Peggy Flanagan CALLS OUT Trump As Gop’s $9 Billion Fraud Fight Erupts

So I want to be very clear that fraud of any kind is completely unacceptable. I know that Minnesota taxpayers are angry and I am angry, too. I'm someone who, you know, I'm I'm alive because a lot of those programs, the governor said that more should have been done and more should have been done sooner. And I agree with him. But I supported the independent office of inspector general. I also supported harsher penalties. What I also hear Minnesotans asking about is what about Washington? Right now, under Donald Trump, we see right out of the gate, he fired 19 inspectors general whose entire job it is to police fraud and ethics, uphold ethics at the federal level. They were responsible in 2024 for clawing back $50 billion in federal taxpayer dollars. He also pardoned 90 white-collar criminals, including one guy who was responsible for $1.3 billion in Medicaid fraud. He's enriched himself and his family directly from the Oval Office and Bitcoin and insider stock trading. And in exchange, we saw the full list just recently for his gilded ballroom in the White House that he's giving people sweetheart deals, no-bid contracts, pardoning folks. But to be clear, Michelle Tafoya has nothing to say about that. Do you have any ownership over the fraud that occurred over the last two terms of this administration? The governor's been very clear that the buck stops with him. He was the one who had oversight here. I've led on issues like paid family and medical leave, nation-leading child tax credit, making sure that kids get breakfast and lunch at school. Those are the things and those are the areas where I took the lead. They didn't get lunch from feeding your future. Listen, is there a fraud double standard? Listen, I am going to Washington to be an equal opportunity pain in the ass to any corrupt career politician. I don't care which side of the aisle they're on or what office they hold. I note that my opponent here has mentioned Donald Trump's name. I don't know how many times I've lost count. Peggy, Donald Trump isn't on the ballot. you and I are on the ballot and only one of us let nine billion dollars walk out the door to fraud to suggest that we that she somehow is going to be a fraud czar all of a sudden talk about changing tax when it becomes politically expedient my goodness she was second in charge in this state and she's just going to point her finger at Governor Tim Walz when she demanded she it be the Walz Flanagan administration when she demanded to be in the room where everything happened but suddenly she has nothing to do with this my goodness again sell it to someone else Peggy Flanagan so I would say this Tafoya who is endorsed by donald trump this week let's be clear uh donald trump uh doesn't just endorse anybody in fact he endorses against people in his own party if they dare to take him on michelle Tafoya passed his litmus test with flying colors she supports the tariffs the trade wars the war in iran she has said that ICE should be called nice, the cuts to health care, the cuts to food assistance. She even said that she agrees with him on invading Greenland. So give me a break. And this is the deal. Donald Trump himself has told people, act as if I am on the ballot. When you have one candidate who's endorsed by Donald Trump and it's Michelle Tafoya, I hope Minnesotans act accordingly.