Valuetainment - February 15, 2026


“Why’d You Take Their Money？” - Hawley DESTROYS Minnesota AG In $9 BILLION Fraud Hearing

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Keith Ellison
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Patrick Bet-David
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Keith Ellison Josh Hawley Holly Ilhan Omar Thomas Tim Walz Billy Graham Vinny Paul Jody Harpstead George Floyd Jacob Fry Mamdani Hitler Isaiah Trump Adam
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In this episode, we discuss the audacity of the Minnesota AG, Keith Ellison, as he responds to a question from a whistle blower about his role in the $10k he received from a former employee.

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00:00:00.000 Rob, let's go to Holly.
00:00:01.820 Holly is sitting down with, Rob, can you tell the audience
00:00:05.260 who Holly is sitting down with in this clip? 0.55
00:00:07.340 You know which one I'm talking about.
00:00:08.640 Yes.
00:00:09.800 Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota.
00:00:12.140 Okay, Keith Ellison, the Minnesota attorney general.
00:00:15.600 Watch this.
00:00:16.080 Communist.
00:00:16.480 It is uncomfortable if you've not seen the whole clip.
00:00:20.200 Which clip is this, Rob?
00:00:21.420 This is where they talk about being a pal and then telling you.
00:00:25.980 Good, this is good.
00:00:26.720 But then I want to go to the other one.
00:00:28.420 But this is a good start.
00:00:29.420 Go ahead, Rob.
00:00:30.420 Whistleblowers came to you as early as 2019. 1.00
00:00:32.900 Let's look.
00:00:34.220 As early as 2019.
00:00:36.220 Don't talk over me.
00:00:37.340 No, no, you're talking over me.
00:00:39.340 It's my hearing, pal.
00:00:41.400 As early as 2019.
00:00:43.800 Don't call me, pal.
00:00:44.700 Whistleblowers came to you. 1.00
00:00:45.360 Well, I should call you a prisoner because you ought to be in jail.
00:00:47.420 Well, see what you can do about that.
00:00:49.420 Pause it and go back.
00:00:50.900 By the way, pause it and go back.
00:00:53.200 Look what he says.
00:00:54.960 The amount of audacity to react this way.
00:00:58.200 Press play, Rob.
00:00:59.060 Listen, folks.
00:00:59.420 As early as 2019, it's my hearing, pal.
00:01:03.060 As early as 2019.
00:01:04.640 I'm not sure, pal.
00:01:04.940 Listen.
00:01:05.360 Don't call me, pal.
00:01:05.880 Whistleblowers came to you. 1.00
00:01:06.920 Well, I should call you a prisoner because you ought to be in jail.
00:01:08.940 Well, we'll see what you can do about it.
00:01:10.080 Paul, we'll see what you can do about it.
00:01:12.880 The audacity.
00:01:13.460 See that?
00:01:13.700 The audacity.
00:01:14.580 We'll see what, by the way, who talks like that?
00:01:17.340 Somebody knows they're untouchable.
00:01:18.860 We'll see what you could do about that.
00:01:20.300 Rob, is this the clip about the $10,000?
00:01:22.920 I believe so.
00:01:23.680 This was in your notes.
00:01:24.620 Okay, perfect.
00:01:25.340 That's the one.
00:01:26.260 Have you seen this $10,000 clip?
00:01:27.920 No.
00:01:28.360 No.
00:01:28.660 You've not seen this?
00:01:29.540 I haven't.
00:01:29.800 I saw.
00:01:30.260 Do you know the whole conversation he's having with them is he met with these folks for 54
00:01:35.820 minutes.
00:01:36.940 And afterwards, eight days later or so, guy gets $10,000.
00:01:42.220 And Holly's calling him out on it.
00:01:44.260 It's disturbing.
00:01:45.520 Watch this.
00:01:46.020 Go ahead.
00:01:47.460 Help him.
00:01:48.260 Are you going to let me answer?
00:01:49.820 Please.
00:01:50.500 We're all ears.
00:01:51.340 So, first of all, you're cherry-picking quotes out of there.
00:01:54.020 Why did you help him?
00:01:54.940 I thought you were going to let me answer.
00:01:56.260 Why did you help him?
00:01:56.680 Are you going to let me answer?
00:01:58.000 Why did you help him?
00:01:58.580 You let me answer, and I'll answer you.
00:02:00.080 Tell the truth, and I'll let you answer.
00:02:01.360 I will tell the truth.
00:02:02.160 Let's do that.
00:02:02.640 That'd be a nice change.
00:02:03.420 Why did you help him?
00:02:03.800 Now, see, Mr. Chairman, I didn't come here to be insulted.
00:02:07.480 I came here voluntarily.
00:02:08.200 You came here for the truth.
