During a news conference at the White House last week, Vice President J.D. Vance announced that the Justice Department is creating a new assistant attorney general position answerable directly to him and President Donald Trump.
The individual will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud, and the constitutionally legitimate position has all the benefits, resources, and authority of a special council.
"We know that the fraud isn't just happening in Minneapolis. It's also happening in states like Ohio; it's happening in states like California," the vice president noted.
He said the new position has been created in order to help coordinate "this remarkable interagency effort" from the Trump administration and to make sure that "we prosecute the bad guys and do it as swiftly and efficiently as possible."
Texas Senator Ted Cruz maintains that was is going in Minnesota indicates the kind of bankrupt policies that today's Democratic Party keeps pushing forward.
"If you look at Minnesota, you've got over 100,000 Somalis who the Democrats brought in," he told Fox News after Vance's announcement. "They're engaged in massive fraud, stealing billions of dollars. But then they bundle their votes … for Democrat politicians. They give their money to Democrat politicians, and the Democrat politicians reward them by looking the other way."
Federal prosecutors estimate that the total fraud could be as much as $9 billion in The North Star State, but Cruz thinks the new assistant attorney general will reveal that it is worse in other states.
In the wake of the shooting death of anti-ICE "warrior" Renee Nicole Good, Vice President Vance also suggested that whoever holds the new position will be involved with future efforts against those who are "defrauding the United States by inciting violence against our law enforcement officers."
The new assistant attorney general, he said, will "kick that into high gear."
Noting that creating a new job like this normally takes months, the vice president commended Attorney General Pam Bondi for getting it up and running in about a week.
The nominee will be announced in the coming days, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has promised a "swift confirmation."
