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A polling company just admitted its polls were fake.
Not within the margin of error. I'm talking
fake, guys. Made up. Invented at a kitchen table,
probably between energy drinks by a research team
consisting of one laptop and a very active imagination.
So the company is called Wedgwood
Polls. Sounds fancy, right?
Kind of like leather chairs and a guy named Winthrop. Nope. Their
excuse? Oh, it was a social experiment
to see whether the media would actually report their numbers
without checking them.
Oh, and in a development that shocked absolutely nobody except
the media, well, the media did.
Yeah, they actually did it. Newsweek ran it.
A betting site ran it. Not one of them stopped
to ask, hey, who are you people?
Meanwhile, in Michigan, a real Democrat named Mallory
McMorrow, he basically watched a fake poll.
Go ahead and put her at 9%. Donations dried up.
Volunteers went home. Campaign over. So,
the experiment worked beautifully.
The lab rats just happened to be real people. Oh,
and Wedgwood, they didn't even confess on its own.
Investigators caught them first.
Their heartfelt apologies.
A two-word reply that, unfortunately, I can't even read on YouTube.
Very scientific. But here's the part that CNN would rather you skip.
While all that was blown
up, 39 people were arrested
in a $100 million food stamp fraud crackdown. Dr. Oz froze $1.2
billion that was headed to Gavin Newsom's California
for a program that pays people
to carry groceries upstairs.
In New York City, a care center operator looked straight into the
I know it's fraud. Out loud. On camera.
You gotta give him points for honesty. Oh, and
J.D. Vance, he put a price tag on the whole circus.
$230 million. This is the conservative
estimate. The aggressive one probably needs its own zip code.
Fake polls, fake grocery
sales, and fake care centers.
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Now, picture a polling company.
Phone banks, charts, serious people in some serious glasses.
Now, picture Wedgwood Polls.
By its own admission, all but one of its polls were fabricated.
No phone calls, no voters, just numbers
that showed up out of nowhere like socks in a dryer.
And...
They didn't confess out of guilt.
Oh, no. A polling watchdog called 50 Plus One got an
anonymous tip. They dug in.
They found the fake data, and then they asked Wedgwood for a comment.
Wedgwood's comment? Two words. The second word was you.
I'll let you go ahead and guess the first
word, which I can't say on YouTube.
And then suddenly, Wedgwood announced
that it had been running a social experiment all
along.
How convenient.
This is like getting your hand caught
in the cookie jar and then announcing that you
were testing the lid.
Well, guys, the website, if you looked it up,
the website is gone now, but a GoFundMe
for one of its...
Polls was still collecting donations.
Go figure. A social experiment with a tip jar.
Of course, the only poll that matters is the one on election day,
especially now that we're
learning some polls are not just wrong.
The numbers are completely made up with fake data
that could influence key races and voter turnout.
Wedgwood Polls now admits it fabricated election
surveys, but claims it was all part
of an experiment to expose how easily fake numbers
could make their way into the
political conversation. The firms insist it
was never meant to sway an election, but those numbers
were picked up by major news outlets and poll trackers,
including the New York Times, Nate
Silver's Silver Bulletin, Vote Hub, and 50 Plus One.
Decision Desk HQ says it removed 17 Wedgwood
polls from its averages,
and MSNOW even featured at least one of those fake polls on air.
According to the Washington Examiner,
Wedgwood polls could have impacted primaries and races in Michigan,
Wisconsin, Maine, Kansas, Ohio, and Texas.
Most of their fabricated polls favored Democrats
or the most far-left progressive candidates,
with one recently showing a toss-up in deep red Mississippi.
One Democratic candidate says the damage to her campaign was very real.
Mallory McMorrow, who ran against
Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's Democratic
Senate primary, says a fabricated poll
showing her support plummeting into
single digits hurt her campaign and
forced her to drop out.
But donations dried up.
I can tell you that our volunteers
were apoplectic.
They were asking for what they could
do, what they could say to people as
they were out in the field.
There had been another poll that hit
just a few days earlier also showing
It's showing me in single digits that
also turned out to be bunk.
It was an open SurveyMonkey link that a pollster had sent
around that anybody could take multiple times.
They could send it to their friends
and their methodology was so suspect that the outlet
who commissioned it
ultimately decided not to run it. So it really hurt us.
House Speaker Mike Johnson weighed
in posting online I've been sounding the alarms that the
polls are wrong and new evidence of that is now piling up.