00:02:09.400 Let's have it.
00:02:10.100 Why did you help him?
00:02:10.940 I came here voluntarily.
00:02:11.500 The quotes are here.
00:02:12.460 They're in black and white.
00:02:13.560 And every member of this audience can listen to the recording.
00:02:16.300 It's 54 minutes long.
00:02:18.860 It's all in public.
00:02:20.040 You can Google it right now and listen to it.
00:02:21.920 Right, and listen to it all.
00:02:22.840 Why did you help him?
00:02:24.380 First of all, I didn't help them.
00:02:25.940 You did help them.
00:02:26.420 No, I did not.
00:02:27.720 I certainly didn't.
00:02:28.720 You're saying you didn't do anything for them.
00:02:30.660 You didn't.
00:02:31.400 You didn't.
00:02:31.920 Well, wait a minute.
00:02:32.540 I already have my team working on this again.
00:02:34.120 That's not you?
00:02:34.500 I have.
00:02:35.100 It's a ventriloquist?
00:02:35.820 My team assisted with the information that led to the prosecution and conviction of these people.
00:02:43.520 No, you didn't.
00:02:43.880 You didn't let the finger to prosecute them.
00:02:45.500 No, you did not.
00:02:46.280 You didn't let the finger to prosecute them.
00:02:47.380 It was a federal prosecution.
00:02:48.320 You had, oh, BS.
00:02:49.840 You had whistleblowers coming to you as early as 2019.
00:02:52.420 You're the one talking BS.
00:02:53.480 Hey, listen.
00:02:54.180 It's my time.
00:02:54.840 You're the one who doesn't know what you're talking about, sir.
00:02:56.280 Oh, no, sir.
00:02:56.760 You now have encountered the truth and you don't like it.
00:02:58.920 Why'd you take their money?
00:03:00.460 Why'd you take their money?
00:03:01.960 I didn't.
00:03:02.820 You took $10,000.
00:03:04.700 No, that's a false statement.
00:03:05.440 No, that's a false statement.
00:03:06.400 You took $10,000 nine days after the meeting.
00:03:10.780 False statement.
00:03:11.260 You took $10,000.
00:03:12.940 Here's what happened.
00:03:13.900 They went to your office.
00:03:15.200 That's a false statement.
00:03:15.420 They solicited money from you.
00:03:16.860 They solicited help from you.
00:03:18.200 That's also wrong.
00:03:19.000 They came to your office.
00:03:20.080 No, they didn't.
00:03:20.260 It was your official office.
00:03:21.440 No, they didn't.
00:03:21.920 They asked you for help.
00:03:24.780 You pledged it to them, and they talked repeatedly about money.
00:03:27.800 In fact, it's all they talked about.
00:03:29.020 That's a lie.
00:03:29.420 Money, money, money, money.
00:03:31.640 They said, we will put our dollars in the right place.
00:03:35.060 We will support candidates that will fight to protect our interests.
00:03:37.700 You replied, that's right.
00:03:39.320 They said, if you are securing your donor base and securing your power base, you can act the way you want.
00:03:44.800 You replied, money is freedom.
00:03:47.200 They said, the amount of money circulating.
00:03:48.980 I'm reading the transcript.
00:03:50.140 The amount of money circulating in our community today is powerful, and we haven't realized it in a meaningful way.
00:03:56.240 And you said, give me the specifics.
00:03:58.560 And nine days later, you took $10,000 from people who were then indicted.
00:04:04.680 It's in your reports.
00:04:05.980 Why did you do it?
00:04:07.620 Was it worth it?
00:04:09.220 You know what?
00:04:10.000 This is a theatrical performance.
00:04:11.460 This is the truth.
00:04:12.560 This is what accountability looks like, of which you've had none.
00:04:15.180 You helped fraudsters defraud your state and this government of $9 billion, and you got a fat campaign contribution out of it.
00:04:23.860 You ought to be indicted.
00:04:25.940 That's the truth.
00:04:26.800 I think we've made the point.
00:04:28.340 Let's keep the tenor just a little more.
00:04:29.560 Well, for the record, I'll ask how I want to, Senator Paul.
00:04:31.980 He's lying, and that's the truth.
00:04:33.600 Oh, no.
00:04:34.040 This is all on the record, sir.
00:04:35.280 Oh, no, sir.
00:04:35.460 Did you bother to investigate where the money that you facilitated their fraud for, where it went?
00:04:41.820 Why did you help him?
00:04:42.720 Are you going to let me answer?
00:04:43.440 So for people to understand, this guy works with Tim Walz and Ilan Omar.
00:04:50.700 They're all on that same little crew with the major fraud.
00:04:53.960 Ilan Omar.
