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May 7, 2026 45 mins

There is FINALLY something for the right to celebrate. Jesse Kelly brings the good news and expresses what more needs to be done. This comes as California, New York and Chicago are going off the rails. Katie Zacharia and Devory Darkins join the show to discuss the demise of blue America. Plus, Luke Rosiak blows the lid off a massive fraud story in Ohio.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
A huge win, bigger than you can possibly imagine. Something
great happen. We'll talk about that tonight. Luke Rezaiak breaks
a scandal tonight. Katie Zachariah is here. All that and
more coming up on. I'm right. I'm very happy today.

(00:25):
Something something big happened last night in Indiana, and it
affects everybody. I don't live in Ania. You may or
may not live in Indiana, but it affects you. It
affects the entire United States of America. If you look forward,
pick a number one hundred years from now, and the
Communist menace is finally defeated, GOP turns anti communist, all

(00:49):
these things, all these things that'll look it's going to
outlive you this fight. But believe it or not, what
happened last night is going to be one of a
thousand any battles that save the United States of America.
So what happened last time, let me mix mine. You
understand that Democrats for years, decades, Democrats have been trying

(01:12):
to cheat when it comes to drawing congressional maps. That's
why they have some of the most ridiculous congressional maps.
If you go look at state by state and you
look and that's kind of shaped like an ass, and
you're thinking to yours and what's happening there? Well, Democrats
only care about power, They only care about the communist revolution.
So they just cheat when it comes to the maps

(01:33):
to give themselves more seat in Congress. They know they're
not a fifty to fifty party, as I've explained to
you many times before, so you gotta cheat. They've been
cheating for a very very long time. The GOP is,
as much as I savage, them starting to wake up
and fight back in significant ways and realize what we have.

(01:54):
We're gonna have to use power when we get power,
because they do. If they're using it and we don't
use it, I can't win. The Gops decided to start
getting into this game of redrawing congressional district lines in
red states. Democrats will take a state, we'll call it Connecticut.
They'll take a state where they're sixty percent of the vote,

(02:15):
and they'll eliminate every Republican seat. You remember what they
just did in Virginia. I believe there were eleven congressional
seats there. Virginia is forty five percent Republican. They just
eliminated all the seats but one. We're starting to play
that game. Okay, Indiana had that on the table. You know,
Ronda Santis is doing it. These red states are doing it.

(02:37):
Indiana is a place where we could pick up seats
and redraw congressional district lines. But in steps the swamp.
The Indiana State Senate, the gop state Senate, had a
handful of these swampy corrupt state senators who stepped in

(02:57):
and said, no, we're not drawing the lines. Now. Let
me pause right there before we continue with this wonderful
little tale. Why and how does this happen? In red
states all across the United States of America, All across
the country, you have Democrats who pretend to be Republicans
because if they go out and say I'm a Democrat,

(03:19):
they can't win office. You see this in red states
like Wyoming, all across the South, Red state after red
state after red state. That guy, if you set him
down and hooked him up to a lie detector test
is a Democrat in every sense of the word. But
he's also someone who likes power, so he can't do that.
He runs as a Republican and most of the time
he votes as a Republican right up to the point

(03:44):
he runs into this something that would be a significant
blow to the Communist revolution. When there's something that would
really genuinely wound the Communist revolution, this republican steps up
and helps the communist revolution alone. And we turn and
we look and say, what happened? What are you doing this?

(04:07):
This happens in the Senate, happens in the House, it
happens in state legislatures all across the country. This is
what they do, controlled opposition. Now, why do they get
away with it? How could you get away with something
like that when we when you have desires and I
have desires, and we finally have an opportunity to win

(04:28):
one for the team, How do they get away with
screwing us over?

