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No Spin News — May 18, 2026
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Foreign. Welcome to another edition of the no spin news. Monday, May 18, 2026. Stand up for your country. It's very frustrating trying to analyze the aftermath of President Trump's China trip. We're not getting a lot of information and I have the best contacts and sources. As you probably know, I'm not getting it. So I don't know what the deuce happened there. It's the Chinese way not to tell the press anything. Although I did speak to a couple of powerful people in China was more of the same. You remember, I was there in Beijing myself last year at this time. And the Trump administration usually lays out stuff, but being a little controlled here. Okay. So I can't tell you who won, who lost, and I can tell you that the reporting on it is dishonest, but that's not going to shock you. Whenever Donald Trump's involved with anything, there's dishonest reporting. But it is very, very frustrating for somebody like me, usually ahead of the curve, not to have a lot of information to give you. But the talking points memo will go over what we know. So the Trump administration set. Okay. That America got $17 billion worth of agricultural trade deals. 17 billion. We have not seen any contracts. I don't doubt it, but I can't prove it. All right. Most of the trade is in agricultural products. Beef, poultry, soybeans. Soybeans. Soybeans. Okay, you got it. Okay. And then in return, China is going to address, in a nebulous way, supply chain shortages of rare earth material, which is what Greenland's all about and all of that. Will China address anything? Probably not. Just guessing here, but oh, yeah, we'll address it. Okay, then in October, last October, China committed to purchase 25 million more agricultural products. I don't believe they've moved out yet. So China says it'll do stuff and then just lays there. The trip was cordial. That's the best word and that's important. But there wasn't anything headline making. So apparently President Xi said, well, we'll help you on Iran. How? Nobody knows. Nobody, I guess the president knows, but he hasn't said so. We don't know. It's not specific. The only thing Xi did that made, that got attention was saber rattled toward Taiwan. And I told you that it's a very emotional issue. And every time I talk to the Chinese, Taiwan comes up. But does she want to destroy his own economy by invading Taiwan? Probably not, but the Chinese want it for their own reasons. Rest of the world doesn't care, other than Japan and South Korea, who are close by now. The anti Trump press is so boring that even the crazy networks are ignoring it. Now, I picked out two sound bites. One from a guy who runs the Midas Touch operation, which is far, far left. He. This man represented Colin Kaepernick. That's how nutty he is. All right? But he got a forum to go on television and say, this. Go. This trip by Donald Trump to China may go down in history as the
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most historic humiliation ritual for the United States ever. Donald Trump's just giving everything to Xi Jinping while Donald Trump is there in China giving speeches about Chinese food and
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Chinese restaurants in the United States. And as Donald Trump keeps on glazing Xi Jinping about how powerful you are. And again, the guy's a loon. All right, Go down in history is the most historic humiliation ritual for the USA ever. You know, okay, if you guys. I know you don't watch it, but it's my duty to bring it to your attention. Of more substance is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Now, remember, Schumer is pretty much at the end of the road. He cannot speak without notes, so he's literally reading every word he says. And his job is, is to oppose everything that President Trump does. Will it. So much for fighting against how China is hurting American workers and poisoning our communities with fentanyl. That would get in the way of Donald Trump and his family profiting off doing business with the Chinese Communist Party just hours in. And Xi Jinping has already threatened to, quote, collide or even clash, unquote, with the United States if we continue our support for Taiwan. Trump apparently didn't say anything in response. No, you see him reading his stuff off the paper, and Trump was smart not to say anything. You don't blow up a meeting like that based on speculation. You don't do that. You better not go into Taiwan. That's. You get you nowhere. And you notice Schumer's hunched over reading the words off the paper. All of that. Now, I will remind you that in 2023, she came to San Francisco. You'll remember that, because the city moved all the homeless out so she wouldn't have to see them and the world wouldn't have to take a look at really what San Francisco's devolved into. And then two, latest, two days later, all the homeless were back. Anyway, in that meeting, nothing was accomplished. Nothing. All right. And Biden, well, you know, it was. It was total waste of time. Now, you can make a comparison if you would like. We don't know yet whether China is going to carry through on the trade deals