Liberal News Channels Wouldn’t Cover Somali Fraud Until They Could Frame Them as Victims [WATCH]

A NewsNation segment featuring Batya Ungar-Sargon and video of President Donald Trump focused on federal charges involving nearly 90 individuals accused of embezzling up to $1 billion in COVID relief funds in Minnesota.

Ungar-Sargon said the case highlighted failures in media coverage and ongoing frustrations among working-class Americans over immigration and economic pressure.

Ungar-Sargon said, “It’s 2016 all over again,” adding that “hard working Americans are being called racist for objecting to having their generosity taken advantage of by overwhelming waves of immigrants.”

She continued, “Over the weekend, the New York Times revealed that a massive fraud had taken place in Minnesota’s Somali community posing as charitable NGOs, feeding the hungry or protecting the homeless, or servicing autistic kids.”

She said, “Nearly 90 Somalis have been charged with embezzling up to a billion dollars in government funding dispersed during the covid pandemic.”

According to Ungar-Sargon, “No children were fed, no homeless were housed. The money was spent instead on luxury cars, mansions and real estate overseas.”

She said that when officials attempted to investigate, “the Somali criminals threatened to sue and call them racist in stories that would be sprawled across the news.”

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Ungar-Sargon asked, “Can you even imagine being gifted the greatest privilege on Earth, the gift of American citizenship, and then turning around and throwing that generosity back in our faces?”

She added, “It is galling,” and noted that major networks “refused to even cover the story until they could make the Somalis the victims of it all.”

Video of President Trump played during the segment. Trump said, “Somalians ripped off that state for billions of dollars.”

He added, “I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest.”

Trump continued, “Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks.” He said, “We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.”

Ungar-Sargon said the focus on Trump’s tone rather than the fraud itself served as a distraction.

“The outrage that the President is giving voice to is completely justified,” she said. She added that “focusing on his linguistic choices rather than the actual fraud is just a smoke screen for those complicit in it.”

She said this response from political and media figures was “exactly the kind of gaslighting that got Trump elected in the first and second place.”

Ungar-Sargon said, “For years, Americans who have been upset about the massive pressure mass migration put on their lives were called racist for wanting their government to think about what’s best for America’s children before thinking about everybody else’s.”

She said the media labeled them “a basket of deplorables, xenophobic Nativists and haters.”

She said wealthy commentators and elected officials criticized the working class while “struggling to make it by working three jobs,” and said many believed that “maybe if the labor market was tighter, they wouldn’t have to choose between chicken for dinner and soccer practice for their kids.”

Ungar-Sargon said, “Maybe if the government hadn’t plonked 80,000 migrants into their town, housing wouldn’t be as prohibitive,” and that “those factory jobs, well, maybe they would be theirs.”

She said the Minnesota case reflected this dynamic.

“The outrageous, massive fraud perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s Somali community is this exact scenario on steroids.”

She added, “They literally threaten to call Minnesotans racist if they dared to object to being stolen from.”

Ungar-Sargon concluded by saying, “To the left, the only outrage is how Trump talked about the scandal.”

She said, “That’s what we learned about America this week, the elites have learned nothing.”

She added that Trump won twice by telling Americans, “You’re not bad for wanting the most basic version of the American Dream for yourself and your children.”

She repeated his message: “This is your country. You come first.”

Ungar-Sargon said Democrats will not regain working-class voters “until they can bring themselves to choke out some version of this message, and maybe even actually believe it.”

WATCH:

A group of Somalis in MN stole a billion dollars they said was for feeding kids. They spent it on luxury cars and property overseas.

Liberal news channels wouldn’t even cover it until they could portray the Somalis as the victims of how President Trump talked about the scandal. pic.twitter.com/Y7iUEq9rYb

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) December 7, 2025