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Do you ever see that movie The Dark Knight Rises,
the one with Baine Batman and Baine Whenever. There's a
great line in that movie when Bain's beaten up on
Batman and basically tells him you beat up all the criminals,
They're all gone. Now you're rich, And he says, victory
has defeated you. For the GOP primary voter in a

(04:58):
red state for the longest time Victory had defeated him.
What do I mean by that? Well, if you live
I live in Texas, we'll make it about my state.
We have plenty of these people here. I not only
live in Texas, I don't live in any one of
the big blue hell whole cities. I live in an
unbelievably safe town, blood red God and country. People are

(05:22):
are polite, there's no crime, streets are clean. So when
I look around, I don't see squalor misery. I don't
have that in my immediate area. So if I'm a
person who's not that politically involved, I have to vote
in the primary. Everything's fine. There's no murderers here, there's

(05:44):
no robbery, no one. There's no homeless person used in
drugs on the street corner. Am I angry and desperate
to get to the polls for political change? No, everything's fine.
So on primary day, the red state GOP primary voter
has historically sat on his lazy but at home, that's just.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
What they do.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Ah, My state's fine, not worried about. And that has
created a dangerous, dangerous system in this country where swampy,
corrupt Republicans get elected by pretending to be Republicans and
then screw us over. And they do this because they

(06:27):
think they'll get away with it. I almost want to
defend those dirt balls in Indiana who screwed us on redistricting.
I understand why they did it. What are they under
the impression the GOP primary voter is finally going to
show up Now. These guys have been screwing over GOP
primary voters forever. The GOP primary voter never bothered to
punish them for it. But last night the GOP primary

(06:51):
voter proved that he is starting We have a long
moment ago, he is starting to awaken from his slum
and uh, well, this is how those guys are taking it.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Well, I have one lesson for people, revenge and retribution.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
There's not a Christian value. And that's what this was
all a value, all right, And I'm not bitter about it.
It's just the fact.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
And uh, there's life after serving in me had a
sentence and I'm going to find out what slights.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Why would you take revenge on me? No, no, no, no no.
You take revenge on GOP politicians and you do it
during the primary. If the red state GOP primary voter
is starting to awaken from his slumber. If he is
going to march to the polls on primary day and

(07:53):
punish corrupt scumbags in the GOP by tossing them out
of office. If that is what is happening, and that
appears to be what is happening, If that is what
is happening in the United States of America, I don't
know that there's a more significant development that would save
the United States of America. If the GOP goes from
being a bunch of low te loser weenis into being

(08:15):
an actual anti communist party that fights communism with teeth,
We're going to save this place. It's not just about Indiana.
I mean, do you understand that Democrats themselves, they have
thrived on these swampy GOP types being the controlled opposition.
Listen to these two.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
You've talked before about sort of what politics could be,
what we all hope it will be again. I mean,
these Republicans in Indiana. You probably don't agree with them
on much. I don't agree with them on much in
terms of their policies, but they knew what was coming
if they stood up to Trump. They stood up to
them anyways, they decided some of them at least that
there are worse things than losing an election. I just

(08:57):
wonder how different you think our country and our politics
could be if more Republicans had that in them. And
do you think you've been traveling out there in the
country that there are more of them out there?

Speaker 2 (09:10):
I do.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
I mean I see it everywhere I go, So I
do believe a different kind of politics is possible. Look,
Democrats are always going to disagree with Republicans. I'm always
going to disagree on a lot of issues with Republicans.
But if we're all actually talking about what we believe in,
that that is better then Republicans repeatedly having to feel
pressure to either lose their career or do something wrong

(09:35):
because the president is demanding it of them.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
They're very sad. Those types of Republicans who lost last night,
Jen Sucky, Peter budaj Edge, the rear Admiral Well, those
are the kind of Republicans that have helped the revolution.
They're sad. We are making gains, and I know it's
as slow as you want, or as slow as I want.

(10:01):
We're making games. This guy, United States Senator Tom Tillis,
he's leaving. Do you think posting eighty six forty seven
is a crime. No.

Speaker 7 (10:15):
You know again, if this prosecution, which is coming from
the eastern district of North Carolina, if this whole case
is based on a picture in the sand of a
North Carolina beach, it again makes no sense to me.
Number one eighties. I used to work in the restaurant industry,
and I think eighty six actually has its roots.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
As a cook's understanding too.

