Speaking in a fiery panel appearance on CNN, Kevin O’Leary, the wealthy and successful entrepreneur and investor jokingly called “Mr. Wonderful” because of his sharp personality, sounded off on the horrible fraud that Tim Walz’s administration seems to have let occur in Minnesota, saying that taxpayers ought be demanding their money back given the massive amount of fraud that has been exposed.
As background, it has been exposed over recent weeks and months that Somali migrants in Minnesota have committed an incredible amount of fraud, doing so on a scale that nearly beggars belief. In fact, according to President Trump and others, they might have stolen more than $18 billion from state and federal taxpayers.
That fraud has included a dizzying collection of schemes and scandals, from their pilfering of the federal “Feeding Our Future” program meant to aid needy kids to their theft from state-level programs meant to do everything from helping needy parents afford daycare for their kids to helping the parents of autistic teenagers. It turns out that those problems have been dominated by massive amounts of fraud.
Naturally, taxpayers are utterly furious over the massive scandal, as it is their money that has been stolen. Such was the attitude expressed by Mr. Wonderful on CNN, with the businessman angrily arguing that taxpayers should be demanding their money back given how much of it has been utterly wasted.
He said, feuding with the other CNN personalities, saying, and hammering the Walz administration for letting so much fraud occur, “What about if you’re not left or right? You’re just a taxpayer like me, a lowly taxpayer, and I’d like to investigate fraud. I want my money back, if it was stolen from me. Is that okay? Or is that not okay? Listen. I want my money back.”
CNN’s Abby Phillips responded by condescendingly demanding that he admit that the matter is being investigated, insinuating by that comment that it is no big problem that still needs to be handled, saying, “Well, hold on. I mean, look, Kevin, the fraud is being [and] has been investigated. People are have are being prosecuted.”
She then seemed to insist, bizarrely, that it wasn’t primarily Somalis who were involved in some of the more notorious scams. She snapped, “The DOJ could be talking about that but what they decided to do instead was send immigration officials into Minnesota, presumptively, because they thought that the fraud was coming only from foreigners, when most of the Somalis who they were targeting.”
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O’Leary, angry, snapped, “I don’t care where it’s coming from. I want my money back!” Then, as the CNN hack kept trying to pacify him and insist that all was under control and being handled, O’Leary kept insisting, “I represent taxpayers, and I want my money back.” Watch their feud here:
Commenters online said things like “We all want our money back, this is absolutely unacceptable, the American people need to be refunded for this and I’m not talking some silly tax credit. We want our taxes back. Cut the checks” and “Yes. This is exactly how everyone should feel. We could have so many more nice things, even some of the programs liberal voters say they want, if we weren’t being stolen from and robbed blind by corruption.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video