first strike. [Cuts to clip] FMR. DEFENSE SEC. LEON PANETTA [on The Situation Room, 12/01/25]: I don't think there's any question that that's a war crime. ELIE HONIG [on The Situation Room, 12/01/25]: Well, Wolf, they were, in a word, illegal. CHUCK TODD [on Chris and Chuck Chat!, 12/01/25]: It's the kiss of death. It is — look, we know who the fall guy is going to be. JOE SCARBOROUGH [on Morning Joe, 12/01/25]: It’s a dangerous time legally for Pete Hegseth. It gets more dangerous if he is spending this time furiously going around trying to cover it up. [Cuts back to live] VITTERT: The Washington establishment is simply horrified that the Trump administration is killing drug runners, and they want you to be horrified as well. And they're happy. You can see that in their pensive smiles. Because to them this will be the issue that finally ends the Trump Presidency, or at least defangs Trump. Trump is doing what he does in every one of these situations: he stays defiant. [Cuts to clip] PRES. DONALD TRUMP [on 11/30/25]: And Pete said he said he did not want them — he didn't even know what people were talking about. So, we’ll look at — we’ll look into it. But no, I wouldn't have wanted that, not the second strike. [Cuts back to live] VITTERT: Okay, so Hegseth is distancing himself a little bit after a meeting in the Oval Office. He wrote on X, “Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, [a] true professional, [and] has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since.” So, no matter what really happened there and both in the Pentagon and then what happened actually to the smugglers and the boat, these actions are nothing new. The Clinton administration shot down more than a dozen drug trafficking planes near Colombia and Peru from 1995 to 2001. I don't remember anybody being charged with war crimes. Bush's CIA started and Obama's continued a covert action in Colombia that killed dozens of revolutionaries from 2007 through 2013. Yet when Trump does it, we are to believe that it is completely unacceptable. You are all of a sudden hearing all of these words: the rules of war, the rules of engagement, laws of armed conflict, international law, the Geneva Convention. This would just be a political observation, but it’s also a human observation. Nobody liked the hall monitor in high school, or the RA, the person in college who told you couldn't drink after 10 p.m. in the dorms. Nobody likes those people. When Democrats attempt to bring down Trump and Hegseth on the process, on the rules, it's a losing argument. Remember just a couple of months ago, Democrats were losing their minds over the Maryland man deported to El Salvador. Kilmar Abrego Garcia turned into a household name and a household hero. And yes, minor problem for Democrats, he had ties to MS-13, strong ties. But Democrats back then were arguing the process, the rules, the due process of how exactly he was extradited and why this was terrible, and then Kristi Noem was gonna get fired, and it was gonna bring down the Trump administration. It didn't work for Democrats then, it's not going to work for them now. Arguing over the ins and outs of international law and whether or not Hegseth violated it is a pointless exercise, and here's why. To most reasonable Americans, blowing up boats bringing drugs into America makes sense. Call it common sense. When Democrats tried to defeat Trump on process issues, on common sense issues, they lose every time. They get excited, it's like Lucy and the football. They think this is going to be the time. Every time this happens, it actually makes Trump stronger.

Media Research Center President David Bozell and NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham joined The Sean Spicer Show Monday night to break down the latest example of media double standards: from the New York Times’ attempt to manufacture a “decline” narrative about President Trump to the press outrage over the White House’s new “Media Offenders” page. Bozell and Spicer first focused on the absurdity of a recent New York Times article suggesting Trump was "losing his energy" or "declined," contrasting it sharply with the media's treatment of his predecessor. "We all saw Joe Biden's cognitive decline in real time," Bozell said. He emphasized the irony: "Then Trump's holding court day in and day out, doing all sorts of different interviews... the idea that he's lost a step is ridiculous." Bozell said the Times piece was a cynical attempt to drive traffic by deliberately provoking a reaction from conservatives. The discussion then shifted to the White House’s new “Media Offenders” page, a public tracker highlighting reporters and outlets with a record of bias. Graham said the MRC was “very pleased,” noting the document included nine links to NewsBusters. He criticized the defensive response from outlets such as The Washington Post, which ran a headline suggesting Trump was “ramping up reporter attacks.” “They pretend this is an attack on freedom of the press … we are democracy and you’re authoritarianism. It’s maddening,” Graham said, arguing that many in the elitist media believe they can criticize others freely but view any factual critique of their own work as off-limits. Bozell doubled down on the importance of the White House fighting back, calling the tracker a "terrific, terrific advancement" in the fight against liberal bias. He observed that while the media does not dispute the factual conclusions of the White House tracker, they simply "don't like being exposed," noting that the alternative is Republican leaders refusing to act on important stories because they believe "the media won't cover it." The segment wrapped up with a call to action, encouraging Republicans to follow the White House’s lead and call out, rather than cozy up to, hostile journalists. The takeaway is simple: the media's swift and uniform condemnation of the tracker served as the strongest evidence yet of its necessity.

