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Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: COVID-19-Era Grants Show How Identity Politics Can Shield Corruption

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

There’s a big discussion taking place in this country about immigration, and “one of the themes has been whether a person came legally or illegally,” and what their attitude toward the country they came to is. A U.S. federal attorney recently uncovered fraud occurring in Minnesota where fraudsters in the Somali community there stole billions […]

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0:00.0

Being evil queen has never been so fun.

0:03.0

And I am willing to do anything.

0:06.2

We will soon be at war.

0:07.7

You will have to take a side.

0:09.0

War with the Protestants.

0:10.3

What fun.

0:11.5

Or war with the Catholics.

0:12.9

None of us are safe.

0:14.4

Feels good to be bad.

0:16.0

The Serpent Queen on Channel 4.

0:18.5

Stream now.

0:20.0

In Minnesota, during the COVID years, the Somali community got a billion dollars or a multi-billion-dollar grants.

0:27.6

We don't really know the depth of this scandal, supposedly to supply food and meals,

0:33.6

and even in some cases, health services to people who were impacted negatively by COVID.

0:39.3

And apparently under the nose of Governor Tim Walz, under the nose of the Attorney General Keith Ellison,

0:47.3

under the nose of the point person for the Somali community, Representative Ilya and

0:53.3

the Minnesota Congresswoman,

0:55.6

this fraud went on and on and on.

0:58.5

But what's interesting is nobody who was a political representative in the Somali community

1:04.1

ever bothered to see what they were actually doing. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.

1:21.4

We're having a big discussion in this country about immigration, both legal and illegal.

1:26.6

And one of the themes has been whether a person came legally or illegally,

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