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Graham Noble
Chief political correspondent and satirist.
The growing Minnesota fraud scandal, the Jan 6 committee’s deliberate misrepresentation of events surrounding that fateful day in 2021, the missing millions in California, and several other shady financial mysteries were uncovered over the past year. As 2026 knocks on the door, it is an appropriate time to ask the question: Will Americans get some answers? Some justice? Or will they continue to be pacified by claims that these matters are being investigated?
If there is unrest in MAGA world, it has less to do with ideological differences than the haunting suspicion that, in the end, there will be no real accountability for people who are, or were, in positions of power. As 2025 slips away, prominent voices on the political right are wondering if it is true, after all, that the laws by which the rest of us are expected to live don’t really apply to government officials, elected or appointed. And if, in 2026, nothing happens to change that, President Donald Trump’s legacy could be forever tarnished.
When a national culture of corruption and abuse of power fostered by the ruling political class is kept alive because no one ever pays a price for their complicity, then – despite any other achievements proven or claimed – would Trump really have made America great again?
Minnesota Fraud on a Staggering Scale
A staggering level of widespread fraud has been exposed in Minnesota. It has been going on for years and reportedly involves billions of misappropriated dollars. At first, we heard about Covid funding siphoned off by people – largely of Somali origin – claiming they were feeding children.
Then came the day care revelations. Around $4 million reportedly given to just one of these phony operations, The Quality Learing Center – yes, that is how it is (mis)spelled. Nick Shirley, a YouTuber, did some real investigative journalism – something the establishment media has studiously avoided – and discovered that many of these day cares were not actually caring for any children.
Indeed, on Monday, Dec 9, according to the New York Post, children were bused in to attend the Quality Learing Center even though one Minnesota official claimed the reason there were previously no children at the facility was because it had closed down weeks before. Locals said it was the first time they had seen children there.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are looking into what now appears to be one of the biggest financial scandals in American history. Almost 100 people, mostly Somalis or of Somali origin, have been indicted – and many are already convicted.
Yet not a single Minnesota government official has faced legal consequences. Attorney General Keith Ellison and Gov Tim Walz are both at the very center of it all. Not necessarily because either of them personally facilitated or benefited from these schemes. So far, there is no evidence of that – at least not publicly known. But the two of them, if anyone, should have been aware of these activities and should have acted.
If the buck doesn’t stop with a state governor or attorney general, then that is a failed state.
And what about the many other government bureaucrats and officials who would have been involved in distributing funds or approving grants to these day cares and fake healthcare centers? Were none of them aware of any fraudulent activity?
If no indictments of senior officials materialize in 2026, millions of voters are going to lose faith. In particular, the Republican Party will suffer a blow from which it may not recover.
Billions Missing – From California to DC
In California, millions of dollars meant for the rebuilding of Pacific Palisades, devastated by wildfires, seem to have disappeared without a trace. And the Joe Biden administration shoveled billions out the door before shutting up shop. That US taxpayer money is unaccounted for.
As reported Dec 30 by the New York Post, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, in its fiscal year 2025 “Agency Financial Report,” revealed that the Biden administration also made about $5 billion in payments to “questionable” rental assistance recipients. They include about 30,000 deceased tenants.
Money was sent to residents of all 50 states – many of them non-citizens – but a “large concentration” of the dodgy payments went to California, New York, and Washington, DC.
Still No Justice for Jan 6 Committee Victims
There is also the unresolved matter of the so-called select committee that posed as a bipartisan investigative body looking into the US Capitol protest of Jan 6, 2021. Hollywood dramatizations, doctored videos, destroyed evidence, overly dramatic claims, and patently false media reports have all gone unanswered for.
The committee members – who all accepted pardons from the Biden White House – even had the audacity to announce that they would reconvene for an unofficial hearing on Jan 6, 2026.
Not a single person has faced any legal consequences for any of it. Nor for the missing money from California, Minnesota, or Washington, DC. And more fraud is now being unearthed in other states.
To be clear, even in the face of media claims, social media theories, and what may seem like overwhelming evidence, everyone deserves the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. But no proof of direct guilt is required for senior officials to at least pay a political price.
Recent events have demonstrated that a significant number on the progressive left have little interest in evidence or proof: they just want their political opponents punished. They operate on the Stalinist-era principle attributed to Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria or perhaps Judge Andrey Vyshinsky: “Give me the man and I will give you the case against him.” It is more often quoted today as: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” In other words – just as what happened to Trump, both as a president and a private citizen – if real crimes cannot be found, they can be created to be used against opponents.
There Must Be a Reckoning in 2026
That should never be the way. But the amount of evidence on a wide range of crimes, abuses of power, conspiracies to influence elections, and – in the case of the Minnesota Somalis – even the financing of terrorist groups is staggering.
It is all being investigated, we are told, but will even one high-ranking current or former government official be indicted in 2026? If so, will they get convicted – or will partisan judges dismiss the cases or partisan juries acquit them, even if guilt is firmly established?
One cannot simply throw people in prison to placate one’s supporters (clearly, certain elected Democrats and their supporters would disagree), but, still, if by the time the 2026 midterms roll around, not a single prominent political figure is incarcerated, despite everything the American public has seen over the past five years and more, the entire system will be in danger of collapse. At some point, people will inevitably decide that if the laws don’t apply to the government elites, then they shouldn’t apply to anyone.
No one should be falsely accused, but also – as Democrat politicians used to remind us (but not any more) – no one is above the law. The year about to begin, 2026, needs to be the year of accountability because, if it isn’t, America will truly be in decline.
This article was originally published by Liberty Nation News.
