MAGA influencers celebrate fraud findings in Minnesota

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https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5668189/nick-shirley-tim-walz-influencers-trump

The problem here is that these influencers often create issues out of whole cloth. They are often totally fraudulent. But with social media they get wide coverage and take on the patina of fact. And from there people that have the ideologic leanings use these unsubstantiated findings to enact policy. 

This event alone has resulted in BILLIONS of dollars to be removed from various gov't programs- all in blue states and all with no proven fraud. 

Another example of Trump's bull in a China shop approach to governing. Somebody whispers sweet nothings in his ear; next thing you know he's making changes that screw over tons of people who are often innocent of wrongdoing and almost always lower income and from BLUE states. 

And MAGA's response is to do more of the same. 

Many of these "fact finders" have been shown to create issues with essentially no proof except what they invent. But this gov't doesn't believe in facts or verification. Their motto isn't even "shoot first, ask questions later". It's "shoot first, then don't look back".