Why Jerry McGuire? We all know "Show me the money." Nonetheless, it has to be the starting point of sane analysis.
So, see it to the end. THEN -- That is my one simple request of Michele Tafoya. Show me the money.
It's like on the sideline, she can make up anything she wants about what's happening in the medical tent, and they never let cameras or Sideline Susies into the med tent. So, that's not Showing a thing. It's saying, not showing.
Here, at 1:00 of 1:30 mins, she says, "of up to twenty billion dollars." Nice number. How about thirty? Forty? Now prove it. Prove something in that ballpark range. Or admit it's untrue, or just some guess.
SHOW ME THE MONEY.
She's talking about a fraud amount of multiple billions of dollars. Lady, show the money. Your spread sheet, here, there, wherever, your evidence? Not that some jackass in the Trump DOJ spins off an amount. Real money. Show me the accounting or shut-the-fuck-up.
That is where the Toyfoya campaign hits the wall. She has no evidencc. No $9 billion she can display. It's not there. She spins. So, call bullshit on that.
SHOW ME THE MONEY!
This is no proof of anything except others are spinning the same falsehoods. Make that dog and pony even into even a single billion. It's not there. Not hard evidence of cases in court totalling that. Not there. It is only a dweeb telling a story. Story telling is far short of evidence.
Michele Tafoya, 61, is running to replace retiring Sen. Tina Smith,
D-Minn., in a crowded race where Republicans have heavily targeted Walz
and Ellison over a nearly $10 billion daycare, food aid and health clinic fraud scheme that unfolded under their noses.
That just links over to guys in suits, spinning numbers.:
Thompson explained that 14 programs have been identified as containing
fraud and those programs have cost taxpayers $18 billion overall since
2018.
[...]
When asked specifically by a reporter how much
of that $18 billion is suspected to be fraudulent, which reports have
previously suggested could be around $1 billion, Thompson suggested that
number will be higher when the investigations are concluded.
"I think a significant portion," Thompson responded.
Thompson later said, "When I say significant, I'm talking in the order of half or more. But we'll see."
And until "we see," we don't see a thing. No Show me the money. None. Saying a number is all that's there. Speculate up a story, wear a nice suit, what is that? And, headline:
. [...] Seven to ten billion dollars. Let that sink in, Minnesota taxpayers.
That’s the staggering sum Michele Tafoya, the former Governor hopeful,
claims vanished under Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith
Ellison’s watch.
This isn’t just another political spat. It’s a direct, searing
indictment of our state’s leadership and a colossal fraud Tafoya insists
they ignored.
It is nothing of the sort. It is fiction - an attempt to fob it off as truth, by saying so. More:
The Billions That Vanished
Tafoya isn’t just making noise; she’s hammering home the claim that
Walz and Ellison deliberately looked away, allowing this massive,
pandemic-era fraud, specifically tied to child care and food aid
programs, to run rampant. This isn’t speculation from a campaign stump;
it’s a stark reality validated by actual audits
revealing losses between $7 billion and $10 billion. Let’s be clear:
that money didn’t just ‘vanish’; it was stolen from the people of
Minnesota.
Attorney General Ellison’s office proudly touts over 340 fraud
convictions. Three hundred and forty. While commendable on paper,
against a backdrop of $7 to $10 billion in missing funds, that number is an insult.
It’s a feeble attempt to distract from the gaping hole in our state’s
coffers. To dismiss this as mere “pandemic chaos” isn’t an explanation;
it’s a blatant attempt to dodge responsibility. Minnesota taxpayers
deserve far better than such a flimsy excuse.
As to saying and showing, you can call a horse chestnut a chestnut horse, but then you've no animal to actually show.
Republican Senate candidates looking to fill Minnesota’s vacant seat
have accused Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison of
neglecting a significant fraud issue in the state. Michele Tafoya, who
seeks to succeed retiring Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.), has been vocal
in her criticism, targeting the nearly $10 billion fraud scheme related
to daycare, food assistance, and clinics that occurred under their
watch.
Tafoya suggested that this scandal might shift Minnesota’s Senate
seat to a Republican stronghold for the first time since 2008. In a
discussion with Fox News Digital, she noted that residents are
profoundly “angry,” emphasizing that “fraud is certainly at the
forefront” of current political discourse.
Fine you say that. Now SHOW ME THE FUCKING MONEY!
Show me one spread sheet, links to hard proof, and I will be receptive. But, hey * * *
Kudkow, a moron, makes Tafoya look good by comparison, getting into "fraud" assertions at 1:30 - and at 5:50 the woman with emphasis says, "we're talking 9 billion," but it never goes beyond talk. No actual content you could take to a bank. Listen to it all. Nothing there but an asserted ghost number.
She has a campaign site, where she says "fraud" but declines to name an amount there. What's that tell you? Search it. Only vague allegations. Bottom line, she's full of shit on her numbers, and cannot blame others if she accepts their numbers without proof. Showing a lack of sensible caution is no shout-out of fitness for any job, much less one where trust must be earned.
Until she has a number she can prove, she should quit temper her spin. There was $250 million in Feeding Our Future. Millions, not billions. But the perps were all investigated and pursued during Biden times. That proves what? Biden people and State Dems did the job.
Yes. They did.
I cannot believe mainstream media are giving the little sideline reporter a free ride. They are lazy, too lazy to call her out and ask for real, actual, reliable numbers totaling anywhere near to what she's claiming.
It is a sad state of politics she gets away with it.
And if actual numbers in the $9 billion range are ever shown, even nationwide, it then and only then is no longer a fiction sold by stuffed shirts and empty suits, ------- and Michele.
Crypto exchange company Binance helped the Trump family’s own cryptocurrency venture make billions just before Donald Trump pardoned its co-founder, and the rejuvenated company now stands to reap its own windfall, a new report reveals.
Changpeng Zhao, who also goes by “CZ,” was pardoned by Trump last week after the administration said the businessman was “prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.”
Zhao pleaded guilty to
enabling money laundering and agreed to step down as the CEO of Binance
as part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the Justice Department in
2023. He served four months in prison.
Binance
created a “high-level task force to strike a deal” with the
Trump-affiliated cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial, and
launched a months-long bid for clemency, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter.
Crypto
exchange company Binance helped the Trump family’s own cryptocurrency
venture make billions before Donald Trump pardoned its co-founder
Changpeng Zhao, according to a report (REUTERS)
Members of the Trump family, through an umbrella company, own more than half of World Liberty.
World
Liberty’s new stablecoin product — a cryptocurrency whose value is
designed to maintain a one-to-one value with the U.S. dollar — saw the
value of its shares jump from $127 million to over $2.1 billion this
spring after Binance stepped in, according to the WSJ.
The
technology that supports World Liberty’s stablecoin, USD1, was built by
Binance and weeks after USD1 launched in March, an Emirati state-backed
fund — MGX — used it to invest $2 billion in Zhao’s company, according
to Bloomberg.
The move by MGX reportedly provided World Liberty with the opportunity
to net potentially tens of millions of dollars in interest.
World Liberty told the WSJ
that Binance was not involved in the deal with MGX, while a lawyer for
Binance said that Zhao “did not act as the relationship facilitator or
financier” between MGX and the Trump family’s crypto venture.
Now
that Trump has pardoned Zhao, the world’s largest trading crypto
platform is likely to make a comeback in the U.S. following the 2023
ban.
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