VP JD Vance speaks in Rocky Mount: Focuses on affordability and November election

Thank y'all thank you all

Please please take a seat and uh we've got got

some time to spend with one another so I wanna

first thank a few of the great people who are

here who make this possible and are leading I think

helping us lead America's and North Carolina's comeback

So first of all to our great Senate candidate here

in the state of North Carolina Michael Watley thank you

Michael for everything that you're doing

For our great congressional candidate in this district Laurie Buckout

where are you Laurie Thank you so much

It's good to see you

An officer in our military and now a person who

wants to serve this great district and actually do something

good for the people of this district instead of just

voting with Nancy Pelosi which is exactly what Don Davis

does every single day

He's in Washington DC

So Laurie thank you

We're gonna talk a little bit more about your race

here in a second but a lot of you know

I know that this state has a very special place

in my heart because I grew up in a poor

family

I was raised by my grandmother and then when I

graduated from high school back in 2003 I enlisted in

the United States Marine Corps and I really spent the

1st 4 years of my adulthood not too far from

here in the eastern part of our state um you

know becoming a a young marine and and frankly becoming

a young man

And I'll never forget one of the the first major

purchases I ever made in my entire life was when

I wanted to buy for the first time I wanted

to buy my own car as a young marine

I was probably 19 years old and I go to

one of these off-base used car dealerships and I find

a Honda Civic

It's practical it's cheap

It does everything I need it to do and I'm

gonna get the dealer's low low interest rate financing of

21%

And And by the grace of God I had a

great United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Gunny Arledge

I went back

I said Gunny I got a great great news for

you

He said What He said I'm gonna I'm gonna buy

my first car

He said Congratulations Marine

That's a big step for a young Marine

He said What's your interest rate I said 21%

And he nearly smacked me upside the head

And he said stop being an idiot and he didn't

say that he used more colorful language but I said

we have a couple of couple of young people out

there

He said go to Navy Federal Credit Union and I

got an 8% interest rate and bought my car without

breaking the bank so that was my

That was one of many uh many lessons the state

of North Carolina taught me but what we're trying to

do I talk about uh the difference between a 21%

interest rate that the used car dealer offered me and

the 8% interest rate that I got offered at a

credit union and that's pretty much the difference between the

Joe Biden and Donald Trump economic plan for the United

States of America because

And just a very brief time we've seen new home

purchases rise to their highest level in 5 years since

the last time Donald Trump was president

We've seen the cost of rents drop for 6 months

in a row

We've seen the average tax refund that's going to come

to the

People of North Carolina about $3700 per family and we

see interest rates that are the lowest they've been since

the last time that Donald J

Trump was president

My friends the president is impatient

He's the most impatient person I have ever met in

fact

He constantly is pressing on the gas

He wants us to do more but I stand here

proud to say that after the first year of President

Donald Trump and congressional Republicans leadership we are rebuilding the

American dream and we are taking back this country for

the people of this state

Now there are a number of things that I'm proud

of a number of things I wanna brag on but

I actually want to take a little bit of an

audience poll because I was looking at some of the

things that we put in the working families tax cut

this one big great big beautiful bill

Now there that bill is over 1100 pages long and

unlike most of these bills that are way too long

this is chock full of good stuff for the people

of this district the people of this state but there

are a few things in particular that I think are

important for this state

Number one

Number one that piece of legislation the working families tax

cuts had the biggest tax cut for Social Security benefits

that we've ever seen in the United States of America

Number 2 it wasn't just Social Security recipients

Number 2 that legislation had the biggest tax cut for

people making under $100,000 that we have ever seen in

tax legislation in this country

And number 3 that wasn't in the working families tax

cut but one of the things I'm very proud of

is that we forced all localities whether they're red states

or blue states to report crime accurately so we could

go to war against violent crime and the criminals who

do that violent crime

Now now those are 3 things and I on on

this part I only want you to clap once because

again I'm gonna take an audience poll here

