Speaking in Maine about the massive level of corruption that he has found in the state while serving as the head of President Trump’s anti-fraud task force, Vice President JD Vance got into a very entertaining fight with a reporter about fraud in America and the levels of fraud that have to be discovered to make a dent in the budget.
That came after a speech to a crowd of 400 or so people gathered at Maine’s Bangor International Airport, that Democrats are putting Medicaid in America at risk by continuing to refuse to investigate fraud, pointing as an example to the situation in Maine, where the governor has refused to work with his task force.
He said, when sounding off on Democratic Gov. Janet Mills for not working more cooperatively with the administration to root out fraud, “(Mills) has actually fought back against our efforts to identify fraud in the Medicaid and Medicare programs, which, by the way, not only does it steal from you, but it means that those programs are gonna go bankrupt, because all the money’s going to the fraudsters.”
Gov. Mills, for her part, fired back in an angry statement denouncing the Vice President and Trump Administration, declaring, “The remarks by the Vice President today are nothing but a weak attempt to distract from the Trump Administration’s failing agenda, endless war in Iran, and failure to control crushing costs — including sky high gas prices — that Maine families and businesses are struggling with every day.”
In any case, VP Vance’s feud with the reporter came after the speech, when the reporter asked what else the anti-fraud task force has found, as the fraud items he has found in Maine don’t seem like much compared to what has been discovered in other stats, namely Minnesota and California.
“My question is, what else do you got? What else has your task force flagged that we should be concerned about? Because those amounts are a lot, 46 million, 1.7 million, but they don’t really compare to California and Minnesota,” the reporter said.
Beginning his response, the vice president poked fun at the reporter for being biased, as obviously savings in the crackdown on fraud matter, whatever their size, and Maine is also a much smaller state, in terms of population, than Minnesota or California. He began, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got biased reporters in all states. It’s okay. Trust me, I can handle I can handle it…”
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Continuing, after getting that comment in, the Vice President argued that the search for fraud in Maine’s spending has just begun, and the discoveries will get ever larger and more shocking as the spending patterns of the state are investigated more thoroughly, as it has done so little to combat fraud. He said, “I suspect we are going to find hundreds of millions of more dollars every single month that we look in the state of Maine, because this is not a state that takes it seriously.”
Watch him here: