Jeff Landry (17:38)

Yes, I want to thank President Trump. He is fulfilling his commitment. Him and Secretary of War headseth are sending the National Guard back into Louisiana, into New Orleans. They will be there for New Year's Eve. And they're going to be there for a deployment through February, which we desperately need. Look, we know how to make cities safe and the National Guard complements cities that are having high crime problems. Look at what the president has done in Washington, D.C. when he wanted to send the national guard into Washington, D.C. louisiana was one of the first to raise his hand and say our troops will go there and help you. And the city is so much better. They're going to be here in New Orleans. It's going to help us further crack down on the violence here in the city of New Orleans and elsewhere around Louisiana. And so a big shout out to both of them, thank you.

Mary Walters (18:26)

There you go. So he's like, yeah. And you know what else will happen as you drive them out of these places where they are enforcing the law and you drive them out, you're just, they're just going to go to a place naturally. It's kind of like self deporting. They're going to go to a place as city estate, naturally, where they can, can be safe and live their lives, etc. And you know what's going to happen in those areas. You're going to see housing costs come down. You're going to see costs for health care come down. You're going to, you're going to see an improvement in the economy in those areas. In my humble opinion, maybe I'm wrong because, you know, they contribute so much to the economy. Maybe I'm wrong, but it'll be very, very interesting to see. Coming up, Adam Gillette will be joining us from Accuracy in Media. Let's talk about Minnesota fraud, speaking about a blue state and how well they're run. Let's go to Minnesota with Adam coming up next on the ROB Carson Show.

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Mary Walters (20:22)

And welcome back to the Rob Carson show. I'm Mary Walter, in for a vacationing Rob Carson, who will be back with you on January 5th. So I'll be with you tomorrow and I'll be with you Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday the following week. I have to think. I have to think. Joining us now Adam Gillette, president of Accuracy in Media. You can find him on X at Adam. And it's spelled G, U, I, double L, E, double T, E. Adam, so great to talk to you again on the Newsmax hotline. How are you?

Adam Gillette (20:58)

I'm great. Thank you so much for having me. And yes, you can follow me on X if you could type all of those letters correctly. Good luck.

Mary Walters (21:06)

You know what? I did not change my last name when I got married because my husband has an Italian last name that nobody can spell and they just butcher the heck out of it. Walter is super easy, except sometimes people put an S on the end of it, like, that's as bad as it gets, you know?

Adam Gillette (21:21)

So jealous. Mine is just like the razor blade, but spelled and pronounced differently.

Mary Walters (21:25)

Okay, so it's not Gillette, it's Galette, right?

Adam Gillette (21:28)

It is, yes.

Mary Walters (21:29)

Okay. Okay. So, all right. Sorry about that because I think I mispronounced it. So I apologize for that. Okay, so Minnesota. Let's talk about this whole Minnesota fraud thing. And the first question I want to ask you is, if this was Florida, we would be hearing this non stop. We're talking approximately $9 billion in fraud. And I'm thinking if they think it's 9 billion, it's probably far above this. This went on for years. And when President Trump was announcing his golden fleet, the smallest ship is about $10 billion. So if we get a billion more somewhere, we could buy a tank, we could buy a warship if we wanted to. The. This. It's staggering how much. Why, why does no one seem to be concerned?

Adam Gillette (22:26)

Yeah, you could buy a ship, but some of their Somali relatives might hijack it. Now these Democrat politicians in Minnesota saying, oh, well, look at us, we solved it, we caught them. Wow, how long did that go on before you caught them? How much money was wasted that will never be recovered for the taxpayers. And most of all, what other corruption is going on as we speak? And it speaks to the problem with every major big government program. Even if it seeks to solve a problem that you think exists, government has all of the wrong motivations and all of the wrong measures for success. They define success in a government program by how much money we're giving out. So of course, the Somalis, these people who are more than happy to engage in corruption and get tons of cash, they were dealing with people who, rather than being careful about every dollar, were doing their best to give every single dollar away.