I'm gonna ask you what your favorite of those 3

pieces of legislation those 3 accomplishments are that we've had

so far in the Trump administration

So if your favorite thing of those 3 is no

taxes on Social Security let me hear it

OK if your favorite thing is the biggest tax cuts

for people making under 1000 let me hear that

OK and if your favorite thing is that we've gone

to war against violent criminals let me hear that

Now I said only applaud once and there's a guy

up here

He applauded at least twice

He cheated the system but I guess he wanted to

he wanted to save his applause till the very end

but we all heard the response

You know who did not clap for a single one

of those great accomplishments of the Trump administration Don Davis

because he voted against every single one of them

Don Davis voted against cutting taxes on Social Security

Don Davis voted against cutting taxes on those making under

$100,000 a year and Don Davis voted against going to

war against violent criminals

Don Davis is not a man who stands for the

people of this state or this district

He is a person who does exactly what Nancy Pelosi

tells him to do and in November we're going to

send him home and get him out of Washington DC

Now the crazy thing y'all about the crazy thing about

a guy like Don Davis is you know sometimes you

you you you meet a a Democrat in a red

district

And you know I don't agree with him on everything

of course Democrats Republicans disagree on politics from time to

time but you at least have some people out there

or maybe used to who would vote their conscience or

vote the interests of their district

What makes Don so unusual is that we are in

a common sense district here in the state of North

Carolina and this guy still votes every single time with

Nancy Pelosi

In fact I asked my team I said find a

major piece of legislation find something easy where Don Davis

could vote against the Democrats and vote with his district

the moderates the independents even the conservative Democrats

Find me one example where this guy defied the leadership

of his own party

He has never done that on any major issue that

we could find

And here here's here's just an easy a layup Don

an easy layup that we gave you frankly it would

have been bad for Laurie's poor Laurie's campaign chances but

he couldn't even take the bait on the Save America

Act

Now if you know anything about this legislation what the

Save America Act does is that it makes it impossible

for illegal aliens to vote in our elections

Pretty common sense

Now I think that's pretty easy right We don't want

illegal aliens voting in our elections

My favorite thing is whenever I bring this up you'll

have some Democrat on TV who will say Well we

don't have to worry about that because illegal immigrants voting

in our elections is very rare

Well number 1 how about we put it to 0

OK even if you're right

Number 2 you're not right

It happens way more often than a lot of people

appreciate

In fact just this week ICE arrested an illegal immigrant

I'm gonna read this because I wanna make sure I

get it right an illegal immigrant from Mauritania who's voted

in 7 federal elections since 2008

And I haven't got good authority that in every single

election he voted for Don Davis

No I don't know about that

I don't know where he voted but I guarantee it

wasn't for us OK It wasn't for America first policies

Now here's the thing though even if you take the

Democrats at their word even if illegal aliens voting is

very rare then why don't we ban it anyway It's

not that complicated

It is one thing to say I don't get it

The Democrats say this never happens or it happens only

very rarely on the one hand and on the other

hand we must not stop it

It doesn't make a damn bit of sense

We need to get all illegal aliens stopping from voting

in our elections

It's very common sense stuff

But even on that even on that Don Davis could

not be persuaded to vote for the people of this

district

That's like an 85% issue

You look at the majority of even Democrats across our

country a solid majority of Democrats want to pass the

Save America Act but not the guy who allegedly represents

the state of North Carolina who represents this district

So you gotta kind of ask yourself if you got

a guy who votes against tax cuts for Social Security

If Don Davis votes against tax cuts for people making

100 under $100,000 a year if Don Davis votes against

going to war against criminal illegal aliens and violent criminals

then Don Davis doesn't really represent you

Let's vote for Laurie a person who will and will

do so proudly

Now I wanna say a couple of other things because

I've I've uh I've I've given Don Davis a lot

of attention here and now I'm gonna go on to

Roy Cooper

So So first of all on every single thing now

Roy wasn't in Washington DC but on every single one

of these critical wins for the Trump administration to have

gotten for the people of this district the people of

the state Roy Cooper would have voted against all that

That's the reason number one we can't send a guy