Speaker 7 (10:35):
It has its roots in eighty six thing the menu
or eighty six thing the product. I can't find any
evidence except some that's come up after the President made
the comment about the movies. I know the penal code
of North Carolina won eighty seven means murder, but I
can't find any evidence where eighty six is used to
as a call for violence and call me is the
biggest disappointment of my Senate career. I actually stood up

(10:59):
for this man and my first term in the Senate
because I thought he was being attacked unfairly. I found
out later that he was a political hack and he
was motivated by political agenda. That alone, though, would not
allow me to support what I think, on its face,
is some sort of a vindictive prosecution Republicans are better
than that. Let's leave it to the Democrats. And I

(11:21):
could point to a litany of what I consider to
be vindictive prosecutions and operations against Conservatives, but let's not
sink to their level.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Let's be better. You know, he hates you. He's always
hated you. Tom Tillis has hated you from the day
he took office. He hates you far more than someone
like Chuck Schumer does. He hates you because he's had
to pretend to like you and care about you for
his whole career, and it bothers him a great deal.
Chuck Schumer just hates you out in the open. Tom
Tillis has had to pretend like he cares about you.

(11:51):
But guess what, he's going away. He's going away because
that brand of Republican is being phased out. Oh I
know he's retiring, but he was not long for this.
These people, the GOP types I told you, the ones
who are Democrats who pretend to be Republicans. You know,
they hate your guts. Every once in a while they'll
kind of let the mask slip.

Speaker 8 (12:10):
Pierce John Cornyn, I know Republicans voters, and as I
said earlier, Really it's a question of who bothers to
show up. If only the most radical people show up
in the primary, then I think that's going to be
a challenge.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
That cool, that's what John Cornyan says about you to
the camera. What do you think he says when he's
with his Democrat friends about you back in DC That
the first time he said stuff like this, talking like
this crazy stuff.

Speaker 8 (12:49):
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(13:12):
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listen to their concerns, but in the end, I think

(13:33):
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We need to take action and pass legislation that will

(13:57):
unequivocally allow these young men and women to in the
only home, in the only country they've known. In the past,
I've supported a number of bills that would have allowed
these individuals to remain in the United States without a fear,
without fear of a court decision hanging in the balance.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
You know that guy's going to lose. That is one
of the most powerful Republicans in Washington, d C. He
has a primary coming up against Ken Paxton and Texas.
If the polls are accurate, that guy's about to lose
because the GOP primary voter, who has long been the dumbest,

(14:41):
laziest voter in America, is starting to awaken from his slumber.
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(15:49):
Jesse We'll be back.

Speaker 5 (15:55):
Sure.

Speaker 9 (16:00):
It is absolutely critical that California's governor does stand up
for everyone in California that, in fact, ICE, to me,
is a criminal operation. I've said all along we should
abolish ICE. It's breaking the law. It is coming here
deliberately to break the law.

Speaker 10 (16:16):
I think we should police Donald Trump's masked mercenary force
that they call ICE. I think we should prosecute any
of the forces that violate the law, and I think
we should jail anyone who has violated the law.

Speaker 8 (16:29):
Congresswoman Porter your thoughts on the idea of funding healthcare
for undocumented immigrants statewide.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yes, I really do feel genuinely bad for all my
friends in California. You watched that debate last night. It's
just a never ending freak fest with Katie, Porker and
Styre and all these people. Just who can be crazier
than the last one? Anyway? One of those people who's
stuck out there, Katie Zachariah, former DHS spokesman Katie, I'm

(16:59):
sorry that was ugly to watch last night.

Speaker 11 (17:02):
It was ugly, but they're saying the quiet part out
loud finally, Yes, they want healthcare for criminal illegal aliens.
And let me be clear, we already have paid a
heavy price out you're in California, to the tune of
twenty three billion dollars. It has cost us over two
years to fund Gavin Newsom's little pet project to give

(17:23):
every single person who came into this country illegally free
healthcare and sex changes. And now we're at about three
point four to four billion dollars in insolvency that Gavin
Newsom is having to beg the federal government for a
bailout on in our Medicare program Medicaid, which is in California.
So Jesse, I'm finally just happy that she's saying this

(17:45):
and not trying to pretend that we're not doing this
any longer. And where's she going to get the money?
That's the question I kept asking myself. Where's she going
to get the money for the healthcare for all of
these illegal immigrants when Gavin Newsom is already asking for
a bailout on this program.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm glad you brought up the insolvency part because people
don't understand how insanely wealthy California is if it was
its own country. I think it's the fifth largest economy
in the world, if memory serves me. In order to
take California into bankruptcy, that's like taking Walmart or Coca
Cola into bankruptcy. How's that humanly possible?

