Mid-Day Update: December 30, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
John Fawcett breaks down today's biggest stories, including alarming reports of ghost daycare operations in Columbus, Ohio, linked to a larger fraud scheme, the Department of Justice's response to the Minnesota Somali fraud case and the ongoing legal battles involving James Comey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America show Midday Update for Tuesday, |
| 0:03.8 | December 30th. Happy Tuesday, folks. I hope your Tuesdays are all off to a good start, |
| 0:08.9 | and you are getting ready with those New Year's resolutions as the days are coming to an end. |
| 0:14.0 | And 2026 is right around the corner. As if the Somali story out of Minneapolis isn't bad enough. |
| 0:22.5 | Another independent journalist, yes, in a different state, |
| 0:26.0 | has uncovered disturbing evidence of potential ghost daycare operations in Columbus, Ohio, |
| 0:32.3 | home to the second largest Somali community in the United States. |
| 0:37.0 | The new reporting comes from Muckrager journalist, comes on the heels of a viral expose |
| 0:41.6 | from YouTuber Nick Shirley in Minnesota, where similar schemes allegedly siphoned |
| 0:46.2 | billions in federal funds under the watch of Marxist Democrat Governor Tim Walts. |
| 0:51.7 | The investigation led by Muckraker Anthony and Joseph Rubin kicked off with a visit to the |
| 0:57.1 | Great Minds Learning Academy in Columbus. |
| 1:00.1 | In the video that was posted on X, he and his team knocked on the facility door during |
| 1:04.0 | business hours, but nobody answered. |
| 1:06.2 | The building, of course, appeared to be deserted. |
| 1:09.4 | We could expect, folks, this to start happening now, I believe, |
| 1:12.8 | in cities all across America as the fraud is only going to get worse. |
| 1:19.0 | Speaking of getting worse, Pam Bonnie and her Department of Justice appear to be doing some |
| 1:24.0 | sort of damage control after this explosive backlash over the DOGs alleged |
| 1:29.1 | failure to act on the massive Minnesota-Somali and fraud. After days amounting outrage from |
| 1:34.6 | conservatives and independent journalists, Pam Bondi issued what some are calling damage control |
| 1:39.9 | in a statement in response to the growing accusations that the DOJ allegedly sat on one of the largest fraud scandals in the modern history of America. |
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