to the Senate

We want a senator who represents you

We want a senator who doesn't represent illegal aliens and

fraud but who represents hard work and the good people

of the state of North Carolina and because we want

those things we we need Michael Watley in the United

States Senate not Roy Cooper Michael

Now he stood up and clapped for that

It would have been a bad sign if he wouldn't

have stood up and clapped for that but he he

passed the test there

So so here's here's the thing about Mike uh about

uh Roy Cooper OK So there's been a lot of

debate about what exactly our our foreign policy should be

with regards to Russia and Ukraine

The president of the United States has been very clear

he wants the killing to stop

He wants to get back to commerce

He wants to stop the innocent people who are losing

their lives in that conflict

I happen to admire that of course I think it's

I'm biased but I think that's the right idea

Now here's here's the crazy thing though about Roy Cooper

Roy Cooper is one of these people who clearly cares

way more for foreign countries than he does the United

States of America

You see the passion in his voice when he talks

about protecting illegal aliens

You'll never hear that passion when he's talking about the

people in this room

You hear the passion in his voice when he talks

about sending hundreds of billions of dollars to the war

in Ukraine

And yet and yet the one Ukrainian Roy Cooper didn't

care about was this innocent girl Irina who had her

throat slashed by a person who should have never been

on the streets of this country to begin with

So ask yourself

So ask yourself why did he spend his entire career

making it hard to lock up violent criminals Why did

he spend his entire career going after our brave police

officers who are trying to keep our streets safe Why

does he care so much about the war in Ukraine

6000 Miles away but doesn't give a damn about an

innocent Ukrainian girl who lost her life in our backyard

because he wouldn't do his job and the simple fact

is that Roy Cooper doesn't stand for you

He doesn't fight for you

He will never fight for you but Michael Watley will

He better he better but he will

I know he will

He's a good man

I know he will

Let me just say a couple of final things because

I wanna brag on the president

I wanna brag on what we've been able to accomplish

in Washington

First of all we we under the Biden administration we

dug ourselves a hole in this country

We gotta be honest about that fact

The the average American family under Joe Biden's leadership lost

about $3300 in take-home pay

Now that was a combination of higher taxes but also

that terrible inflation crisis that we had when Joe Biden

was president

When Joe Biden was president not a single month did

we see inflation as low as it was last month

and the month before under Donald Trump's leadership

That's something big to brag on

That's something big to celebrate because what that means is

that you and your families can afford to live a

better life

When Joe Biden was spending all that money on green

new scams when he was driving up

The cost of everything he was making it hard for

you and your families to get by in this beautiful

country that all of us love so I happen to

think it's a pretty nice thing that we've got a

president of the United States that is not fighting to

give away hundreds of billions of dollars to green energy

scams but is fighting to keep the American people's money

in the American people's pocket because that's exactly where it

belongs

But what we've seen in about you know a year

and a month I guess of President Trump's leadership is

that the average American family while while they lost $3200

when Biden was president they've gained about $1300 while Donald

Trump was president

Now that's dollars and cents

Now there's a good news and a bad news to

that

The good news is that means you're $1300 richer than

you were about a year ago

That's what we're fighting for

That's what we care the most about is your prosperity

The bad news is we are still going to dig

ourselves out of that hole that Joe Biden put us

in

I think the best way the best way to confront

this problem is to be honest about it

And we all know Joe Biden put us in a

big hole

So to the Democrats who talk about affordability a lot

of the time why don't you look yourselves in the

mirror Because the president who caused an affordability crisis was

Joe Biden and the president who has made the American

people $1300 richer is Donald J

Trump

We got all these things we could talk about

We can talk about the fact that we have homicides

in this country at the lowest level that they have

been in 125 years

Unreal

Just absolutely unbelievable progress on so many of these issues

and and and we ought to talk about why is

it that we got homicides so low and I'll give

you two reasons

Number one the president of the United States the vice

president of the United States happened to believe that we

ought to be using federal power to support our cops