The price at the pump for a gallon of Regular is highest in states with Democrat governors and lowest in those led by Republicans, analysis of AAA statistics by CNSNews reveals. According to AAA's daily report published Tuesday, the national average cost of a gallon of gas on Monday was $2.998. Statewide averages varied greatly, ranging from $4.54 a gallon in California to a low of $2.40 in Oklahoma.  Four of the five states with the highest gas costs are run by Democrat governors. The lone exception, Nevada (#5), has a Republican governor, but Democrats control the legislature. What's more, seven of the ten states where pump prices are the highest are led by Democrats. When the District of Columbia, run by Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser, is added to the mix, eight of 11 have Democrat leaders.  Highest Average Gas Prices: California $4.54 – Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom Hawaii $4.45 – Democrat Gov. Joshua Green Washington $4.16 – Democrat Gov. Bob Ferguson Oregon $3.79 – Democrat Gov. Tina Kotek Nevada $3.71 – Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo – D House, D Senate Alaska $3.69 – Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy Arizona $3.30 – Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs Idaho $3.23 – Republican Gov. Brad Little Pennsylvania $3.22 – Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro District of Columbia $3.20 – Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser Illinois $3.15 – Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzger Of the seven remaining states where the average cost is above $3.00 a gallon, five have Democrat governors. Vermont, one of the two states on the list with a Republican governor, has a legislature dominated by Democrats. New York $3.13 – Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul Vermont $3.12 – Republican Gov. Phil Scott (D Legislature, D Senate) Connecticut $3.08 – Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont Utah $3.06 – Republican Gov. Spencer Cox Massachusetts $3.03 – Democrat Gov. Maura Healey Maine $3.02 – Democrat Gov. Janet T. Mills New Jersey $3.01 – Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy Conversely, seven of the ten states where gas prices are lowest have Republican governors. And in two of the three states with Democrat governors (#8 Kentucky and #10 Wisconsin), Republicans control both the House and Senate.  Lowest Average Gas Prices: Oklahoma $2.40 – Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt Texas $2.55 – Republican Gov. Greg Abbott Arkansas $2.57 – Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Mississippi $2.58 – Republican Gov. Tate Reeves Louisiana $2.59 – Republican Gov. Jeff Landry Tennessee $2.60 – Republican Gov. Bill Lee Colorado $2.60 – Democrat Gov. Jared Polis Kentucky $2.60 – Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear (R House, R Senate) Iowa $2.65 – Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds Wisconsin $2.75 – Democrat Gov. Tony Evers (R House, R Senate) States with Republican governors also have the most affordable homes. As CNSNews has reported, a study by Realtor.com finds that all five of the least affordable states for housing have Democrat governors.  Meanwhile, four of the five most affordable states for housing have Republican governors. “If the battle is over affordability, you should be cleaning their clocks,” Host Mark Levin told Republicans in a recent episode of “Life, Liberty and Levin.”

What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems? On Monday, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City’s subway — though this story wasn’t all it seemed. The homeless man who at first said he was the victim of an attack turned tight-lipped when police pressed him about what happened. Had he set his own clothes ablaze to attract attention? In the wild environment our subways have become, a malicious attack or a madman’s self-inflicted injury are both all too believable. Most trips on the New York subway or Washington, D.C.’s metro system don’t resemble a clip from “Mad Max,” but sooner or later anyone who rides the rails of our cities regularly encounters insanity, aggression and the prospect of violence — or actual violence, including the murderous kind. The life-changing and very nearly life-ending attack on Bethany MaGee, the woman set aflame on a Chicago Blue Line train last month, was no hoax. Nor was the assault that killed Iryna Zarutska on a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina, this summer. Nor was the burning alive of Debrina Kawam on the New York subway last December. None of those women had any reason to fear for her life, yet a commute turned into unspeakable terror. And it was predictable — not because these victims had anything special to fear but because everyone knows what’s allowed to happen in the tunnels and on the trains. If a thug with 72 arrests to his name, like the man who tried to immolate the 26-year-old MaGee in Chicago — or with “just” 14 arrests, like Iryna’s murderer — decides this is the day to take an unsuspecting victim, what chance does she have? Her fate was already decided by judges who chose not to lock up men who were a demonstrated threat to the public. The killers and would-be killers are only half the problem. The other half are the judges and lawmakers who put them on the streets in the first place, leaving them free to ambush unsuspecting victims on train cars, where they can’t escape. (MaGee did try running, but her attacker caught up and torched her.) Legislators in North Carolina, at least, are trying to stop this murderous chain of events before it begins, by putting men with criminal records like those of Iryna’s killer in prison or mental institutions as soon as they start breaking the law. “Iryna’s Law” restricts cashless bail, requires judges to order more mental evaluations, and makes it easier to involuntarily commit offenders found to be disturbed. It also attempts to restore the death penalty in North Carolina, which has been blocked for nearly 20 years by legal challenges. The law is a good start, and other states need similar reforms to incarcerate and institutionalize more of the people who commit horrors like the subway attacks of recent months. There’s a federal role in this, too, including rigorous enforcement of immigration law: Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, the man charged with burning Kawam to death, is an illegal immigrant who should never have been in this country to begin with. Yet more is needed: not only zero tolerance toward violent and repeat offenders but zero tolerance in the political process for judges who go easy on them. Some states elect judges, and voters in those places can make known just how they feel about judges’ culpability for crimes committed by the lawbreakers they set loose. And states have provisions for impeaching judges, just as the federal government does. Where judges egregiously endanger the public with their leniency toward criminals, they should be impeached and removed from office. It wouldn’t take many examples before soft-on-crime judges got the message. Of course, judges themselves, where they aren’t elected by the public, are appointed by politicians who have to answer to voters — and those pols should feel the heat, too. Five years ago, progressives were pushing, in all seriousness, to “defund the police” and “abolish bail,” meaning, in the latter instance, simply releasing a wider array of arrestees. In most of the country, those slogans were not political winners, but advocates for these policies count more on elite sympathy, especially within the legal profession, than they do on ballot-box victories. Their gamble is that most Americans pay no mind to the inner workings of state courts and legislatures, so what loses in an election can still win where laws and legal precedents are actually made. This populist moment in national politics arises from the distrust our leaders have engendered among the public. But leaders in states and cities have betrayed Americans’ trust, too, and their betrayal turns public transportation into scenes of public execution for innocents like Iryna Zarutska. Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy, visit www.creators.com.