Mary Walters (23:21)

Yeah. So what's in it? Here's the thing is, you know, here is Tim Walls. Am I to Believe that the Democrats didn't know that this was happening in Minnesota when they chose him. Mr. Jazz Hands to run. Excuse me, run with Kamala Harris.

Adam Gillette (23:40)

Well, I mean, let's think about the IQ test. If you're wise enough to decide that you want to be the VP candidate for Kamala Harris, we're all right, you know, intellectual aptitude quite a bit right there. There's a job with very, very little job security. There are attempts working at the mall for the holiday season who have more guaranteed longevity employment than Tim Waltz did as a. But really, as I say, all of these programs have this sort of mess. We see tens of billions of dollars annually in Medicare fraud. We saw massive amounts of money pilfered from COVID Relief, put up by Trump, put out by Biden. And as these state governments grow, it's only going to get worse. I think Minnesota's state budget tripled over the quarter of this century, even though their population didn't triple. And the more they spend like crazy, the more corruption that will occur. The only difference is, unlike the politicians in D.C. they don't get to print more money.

Mary Walters (24:35)

Right. I just think we need to, and I keep saying this because there are so many, there's so many programs that do the exact same thing. We have Medicare, we have Medicaid, now we've got Obamacare, which when they started out, the people on Obamacare paid something like 38% of their. Of the. We were 38% of their premiums. Right. They were paying 30, now they pay 7. So we're eventually going to have a third government run health care program. Right? Because we need three. We need three. And the, and the government's not smart enough to morph them all into one and just say, you know, socialized medicine. Here we go. That's the problem with this. These programs started with good intentions. Feeding. What is it, feeding our children was the one, or feeding our families. That was the granddaddy of them all. And it sounds great, but the numbers get out of control and they're so big. And daycare and another program for Somali children, which I don't think any of these programs should be allowed to be just for black children, white children, Somali children, German children, whatever. It should be for children. But we have so many programs that are duplicated and the government just keeps giving them money. Is there no oversight with that? You know, you're from accuracy and in media, so you know this, you know, because you know what's being covered up or.

Adam Gillette (25:55)

Well, rather than oversight, they're craning their necks to look in the other direction because it's not a very popular, not a very palatable story for the narrative they want to push. And as you say, we should never have programs that are geared after any one specific ethnic group. Our law should be colorblind. It should be gender neutral, much like many of the bathrooms in schools. They shouldn't be hyper focused on these sorts of things. And it's hysterically ridiculous to see the this in Minnesota. You know, these leftists think that they need to atone for the tins of slip, for the sins of slavery. But in reality, this is a state that was settled by Lutherans from Germany that never owned any slaves. And their money is given to Somalis, not former South Carolinian slaves. It's given to Somalis who were never slaves in America. It's utterly ridiculous. You couldn't make up anything as a joke, as laughable as what they're doing there. And naturally, of course, it leads to corruption.

Mary Walters (26:50)

Yeah. Now, 98 Minnesota mayors got together and they wrote a letter to state lawmakers and the governor, Tim Walz, and they expressed their concern and frustration. And they say that the state is slipping economically, which is insane because all this money is being pumped in from the feds, money from states that are responsible and, you know, taxpayer money. They had an $18 billion surplus and now they're projecting by 28, 29 a $3 billion deficit. So they're blowing through this money like crazy, and they blame it on fraud, unchecked spending, and inconsistent fiscal management that has trickled down to the cities. So now cities are facing workforce shortages there. They have, they're slowing their business investment. They have costs rising. So you're going to see taxpayers getting fewer services. They, this, this is inevitable. We've seen this movie before. So what happens here? What happens in Minnesota?

Adam Gillette (27:52)

Well, I get offended whenever they say inconsistent fiscal management. I think it's quite consistent, consistently bad. The problem we're seeing in Minnesota is going to be replicated in states across the country and in cities across the country over the next 20 years. They've got all of these unfunded pension liabilities for firefighters and police officers and teachers, professions that are quite noble. We celebrate these things. But these folks get to retire after 20 or 25 years with 90% of the salary for the rest of their life. Then they quickly get another government job so that they can get double the pension for the rest of their life. And then they ironically move to my state of Florida and they're sitting on the beach while their cities and states are going to be bankrupt over the next 20 years. The notion of rather than focusing on reining in and resolving their unfunded pensions, instead expanding into bigger government programs is insane. You know, the only benefit they could have from that is perhaps they think a Democrat will win the presidency next and they might bail them out.

