By Douglas V. Gibbs
How many people have believed that the deep dark establishment of the political left is evil, corrupt, and even murderous? Ever since the nineties we’ve heard about the Clinton Kill List. Nobody has ever been able to prove it, but deep down we know it exists. It worked its way into mainstream conversation with the deaths of Seth Rich, and notorious sex-island pedo Jeffery Epstein. Then, the investigations about secret email servers and dark schemes to go after Donald Trump emerged. Again, we were not surprised, but until lately the truth of the whole thing never really made it to mainstream discussions. Typically, it was only talked about during conservative gatherings with hushed jokes and careful whispers.
Recently, news of a trail that leads back to Hillary Clinton in 2016 has surfaced regarding foreign donations flowing to the Clinton Foundation while she steered American foreign policy as Secretary of State. Of course, the FBI machine back then was more than happy to let the trail go cold. Documents published a couple weeks ago revealed the existence of reports about concerns of foreign bribery back then. A 2016 book by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer called “Clinton Cash” helped kick off the 2016 Cracked Foundation investigation.
The Clintons aren’t the only ones capable of behind-the-scenes antics. Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, and Ilhan Omar experienced questionable financial gains once in office, as has their significant others in the cases of Pelosi and Omar.
Then, of course, there is the myriad of Hollywood Productions on the political stage designed to create the political drama the Democrats believe serves their political interests, from the Russia-Russia-Russia Hoax regarding Donald Trump to the agitation/FBI-plant/staging of the alleged insurrection of January 6 to the lawfare antics that conveniently uses leftist federal judges on the public stage for all to see.
In other words, the Progressive Democrats and their Deep State allies are willing to go to just about any length to gain and maintain their power and wealth. From agitations to assassinations, nothing seems to be too far to go to secure their power and wealth. And since President Donald Trump took office nearly a year ago, a nice long list of exposed dark schemes are now bubbling to the surface.
After ruining the lives and careers of anyone who dared claim that the 2020 Election was stolen, and in particular when it came to the State of Georgia where Fani Willis staged a vicious lawfare campaign regarding those claims, recent news has come out that Fulton County now admits to illegally counting 315,000 ballots. That means that if those illegal votes had not been counted, Trump would have won Georgia by somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 votes. Now, a new investigation has been opened, and I have a feeling the recent revelation of 315,000 votes is only the tip of the iceberg. Other revelations of election fraud have been springing up around the country, with a case in southern Texas likely changing a district from blue to red.
In Los Angeles a cover-up has been exposed regarding the Palisades firestorm on January 7, 2025. According to PJ Media, Mayor “Bass’s office and the leadership at the LAFD removed, erased, and excised information that implicated the state’s role and the city’s botched preparation and response to the Lachman Fire and the state’s standing orders to allow those fires to burn themselves out.” In short, L.A. Fire and city brass chose not to pre-deploy and fully staff-up for the fire – a decision that did not align with the department’s policy and procedures during red flag days. What else are they hiding?
The fraud and corruption and willingness to do things that may even incite the assassination of a candidate for President of the United States is not beyond these people. Their power, their wealth, and their arrogance have led them to a position where it seems nothing is off the table.
Which brings us to Minnesota, and the Somali Fraud.
The fraud in Minnesota is not an isolated incident, and we are finding out that it is tied to much deeper dark engines inside the Democratic Party than what we see on the surface. It all came to light with the Feeding Our Future fraud where the Feeding Our Future non-profit fraudulently siphoned roughly $250-300 million in federal funds, making it the largest pandemic-relief fraud scheme ever brought to light. More than 90 people have been charged, with at least 60 convicted so far. Defendants enrolled restaurants, storefronts, or community centers as “meal distribution sites” under Feeding Our Future’s sponsorship. The meal counts were falsified with fake invoices and meal count sheets, and then the money was laundered through various false companies, fake food vendors, real estate purchases and luxury goods. One defendant used a property company to launder nearly $1 million, buying homes that also operated as taxpayer-funded group homes. While the whole thing exposed the vulnerabilities in federal pandemic-era oversight, it triggered investigations that have exposed a long list of fraud cases, with the FBI calling it “the tip of a very large iceberg” as they investigate related schemes.