00:04:54.360 All the fraudsters were going to him saying, hey, listen, we're doing this.
00:04:58.380 And they're exchanging.
00:04:58.620 No, no.
00:04:58.800 Here's what it is.
00:04:59.480 What he's talking to him about, December 11, 2021.
00:05:02.740 Holly's accusing Ellison of, on that day, met with individuals later charged in defeating our future fraud scheme.
00:05:12.000 Yeah.
00:05:12.440 A massive COVID-era nonprofit fraud scandal.
00:05:16.380 Holly claimed Ellison took campaign contribution totaling $10,000 from those individuals or their associates shortly after the meeting saying the donations came nine days later.
00:05:24.940 That's the exchange during COVID.
00:05:26.180 To basically help them not get crazy sentences or look out for them.
00:05:30.260 The question is that, and he might be right, is it all theatrics?
00:05:34.360 Because unless he gets legitimately investigated, and if that's true and he's taking those donations, he should be arrested.
00:05:41.300 He should be put in jail.
00:05:42.220 But it seems to me like people like Tim Walz, Ilan Omar, they do whatever they want.
00:05:46.300 They sit in front of the camera.
00:05:47.180 They spit all these threats and all this, you're Hitler, you're Nazi, and weaponizing people to go in front of ICE.
00:05:53.260 And nothing happens to them.
00:05:55.100 Nothing happens.
00:05:56.240 There's zero accountability.
00:05:57.960 Ever.
00:05:58.520 Tom.
00:05:58.920 Ever.
00:06:00.220 This is what upsets America is they believe that there's two systems of justice.
00:06:05.280 This one and that one.
00:06:06.580 I get a speeding ticket.
00:06:08.000 We all get speeding tickets.
00:06:09.240 That's what they feel.
00:06:10.120 And there's no way out.
00:06:10.940 And then they feel that people that are robbing them blind, committing fraud and crimes of the highest order, high crimes and misdemeanors, they feel that people get off.
00:06:20.300 And this guy is on a congressional hearing.
00:06:22.800 A performance like that at the congressional hearing with all the stuff that Holly was talking about should be referred to the Department of Justice for a formal investigation, grand jury behind closed doors, and indictments if this is what's happened.
00:06:36.380 But this is not what happens because things are so corrupt, Pat, they can't get the grand jury together.
00:06:42.040 They can't get the indictment brought down.
00:06:44.460 These things should be happening.
00:06:45.780 People should be in prison, Vinny.
00:06:47.240 But he is sitting there, and look at the amount of hubris and the cockiness, this guy's sitting there.
00:06:54.700 And he is the first Muslim elected to Congress and was the first African-American representative.
00:07:00.000 So he is there also protecting a tribe of like-minded individuals.
00:07:06.380 And they're all protected.
00:07:08.000 Look at the cockiness, even with backing off, that Governor Walz still has.
00:07:12.660 Look at that.
00:07:13.680 It disgusts me, Pat.
00:07:15.200 This should be referred to the Department of Justice, and indictments should be brought down.
00:07:18.920 But they don't happen.
00:07:20.160 And this is where American people say nothing's going to happen, and there's two systems of justice.
00:07:24.880 And the American people sits at 17% confidence in all of it.
00:07:29.440 Yeah, by the way, I found the recording, just so you guys know.
00:07:32.780 The 54-minute and there's a short eclipse.
00:07:34.580 I found a recording.
00:07:36.180 I found a bunch of them, you know, on what he's saying on tapes.
00:07:39.960 Rob, I'll just send it to you.
00:07:41.720 Do you have it?
00:07:42.640 Yes.
00:07:43.060 Play one of them.
00:07:43.640 Let's see what he's saying here.
00:07:45.080 I'm very concerned about it.
00:07:48.140 I don't run the agencies.
00:07:49.880 Absolutely.
00:07:50.580 But let me just finish by saying, but often the agencies call on my lawyers to represent them.
00:07:55.020 And so it's good that we're talking because we've been in a series of conversations with Jody Harpstead as late as a week ago on how you cannot crunch down on these.
00:08:09.120 Because here's the thing, as big as you are collectively, most are pretty small.
00:08:14.500 And you're making them, you're running small, tiny businesses out of business overnight.
00:08:20.920 And a lot of times.
00:08:21.960 I just send it.
00:08:22.800 You can pause it right here.
00:08:23.720 Can you listen to the four I send?
00:08:25.340 The entire 54 minutes there, but don't listen to the 54.
00:08:28.180 In the four clip, see which one says the $10,000.
00:08:31.160 Adam, your thoughts on this.
00:08:33.000 So here's my deal.
00:08:34.500 Number one, Josh Hawley.
00:08:35.780 By the way, just to feed the future, this is the $250 million scandal that they got caught on.