or help in Iran or back away a little from Taiwan. We don't know. Okay? So summing up, I can't report any more than I just told you because I don't know. Will I get information? Maybe it's not the Chinese way. Okay. You know, it's funny because we have leakers here all over the place out of our federal government. If you leaked federal government stuff in Beijing, you execute it, they kill you. Okay? Just keep that in mind. And that's the memo. All right, So I wrote a message of the day, and I hope you go every morning and read it. It's free. Billowe.com has it, and I says likelihood of military action against Iran soon. I don't know what soon comprises, but we're at that point now where the Iranians simply aren't going to do anything about it unless they're punished to an extent where they have to. And I assume with the polling numbers being terrible, and I would say 65% of Americans opposing the Iran action, President Trump's gonna have to wind it up. All right. When he does it, I don't know how it's gonna come down. I don't know. We're working it like crazy. But be prepared. All right? Back home. So lost in all of this Trump stuff is a very interesting case that the federal government has suspended $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to the state of California. A lot of jack. Okay. And the reason is, like, Minnesota and Maine, a few other states, probably more than we know, the states themselves were allowing phony hospice, hospital, phony stuff to be paid for. And then the states get reimbursed for that so that we pay for it, really. But it was. It was bogus. So I asked myself, get. Get somebody who really knows what this is all about. And I think we have it. Dr. Brian Blaze coming to us from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He's the president of the Paragon Health Institute. He did once work for Donald Trump. You guys should know that he follows these stories. And it's a grift, right? We're looking at. Let's pinpoint California, first of all. So from what I understand, a whole bunch of hospices out there where people go and die, and they were either overbilling or they weren't in existence at all and said they were, and the state would just rubber stamp the payments. So the federal government would reimburse the state of California. Do I have it correct?
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Yeah, I Mean, one of the things about the California hospices bill is that nobody was dying. You expect if people go into hospice, a pretty high mortality rate. And actually there was a very high survival rate with the Los Angeles hospice. So there's two programs. The one we're primarily talking about is Medicaid. Medicaid is a joint federal state program traditionally for lower income, more vulnerable Americans like children, pregnant moms, people with disabilities. The key to understanding Medicaid is that the federal government provides an open ended reimbursement of state spending. So the more the states spend, the more money that they get from Washington. That creates really bad incentives at the state level, creates a permissive environment for waste, fraud and abuse. And it's really important when you have those incentives that the federal government provide meaningful oversight of state programs. And what we saw during the Biden administration in particular was, was sort of in anything, no holds barred approach to Medicaid, the program grew astronomically in California. California now has a Medicaid program that costs more than $200 billion a year. About 2/3 of that is paid by the federal government. So a lot of this waste, fraud and abuse in California's Medicaid program is paid by federal taxpayers, people outside the state of California. And while there's significant waste, fraud and abuse in every state's program because of the incentives, California is really the hotspot and probably the most egregious example in the country of a mismanaged, wasteful Medicaid program.
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Now California doesn't make money on this. It loses some money. But that money would go to the Medicare patients anyway, right? The ones that really need help. But what they've done to set up this grift is saying, well, we're going to pay people who don't need help. I understand there was one hospice in somebody's garage. I mean, that was how bad the fraud is in California. Now does California have any kind of law enforcement looking at this at all to try to prevent the fraud? Yeah.
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So Dr. Oz has done particularly good work here. He's flagged, I think, 400 hospices in Los Angeles that were fraudulent. You know, one third of all hospices in the country are in Los Angeles and they took action against these, these providers and very few of them have, have appealed. You know, the state did some very minor oversight over the last couple of years, but just a fraction of the total problem. It really has been the attention that this fraud task force led by Vice President Vance, with Dr. Oz as the administrator for center of Medicare and Medicaid services, they've really brought additional attention and done significant action to close down these fraudulent hospices in Los Angeles.