instead of fighting against them

Isn't that common sense But But we also believe that

the best way to lower homicides and carjackings and other

violent crime is to get the illegal alien criminals out

of the United States of America and that's what we've

been doing

And I I I just can't get over the fact

that Democrats are so passionate about defending the rights of

illegal aliens over American citizens

It is the one thing that will get the Democrats

really fired up you know a few weeks ago we

had the State of the Union address and and like

the Speaker of the House I I'm

One of the people who has a very unique perspective

into the State of the Union because I'm sitting directly

behind the president of the United States and maybe my

favorite point in that whole speech is when he's and

he actually added this line towards the end of the

day before he gave the speech but where he says

I'm gonna say something and I want you to stand

up and applaud if you agree with it

And he says we believe that the American government should

serve the interests of the American people not illegal aliens

OK again a layup for our friend Don Davis

He should have been out there clapping and cheering

Who could possibly disagree with that but of course he

did nothing like the rest of the Democrats

But the the funny thing about it is they were

so miserable because they realized that we had them in

a bind

You could tell even a few of them were looking

around like well

This is like we should be standing up and clapping

for this

But like what are our our leaders gonna get mad

at us Is is Nancy Pelosi gonna you know gonna

gonna take away some of our campaign money You could

tell they didn't know what to do and that's maybe

the biggest indictment of the modern Democratic Party

We talk about all these policies that you and I

care about

We talk about lowering taxes on Social Security about putting

more money in your pocket

We talk about bringing tons of resources into this country

to rebuild the American economy public safety all this stuff

matters

But the thing that maybe matters way more than any

single issue is that Democratic leadership in Washington DC they

cannot stand up for the simple principle that they fight

for you and not an illegal alien

They can't stand up and clap for the fact that

we're gonna go to war on fraud in this country

like we've never done instead of taking your hard earned

money and giving it to people who don't deserve it

The entire Democratic Party all of these policy disagreements all

of that stuff doesn't matter compared to the fact that

they don't see themselves as your advocates and Republicans we

do now

I'm not saying that's true of the Democrats all across

our country

I think there are a lot of Democrats like my

mama and papa were Democrats conservative Democrats who love their

country but the Democrats that we have in Washington DC

they are a different breed

And we cannot fool ourselves that something has gone fundamentally

wrong in that party

Their reason for existing is to fight for fraud to

fight for corruption and to fight for people who have

no right to be in this country

And Michael Waltley and Laurie Buckout their reason for being

is to fight for you and that's why we're here

today

Now I have just a couple of final thoughts and

I'll take a few questions from the media and then

we'll have to get on the road

So so one final thought is and and Kelly knows

this Michael Watley knows this by the way I forgot

to say thank you to our great SBA administrator Kelly

Loeffler

Thank you Kelly for everything that you're doing

Kelly has already identified hundreds of millions of dollars of

fraudulent payments and has cut that stuff out of our

system

I think it'll be billions by the end of the

year

She is fighting for you every single day like all

of us are trying to do in the Trump administration

and as Kelly knows when you give a speech you

talk to people and it's uh you know I'm sure

it's being televised right now because I am the vice

president

The president thank you

But the president always called me and he'll always say

like she talked about coal earlier you know I've talked

so many times about ending the war on coal we've

got great coal resources and I'll come off stage and

think I did a great job and the president will

call me and say JD did a great job great

speech but it's not coal it's clean beautiful coal

So for the president you gotta know

His his strong political advice is it's not coal anymore

It is clean beautiful coal

But I actually was with the president earlier today in

the Oval Office

We're talking about you know a lot of issues that

are going on and he said JD tell the people

of North Carolina two things and I was I almost

forgot this and I was gonna get in trouble

I was gonna get one of those phone calls Kelly

But the president said tell the people of North Carolina

two things

First of all tell them I love them and we're

gonna be with them every single step of the way

That was the first message from the president

So I've now delivered that and