Speaker 11 (18:22):
Well, you have a consistent track record of failed programs.
Gavin Newsom actually didn't inherit. This problem is he has
completely dug California straight into the ground. When you basically
tell energy companies that they don't get any tax benefits,
that they don't get any support from the government, that
you're going to get rid of electric vehicle I'm sorry,

(18:43):
gas powered vehicle sales in California by twenty thirty five.
And you're going to run every successful billionaire out of
this propos and I know he's speaking out against it.
I want to be clear here the proposal on the
wealth tax, Gavin Newsom is giving lip service that he's
against it. But if he was against it, he would
have buried all of the people in his party that

(19:04):
are proposing it. But all of these millionaires and billionaires
are now fleeing. So what exactly are we left with.
We're left with homelessness, surging crime, lack of homes that
he had promised at the outset of his term. We
don't have any more new homes built. We actually have
the contrary, we have the entire Pacific Palisades, Altadena and

(19:24):
Pasadena areas completely burned to the ground, and yet he's
done nothing to help. So, Jesse, what has happened in
California and that gubernatorial debate can be summed up by
looking at every single failed leftist policy that has destroyed California,
and that President Trump and JD. Vance and doctor Oz
you know, with the fraud, are having to come in

(19:46):
and remedy. It is disturbing.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
I'm glad you brought up the fraud. Katie Porker was
asked about it last nine years. What she said, fraud
is real.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
It happens government waste, mismanagement, failed, You're to have audits,
failure to implement government recommendations. That's why I chose to
serve on the Oversight Committee and hold Democratic leadership and
Republican leadership Trump and Biden to account for those programs.
But there's nothing special about Californians. That is political theater

(20:18):
coming from JD. Vance.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Is there anything special about California fraud?

Speaker 11 (20:25):
Oh, only that it's mounting in to the tune of
billions and billions and billions of dollars. And we have
every form of it. We have medicare, we have COVID fraud,
we have homelessness fraud. I mean, you name it, you
uncover it everywhere you turn. California has that type of fraud.
And by the way, Katie Porter ran an ad a
very disturbing and disgusting ad on President Trump where she

(20:47):
used an expletive f Trump. And now she's saying, I'm
going to hold who accountable. I'm going to hold Democrats accountable.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
No, she's not.

Speaker 11 (20:55):
If she became governor of this state, she would basically
put up her middle finger to President Trump, as she
ostensibly did in her advertisement, and would try to run
this state without him. She also said Jesse that she
doesn't need the forty percent of the Californians that voted
for President Trump. She said this in her CBS botched interview.

(21:16):
I don't need the people who voted for Trump. I
don't have to appease them. I don't actually have to
do anything for anyone on the other side. So she's
not holding anyone accountable. She's a disaster. And I love
your nickname for her. I caught that and it's excellent.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
I don't know what you're talking about, all right, tom Stier,
tom Steyer's a scummy billionaire. He was a dork to
the right of Katie Porker in that video. Eric Swalwell
recently had his career nuked because apparently he does a
lot of team building exercises in the office. Will leave
it that way. I can't help but wonder if tom

(21:51):
Stier wasn't behind these types of things, he was what
third or fourth I believe in Swalwell's gone, Stier's rising.
What do you make of this guy?

Speaker 11 (22:01):
Well, sire made all of his money. Let's be clear,
Styre wants to imprison ice, right, he made that. He
came out and said that explicitly, I want to imprison
ice officers, which is absolutely ridiculous and also illegal in
a violation of the Supremacy clause for doing their job.
But he made all his money on ice prison. So

(22:21):
this guy is the quintessential hypocrisy walking hypocrisy that the
California Within the California gubernatorial debate, I'm the self made
multi millionaire or billionaire, and I've made all my money
on projects that now I want to imprison the people
that helped me make money. I mean, honestly, this guy
is a joke and he is what he has done,

(22:43):
what he has already done in the California debate is
again exposed more failed, failed policies and honestly just another
failed will be want to be politician. The only people
who really stood out and really the only person actually
who stood out to me, and I keep saying it
and I don't mean it because I'm a Republican. But
Steve Hilton continues to have the solutions for California, and

(23:05):
having lived here my entire life, I can tell you
that some of those solutions are a welcome, welcome to
my ears policies that I just cannot help but be like, please,
can we just get Steve Hilton in here to give
me lower gas prices? Maybe just that, maybe just lower
gas prices?

