President Trump commented on allegations of widespread fraud in the Somali diaspora in Minnesota and actions they’ve taken against Somali pirates:

REPORTER: One thing we haven’t heard you specifically react to is the Minnesota fraud that we’ve seen play out. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, it just doesn’t get worse. I’ve reacted. It’s almost not even believable. This very stupid, low-IQ governor – he’s a very stupid man, because, you know, I had to campaign against him with JD – and he’s a stupid man and he’s a corrupt politician. And the Somalians are ripping off our country to the tune of what looks like $ 19 billion, but that’s only what they can find. Usually, when you look at $ 19 billion, that would mean it could be $ 50 billion. But the numbers are astronomical. Think of it. They have a dead country. They don’t have government. They don’t have anything. They don’t have a military. All they do is run around shooting people and trying to capture ships. You know, we don’t let them take ships anymore. You know why? We use the same exact missile on them that we use on the drug carriers, and it’s very effective. So you notice there’s nobody capturing ships anymore. Because as they head out to go capture a ship – and the ship doesn’t want to fire back, because it’s very flammable stuff in many cases, and the insurance companies don’t want that. You know, they build a billion-dollar ship, and they don’t want anybody firing rockets into the ship. But we’re hitting them so hard, and it’s very similar – same missile system. It’s called deadly accurate. And do you notice that ships aren’t being taken anymore? The pirates are – SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: That’s right. I had thought about that. No Somali pirates! TRUMP: The pirates aren’t – well, it’s actually very easy. They head out, we say, Guess what? There’s pirates!” Bing! That’s the end of the pirates. The shipping business is coming back. See, these are little things that we’re doing. And I’m doing it not just for American ships. I’m doing it worldwide, because we don’t want ships taken by Somalia – Somali pirates. But what they are doing is they’re stealing money from the American taxpayer. And every one of them should be forced to leave this country, including Ilhan Omar, who’s a total crook. And she’s one of the leaders of it – not the only one, because she’s not that smart. But think of it: $ 19 billion at least they’ve stolen from Minnesota and from the United States. It’s actually more from the United States, because Minnesota puts in – and we’re not going to pay it anymore.

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