And tell them that their great furniture industry you know

all the the cabinetry the beautiful craftsmanship that this region

of our country was known for say tell them

That we're going to fight for that industry like never

before and if and if you're building something if you're

building a furniture facility a furniture business right here in

the state of North Carolina we're going to cut your

taxes

But if you're trying to bring in foreign furniture to

undercut the jobs of the people of North Carolina we're

going to raise your taxes by 50%

We're going to put a big fat tariff on those

foreign companies bringing that stuff in the United States

So Mr

President I've delivered that message too

I hope I get an A plus on this particular

speech but here let me let me just leave you

with one final thought

You you heard Kelly and Michael and and and everybody's

talked about this

This is one of as I know very personally one

of the proudest states for military leadership and military service

anywhere in the country and I know you all are

proud of that and you should be

We've got incredible bases from all across the services

We've got great marine bases Army bases and so forth

in the great state of North Carolina and I know

it's such an important part of the state not just

economically that that that matters but set to the side

the dollars and cents

You all I mean raise your hand if you've served

in the United States military

Let's give those guys a round of applause

So thank you to all of our veterans a pretty

good chunk of veterans just here in this audience but

here here's here's the thing you all know that right

now we are engaged in a military operation to ensure

as the president has said repeatedly that Iran can never

have a nuclear weapon

That is a simple simple principle and standard

Frankly every president said that they believed that

Donald J

Trump has taken affirmative steps to ensure that Iran can

never have a nuclear weapon now

But we also know that there are a lot of

people from the state of North Carolina who are in

harm's way right now

And so I want all of us when we go

home we leave this event I want all of us

to say a prayer not just for the North Carolinians

but for the people of all of our 50 states

who put on the uniform and are willing to sacrifice

for the safety and security and freedom of the United

States of America

I want every single person I want you to tell

every single person who is serving overseas in harm's way

that this crowd in North Carolina has their back

Thank you all

So with that let me take a few questions from

our media and then I'll uh and then I'll have

to hit the road here

I I'd like to start with the local reporters

We'll get time to the national folks uh if we

got it

Hi I'm Danielle Battagli

I'm with the News and Observer

You've spoken a lot today about Irena Zarutska's death and

uh that resulted in Operation Charlotte's Web

Senator Thom Tillis has asked a lot from the Department

of Homeland Security about what happened with Operation Charlotte's Web

He said his answers are or his questions are unanswered

by DHS and one of those questions is if American

citizens were arrested during Operation Charlotte's Web

I was wondering if you could answer that today

Well look Operation Charlotte's Web is fundamentally an operation to

try to make our country safe by getting violent criminals

off the streets of the United States of America

Now I was not aware that Tom Tillis who's a

friend of mine he and I've had our disagreements but

Tom Tillis and I know each other

Um I I'll go back and and and offer to

speak with Tom about this

I didn't know that he said his questions had been

unanswered by DHS

Now that may be

Because he asked those questions a week ago and they

haven't had time to answer them you may have seen

we've had a little bit of turnover in the Department

of Homeland Security but what I do promise Tom is

that the new leadership at DHS is gonna get him

a response to his questions but we're gonna keep on

using the Department of Homeland Security to do the very

simple thing of making the homeland more secure

That's why it exists and we're gonna keep on doing

that

Hi Mr

Vice President Bill Barrow with the Associated Press uh what

did you advise the president initially as he considered his

actions in Iran and what are you urging him to

do now especially with Americans seeing higher prices at the

pump and some of the fallout from that across the

economy Do you express any concerns like those you've expressed

in the past on the possibility of these extended wars

Well Bill I I appreciate the question

I know you guys have to ask it but but

but imagine the situation we're we're in the situation room

where you can't even take your you know iPod in

there or your your AirPods I guess what they're called

You can't take your iPhone in there

You can't take anything in there because it is the

most classified space anywhere in the world and I sit

there with Pete Hegseth and General Kaine and Marco Rubio

and the entire White House team