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Okay, so give it to us right between the eyes?
Can he win? I know you have this weird jungle
primary thing and you got people like Swallwell getting bounced.
Can he actually win?

Speaker 11 (23:37):
I think if Steve continues to gain the momentum that
he has already and continues that momentum outside of the
voter ID problem, which we've talked about in California, which
is actually on the November twenty sixth, well will be
the ballot initiative set forth by Carlton I assemblyman out
of California. Outside of the voter ID issue and with

(23:59):
the rampant voter fraud, Steve Hilton stands is starting to
stand the best chance because Californians are now suffering under
what I drove by Jesse was seven dollars gallon gas
in Malibu, California. This is the most expensive I've ever seen,
seven dollars a gallon, and California is just people cannot

(24:23):
afford to live here anymore. And so people are looking
at Katie Porter listening to her. She has really the
most kind of off putting personality. She's even for the
hard left. My own leftist mother cannot stand listening to
Katie Porter. And you have kind of these squishy other politicians.
And honestly, Steve Hilton is starting to rise merely because

(24:44):
he's providing just small solutions and practical solutions to Californians
and has a kind of a nice delivery for the left.
There's something about his personality. There's something about maybe even
his British accent that is a little bit more welcoming
to even hard leftists out in California.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Jesse British accent on dudes, I don't know about it.
I mean I don't mind it on women, all right?
What about La? How's this male or waste looking for?

Speaker 9 (25:17):
Well?

Speaker 11 (25:18):
So, as much as I would like to come out
and say yay for Spencer Pratt, I think his advertisements
are excellent and I think he's doing a wonderful job.
Mayor Bass has some kind of spell over the people
of Los Angeles, that she can burn down, that she
can be in Ghana while the Palisades burns down to
the tune of two hundred and fifty billion dollars in

(25:40):
lives lost. Again, as I said earlier with the Altadena
and Pasadena fires, you know, you can have entire neighborhoods
and cities burned down, and this woman is not being
held accountable people. She's starting to still surge in all
of the approval ratings, and she's surging in the polling
that's taking place. No matter what visuals Spencer Pratt puts up,

(26:01):
Karen Bass still seems to have a stronghold over the
mayoral race. And so I hope, I hope for Spencer
Pratt's sake, that he starts to gain more momentum. I'm
not seeing it in the polling, if I'm really honest
with you, and as a kind of political strategist and analysts,
I'm looking at this thinking it's going to be Karen

(26:22):
Bass again. Not good news, but it's what I'm starting
to see in what kind of the ground truth is
out here in California, and people are still going to
vote for that lady.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well that just sucks. All right, Katie, have a good one.
California isn't the only kookie blue state. There are more.
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Speaker 2 (27:52):
New York City faces a budget crisis of a historic magnitude.
We inherited a deficit larger than any that's the Great Recession.
Years of mismanagement and chronic under budgeting, alongside a structural
imbalance between what New York City sends to the state
and what we receive in return have taken a toll.
We cannot close this deficit with savings alone. We need

(28:14):
new revenue and we need a structural reset in our
relationship with the state.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
You just got there joining me now, the host of
the Devery Darkins show, Devy Darkins. He's been mayor for
like five minutes. There's already a budget crisis.

Speaker 10 (28:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (28:31):
I mean he's learning on the job, there's no doubt
about that. And I think he's learning a hard lesson
when it comes to being the mayor of New York City.
That is not just all talk, right, There's things you
have to execute on. And Kevin o'larry says it the
best way, which is there's a difference between selling something
and actually executing on it. And I think Montdomie's having
a hard time with that given his recent back and

(28:53):
forth with Ken Griffin. You know, as he made that
viral video taxing the rich, but he said it himself
then broke is what's going on with that city?

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, speaking of his attack on Ken Griffin, if you
don't know what Devery's talking about here, it was I
don't know that I've seen a political ad like this
calling out a rich guy by night.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Here was when I ran for mayor, I said I
was going to tax the rich.

Speaker 13 (29:19):
Well, today we're taxing an I'm thrilled to announce Wh've
secured a peer of tear tax, the first in New
York's history. This is an annual fee on luxury property
is worth more than five million dollars whose owners do
not live full time in the city, like for this penthouse,
which Hedge one CEO Ken Griffin bought for two hundred
and thirty eight million dollars. This peeri of tear tax
is specifically designed for the richest of the rich.

