Minnesota Fraud Scandal EXPOSED, #NeverTrump is Over, and Pope Leo Confronts Pritzker
The LOOPcast
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
What is going on in Minnesota?! A massive fraud scandal is exposed, raising serious questions surrounding local leadership, immigration, and the use of American taxpayer dollars. Meanwhile, is #NeverTrump over? And finally, Pope Leo is “very disappointed” by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s latest decision. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
02:22 SERIOUS Business in Minnesota
30:51 #NeverTrump is Over
46:48 Good News
50:41 Pope Leo Christmas + Pritzer is a Disappointment
55:40 Twilight Zone
1:01:33 Closing Prayer
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. |
| 0:02.7 | Merry Christmas to one and all. |
| 0:04.6 | We are still in the Christmas octave. |
| 0:06.1 | Merry Christmas, Josh. |
| 0:07.9 | Merry Christmas, Erica. |
| 0:09.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:10.4 | It's good to be together during this beautiful season on the Feast of St. Thomas Beckett. |
| 0:14.7 | More on him in the Good News section. |
| 0:17.8 | But we are here on Loopcast, just me and Josh Thomas off across America |
| 0:22.3 | with his family for some well-deserved rest. But here we are, Loopcast brought to you by The Loop, |
| 0:28.1 | every Catholic's favorite morning newsletter. And I am joined by the founder of the Loop. So founding |
| 0:34.4 | editor, Josh, good to have you. We've got a lot to cover because while |
| 0:38.6 | angels kept their watch by night, so did some fraudsters in Minneapolis. And it was all blown |
| 0:46.5 | out of the water by one 23-year-old YouTuber this weekend. Some massive news coming out from Minnesota. |
| 0:55.3 | We're going to cover all of that. |
| 1:01.0 | We also have a little end of the year existential reflections going on, as we are want to do in our various movements. Is never Trumpism dead? What is what is the future of Trumpism and the |
| 1:08.1 | conservative party in the United States? A couple of really interesting essays on that came out. |
| 1:12.7 | And we have a little church corner. Pope Leo has words for us. He has words for J.B. Pritzker. |
| 1:17.6 | And we will get into all of that. But we also have good news. We have Twilight Zone. But first, if you have not yet, welcome to the chat. Yes, I missed you too. We missed you too there in Maryland. If you are not |
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| 1:38.8 | click the thumbs up. This week we have a little different schedule, of course. Josh and I are |
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