The Billion-Dollar Heist You Missed Because Trump Was Mean

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There is a specific physics to the modern news cycle, a geometry of outrage that is as predictable as it is boring. It goes like this: Donald Trump says something grotesque. The Beltway press corps, relieved to have a simple moral binary to cling to, descends like a flock of starving seagulls on a single French fry. The “Tone” becomes the story. The “Rhetoric” becomes the crisis.

And in the noise of that performance, the actual news—the messy, complex, implicate-your-friends variety of news—is quietly taken out back and shot.

This week provided a masterclass in the genre. On December 2nd, the President referred to the perpetrators of the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal as “garbage.”

The result was immediate. The Big Three networks—ABC, NBC, CBS—devoted a combined 21 minutes to agonizing over the insult. They convened panels. They furrowed brows. They discussed the “chilling effect” on the Somali community. They framed it as a crisis of civility.

How much time did they spend explaining the actual crime—the billion-dollar theft of taxpayer funds that prompted the insult?

Seven minutes.

ABC gave the fraud itself 25 seconds. NBC barely touched it, treating the indictment like a rumor. CBS, to their credit, was the only one that seemed to remember that stealing money is actually illegal, mentioning the indictments explicitly.

But the aggregate effect was a triumph of the new media reality: Inflate the Quote. Shrink the Context. Rewrite the Story.

If you only watched the nightly news, you would believe Donald Trump attacked a group of immigrants because he is a xenophobe. But if you look at the receipts—the wire transfers, the secret recordings, and the Porsches parked in Minneapolis garages—you realize he attacked them because they were running the most successful political money-laundering operation since Sam Bankman-Fried decided to buy the Democratic Party.

Let’s look at what the networks decided was too boring to tell you.

The Mechanics of the Grift

The media loves a victim, and for 22 minutes, the Somali community was cast as the victim of Trump’s tongue. But the real victims—the taxpayers of Minnesota and the actual hungry children—were erased, because acknowledging them would require explaining how the fraud worked. And the fraud is embarrassing for the people who run Minnesota.

Here is the “shrunken context”:

The “Feeding Our Future” scandal is not a rounding error. It is a $250 million theft that federal investigators now believe is part of a wider web involving Medicaid, autism services, and housing fraud totaling nearly $1 billion.

The brazenness of it is almost admirable. This wasn’t sophisticated financial engineering. It was crude, stupid, and loud.

Take Empire Cuisine. This was a storefront that claimed to be serving 5,000 meals a day.

Do you know what 5,000 meals a day looks like? That is the volume of a Las Vegas buffet. That is an industrial operation. And yet, this storefront had zero foot traffic. It had no lines. It had no food. It was a ghost kitchen serving ghost children.

And where did the money go? The networks imply it was just “mismanaged.” Let’s use the proper words. It was looted.

Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, the owner of Empire Cuisine (now sentenced to 28 years), didn’t buy rice and beans. He bought a Porsche. He bought a Tesla. He bought a $64,000 Dodge Ram. He bought two lakefront lots for $1.1 million.

Mekfira Hussein, the founder of “Shamsia Hopes,” used the money meant for starving kids to pay off her $173,000 mortgage and buy a Porsche of her own.

And then there is the foreign aid component. The Department of Justice confirmed that millions of dollars were wired out of the United States to purchase real estate in Kenya and Turkey. This wasn’t just theft; it was capital flight. American tax dollars were effectively serving as the sovereign wealth fund for Nairobi condo developers.

But you didn’t hear about the Nairobi condos on ABC. You heard about Trump’s “dark tone.”

The “Racism” Shield

Why did the media shrink this context? Because to explore it fully brings you face-to-face with the mechanism that allowed it to happen: The weaponization of identity politics.

The fraudsters didn’t just steal money; they hacked the cultural software of the Democratic Party. They knew that in 2020, the worst thing a white bureaucrat could be called was “racist.” So they built a shield out of it.

When the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) actually tried to do its job and stop the payments in 2020—because, again, 5,000 phantom meals—the ringleader, Aimee Bock, sued them.

She didn’t argue the numbers were real. She argued that checking the numbers was discrimination. She called the state racist. And it worked. A judge, terrified of the optics, ordered the payments to continue. The “Racism Shield” is what turned a small scam into a billion-dollar catastrophe.

The media is complicit in this. By focusing on Trump’s “garbage” comment, they are reinforcing the exact same shield that allowed the theft to happen in the first place. They are proving that if you steal a billion dollars, but someone calls you a bad name, you become the victim.

The Friends of the Fraud

And this is where it gets truly ugly. This is where we enter the “Sam Bankman-Fried” zone.

If you want to know why the story is being suppressed, look at the guest list. The fraud wasn’t happening in a vacuum; it was happening in the living room of the Minnesota DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party).

Ilhan Omar is the mascot of this disaster. The media treats her as a brave survivor of Trump’s attacks. In reality, she was the brand ambassador for the scam.

On May 3, 2020, just two weeks after the Safari Restaurant—the epicenter of the fraud—joined the program, who was there? Ilhan Omar. She was filming a video, vouching for them, smiling with the fraudsters.

In the courtroom, prosecutors revealed that this video was used as a golden ticket. When inspectors asked questions, the fraudsters pointed to the video: The Congresswoman trusts us. Who are you to question her?

Omar accepted $7,400 in campaign donations from three of the indicted suspects. She quietly returned the money after the FBI raids, but the transaction was clear: Legitimacy for cash.

Then there is Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Attorney General. He is supposed to be the cop on the beat. Instead, he was the guy looking the other way.

We now have audio recordings from December 11, 2021—mere weeks before the FBI finally raided the operation. In the recording, Ellison is meeting privately with the fraudsters. They are complaining that the state is freezing their money. Does Ellison threaten them? Does he ask for the receipts?

No. He says, “I’m here to help.”

In the ten days following that meeting, Ellison and his son received approximately $17,500 in donations from figures linked to the scandal.

This is the Minnesota Laundromat. Taxpayers put money in the top (the Education Department). Fraudsters skim the cream in the middle (Porsches and Kenya). And a percentage drips down to the bottom to fund the campaigns of the politicians who protect the system (Omar and Ellison).

The Rewrite

This is why the statistic matters. It is not an accident. It is an editorial decision to protect the system from scrutiny.

If ABC News spent 21 minutes dissecting the “Minnesota Laundromat,” they would have to ask hard questions about Ilhan Omar. They would have to ask why Keith Ellison was taking checks from targets of an FBI investigation. They would have to admit that the cry of “racism” was used to facilitate a billion-dollar robbery.

That is a hard story to tell. It alienates sources. It ruin “21 minutes vs. 7 minutes” at dinner parties. It makes you look like a conservative. It is much easier to run the package about Trump. The “Trump is Mean” story is pre-written. It requires no research. It upsets no advertisers. It confirms the worldview of the Manhattan elite who run newsrooms.

So they inflate the quote. They shrink the context. They rewrite the story.

The “garbage” comment was a gift to the media. It gave them an exit ramp. It allowed them to pivot away from the uncomfortable reality of Democratic corruption and back to the safe, warm embrace of moral posturing.

But the numbers don’t lie. A billion dollars is gone. Porsches were bought. Elections were funded. And the media is spending its time policing the adjectives used to describe the thieves.

That isn’t journalism. It’s accomplice liability. mess online.

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