Speaker 14 (29:41):
So where does that leave us at three to fifty?

Speaker 15 (29:42):
Part that leaves us with the fact that we went
to Miami and revised our building, planned to make it
a bigger office building.

Speaker 11 (29:52):
You're bailing.

Speaker 15 (29:54):
So what do we do with three fifties is still
a point of discussion.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Internally.

Speaker 15 (29:59):
But what is no longer appoint to discussion is that
Miami is now. You know, when we moved from Chicago,
there was a debate between New York and Miami. It's
unquestionably true that we made the right choice.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Well, surprise, surprise, when you try to tax and punish
super rich guys, they hop on their private planes and
they fly to Miami.

Speaker 12 (30:23):
Right exactly. You know, I was just as I was
listening to that, I was just thinking, it doesn't take
a rocket science to understand what's going on here. Instead
of alienating billionaires, why not collaborate with them to bring
more investment to New York City so you can make
it more affordable. But by essentially motivating them to move

(30:43):
away like Katie Wilson did in Seattle with Boeing and Starbucks,
they're literally going to lose jobs. Why because of his
talking point of tax the rich is worth it. I
just don't think it obviously works in the end. As
you guys know, and I'm sure your listeners would agree,
socialism does not work in a capitalist system. But I
don't think Mondani believes that.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Why do these cities keep doing this? What's the explanation
for it. I mean you and I could sit here
for an hour and go down the list of Hey,
look at Seattle's Kooki mayor, or LA's or Chicago's or
we could go down the list and they just keep
voting for these people over and over and over again,
and the facilities get worse, and the taxes get higher,
and the homeless people are crapping in the streets, and
they just keep doing the same thing again. When does

(31:28):
the voter changes behavior?

Speaker 12 (31:30):
You know what. That's a good question and I don't
know the answer, but I will say this, according to history,
sooner or later things do change. This don't change when
we think they should. I mean California change. It wasn't
always the way that it was, for example. And there's
other states across the country as well. But I will
say this, I think when we are seeing crisis like
this in our country, usually what's behind it is money.

(31:53):
Someone's making money off this, someone's making money off these policies.
We know of the fraud in Minneapolis as an example,
we know the fraud that happened with the Chicago public schools.
As far as what's going over there with Mayor Braden
Johnson and how you know they were making money off
of buying these old schools to house illegal immigrants in

(32:14):
It's all a money scheme for these people, so I
think that's really behind it.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Devery. I appreciate you very much, my man, come back soon,
all right. Speaking of fraud, there is a story. I
don't know if you've been reading up on this story
from Luke Rezaike at the Daily Wire of Fraud in Ohio.
I've told you before what they found in Minnesota was
the appetizer. This is something democrats in collaboration with foreigners.

(32:44):
They've been doing this for years and years and years,
and it's staggering how much of your money is being stolen.
Just go ahead and buckle yourself in. Luke Rezaiak is
going to give us an amazing story in just a moment.
Before he does that, I want you to get a
wonderful night's sleep tonight like I have last night. I
was desperate to have a good night sleep last night.
I had been up all night for it was a

(33:04):
long story. So last night, what did I do a
little cup of hot chocolate, that's all. Went to the kitchen,
grabbed a little coffee cup, poured some milk in it
took a scoop of dream powder from Beam, dumped it
in there, swirled it up, through it in the microwave,
and just sat there watching the show with the wife
sipping on it, and slept like a little bitty baby.

(33:29):
Do you want to sleep like that? Natural? By the way,
it's totally drug free. All those natural things you see
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no getting up, and start waking up feeling like a
million bucks. We'll be back. These people just steal. We

(33:56):
talk about it all the time about the volume of
theft in this country. It's staggering. It is truly staggering.
And thankfully we actually have investigative reporters on our side
now doing the work and exposing it all. I'm gonna
shut my mouth because Luke Raziak is here, investigative reporter
with the Daily Wire. It's his story. He broke it,

(34:17):
he wrote it. Luke, take the show away. What did
you find?

Speaker 14 (34:21):
Thanks for having me, Jesse. So what I'm worked up
about is what I'm calling free butlers for somalis. To
the tune of one billion dollars just in Ohio every year. Again,
this is free butlers for Somemalies. They'll come to your house, clean,
cook whatever you need.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Okay, okay, I need you to expand a lot on
what you just described to me. Somali's are getting free butlers.
Who's paying? Butler? What you know?

