J.D. Vance (4:35)

So we're announcing today that we have decided to temporary, temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money. Now, what is this going to mean? What this means is that, first of all, the providers on the ground in Minnesota have actually already been paid. The state has paid those providers the money. What we're doing is we are stopping the federal payments that will go to the state government until the state government takes its obligations seriously to stop the fraud that's being perpetrated against the American tax.

Political Analyst/Commentator (5:19)

Right.

Political Commentator (5:20)

While that's taking place. Pathetic. Donald Trump was nowhere to be found yesterday. Governor Tim Walz responded to this plan to take away people's Medicaid in Minnesota. That's the big Trump initiative yesterday. Not how can we help? How do we torture and make people in Minnesota suffer? Governor Wall says this is a campaign of retribution. Trump is weaponizing the entirety of the federal government to punish blue states like Minnesota. These cuts will be devastating for veterans, families with young kids, folks with disabilities, and working people across our state. The Trump regime is literally killing people again, over and over, en masse. En masse. Then J.D. vance was like, I know there's gonna be people in the media who are gonna say, you are hurting children. No, it's hurting fraudsters. Van says, here, play this clip.

J.D. Vance (6:13)

The fact that we have so normalized this and the fact that I guarantee they're gonna be voices in the media. There are voices in the state of Minnesota who say this is hurting children. No, it's hurting fraudsters. The way to protect kids is to go after those fraudsters, which is what we're doing.

Political Commentator (6:31)

And then, like the predator he is. Vance Epstein, class, he's a predator. He's with Dr. Oz up there. To another predator, right? Dr. Oz also, when invited Epstein to his Valentine's Day party, right? All these. They're. All these people are just sickos. Sick, sick, sickos. But J.D. vance is like, we don't want to do this to the kids and the people who need their Medicaid, but. But we have to. We have to do it to you. We have to make you suffer. Okay? You guys are out of your mind. You guys are crazy people. Why.

J.D. Vance (7:06)

Why are we.

Political Commentator (7:06)

Why are you doing this to Americans? You just can't just leave people alone and let them have their health care. Just let people live their lives. This regime is cruel and unusual. Here, play this clip.

J.D. Vance (7:17)

But I feel quite confident we have the legal authority to do this. And again, I'd reiterate, we don't want to do this. Like, we don't want to be in a situation where the state of Minnesota is being so careless with federal tax dollars that we have to turn the screws on them a little bit so that they take this fraud seriously, and

Political Commentator (7:36)

then they have their regime. Media, Jesse Waters says, you know what? I want to let everybody know. Republicans, we're just better looking. We're more handsome and beautiful than the Democrats. Play the clip. It's also a great format for the president because the Republicans are just better looking. All of the cutaways to these Democrats, it's sad. It is a sad look. Our cabinet's more attractive. The Trump family is more attractive. I'm sorry. It's just the truth. Now, what you are are a bunch of Epstein class protectors is what you are. Y' all see that interview with Adrian Aviles? The widower of Regina Santos Aviles. She was the young staffer who worked for maga. Republican Congressmember Tony Gonzalez, who was sexually harassing her, preyed on her, said horrible things to her. He would like text her in the middle of the night, anal, question mark, send me naked photos of you. I want to see you do this. What's your favorite position? She's like, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Anyway, there's apparently really even worse messages that he sent that her ex husband, she ended up dying by suicide and purportedly burned herself to death. Self immolated was the story that was out there. But her husband was on CNN or ex husband or her husband died tragically. He was on cnn. Here, here, here's what he said. Play this clip.

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Of course, our Capitol Hill reporter Gonzalez says, look, you guys haven't seen all the facts. There's going to be ample time for all of that to come out. Does this change anything for you when, you know, when you go back to that Friday night in May, does, does him saying that mean anything?

Interviewee/Family Member of Victim (9:25)

Actually, it makes me even angrier because again, he's deflecting and you know, he just, he has, the man has no values. You know, he runs his whole campaign on family values and he runs everything, you know, saying that he's some family man. You know, he's, he's actually quite of a sick man. You know, I, I have all the messages that shared between them too. And you know, the things that, you know, released a tip of the iceberg of the things that this man was telling her. I released just what was, you know, enough information for the people to understand who this person and who they were dealing with. If I were to release everything, you know, it, you, I, again, my biggest thing is, is protecting my son. I will not release, you know, the salacious messages that went back and forth much deeper than what and much more graphic rather than what I presented to the American people.