00:08:41.420 Yes.
00:08:41.960 And then that's a part of the $9 billion.
00:08:45.080 But Hawley here specifically is targeting the $250 million and then saying you got $10,000 in contributions.
00:08:50.940 So here's what I think about this guy, Keith Ellison.
00:08:53.840 Well, first, let's address the elephant in the room.
00:08:57.220 Josh Hawley's a rock star.
00:08:58.660 Whatever this guy wants to do politically, I think he's based in Missouri, I want to say.
00:09:02.440 Correct.
00:09:03.080 Wow, wowee, wow, wow.
00:09:04.660 This guy just made, born for TV, good looking, sharp, informed, like all the good qualities.
00:09:11.560 Let's see where this guy goes in his career.
00:09:13.660 Number two, Keith Ellison.
00:09:15.180 I'm so glad people are starting to learn this guy's name because people probably heard it.
00:09:20.220 You don't really know what this guy's about.
00:09:21.700 This guy is where three major things meet.
00:09:25.660 Progressivism and ultra-far leftism meets with Islamism, meets with globalism. 0.99
00:09:30.920 So if you want to understand why Minnesota is a complete piece of crap burning in the streets, look no further than this guy. 0.99
00:09:39.600 Now, we've got to give a shout-out to Tim Walls. 0.98
00:09:41.280 He gets a lot of the reviews.
00:09:42.720 We've got to give a shout-out to Ilhan Omar and marrying her brother and getting Somalians to continually vote for the Democratic Party.
00:09:49.220 And we've got to give a shout-out to Jacob Frey for continuing to pander the Somalian community. 0.93
00:09:54.160 We get it.
00:09:54.920 They're all complicit, in my opinion, in the waste, fraud, and abuse, and specifically fraud.
00:10:01.420 But Keith Ellison is the attorney general.
00:10:04.000 Is that his job?
00:10:04.920 AG.
00:10:05.160 So if we're going to, you know, heavy is the head that wears the crown.
00:10:08.440 If we're going to put everything on Bam Bondi, who's been there for one year, how about putting it on Keith Ellison, who's been a congressperson, congressman, and attorney general for decades in Minnesota.
00:10:19.520 So tip of the spear goes no further than Keith Ellison.
00:10:23.040 And you're right.
00:10:23.820 He was the first Muslim, Tom, I believe, that was elected to Congress.
00:10:27.660 Swore on the Koran. 1.00
00:10:28.540 Where do you think Mamdani got it from?
00:10:30.460 And then he was also the person that I want to say was in charge of the Derek Chauvin-George Floyd thing.
00:10:36.080 So if you want to thank anybody for making George Floyd the martyr on the left, look no further than Keith Ellison.
00:10:42.820 This dude seems to me very corrupt, and I'm very glad that Josh Hawley is calling him out.
00:10:48.020 A new Faith Over Fear hat is coming soon to a theater near you.
00:10:51.780 But I just wanted to, this morning I was listening to Billy Graham, which, Pat, you told me to listen to him.
00:10:56.780 You're like, you know, Vinny, dive in and listen to him.
00:10:58.480 So I'm getting ready in the morning.
00:10:59.820 I'm just listening to Billy Graham, and he said something that I hadn't heard in a while, and it was the Apostle Thomas.
00:11:05.560 When Jesus rose from the dead, Thomas wasn't there to see the resurrection.
00:11:10.020 So Thomas goes, I'll believe that he rose if I get to put my hands in his wounds and in his side.
00:11:15.280 So then he finally sees Jesus, and he goes in there.
00:11:17.760 He goes, God, Thomas, God, put your hands in here.
00:11:19.900 And Jesus looks at him and goes, because you have seen me, you believe.
00:11:23.220 Blessed of those who haven't seen me and still believe.
00:11:26.320 But in that moment, Tom, it hit me.
00:11:27.860 He's talking about us.
00:11:29.480 We weren't there.
00:11:30.460 We didn't see Jesus walk.
00:11:31.500 We didn't see him die.
00:11:32.180 We didn't see him rise from the dead.
00:11:33.980 But we believe, and that is faith in real time.
00:11:37.500 And he's talking about us.
00:11:38.500 And the last one, you mentioned the story about the Nigeria that we're sending 200 troops.
00:11:43.060 Trump is sending 200 troops.
00:11:44.260 They're saying they're not going to do anything crazy.
00:11:45.800 But think about that.
00:11:47.100 Think about the priests.
00:11:47.980 Think about the parishioners in those churches that were bombed and murdered and slaughtered.
00:11:51.980 And they were in that church praying and saying, please, help.
00:11:55.700 That is faith over fear in real time.
00:11:58.580 And that's what we're about.
00:11:59.620 And that's what the brand is about.
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