Political Pistachio

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Five years ago the Democratic Party tried to convince you that a bunch of MAGA folks walking between the ropes at the Capitol after being agitated and infiltrated by FBI and Antifa plants was an insurrection, and the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor.  Their false accusations that their adversaries on the opposite side of the aisle are violent, gun toting insurrectionists hasn’t proven to be true, so they decided they needed to manufacture a scene to make everyone believe it was true.  That’s what January 6 was all about.  However, the reality is it was a fake production that included claims that President Trump incited the alleged insurrection.  They aimed to make sure he never took the presidency again.  Then, they spent four years lying about January 6 as they imprisoned innocent Americans.  The truth didn’t matter.  They were desperate to make voters believe that the supporters of Donald Trump committed insurrection, and that Trump was the main insurrectionist.  Then, in an attempt to deepen your rejection of Trump, they launched lawfare after lawfare attack against Donald J. Trump.  

If Donald Trump was inciting violence on January 6, why would BBC feel the need to manipulate footage to make it look like what they were claiming?  Because he didn’t.  If he was inciting violence, then no manipulation of the footage would have been necessary for them to make their point?  During a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, former federal prosecutors even admitted that they were locking up January 6 Americans for mere misdemeanors because they were seeking to create a public record of crimes they claimed were committed that day.  They weren’t ashamed, either, of going after average Americans, most of whom had technically done nothing wrong, destroying their families, destroying the American citizen’s ability to take care of their families, and permanently tarnishing their records with a federal conviction.  They were proud of their nefarious work and admitted they were actually disappointed by Trump’s pardons – with one of the prosecutors saying she was “heartbroken.” 

Despite all of their attacks, lies, and through lawfare their transformation of one misdemeanor regarding 34 files to 34 felonies against Trump, and don’t forget an assassination attempt last summer, in 2024 Donald J. Trump still won the presidential election.

Since his inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Trump has been a powerful freight train roaring down the tracks of success.  Despite his winning policies, the Democrats have launched everything they can against him, falsely claiming every dishonest accusation they can about him.  They can’t win in the arena of ideas, so they need to destroy the man before he discovers who they really are, and stops their destructive corruption and the fact that they are the real insurrectionists.

As they attack, President Trump’s people have been uncovering the corrupt and insurrectionist activities of the Democrats.  He has been shining a spotlight on their corruption, wasteful and illegal spending of American tax dollars and their myriad of anti-American activities.  Not only are we finding out their sins, but from what we understand, as massive as it all is, what we are seeing is only the tip of the iceberg.

One of the biggest stories about leftist corruption is the Somali Fraud in Minnesota, and their enablers in Minnesota’s Democratic Party.  Governor Tim Walz dropped his reelection campaign over the billions of dollars of fraud in his state.  And now, an audit is uncovering that it wasn’t just fraud, but a massive in-party game of corruption and fraud to cover up the fraud.  According to the Minnesota Department of Human Services’ Behavioral Health Administration grant programs audit they found “widespread failures in oversight.”  The Minnesota bureaucracy “did not comply with most requirements tested for mental health and substance use disorder grants and did not have adequate internal controls over grant funds… The Department of Human Services distributed more than $425 million in grants to 830 grantees between July 1, 2022, and Dec. 31, 2024. Of 51 grant agreements, the report says more than half of the progress reports were missing or past due. The agency also could not prove that it completed 27 of 67 required monitoring visits, and for 24 visits involving 11 grantees, it could not provide any documentation.  One auditor noted that several documents were created by the Behavioral Health Administration only after the audit began and had been backdated in response to document requests.”

The fraud in Minnesota goes way beyond egregious incompetence.  The fraud on the outside was assisted by fraud on the inside – fraud that went so far as to even backdate documents… which makes it a criminal conspiracy.  Evidence even shows that Walz’s administration went so far as to block investigations into the fraud in Minnesota. 

Meanwhile, as violent insurrection activities explode against ICE on Minneapolis’s streets, according to FBI Director Kash Patel, “The FBI is investigating paid protest campaigns throughout the country including organizers, protesters and funding sources that drive illicit activities,” Patel said.  Governor Tim Walz has enflamed the situation worse by saying that the State of Minnesota is at war with the federal government.  If that isn’t proclaiming insurrection, I don’t know what is.

As the fraud and corruption seethes to the surface in Minnesota, the Trump administration is also focusing on California.  As the fraud investigation begins in California, investigators are saying that the fraud in California is “more corrupt than Minnesota.” 

The Trump administration has alleged “extensive and systematic fraud” in California and four other Democratic-led states, claiming there is “reason to believe” states are “illicitly providing illegal aliens” with benefits.

Steve Hilton, a Republican running against Governor Gavin Newsom, and Herb Morgan, a candidate for state controller, have detailed specific allegations of systemic corruption in the state.  They point to practices in California’s public pension and retirement systems such as “double-dipping” and “spiking,” which they claim allow government workers to unlawfully take state funds.  Additionally, they allege corruption in the contracting system, asserting that contracts are inflated and taxpayer money is spent in ways never intended.

Hilton has also estimated that the issues stem from an “explosion of spending around the pandemic” that has continued into normal budgeting.  There is also acknowledgment of past fraud in COVID-19 relief programs; for example, one California man pleaded guilty to cheating his way into $15.9 million in federal loans through the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs.  Furthermore, recent cases include charges against 24 L.A. County employees for allegedly stealing over $740,000 in unemployment benefits.

Meanwhile, to pay for their maladministration of California’s funds, the California Democratic Party politicians have proposed a wealth tax targeting billionaires in their state.  A number of tech founders in the state have vowed that if the tax becomes law, they will leave the state.  Already, over the last four years, over 1.5 million people have fled California, and the exodus is ramping up with each passing month, each passed law, and each illegal activity by the Democrats. 

Then we have the violence against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, which turns out not to be some grassroots movement, but a well organized and coordinated assault on federal law enforcement.  There have been sharp increases in violence and threats against federal ICE agents, and Democratic officeholders have been encouraging and obstructing immigration enforcement.  The New York Post reports that a wide range of “Radical leftist groups, including one financed with $7.8 million from progressive billionaire George Soros, are behind the anti-ICE protests in Minnesota… Indivisible Twin Cities, which describes itself as a grassroots group of volunteers, has led many of the protests against ICE raids in Minnesota, where Renee Nicole Good was shot dead Wednesday after allegedly trying to mow down an ICE agent with her vehicle.  Indivisible is an offshoot of the Indivisible Project in Washington, DC, which bills itself as a movement to defeat the ‘Trump agenda,’ and received $7,850,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2018 and 2023, according to public records.”  One Minneapolis protester admitted to being a paid agitator.  As a result of the funding, the rhetoric, the blind support for criminal illegal aliens in this country, and actions including using a vehicle being weaponized and used to ram ICE agents is up by 3,200% in 2025, according to DHS.  A Wisconsin teenager has even pleaded guilty to killing his parents in a scheme to steal their money and fund an assassination attempt of President Donald Trump.  

Then there’s the leftist funding and support going international to corrupt dictators…

According to the Daily Caller, “Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his socialist regime spent years coordinating with American leftist movements such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) before the U.S. removed him from power.  BLM activists, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and other groups met with Maduro, spoke at events alongside him or became official observers for Venezuela’s heavily-criticized elections for more than a decade, according to the groups’ public statements and online posts documenting the meetings. Some of the same organizations called for protests in the U.S. against the Trump administration’s Jan. 3 arrest of Maduro and his wife on drug and weapons charges.”

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