Political Commentator (10:24)

Right. I mean, this, if you think about these MAGAs all around, it's like, what the hell is even going on, Right? You've got Kristi Noem. She's been traveling around on a private jet with Corey Lewandowski, who allegedly, they're having an affair together is what people are reporting. And they like fired the Coast Guard pilot because he had their blanket and they wanted their blanket. But apparently it wasn't. It was what. There's something being hidden in the blanket that was very sensitive and private to Christy Gnome. And so anyway, it appears that the blanket, that was a cover story Because Gnome and Lewandowski were worried about was a personal bag of Gnome that contained, that could contain items that would be embarrassing to her. And this is why they fired their pilot for not giving them back the blanket. The hell? Who are these people? This just. Y' all realize this is not normal. Like, this is not the way government's supposed to behave. So then Wired magazine reported that a Maga influencer X account called Johnny Maga was actually secretly being run by a White House staffer named Garrett Wade, who's married to White House press assistant Allison Schuster. You see them there together. And this Johnny Maga account pretends to be this independent account, but just amplifies all of Trump's stuff and in the most kind of sycophantic ways. But it's actually a White House staffer. But I don't even know why do you even need Johnny Maga when you've got that new CBS host who may as well be Johnny Maga. Tony. Tony D. Tony D. Johnny Maga and CBS as Tony D's. They're Johnny Maga. He called Donald Trump State of the Union extraordinary. Vintage Trump. Incredible is what he said in Vintage Trump. Incredible is what he said. Meanwhile, on cnn, they brought on Mark Wayne Mullen. Maga Republican Senator Mullen. And he says that you could see how great our country is. There's so much winning because we have had trillions of dollars committed to rebuilding manufacturing plants. Wow. Donald Trump made up a fake number. Trillions. So we have trillions of dollars committed. Where's all the money? It's committed. So we don't have it. We're in a manufacturing recession right now. Manufacturing is not doing well right now. And I guess, I guess here's my question for you there, Mark Wayne. Mark Wayne, I got a question for you, buddy. If all of these countries are giving America all of this money, ostensibly for not giving America their money, right?

Interviewee/Family Member of Victim (13:11)

What?

Senator Markwayne Mullin (13:12)

For what?

Political Commentator (13:13)

Just pouring money in? How is it that Donald Trump is claiming that there is a crisis to invoke the Trade act of 1974 if everybody's just giving us the money? Oh, I guess, I guess in your MAGA world, just whatever dear leader tells you, whatever, whatever your Kim Jong Un tells you, you just parrot your play this clip.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (13:34)

Those are government created jobs. That's not, that's not true. Economy jobs are stimulating the economy. When the President starts talking about the investments by bringing back manufacturing, it's not just saying we're going to bring back manufacturing. We've had trillions of dollars committed to rebuilding manufacturing plants right here inside the United States. And so and that's all happened, by the way, in 12 months. Well, the manufacturing jobs actually were down

Political Commentator (13:57)

for eight months straight.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (13:59)

But, but we have trillions of dollars being invested back into the economy to build those manufacturing. We've lost those. We've offshored those for the last three decades. We have built other countries middle class, why our middle class has suffered. President Trump is actually bringing manufacturing back to the United States, which is going to bring that middle class back. And we should applaud him if that's

Political Commentator (14:20)

reflected in those manufacturing jobs numbers. Senator Mullen, thank you for joining us here tonight. And more from the Epstein files, which will I'll do a whole other video on that this morning. That's going to be a longer video on this. But NBC, cnn, Wall Street Journal, hat tip to Roger Sullenberger. He was the first to report on it. Give credit to independent reporters where it's due. The DOJ has not released records from three separate interviews the FBI conducted with the woman who alleged she was a sexual assault victim of Epstein and also made sexual abuse allegations against Donald Trump. Here's what Democratic Congress member molten and to say let's play it.

Political Analyst/Commentator (15:01)

I mean, the DOJ seems very that they are Donald Trump's personal lawyers. And so I don't think there's any question that this was a mistake or a haphazard omission. They're clearly trying to protect the president here. And to be honest, if these accusations had any semblance of being false, then they would release the records. They would release the records that show that the FBI investigation it pursued came to a dead end, concluded that the allegations were not substantiated. So it's very suspicious that they're covering them up.

Political Commentator (15:34)

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