The Minnesota fraud also includes up to $18 billion in Medicaid-related spending since 2018 that may have been misused, and other related fraud schemes costing the American taxpayers billions more with a large number of the defendants being Somali. The scandal is partially the result of failure of oversight by Governor Tim Walz who failed to act despite years of warnings. For the Democrats in Minnesota, the “walls are caving in” on Walz as whistleblowers and mayors come forward with claims of a long train of systemic fraud tied to Somali-run programs. The claims are that Walz either ignored the warnings, lacked the competence to prevent the fraud, failed to take action for fear of being accused of being racist, or had his hands in it himself – the latter being a possibility that seems to be bubbling to the surface as we begin to see how many hands were in the scheme through FBI investigations and other revealing reports.
A viral video by independent journalist Nick Shirley showed visits to several Somali-run daycare centers that appeared to be inactive despite allegedly receiving millions in government funding. Federal authorities, including Homeland Security Investigations, launched a new massive investigation following the video’s release.
Representative Kevin Kiley, R-CA, recently unveiled similar mismanagement of taxpayer funds in California, calling it worse than anything going on in Minnesota. According to an audit, the number of high-risk agencies in California that may be vulnerable to fraud, abuse, and mismanagement has doubled while Governor Gavin Newsom has been in office. According to Kiley, “They failed to take corrective steps, costing taxpayers billions and billions of dollars…$24 billion that was spent on homelessness in the state audit also found that the state just lost track of that money as homelessness soared…$32 billion lost to unemployment fraud…a third of our community college applications are fraudulent…The list goes on and on and on.”
Carl DeMaio, California State Assemblyman representing District 75, claims Newsom is overseeing a widespread and costly welfare fraud, arguing that the scale of the alleged misconduct far exceeds similar issues raised in other states and that national media outlets have largely failed to scrutinize the situation.
In Minnesota, protecting the schemes may have even led to the assassination of a member of the state legislature. According to the Libs of TikTok, Melissa Hortman was the only Democrat to vote against healthcare for illegals in the state legislature, and then was found assassinated a few days later. The Democratic representative had held an office in the Minnesota State House of Representatives since 2023, and was murdered by Vance Boelter who was indicted on July 15, 2025 on six federal charges in connection to her death, that of her husband Mark Hortman, the shootings of Senator John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman, and the attempted shooting of Hope Hoffman. Vance Boelter was re-appointed to a Minnesota state advisory board by Governor Tim Walz six years ago, though it was a minor, unpaid position and no personal relationship or ideological alignment between Walz and Boelter has been established.
Could her vote have angered individuals connected to Minnesota’s large welfare-fraud networks to the point that they would put a hit out on her? While there is no hard evidence that fraud networks targeted Hortman, and statements put out by those involved in the investigations state that the shooter acted alone and that such theories are unfounded, the circumstances and timing definitely can be considered compelling enough to make such an assertion.
Considering the long history of leftist deception, lies, and illegal moves by the Democratic Party’s elite, it’s no surprise that under the Trump presidency a number of progressive games of deception and fraud are being rooted out. So much so that the rats are beginning to abandon ship, and in many cases out themselves. According to The Daily Signal, “More than 200 former staff at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division signed a letter condemning Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, and in doing so, they outed themselves as deep state actors and demonstrated Dhillon’s effectiveness in restoring the division to its true mission.”
“There absolutely is a deep state,” John Daukas, former acting assistant attorney general in the division in Trump’s first term told The Daily Signal. An April RMG Research poll found that 75% of the federal employees who voted for Kamala Harris last year, work in the District of Columbia, and make more than $150,000 annually said they would refuse to follow a lawful order from President Donald Trump, if they considered it bad policy. Daukas said many Civil Rights Division career staff he worked with acted on a similar mentality. “They acted like they were the policymakers, like they had been elected, as opposed to the president,” he recalled. I can name a long list of federal judges that seem to think the same way.
How long has the shenanigans been going on when it comes to the Democrats, and their quest to build and maintain their power and wealth? At least a hundred years, or more? Then again, these kinds of things go all the way back to the founding. President Thomas Jefferson was attacked by the courts for his actions, and found himself firing half of the bureaucracy when he entered office – the big government, Federalist Party half. Incidentally, reversing the bad policies, ending bad government spending, and clearing out the deep state actors in the bureaucracy led to an interesting result; the inability of the Federalist Party to win anymore major elections, which, within a couple decades, led to the end of that political party.
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