We are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud.

Now of course that person's efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort because unfortunately the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.

Hi again, everybody. It's now five o'clock in New York. It is the sad truth that the bulldozers are already gone. The rebels been cleared away. The demolition of the Department of Justice, our system of justice,

our bulwark of the rule of law in America, once the envy of the world, the model for democracies

all over the world is complete. Now though, seemingly all at once, we are getting a better look

and a better understanding that the gold-plated monstrosity, Trump is building up to

replace it. Starting with a development that's expected to take place over the next couple of days,

as you just heard from the vice president, J.D. Vance, he made an announcement that the

Justice Department is in the process of creating a new, high-ranking position with extensive

powers, it sounds like,

position answering not to the Department of Justice, but to him and Donald Trump.

The senior official will have broad authority to investigate fraud across the country,

never mind the redundancy of the task, as the Department of Justice already has a whole unit in charge of those cases.

According to J.D. Vance, the genesis of this post-Watergate norm obliterating position stems from something very much in the news right now in the MAGA world.

Allegations of fraud in Minnesota's daycare industry.

In typical fashion, J.D. Vance insinuates that those incidents are part of a broader

nationwide scandal. In fact, just this week, the Trump administration froze more than

$10 billion in federal child care family assistance and social services funds for five states.

They all happen to be blue states.

One of them is New York. New York's Attorney General, Letitia James, is now among a number of

officials to sue the Trump administration over freezing those funds. Speaking of Letitia James,

in the context of this dire new era of American justice.

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