President Donald Trump on Thursday directed Vice President JD Vance to turn his full attention to fraud and corruption in Democrat-run cities and states. He also declared that the United States no longer needs a deal with Iran.
“I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“The Blue States, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois, and many more, are all poorly run, corrupt disasters,” the president continued. “Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month. Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity. CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood!”
Trump then turned to Tehran. “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
The posts were part of a series the president began publishing shortly before 6 a.m. The first attacked Democrats who have accused his administration of corruption. Trump called them “the most Corrupt and anti-American groups of political leaders and hacks.” He said they were attacking the White House to distract from “TREMENDOUS & UNPRECEDENTED” fraud in the states they control.
In a later post, Trump challenged Democrats to look at their own states.
“If the Democrats want to ‘root out corruption,’ they should start with investigating Blue States, perhaps the most CORRUPT governmental structures and entities anywhere on Earth. Big time money is being stolen each and every hour of the day!”
The announcement marks a shift for Vance, who has spent months as the administration’s lead figure in diplomatic efforts to end the war with Iran. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Vance was weighing face-to-face talks with senior Iranian security official Mohsen Rezaei. Those discussions were preliminary, and no date had been set.
Vance has publicly linked the war to the GOP’s losses in last week’s midterm elections. “The reason we lost is the war,” he wrote on X the day after the election. “The president himself said so last night.”
Corruption was also an issue that broke in Democrats’ favor at the polls. Trump’s posts Thursday sought to turn that argument back on the other party.
Vance already chairs the administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, which Trump created by executive order in March. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson serves as vice chairman. In April, Trump named Vance his “fraud czar.” He said Vance’s focus would be “EVERYWHERE” but mainly on blue states such as California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine and New York.
The administration says the task force has uncovered more than $200 billion in fraud. In one early action, Vance announced that the task force had broken up a $50 million hospice and healthcare fraud scheme in Los Angeles.
Vance took on the anti-fraud role during an investigation into social services fraud in Minnesota. Federal investigators said roughly $9 billion was funneled out of the state’s Medicaid program.
“Our task force isn’t wasting any time cracking down on fraud,” Vance wrote on X earlier this year.
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