Lindell: “These Somalian fraudsters have infiltrated every government welfare service available.”
The Minnesota welfare fraud scandal is exploding into the national spotlight as Mike Lindell joins Steve Bannon on WarRoom to expose what he calls a coordinated abuse of government programs across the state. Lindell says child care, Medicaid, housing, and non medical transportation services have been infiltrated, draining billions in taxpayer funds while state officials deflect responsibility.
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This clip aired on December 29, 2025. Transcript begins below and may contain minor errors.
Minnesota Welfare Fraud Scandal Exposed on WarRoom
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Mike Lindell, first. Mike, you just see there, it’s so blatant and so obvious. And they’ve had so many investigations looking and they will not stop it, because bringing in hundreds of thousands of the Somalians and others, right, is the way the system works.
And I got to tell you this. I can tell you this. This is every blue state. IRS, Treasury, money laundering, the banks that set up the payrolls here. This is a scandal that’s going to go from state to state to state.
But the tip of the spear and the festering sore before us is Minnesota. Mike Lindell, you’re running for governor against Walz. What say you?
MIKE LINDELL (GUEST): Well, yes, Stephen, it’s everything. It’s education, autism, services, child care, Medicaid, housing. They have infiltrated every single one of these government Medicare or welfare services.
And now they even have one where they’re giving a car. It’s non-medical emergency welfare, where you bring older people to the dentist, say, and they’re getting all nobody in them, just like there’s no kids in these daycare.
And it is. It’s coming out today. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine. This is opening, I think, states’ eyes all around the country.
But the New York Post came out the other day, everybody, on December 21st. $9 billion in Minnesota. That’s half of the federal money given to Minnesota over the last, I think, of six years. And it’s more or real close to the whole economy of Somalia.