The deployment of Border Patrol and ICE agents to blue state Minneapolis is a direct result of alleged  WIDESPREAD FRAUD in federal Medicaid programs run by the state that may have reached into the billions of dollars.

The charges are serious; there can be no question of that. And Donald Trump, recognizing political opportunity when he saw it, was quick to exploit the situation given that the state’s gubernatorial election is this year. It was a golden opportunity to make political hay of the situation.

Trump didn’t really care about the fraud. Hell, he’s made a lifetime career of fraud of one form or another. The man has 34 felony convictions himself, including sexual assault, obstruction of justice, election subversion, a bogus “university,” a charity for cancer-stricken children he and his family stole from (no one in the Trump family is allow to operate a non-profit foundation in New York as a result of that one), bankrupted casinos, hotels, airlines, steaks, water, even an internet provider service—all kaput.

There’s this nice little fraud scandal down in deep-red Mississippi involving a former pro wrestler, a former governor and a former all-star NFL quarterback about which Trump has shown scant interest (did I mention Mississippi was a red state?).

Oh, there was another individual, one of Trump’s strong backers in the 2024 election, one who danced on stage and gave a Nazi salute to ol’ Cankle Ankles: Elon Musk was under investigation by no fewer than 11 federal agencies. Soon after he was elected, Trump (and Musk) began a counter-attack.

Programs were cut, eliminated and key employes terminated at EPA, FDA, NLRB, FAA, NASA the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Transportation, Federal Elections Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Justice Department and the Department of Defense. Each of the agencies had active investigations into violations and/or alleged violations and Musk’s interactions with Russia and China.

Here are a few other headlines involving Trump’s alter-ego Musk:

• French police raid X offices as they investigate Musk’s social media platform and AI chatbot Grok;
• Elon Musk’s X, Grok under new investigation: ‘violent, unacceptable’
• How Elon Musk has benefited from the first 100 days of the Trump administration;
• How Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid;
• Is Elon Musk a fraud? That’s what the SEC has accused him of for his big Twitter purchase.

But it’s not just Musk. There are others raking in windfalls as a result of Trump policy:

Trump’s Venezuela Move Could Deliver a Big Win for This MAGA Billionaire

Think Trump’s lust for Greenland is for military advantage? Think again. We already have military installments there so what’s his game?

Greenland isn’t a military prize—it’s a balance sheet reads this story.

Remember when Trump said he was going to reduce prescription drug prices by 1500 percent? Well, of course, that was a mathematic impossibility. But undaunted by realities of math, he has just announced the formation of TrumpRx, which he touted a website to sell discounted prescription drugs directly to consumers.

But it ain’t everything it’s hyped to be. It seems, for example, when you try to purchase one of those $458 inhalers for the $51 Trump advertises, you’re simply directed to the manufacturer’s website where you can find out if you qualify for hardship discounts that are offered—regardless of Trump and his TrumpRx. In other words, it’s a scam just like those autographed Bibles that he was marking up and hawking to his pathetic followers.

So, you see, there are scams and fraud galore but Trump is seeking out what he thinks is the most vulnerable state to exploit.

Except he’s finding out Minnesotans are not nearly as vulnerable as he thought.

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There can be little doubt remaining that Cankle Ankles Trump is at best, mentally ill and unfit to hold any public office, least of all POTUS. At worst, he’s a hate-mongering, race-baiting, bigoted symbol of racism born of the twin philosophies of the KKK and Nazism.

His devout followers accuse his opponents of suffering from something called TDS, for Trump Derangement Syndrome. I suggest it is they who are afflicted with his malady for their blind loyalty to a man who stands for everything single value we as a nation claim to despise.

I’m not going to go down a list of things Trump has said and done. For those who are not too lazy or too fervent, they can do their own research; the evidence is easy enough to find.

Instead, I’m going to state unequivocally that this petty, small-minded man is consumed by something called ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome).

Ever since April 2011, when Obama responded to Trump’s persistent birther claims in a SCATHING SEND-UP of an incredibly thin-skinned Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he has carried a deep grudge that is both personal and vitriolic—and certainly far beyond reasonable and unbefitting a world leader.

What’s the point of all this? Check out these stories for his latest display of dog-whistle calls to his redneck base that should he make the call (again), would respond in a manner that would make Jan. 6, 2021 look like a Presbyterian prayer meeting:

Trump slammed as ‘incredibly racist’ after posting clip of Obamas as monkeys in ‘disgusting’ rampage

And there is also this:

Trump’s Racist Attack on the Obamas Shows the Moral Collapse of His Presidency

Thom Hartmann may be a little off in his description of a “moral collapse” of Trump’s presidency because that would assume it ever possessed any morals to begin with—and it certainly did not from his very first day in office way back in 2017.

Still, this latest stunt is obviously something that Trump—and Stephen Miller—must’ve thought would make a hilarious joke.

Instead, it is a slap in the face of everything that’s decent, law-abiding, and respectable. None of those attributes can be affixed to Trump or anyone around him.

This is simply intolerable and we must—we MUST—make our voices heard. Please contact your congressional representatives, particularly Sens. Cassidy and Kennedy. They don’t possess the integrity or courage to dare criticize their leader, but they MUST know how we feel about this.

Here is the contact information for each:

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