And the president and I and the entire senior team

are talking about the options and about what we need

to do and about how we must best protect the

American people

I hate to disappoint you but I'm not gonna show

up here in front of God and everybody else tell

you exactly what I said in that classified room partially

because I don't wanna go to prison

And partially because I think it's important for the President

of the United States to be able to talk to

his advisors without those advisers running their mouth to the

American media

Thank you all

Now now that said one thing I can promise you

is that Chris Wright our great Secretary of Energy and

Scott Basin our Secretary of the Treasury have been running

the administration's response to the economic element of this because

we know obviously when the President takes action to make

sure the American people are safe we've got to do

everything that we can to deal with the consequences of

that economically and it's not just you know oil

There's a whole host of things

Things that we're focused on in the administration to try

to ensure that we do the right thing by the

American people

What the president has said very clearly is that he

does not like oil prices higher oil prices and neither

do I but he also believes that we're going to

make the American people safer and that we're going to

bring those prices at the pump back down to the

levels they need to be for the American people

Now here's the interesting thing

All this conversation happens where Joe Biden left us in

a terrible situation and the reason why gas prices are

where they are today is because of Donald Trump's work

to get them lower because in the Biden administration they

were crazy high

The gas prices we're seeing today are nothing like what

we saw at the peak of the Biden administration because

the president has set us up for energy dominance and

one of the lessons we all have to take away

frankly every time we get involved in anything overseas whether

it's in the Middle East or anywhere else the thing

we got to take away from it is energy dominance

and energy independence

We rely on our own people rely on our own

energy

Mr

President thank you

I'm Dina with CBS 17 right over in Raleigh

Um Eastern North Carolina Western North Carolina two communities that

have been really really impacted by disasters hurricanes uh over

in Eastern North Carolina they happened a decade ago

Uh Western North Carolina still dealing with Hurricane

recovery

We heard from Governor Josh Stein several times that North

Carolina has only gotten a fraction of what other states

have gotten in federal funding for recovery for both communities

Can you talk a little bit about what your administration

is doing to help the people that are still out

of their houses still not having businesses the same So

one of the things I love about Michael Watley is

look he obviously is a Republican he's committed to the

conservative agenda he's a great guy and obviously I'm I'm

aligned with him politically but he's not afraid to say

to me or to the president of the United States

or anybody else we've got to get these resources out

faster to protect the people of North Carolina

So I actually before you ask that question I heard

that from Michael Watley and I actually talked to the

secretary of the Treasury

Because I knew Michael was gonna ask me about it

again when I saw him here today

The simple fact is we have made this a priority

We're gonna get the resources to the people of North

Carolina that are necessary

We recognize that they're um we recognize frankly that we

needed the new leadership to hasten that delivery of resources

to the people of North Carolina

A lot of people in the media have said that

you know the reason why we made a change at

DHS is

Because the Trump administration is backing off of its illegal

immigration enforcement policy that could be further from the truth

The reason that we're making this change is because Christie

Nome has a great opportunity to serve in this new

shield of the Americas position

I think she's gonna do a great job

And on the other hand we think it's useful to

have somebody come in and focus on some of this

disaster relief and recovery stuff and that's exactly what we're

gonna do

But I appreciate Michael bringing that to my attention

and I appreciate all the great people that represent North

Carolina even many Republicans OK who you might think just

because they're politically aligned trust me to all the people

I want them to know that even maybe especially the

people who are politically aligned are more willing to be

independent and more willing to tell us we gotta quicken

those resources to the people of North Carolina

I admire them for their courage and it's gonna mean

better results for the people in this district

Thank you

Why don't we take one more question Mr

Vice President Preston Mao with Fox News Digital

I wanna ask you real quick

You're leading the anti-fraud task force

I wanted to get a quick update on that maybe

