JD Vance Defends DOJ Fraud Investigation in Sharp Rebuke to Critics
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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First, they applaud Vice President Vance for standing firm behind the Trump administration’s investigation into widespread government fraud, especially following revelations of massive fraud in Minnesota. Scot and Greg argue that fraud needs to be exposed rather than excused.
Next, they highlight the radical comments on guns and dogs from Democrat Grand Rapids, Michigan, Mayor David LaGrand. The mayor says anyone who owns a gun should be ashamed. And he's also supportive of ending K-9 police units after a recent incident. It's not just the leftward lurch of a recently conservative part of the country. It reflects broader Democratic attitudes on gun rights, policing, and traditional American institutions
Finally, they criticize Gavin Newsom communications aide Izzy Gardon for refusing to provide details about Gov. Newsom’s sudden admission of dyslexia and for responding to longtime reporter Susan Crabtree with vulgarity. Scot and Greg discuss what they see as significant disrespect for a well-established reporter and another chapter in the left's endless public profanity.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.6 | Jim Garrity actually away today and here once again in his place is Scott Bertram, |
| 0:16.7 | General Manager, WRFH, Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.7 on the campus of Hillsdale College, 101.7 FM, that is. |
| 0:24.4 | Scott also teaches journalism at Hillsdale. |
| 0:26.6 | He's the director of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network and hosts the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, among many other Hillsdale College podcasts. |
| 0:33.1 | And Scott, always good to have you with us. Thanks again. |
| 0:35.0 | Wonderful to see you, Greg Greg and hear you again quickly |
| 0:38.4 | following up in our first martini here on something president trump mentioned on tuesday night in the |
| 0:43.4 | state of the union jim and i didn't really mention the details of this but he did call out what he called |
| 0:48.7 | the somali pirates uh the fraudsters who have uh and the number the estimate of the amount of fraud keeps growing here, |
| 0:55.4 | it certainly got up to $9 billion, now some say $19, but whatever the number is, it's really huge, |
| 1:01.1 | and it really escalated quickly over the past several years. |
| 1:04.7 | And what the president said on Tuesday night is that, well, I'm going to put Vice President J.D. |
| 1:10.1 | Vance in charge of just investigating |
| 1:12.3 | how much fraud we're seeing, not only in Minnesota, but in other states around the country. |
| 1:16.0 | There's so many government programs, just how much money are taxpayers getting fleeced of here. |
| 1:21.2 | And so J.D. Vance holding a press conference yesterday, and he's asked the question whether, you know, talking about Medicaid reimbursement |
| 1:30.0 | from Minnesota in particular is going to be the template for this type of investigation nationwide. |
| 1:35.2 | And he says, no, it's going to look different in different states because not all fraud is the |
| 1:38.8 | same. But he did a great job of distilling the quick, smart, and effective argument against the Democratic Party's |
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