The massive Minnesota fraud, much of it committed by people of Somali descent, has just ended Gov. Tim Walz’s political career as he announced Monday that he is abandoning his reelection campaign. The scale of the grift under his watch was so enormous that even Jazz Hands couldn’t take the heat any longer, and the White House has said they believe the governor is criminally liable.
But such large abuses of taxpayer money wouldn’t likely be constrained to one state, would they? And if you were looking for more, where’s the first place you’d shine your spotlight? California. After all, we’ve already got an $18 billion bullet train to nowhere, more billions thrown at the homelessness crisis, even as the numbers just keep increasing, and a governor who lost track of at least $24 billion.
On Tuesday, Trump put the Golden State and its elegantly coiffed governor, Gavin Newsom, on notice: you’re next. As is his custom, the president was not subtle:
Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 08:21 AM EST 01.06.26 pic.twitter.com/rNAyuMIPoy
— Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) January 6, 2026
His Truth Social post reads:
California, under Governor Gavin Newscum, is more corrupt than Minnesota, if that’s possible??? The Fraud Investigation of California has begun. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Note the key words in that post: "The Fraud Investigation of California has begun." Although he did not give details, it sure sounds like the feds are incoming, hard.
In another post, he blasted a slew of blue-state governors – New York’s Kathy Hochul, Illinois’ JB Pritzker, and Newsom —and reminded them of the Democrats’ favorite catchphrase during the Biden years: “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!”
Gavin Newsom may talk tough on his juvenile social media accounts, but he should be quaking in his designer boots about now because there’s plenty of smoke, and it’s difficult to imagine there’s no fire:
Trump's latest focus on California also taps into long-running conservative criticism that Newsom presides over a system with weak oversight, ballooning costs, and entrenched corruption while Sacramento demands more money from working Americans.
Those claims received fresh ammunition in a recent assessment from California's nonpartisan state auditor, which placed Newsom's administration and several major agencies under heightened "high-risk" scrutiny.
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What did the state auditor’s report show? Oh, just a couple of minor accounting mistakes, like:
- $70 billion in taxpayer losses across programs, aggregated from separate audits.
- Key issues include potential annual costs of $2.5 billion from CalFresh (SNAP) payment errors due to federal changes
- $24 billion spent on homelessness
- $18 billion wasted on high-speed rail
- plus unemployment fraud and a scrapped 911 upgrade.
Kevin Kiley, a former state legislator and now a GOP congressman, has been a staunch opponent of Newsom and has called him out every step of the way. Now it’s time for the federal government to listen.
It's been 5 years since the State Auditor found the Newsom Administration allowed $32 billion in unemployment fraud after ignoring "repeated warnings." Yet the Auditor just found that billions in EDD fraud continues to this day.
— Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) January 5, 2026
California is truly America's Fraud Capital. pic.twitter.com/8AWbOQrpBP
Walz has been thoroughly exposed. Now it's Newsom's turn.
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