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What's the difference between the L A grift and the Somali thing in Minneapolis?
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So, I mean, one of the differences is the Somali problem was related to autism. So they were paying parents to have their kids diagnosed with autism so that they could maximize billing. The other problem out of Minnesota was those sham daycare centers. Now, that's not a Medicaid program, but that is another federally supported program. In California, we've also seen an ethnic entity really involved with the fraud, the Armenians. And I think one of the factors that Dr. Oz is looking at is in a lot of these big cities, you have ethnic groups that have developed fraud schemes and are ripping off the federal government and in many cases taking the money, the loot that they get out of the country.
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Okay, so Armenians, first I've heard of this, are involved with the fraud in la. Somalis in Minneapolis. Now, Governor Newsom looks like he's going to run for president. Does he have defense here? Can he defend saying, well, I try to clean this up or I did whatever. Is there anything that he did?
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I mean, I think he's made the problem worse. Bill, if you look at Medicaid spending, the growth trajectory of Medicaid spending since he's been governor, California has one of the highest, fast, highest growing Medicaid programs in the country. It is really unsustainable. They've also done a lot of financial gimmicks. One of the things that Paragon wrote about last year was a California really, this money laundering scheme where they were able to get federal tax dollars to expand Medicaid to all unauthorized immigrants in the state. I don't think Gavin Newsom has a track record of being a good steward of Medicaid and, and protecting that program for the most vulnerable. And in California, it really is out of control. Almost 40% of all of Californians are enrolled in this welfare program.
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So almost 40% receive some kind of Medicare. Medicaid, I should say. And that includes undocumented aliens.
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It does. California expanded Medicaid to cover all unauthorized immigrants in the state back in 2020. Of course, that had costs that ended up being much greater than expected. So they have looked to dial that back. But, yeah, I mean, it was one of his main health policy agenda items a few years ago.
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So did the state legislature in Sacramento. Okay, that. Or was it just a executive order by Newsom?
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So here's what the state did, and it took advantage of the open ended reimbursement, it engaged in what is a. Well, was a legal money laundering tactic. The way that this works, the state tax managed care plans, it taxed them, say $10 billion. It then spent that $10 billion right back on those managed care plans. That is an accounting Gimmick. It was $10 billion going from the insurer to the state, back to the insurer. But then what the state did was invoice the federal government as if that was an actual expense. So the state got about, I think, $10 billion in additional money from the federal government for that accounting gimmick. And the next year, they expanded Medicaid to cover all unauthorized immigrants in the state. One of the good reforms in the one big beautiful bill was to shut down that loophole so California can no longer take advantage of it and states. Other states can't either.
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Was that under Biden?
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No, that was. So they expanded it to unauthorized immigrants. That was approved under President Biden and it was shut down by the reconciliation bill that President Trump signed.
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Okay, but Biden did know about it, did approve it.
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That's correct.
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All right, Doctor, we appreciate the candor, and I hope we can talk again soon. Let us know if anything else breaks out there. And this massive fraud. And that's what it is. I mean, this is why people don't have any money, because we have to pay more and more and more taxes and then go into corrupt situations like this under administrations that don't care. Okay. And then, well, we need more money. We need more money. We need national debt rise and rise and rising, rising. And so now at least the Trump administration is trying to do something about it. And of course, they're attacked by saying, oh, you're inhumane. Oh, yeah, I want the hospice in my garage. Come on. But the expansion of this into the billions and billions of dollars because nobody was paying attention to it. On that note, Louisiana Mayor Karen Bass wants to give drug addicts more comprehensive. Whenever you hear that word, you know they're coming after your money. More comprehensive health care in the form of teeth. Roll it. How many people who are unhoused that you meet have no teeth at all?
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They don't have teeth.
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Why? Because meth rots your teeth. You can't succeed without teeth. So there needs to be comprehensive health
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care provided to people.