Ignore the polls and go vote. We have
13 days to save America. And now the fallout could extend
to the news outlets that shared those fake
polls. The Federal Communication Commission
warning broadcast companies they could face
regulatory consequences
if their stations knowingly misled viewers with false data.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr stated many journalists
and broadcasters have been amplifying or airing
these polls without regard to basic journalistic ethics
and without informing the public that
those polls lack a scientific, accurate, or even real basis.
Broadcasters are prohibited by the terms
of their federal licenses from engaging in news
distortion or promoting broadcast hoaxes.
So Wedgwood wanted your donations and gave you some made-up numbers.
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Here's where this experiment stops being funny.
Back in June, guys, Wedgwood released a poll
of the Michigan Democratic Senate primary.
Abdul El-Sayed at 46%, Haley Stevens at 39%,
Mallory McMurrow, yeah, 9%.
And for good measure,
it claimed she was the only one who couldn't beat Republican Mike
Rogers.
Now, McMurrow admits another poll also had her low.
Fair is fair.
But this one hits hard. In her words, donations dried up.
Volunteers were devastated. Reporters
just kept calling to ask when she'd quit.
On July 5th, she actually did. Now, picture the
campaign office, folding chairs, cold coffee,
a whole stack of yard signs that we'll never see a
front lawn. Real campaign, fake numbers, devastation.
Oh, and Michigan wasn't the only target
Investigators
also found made-up survey data
going
in Mississippi's Senate race between Cindy Hyde-Smith and Scott
to go
Collum. So who else got fooled?
Oh, just about everybody with a press pass. So let's talk about
ahead
the professionals, guys. You know, the fact checkers,
and get
the people with blue check marks and
very strong opinions. Newsweek ran a Wedgwood poll.
So did Kalshi, a betting site on its newsfeed.
started.
So this means real people bet real money on numbers that
Somebody invented at a kitchen table.
Now, somewhere, a guy lost his paycheck to a spreadsheet.
It's pretty jacked up.
Even 50 Plus One admitted Wedgwood fooled the top poll trackers,
its own site included.
Like, points for honesty.
I give them that.
I definitely give them points for honesty.
That's pretty rare these days.
And CNN, yeah, CNN, they can fact check
a Trump speech in real time, same night, with
graphics, but some company with no office
and no staff and no voters, not one question.
Selective curiosity.
A gift.
Yeah.
So meanwhile, pollster Frank Luntz says President
Trump's voters hang up on pollsters anyway.
Seriously, Frank Luntz says Trump supporters hang up
on pollsters anyway, so why even bother
calling them?
So even the real polls miss a big chunk of the country.
And safe, blue states like Minnesota and New Hampshire?
Suddenly not so safe.
Somewhere there's an 84-year-old grandma
who's never once been called by a pollster.
Not once in her whole life.
Hold that thought, guys.
You know the one person who texts you about every poll like
it's like a weather forecast? Go ahead
and send them this video right now. Let them find out
the weather forecast was written by somebody
who never even looked outside.
So brace yourself, guys. Wedgwood isn't even original.
Back in August, a firm called
Median Strategies admitted it faked some polls,
too, in Wisconsin, Nevada, and California.
It's excuse, you guessed it, it was a social experiment.
Apparently, social experiment is the new my-dog-ate-my-homework excuse.
Now, around the same time, another firm admitted
changing people's answers to help a candidate
who was secretly paying for its polls.
Paying for its polls.
This is not a poll, guys.
This is a paid ad wearing a lab coat.
And do not forget, 2016 and 2020,
the polls missed President Trump both times.
Badly.
In fact, they missed in both directions.
Every time.
Just a coincidence, surely
So here's a real question guys,
if a regular citizen made up election numbers and fooled
half the country, you'd better believe
somebody would come knocking on that door.
These guys, they just go ahead and log off.
Somebody should be answering some questions.
Under oath.
Meanwhile, 16 countries
in the European country banned publishing polls before an election.
France fines outlets up to 75,000 euros.
America?
Anybody with a WiFi password can pretty much be a pollster.
So while the polling world was busy cleaning up its mess,
the Justice Department was busy handing
out handcuffs. It
was the first ever nationwide food stamp fraud crackdown.
39 people arrested,
more than $100 million stolen from a program that feeds hungry kids.
Now, picture a grocery
store register. Beep, beep, beep, right?
Thousands of items getting rung up. Not one loaf of bread
Fred leaves the store, just the cash.
So in Chicago, two Dominican nationals
were charged with running fake grocery sales
to turn benefits into cash.
Over in Ohio, U.S. Attorney General Dominic Giray charged
two store owners over about $29.7 million in fake purchases.