Speaker 14 (34:53):
The answer to that Jesse, You're paying. So this is
under Medicaid. And they started by saying you can have
home healthcare. So the idea was if you were old
and you were so sick that you needed to go
into a nursing home, it would be cheaper if we
could send a nurse to your house a couple times
a day or a week or whatever, and then that
would save money. The problem is there are a lot

(35:16):
of people nobody's going to pretend to be sick so
they can go into a nursing home and like hang
out with their head in a cup of pudding or whatever.
Nobody wants to go to a nursing home. If you
let them get these free benefits, they will pretend to
need all these services. Because what happened is Ohio said
you don't even have to be a nurse. We will
pay members of the family to hang out with their

(35:36):
own relatives and just cook, clean, do chores, even provide
quote companionship and conversation. So they are paying people to
hang out with their own family and talk to their
own family and do things that for all of eternity
people have done because they're decent human beings. And your
parents raise you, and if they get old, you try
to return the favor. But apparently not some allies. Just

(35:59):
as they won't is their own kids without having somebody
else paid to watch them, they won't care for their
own aging parents without without getting paid. They're constantly just
getting paid just to exist with their family.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Good god, Okay, let's rewind back to the beginning. When
and where did this begin? How did this begin? How
did you get your how did you get your hooks
into this one?

Speaker 14 (36:24):
So it's been going on for a while, but I
found out about it because DOGE did great work releasing
data about who's getting paid under Medicaid. This is a
huge percentage of the federal budget. In Ohio, it's like
half the state budget, and we had no idea where
it was going. And you had people like Nick Shirley
doing great work, and then who would be accused of
cherry picking. Now we have the data, and I've spent

(36:46):
months going through it. I can tell you what Nick
Shirley found was not cherry picking. It is consistent with
what you find across the board. It is virtually all
some allie's. At least in Columbus, Ohio. There's almost no
American names on the who's doing these these medicaid things?
And they're millions of dollars each. And so there are

(37:06):
these buildings in Columbus. There's one of them that had
ninety four businesses in it, sixty six million dollars they build.
There's another landlord that owns seven buildings on the same street,
all of them just full of these home healthcare companies
billing a quarter billion dollars. So the entire economy of Columbus,
and you can see they're on the screen. There's a
billboard where they're advertising that you can get paid to

(37:28):
hang out with your own family. They've all figured out
that this is way more lucrative and better than working,
and so the entire economy has been replaced by these
medicaid schemes. And you drive down the street and it's
just doctor this doctor, that home healthcare, this learning center, this,
everybody is getting paid just to hang out with their
own family. And the companies are full of these middlemen

(37:50):
where if you're getting paid to hang out with your
own mom, you get paid by a company, the company
gets paid by Medicaid and they keep a cut. And
these companies are owned by the sketchiest people you can imagine.
And now that we have their names in this database
and then amount of money that they're paid, you can
look them up and you see criminal records. You see
that they're running other businesses, so they're getting like a

(38:11):
million dollars sometimes half a million a month, and it's
not even their full time job. It's just like this
thing they're doing on the side. You can see that
they're not paying taxes. They have tax so they come
to our country and they get ten million dollars from
our tax money and they won't even pay their own
taxes to help fund the country that took them in.

(38:32):
It almost defies belief. And so you know, there's a
Samali politician. He ran for state Senate with the Democrat endorsement,
and he said, I'm the I'm the embodiment of the
American dream. I came here as a refugee, and and
now I show that anybody in America can make a
great living.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Well.

Speaker 14 (38:51):
It turns out that he had founded a business on
the side that built eleven million dollars eventually from medicaid.
So I guess that's their version of the American dream.
Free work for free, millions of dollars for hanging out
with your family, and it's not even your your full
time job.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
This stuff makes me unreasonably angry. Luke, I'm afraid to
even ask it, but this is horrible. It's awful, it's unfair.
It's on all the words we could use. But it
doesn't sound illegal, is it.