Mary Walters (28:54)

Well, that's exactly what they thought this time. Like they really thought, you know, going back to, you know, Vice President Jazz Hands, they thought that Kamala Harris was going to get in. We all know that. And this would all be covered up. Can you hang on? We're going to take a quick break. I have more to ask you because you're so much fun. So hold on. We'll be right back with more from Adam Gillette from Accuracy in Media on the Rob Carson show. Welcome back to THE ROB CARSON show. We're with Adam Gillette, the president of Accuracy and Media, on the Newsmax hotline talking about Minnesota and this fraud that has been found just to the tune of billions of your taxpayer dollars and the lack of interest by the mainstream media. It's just absolutely amazing. We were talking about Walls and how he's in this up to his eyeballs. We know that whistleblowers came forward and made complaints and said, hey, this is going on. We know that the numbers were unsustainable. Now we have the Minnesota mayors who are like, we going to go under here. Does Walls escape unscathed? I mean, he was banking on being VP to your point, and there there being no investigation. But I think this is just so massive that it would have come out eventually even when he was vice president. I do, though, think he escapes unscathed.

Adam Gillette (30:27)

I do think he does, based on the time that this story comes out and how closely people are paying attention to, you know, cable news stories at times during the holidays relative to any other time of year. In addition, it's not Ohio, it's not Florida, it's not California, it's not New York. It's not a state with a massive population. It's not a small state, but they don't have a massive population and they're not on the coast. So the national media wouldn't take much of an interest anyway. And because it's not favorable for what the media, mainstream media wants to sell us, they're going to ignore the story. You know, they dislike one, that a Democrat looks better, two, that a big government program turned out to be wasteful and full of fraud and three, that an immigrant group was engaged in bad behavior. Now I'm somebody who's actually pro immigration. Even illegal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native born Americans. But this story certainly flies in the face of that reality. It's anecdotally, anecdotally horrible and outrageous to see, to think that the generosity we show to people who come into this country and their response is billions of dollars in fraud. And then the trust we put in politicians and bureaucrats to manage these programs and their response is to look the other way. It speaks to a broken system.

Mary Walters (31:40)

It does. Now do we see this elsewhere?

Adam Gillette (31:44)

I mean, we do. Every big government program is corrupt and wasteful. So the more big government programs you have in your state, the more this sort of thing that's going to exist. You know, I think the most big government corrupt program that we honestly have is our public school system. By all objective measures, students are learning less than they've ever learned previously. They read at lower grade levels than previously. They do math, lower grade levels than previously. This is despite the fact that we're spending far more per pupil than ever before in American history. We need to stop pretending that the school system exists as a measure to educate the public and instead look at what they do well. Well, every two weeks, without fail, the teachers get paid every paycheck, without fail, a portion goes to the unions. Every election, without fail, 99.9% of those funds go to big government left wing candidates. Our K12 education system isn't set up to educate children. It's set up to take funds from the taxpayers, enrich fat cat unions and essentially embezzle it to far left candidates. That's institutionalized corrupt.

Mary Walters (32:51)

But my guy, I guess my question is, is this happening right now? We know in Boston for instance, the mayor there, Michelle Wu is, is being investigated for, for fraud that is going on there. There's problems with it happening with two Haitians. There's a Swiss snap. There were two Haitians that were arrested because they had storefronts. One was 150 square feet and it was supposedly a supermarket and was cashing in more food stamps than a large like huge supermarket. And that was going on there. So I think that this is happening in a lot more places.

Adam Gillette (33:24)

You're exactly right because it happens with every big government program. As we said, tens of billions of dollars of Medicare fraud annually. Because the people who are clever enough to defraud the government are always smarter and more motivated than the lazy bureaucrats and the clueless politicians. As smart as they are when they create these programs that the connivers are Always going to be one step ahead of them. It's just with big government regulations, the businessmen are smarter. They're always going to find a way to have it not affect them. It's the upstarts who get hurt.