They were arrested that morning. Breakfast was rudely interrupted.
In Massachusetts, a two-time felon suspected of being here illegally
is accused of stealing an American citizen's identity.
Now imagine finding out somebody's
been living your life and doing it worse.
Meet Mercedes New. That's his government name.
But his friends call him Shorty Dread.
He's accused of raking in over $4 million in stolen food stamps.
I spent $500,000 for this road work short.
I spent $1.3 million on this house.
Shorty's a wannabe rapper, but on the side,
prosecutors say he used stolen identities to get hundreds
of food stamp cards mailed directly to him.
Then he siphoned off the cash and flaunted it to his fans.
He even gave us a house tour.
Oh, the fraud czar, J.D. Vance, saw the videos himself.
The simple fact is, this is a man that we have connected
to $4.4 million in fraud against the SNAP program.
A guy who is quite literally...
Taking food from the mouths of children so that he can enrich himself.
The government put it perfectly.
No program is too noble for a fraudster.
Follow the money. It never lies.
And these folks, well, they left receipts.
Now, let's go ahead and head west, guys, to the land of sunshine,
high taxes, and very creative accounting.
California runs a program that pays people for personal care.
Things like carrying groceries upstairs for mom.
Now, let that sink in for a second, right?
Most of us call that Sunday. California calls it a paycheck.
And that program grew 24% in just
three years, twice as fast as every other state.
So either Californians suddenly started buying
a lot more groceries or something smells.
So Dr. Oz, with President Trump's go-ahead,
froze $1.2 billion headed to Gavin Newsom's California.
Cue the angry press conference.
But here's the catch, guys. If the need is real, the money comes back.
Remember when California shut down about 900 fake businesses?
Nobody came back to claim that money.
It's funny how that works. Oh, and to be very clear,
this is aimed at the frauds,
not the 72-year-old woman who has honestly cared for her sister for
13 years. She is the hero of this story.
The scammers are the reason that she's worried.
Fraud in Minnesota rhymes with fraud
in California. Where Nick went next.
And in California, the Stop Nick Shirley Act has been passed,
but we think it's going to fail
because I'll make this announcement today
on behalf of Secretary Kennedy, Health and Human
Services, that we are going to defer 1.2 billion more dollars
from California today. They just got
the note, and we're doing that because the growth
of personal care services in California,
just that one little area where you're paying someone
to carry groceries upstairs
For your mom, which many of you would carry groceries upstairs
for your mom for free, I would think.
But in California, they'll pay you a lot of money for it,
and it's actually run by the counties.
But California has been growing
that program 24% in the last three years.
That is twice the rate of every other state average in the country.
So now
picture this,
guys.
Dr. Oz walks into an adult care center in New York City.
Independent journalist Nick Shirley is right behind him.
Cameras rolling.
These centers bill Medicare and Medicaid for caring for seniors.
Big bills, bills for crowds.
So where's the crowd?
Empty chairs, quiet treadmills,
a room that looks more like a gym or a social club than a
care center, and a whole lot of nobody in there.
Dr. Oz pointed out that it doesn't look very
crowded. The answer? Oh, it's still early.
Sure. The seniors are running a little late,
all of them, every day.
And then Dr. Oz says it plain, ma'am, this is fraud. And she says,
I know, sir. She said it out loud on camera.
No lawyer, no spin, just the
Most honest sentence anybody in this whole scam has said all year.
This is your money paying for empty rooms, guys.
Medicare and Medicaid are supposed to protect the seniors,
not somebody's clubhouse.
This is a letter to you from the US government.
Sure.
That tells you that the way that the operations
are occurring here is worrisome.
The bills are much higher than they should be.
The billing is for more people. It doesn't look very crowded here.
No, it's still early for this time.
Ma'am, this is fraud.
I know, sir.
But, you know, some people do this.
It's your job to stop this.
This is stealing from the American taxpayer.
This is stealing.
Like, money out of our pockets.
To this facility, for someone who doesn't,
I don't know if they're going to come on Wednesday
and Friday and next month and the rest of it.
I mean, these people are signing up for future days.
This makes no sense.
I'm struck by how few people are here as well.
It makes me wonder how they sustain these people.
That's just good.
I mean, you're giving millions
and millions of dollars to the federal taxpayer.
This place should be packed.
The whole experience was suspicious.
But again, that's our job is to...
You want to throw people off their game
and then see where they run, what they do.
Now, Vice President J.D. Vance drops the big number.