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Okay, so that means that drug addicts now in California in particular, they can abuse themselves and we'll pay for their dental work and medical care. Okay. They can be so irresponsible, they can't Even afford to pay rent. But we'll give them a house or a place to live on and on and on and on. Because what these people do is they get high all day long. And at least she was honest about it. Meth rots your teeth. Well, who's taking the map? Who's anybody forcing them to take it? So the solution to this problem is, all right, you want to rehab these people and get them back into the mainstream where they can hold a job? Well, they got to sign a reimbursement that once I get back on my feet, I owe the county of Los Angeles this much money, all right? And not only for your teeth, but for housing and everything else. And of course, they're never going to do that, these drug addicts. They just want stuff. Just gimme, gimme. That's why San Francisco. If you saw my documentary for News Nation, it was like, okay, we'll give you everything, including cash, a debit card, so you can buy your heroin, your fentanyl, whatever you want to buy, okay? But there's no downside for the drug addict. Drug addict just goes through life inebriated, and we have to pay for that. Does that make any sense to you at all? I mean, I am for cleaning these people up in clinics. We should have clinics that rehab drug abusers, but they don't have a choice to go. They have to go to the clinics. And then the same thing. Once you get back on your feed, you're going to pay to reimburse the American taxpayer. People have no right to do this. They have no right to do this yet. Oh, Karen. Karen Bass. Oh, comprehensive health care provided. Yeah, sure. That would be like you going out and you're breaking a finger on purpose every day. And you go in, you know, fix my finger, but I don't want to pay for it. You pay for it. Come on. And this is why the United States is rapidly getting out of control fiscally, because we pay all of this stuff. It's got to stop. Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham. He fed up with the culture. I don't blame him. I mean, I think he's a little too far out there for me. I mean, I want gay people to have equal rights. I don't think they should be tortured or bullied or anything like that. The trans thing is a whole different thing. But I'm not as into that punishing mode that Franklin Graham is. But Graham makes some very strong points. He's one of the few that does so on Sunday, yesterday, Rededicate250 was a large Christian prayer and worship rally in D.C. very few politicians showed up. Franklin Graham stole the show.
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America has become morally rotten, completely sick with sin. Transgenderism, same sex marriage, opening women's locker rooms to men are just the tip of the iceberg. Why do we need to rededicate ourselves? When God sent the flood and destroyed the earth, it was because man's heart had become so evil and violent. In the news, we see unimaginable violence. Rapes, murders, men, mass shootings. On YouTube, there's so much violence. Movies, video games are full of violence. We have an insatiable appetite for violence. And I believe this grieves the heart of God and will bring his judgment if we don't repent.
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As a nation, that's pretty strong. Okay? But it's not just the United States that has this insatiable appetite for violence. I mean, the Muslim world, insane. And if you go to any totalitarian country, I mean, Putin Xi, it's on and on and on and on. But in the United States, the difference is we have violence as sport. You know, these two women who fought over the weekend, I mean, it was a grift. The whole thing was a grift. And the thing lasted 15 seconds or whatever. I mean, it was ridiculous. Well, why are people watching that? They're watching it because they want to see one or both of the women pound the other one. I mean, I'm going, this is not good for the culture yet. It's perfectly acceptable. And in Africa, a place you got to be very careful if you go there. I mean, very careful. There's no accurate reporting out of Central Africa at all. I mean, there are people slaughtering each other. Christians are getting slaughtered by Muslims, and it's on and on. Never ends. All right, so there's another Ebola outbreak. This one started in the Congo. This is coming out of the World Health Organization. 