Mary Walters (33:55)

Absolutely. Adam Gillette, we got to go. I always want to call you Gillette, but I know that's not it. And I catch myself every single time. Have a wonderful Christmas and a great new Year, and thank you for taking the time to join me on the Rob Carson Show.

Adam Gillette (34:08)

Thank you so much for having me.

Mary Walters (34:09)

Me. Don't go away. We got more coming up. And just a little bit more on what's going on in Minnesota. And Adam was absolutely right. You know, this story breaks just before everybody goes away for two weeks. Nobody works, nobody's paying attention. Anything playing Christmas music, Hanukkah, doing whatever they're doing. My friend, I was just talking to my Rhoda, my girl Rhoda, who used to be my neighbor when I lived in Washington, and she and her son are the ones who took me out to Christmas, and we took me for Chinese food when I was had to stay in D.C. for Christmas. It was wonderful. They're great people. She was just telling me about their Christmas celebration yesterday. I'm like, you're doing more for Christmas than I am. I'm going to Mass today. That is the extent of my Christmas celebration this year. That is it. And pretty much every year, because my husband and I are both are both considered essential personnel. You turn the radio on, there's somebody here. You go to the hospital, there's somebody there. You know, your house catches on fire, somebody shows up. So I thought she's like, oh, the gifts were so much fun and everybody was so happy. And I'm like, gifts? You get gifts. Like, oh, man. But anyway, going back to the Minnesota thing, okay? The Small Business association administrator, Federal Small Business Administrator Kelly Leffler, sent a letter yesterday to Tim Walsh. He got another letter, and in this, she said that they are halting more than five and a half million dollars in annual support to resource partners in the state until further notice. In other words, we're not giving you any more money because you have have proven to us that you don't know how to handle it. You are not worthy. She says in the letter that this action is the result of a fundamental breakdown in the public trust. Under your leadership, Minnesota failed to safeguard taxpayer dollars, and SBA will not continue to place federal resources at risk in a state where oversight measures are ignored and accountability is abandoned. She blamed Tim Walsh for making Minnesota the epicenter of the largest fraud scandal of the COVID 19 pand era. That's saying a lot because there's a lot of fraud with that and that recent criminal convictions of Somalis and other figures prove such fraud is endemic to St. Paul's vast welfare curriculum. She cited U.S. attorney Joseph Thompson's calculation saying the Somali fraud network netted 1 billion in its Minneapolis centered fraud scheme and at least half of certain Medicaid funding programs subsidized by Minnesota taxpayers have been pocketed by criminals. Assessing the final figure to be at least $9 billion, she noted the USDA, which facilitates SNAP and some of these other programs, as well as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant have launched probes into the scandals. At least two and a half million in PPP and economic injury disaster loan funds issued during the pandemic were tied to the Somali fraud scheme. This has been going on for years. Another 430 million in PPP subsidies have been flagged as fraudulent, but they were fund anyway because it's other people's money. We don't care. Send the money out there because I guarantee you it makes its way back into Democrat pockets, including some that were among those loans altogether forgiven by the Biden administration. They never had to pay them back. When legislators and whistleblowers raised concerns about potential abuse during the pandemic, your administration resisted oversight, refused accountability, and allowed the misconduct to metastasize. She faulted Governor Waltz for dismissing some of the criticisms of his administration's generosity as racism. Yeah, that's what they do. They throw the racist card down. Like, I'll play the race car. Play the race car. Because you know Republicans, it's like kryptonite to us. You got to stop reacting to it. People call me racist all the time on X and I'm like, oh, shut up. I don't care. I don't react to it. It does. It doesn't hold meaning for me in that way. All right, coming up, I do have a Christmas topic. Do have a Christmas topic. One that Rob didn't get to because it broke today. And it's about Christmas decorations, where you live and your hoa. If you have one that is coming up on the Rob Carson Show.

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