Trump Announces Vance-Led ‘War on Fraud’

President Donald Trump has declared a “war on fraud” and said Vice President JD Vance would lead that effort. During his State of the Union address to Congress on Feb. 24, Trump said, “I am officially announcing the war on fraud,” and asserted that “if we’re able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget.” He then said Vance would lead the effort before he singled out Minnesota as a hotbed of fraud, referring to dozens of fraud cases prosecuted there by federal lawyers over the past several years. “The Somali pirates who ransack Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption, and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception,” he said, adding that illegal immigration and open borders have played a role in fraudulent activity....