His fraud task force has found $230
billion in fraud. It has already stopped $56 billion
in bad payments before they even went
out the door. Here's the funny part.
J.D. Vance said that he chose the conservative estimate so
critics couldn't complain about it.
The conservative estimate. Guys, the conservative
estimate is a quarter of a trillion dollars.
Now, let that land for a second.
If that's the low number,
the high number probably needs its own zip code too.
So here's the question every taxpayer is asking.
When do we get it back? Back in our pockets,
into social security,
the program that people have paid into their entire lives.
Because if you or I stole that kind of money,
we'd be in prison until the next century.
And J.D. Vance, he gave a warning.
Unless Congress writes this crackdown into law,
the next administration can just go ahead and undo it, rip it up,
and just go ahead and open the faucet all over again.
This really has required a whole
of administration approach to try to tackle fraud.
There are a few things that I want to talk about and celebrate.
The first is that just since the beginning
of the fraud task force that I started under
the president's leadership and direction,
we have identified $230 billion of fraud that's
being perpetrated against the American people,
and we have halted already $56 billion of
that.
It's sometimes hard.
Once the money has already gone out the door, it's hard to get it back.
But stopping it from going out the door
is how we save the American people $56 billion.
And of course, we're to keep on working on that.
Just today, Mr. President,
we will announce 17 new anti-fraud actions that will total
about a third of a billion dollars
and that's added to the $230 billion that we've already
uncovered.
And I want to just talk for the benefit
of the American people about why do we care so
much about this?
Because what I always try to remind people
is that fraud has two victims.
So, to give one concrete example,
there is a program that is administered by Medicaid,
and that program ensures that low-income moms
and low-income babies have access to neonatal care.
Now, I think most Americans probably share my view that this is one
of the great things about the United States of America,
that if we see a baby and we see a young mother that requires help,
we help our fellow Americans.
That's a good thing. It's something that we should be proud of.
And yet...
There is a program that has defrauded the moms
and the babies who benefit from these.
You've gotten people who've gotten rich
by setting up false companies that are providing false services.
So who loses in that equation?
Number one, of course, is the American taxpayer that is $230 billion
poorer because of the fraud that this country has let go on.
But I actually think most importantly
is that we've seen that program run out of money.
So we've seen moms and babies unable to access
the health care that they need because the
fraudsters have gotten rich.
That is a disgrace.
And until the President ordered us to stop it,
no one was doing anything about it.
So we've made a lot of progress, Mr. President,
in just under a year, but we're going to keep
on working at it because we believe
the American people deserve to have their money spent as
you and the Congress have directed.
So whoever controls Congress decides whether
the fraudsters get their jobs back. Now,
let's go ahead and cross the ocean just for a second.
Bring a fire extinguisher. France
has free health care, free child care,
a 35-hour work week, five weeks, yes, five weeks of paid
vacation, and parts of it are on fire anyway.
A reporter asked President Trump if more education
spending would fix it. President Trump
didn't blink. It's not about education.
It's about immigration.
Cue the fainting couches at CNN.
Racism.
Outrage.
Somebody please fetch the smelling salts.
But look at the pictures.
Police cars are burning.
Churches are burning.
A building from the 1800s standing
for nearly 200 years gone in one night.
You can't rebuild history with a GoFundMe.
And Italy says most of the people that it arrested
were foreigners, not even citizens.
Now, bring it right here to the USA, right?
Remember Seattle's riot summer?
Now, imagine
the border swung wide open again.
This is not a scare tactic, this is a weather report.
So here's where it all comes together.
The border, inflation, the courts,
whether the census counts only citizens, voter ID,
and whether this whole fraud crackdown survives
or gets tossed in a shredder.
Take the Save America Act.
Photo ID to vote.
Proof of citizenship to register.
It sailed through the House,
and then the Save America Act hit the Senate and got stuck,
short of the 60 votes that the Save Act needs.
So who controls Senate decides what happens next?
And yes, gas prices are high.
I'm not even going to pretend otherwise. But President Trump has a
plan. The other side has a press release.
Early voters are already lining up across the country,
coffee in hand, ballot in the other.
And remember the 84-year-old grandma?
You know, the one who has never been called by a pollster
in her whole life? She doesn't need one.
She's got a ballot. Don't trust the polls, guys. Do not
get comfortable. Do not stay home because the news sounds good.
Show up anyway. So a fake pollster
fooled the media and wrecked a real campaign.
39 fraudsters got arrested, and a care center
operator in New York admitted it on camera.
The fakes are finally getting caught, guys.
CNN missed it.
The machine tried to bury it,
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