400 suspected Ebola cases. That means it's probably 4,100 deaths. That means it's probably 500. They can't count them. I mean, it's. Life over there is so rudimentary. You can't go in. You can't get any stats at all. There's no central authority at all in these countries. So the Ebola thing, I remember going on the O'Reilly Factor, and this was very controversial. I said, look, these African countries, we have to pause letting anybody come here from them. This is way before COVID okay? This was the first Ebola outbreak. And where I remember a guy in Dallas got Ebola. So we we don't have an obligation to allow people with. And this disease is really insidious. It's really easy to transmit it. Now you'll get an argument about that, but it's not hard. So why are we letting airlines from Kinshasha fly to New York? We suspend them for a while until this thing gets under control. I still believe that because this Ebola thing, I don't think this is going to erupt into Covid. But it's bad. And the only way to control it is to monitor who's coming into your country. So this is Stephen Colbert's last week on the air. He did it to himself. I mean, he was warned and warned and warned. You can't be hating on the President every night and continue to be sponsored by a network, pbs. So he's out of there. Thursday's last show. He's got the usual lineup of lefties. Julia, Louis Dreyfus, Pablo Pasquale, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, David Letterman, Bruce Springsteen, you know, the usual bench. I hope they have a good time. I got no animus toward Colbert. I don't particularly like him as a human being, but you know, I respect that he has some talent. But am I going to miss him? Can't remember the last time I watched that program. I cannot remember. Got to be years. Saturday Night Live is a study. And you know, I gotta give credit to the Media Research Center. It is a conservative right wing organization, but boy, they grew up good research. So they announced, analyzed SNL's first 19 shows. They're done now the season's over and the. The stats are unbelievable. 91% of all the jokes on SNL were targeted to conservatives. 91%. Trump, of course, is the big draw. And I don't get this, because you can mock both sides equally. So this Saturday, of course, it was mocking Trump once again. Roll it. Well, it's time for one of my patented midwork naps. Just gonna rest my head on this gold bar that Switzerland gave me as a straight up bribe and sleep the sweet sleep of an addled jet lagged mind. Donald. Donald. Who's that? Who's in here? Don't worry, Donald, it's me, your best friend, Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey? But I. I thought you were dead. I am, remember? I killed myself. Wink. So how you doing, Donny baby? Not so good, Jeffy. My approval rating's in the 30s. Oh, the 30s. Gross. Call me when it hits 17, okay? It's not funny. It wasn't funny at all. Will Ferrell thinks he's funny. He's not. And, but I get it because they say 91% of the jokes were targeted to conservatives. Okay, well, 95% of the audience of Saturday Night Live are liberal. That's who they play to. And they want to get ratings, they want to make money. That's who's clicking it on the, on the social media. They're just giving the people what they want. And it does get into the culture and all that. And you know, mock, mock, mock, mock, Mark. But I tell you what, they did one thing on Mandani, one, there are so many leftists that are just ripe for this kind of satire. No, they don't want to. The producers of the program don't want to alienate their audience. That's what's going on. Okay, final thought about my travels in a moment. Okay. As a final thought of the day, President Trump, while I'm sitting here, just issued another communique to the nation saying that he was going to use military force as perhaps as early as today. But now new negotiations are taking place. Whatever. We're on it. We're on it. Okay, so on Friday, I'm flying off to Ireland with 20 guys. We do this every couple of years. We pick out a place, we all go and half of them get arrested, but not me because I'm law abiding. So we're going down to Killarney, which is a ring and carry and dingle. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. So we're down there for four days, five days, gonna be a blast. Then I'm going to London from there to do a special for News Nation about the civil war taking place in Great Britain. Jaws to do with migration, immigration, Muslims versus Christians, all that. So I'm gonna get involved with that. It's an easy hop from Cork to London. I'll go over, I'll shoot it, then I'll be back. So we're taking a week off from our broadcast and storming back with all kinds of good stuff for you. Looking forward to Ireland, one of my favorite places in the world. Well, a few laughs, which very important in life to do that and get free breakfast. In Ireland and England, when you go have a hotel, they give you the breakfast free. Everybody bolts up on that. Okay, thank you for watching and listening to the newspaper news. I'll be on News Nation at 9pm Eastern this evening and we'll see you again tomorrow. Tired of overpaying with DirecTV, Dish offers a reliable low price every month without surprises. Get the TV you love and start watching live sports news and the latest movies, plus your favorite streaming apps all in one place. Switch to DISH today and lock in the lowest price in satellite TV, starting at $89.99 a month with our two year price guarantee. Call 888 add dish or visit dish.com today.