Speaker 14 (39:24):
I mean, that's a great point. And the governor of Ohio,
Republican named Mike Dwine, I mean, he was so jd
Vance responded to my story and that he's sending in
his fraud task force to Ohio, and Mike Dwine said,
you know, and it's funny because I'm doing a five
part series. He didn't even wait to see what I have.
After the first part he said, oh, this is all fine,

(39:46):
it's not even illegal. So that tells you where his
head is at. He didn't want to hear the evidence
before he declared that there's nothing to see here, which
is kind of maps with what I found on the ground.
Is that part of it is legal, like you said,
I mean that was the tent of the program. Is
you can get paid for hanging out with your own family.
That is allowed. There's another category of it where you

(40:06):
have multiple clients. You're not hanging out with your family.
You have like ten old ladies that you go check
on that is allowed to except that the Somalis may
have different plan members, people who are selling their Social
Security numbers in exchange for kickbacks, and they're not really
going to those people's houses. Obviously that would be fraud,
but how do you prove it Unless you have cameras

(40:28):
on the old lady's houses, it's difficult to prove. So
part of it is waste, part of it is fraud,
but it's inherently hard to prove the fraud. And so
it's really cool that jd Vance is going to go
in there. There's all kinds of problems that I found
where people have criminal records. One of them founded a
seven million dollar medicaid business using the address of the

(40:48):
teenage son of a convicted money launderer. So this is
the kind of thing we're dealing with. It's obviously doesn't
pass the smell test. If it turns out that most
of these places can't shut down because fraud can't be proven,
you know, maybe we just do a policy change here
and shut down the whole program. Maybe people need to

(41:08):
take care of their aging family for an hour a
day without demanding government paycheck to do it.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
All, right, last one for me, Mike DeWine. Obviously being
a corrupt scumbag is not news to anyone who pays
attention to politics. But are there others in the state
GOP of Ohio who are on this, who have reached out?
And basically my concern, Luke, is that the state GOP
is in on all this.

Speaker 14 (41:36):
You know, that's kind of what I've heard, is that
the investigators don't really do anything. You know, every all
the people running for the state offices yesterday in the primaries,
they all commented on my story and were supportive of
it and said they're going to do a fraud crackdown.
But I think that the politically that that sounds nice,

(41:59):
But I think instead of just playing whack a mole
and you know, you knock down Muhammed Ahmed's ten million
dollar business, but then his brother, Abdakar Ahmed opens one,
you know, at the same address. It's just whack a mole.
They can do this endlessly. There's an infinite supply of them,
and they're just replicating the same scheme, cookie cutter style.
So I think fraud detection is in some ways like

(42:22):
playing whack a mole. I think that the courageous position
for politicians at this point is to end what they
call the Personal Services Waiver, which is paying people who
aren't even nurses with Medicaid dollars. And this is a
federal seventy percent coming from the Feds. So maybe that's
why Mike DeWine doesn't care that it's being wasted. It's
other people's money. But that's what I think we need

(42:44):
to see is Republicans willing to say we're going to
end this medical Medicaid program where you get to pay
get paid for hanging out with your own family members.
Because it might have been gone for a few years
without being exploited. But you add in, you know, a
ton of somalis into the mix, and Columbus o high
as the second most Somali's after Minneapolis. That's when the

(43:04):
match really hit. This this uh sort of uh, you know,
the fire was ignited here, and the budget just can't say,
we can't afford to pay people to hang out with
their family members. So I think the move here is
to end the program.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Luke, outstanding work as always, Thank you, brother. Let's do
a light in the mood next, it's time to lighten
the mood. And I don't know if you know this,
but today is actually National Nurses Day. And nurses have

(43:46):
caught a lot of heat in recent years, the TikTok
dancing videos during COVID and all the DEI hires and
things like that. So nurses have caught a lot of heat.
And I get that, And there's plenty of bad nurses
out there, but there are also plenty of wonderful, wonderful
nurses out there, wonderful nurses who care for you deeply,

(44:07):
and they can when you're hurting. Sometimes they add a
little personal touch.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
And I had a nurse named Pearl Nelson Military. She'd
come in and do things and I don't think you'll
learn the medical school, nursing school. She'd whisper in my ear.
I couldn't understand them, she whispering, she'd leaned down, he'd
actually breathe on me, to make sure that there was
a connection to human connection. She even went home and
brought back to her pillow from her own bed because

(44:37):
he didn't know the one I had, the one to comfortable.
But I'm not joking.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
A girl sounds like a sweetheart. I'll see them all
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