some of the findings that you found in Minnesota but

also you've mentioned before that you're interested in targeting other

states as part of that task force

Are there other states that you've been looked at that

you've looked at or that you may have flagged for

potential fraud Well you know

We know there's a lot of fraud in California and

we're trying to get to the bottom of exactly what

it looks like and what we've done in the Trump

administration and the president has really empowered us to do

this is to take the first national look at the

way the American people have been defrauded over many many

years and I'll give you a few very concrete examples

So in the state of Minnesota

You you you asked about Minnesota

We think that there's probably been $19 billion at least

of fraud just committed in Minneapolis and the surrounding areas

Let me give you an example of this because it's

not just the American people being defrauded

It's not just your tax dollars that are being stolen

out of your wallet and given to fraudsters

It's the fact that the services we need to deliver

to needy people are

Not getting delivered because they're going to fraudsters

So for example there's a program that we have and

I believe it's under Medicaid where we try to help

kids who have you know autism Asperger's and so forth

Sometimes they need a little extra help

Sometimes they need somebody to sit with them after school

Sometimes they need somebody to provide transportation to certain places

and we have

Program within Medicaid to ensure that these needy kids get

the resources that they need and it's one of the

things by the way I love about the United States

of America

We want everybody to work hard

We want everybody to play by the rules but if

we've got a needy kid in our community we're not

gonna let that person fall down on their own

All Americans are going to lift that kid up together

That's an amazing thing about our country

But you know what was happening for this program that

was meant to help needy kids is you would have

Somali fraudsters many of them illegal immigrants who would go

and say that they had an autistic kid even though

they didn't they would collect that money for themselves

You had businesses that were going around and rewarding families

for

Engaging in this fraud so the businesses were skimming off

the top and getting rich in the process

How disgraceful is it that Democrats allowed a program that

was meant to help needy American children to go to

Somali illegal aliens

The president of the United States stopped it and there's

a lot more fraud beyond that that we're going to

stop as well

The one last point that I'll make here before we

have to hit the road is I I I hate

to say this and it's been shocking to me as

we've gotten in this and we wanna you know frankly

we want to arrest the people who engaged in criminal

fraud

We want to make sure that the people who did

this stuff realize there are serious consequences for it happening

We want to make sure that the needy kids all

across our communities get what they need

There are so many layers to this anti-fraud initiative that

the president has directed the administration to focus on but

you know what's so crazy about this That nobody until

Donald J

Trump thought to focus on it

Now I I obviously I love the president

I admire the president but this fraud was staring us

in the face and nobody was doing anything about it

This is not rocket science when you have a Somali

fraudster come into the United States illegally and then set

up a school to collect tax dollars and the name

of the school is the Quality Learning Center

Learning Center but when they put the sign up they

take the in out so it says Quality Leering Center

And that group the Quality Leering Center I don't know

about you but I don't want to send my kids

to a school where they can't spell learn

That group was getting millions of dollars from the American

taxpayer

There is so much fraud in our system

There are illegal aliens who shouldn't be here who are

on Medicaid

There are there are companies that are that are set

up to provide medical devices you know knee joints and

hip joints and other medical devices that are necessary for

people's health that have collected hundreds of millions of dollars

and have produced precisely zero medical devices that have helped

our people

This stuff has been going on forever and every single

person in this audience should be scandalized by it

But here's the crazy thing it's not that all of

you are scandalized that you're getting stolen from the crazy

thing is that we had a Democratic leadership who didn't

do anything about it

And so here is what I promise every single person

here every single person watching every single person in the

state of North Carolina

That we are done allowing you to be stolen from

we are done allowing you to be defrauded

We're gonna go after the fraud and we're gonna rebuild

the American dream by making sure that it goes to

Americans first and Americans only

God bless you all and thank you for having me