MANDATORY PRISON: Trump's Plan for Medicare Fraudsters

Steal from Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security and you go to prison, no probation. That is what President Trump asked Congress for in a video posted Saturday, per Newsmax and RSBN: mandatory minimum sentences for benefit fraud, longer the more you steal, doubled for a second conviction. And one more piece: state and local politicians who know about fraud, have the power to stop it and do nothing would be personally liable for what the taxpayers lost. The president: "If you steal from the American people, you will go to prison and for a long period of time. And the more you steal, the longer you'll stay in that prison." He said Congress must make sure "crooked and corrupt politicians who willfully turn a blind eye to fraud finally face real consequences." And he closed with this: "So from now on, fraudsters, we're watching you." That is your parents' Medicare and your Social Security check. Somebody stealing from it ought to do real time. Now let's see if Congress has the spine to pass it. Chuck reads the proposal, as reported by The Gateway Pundit and Newsmax.

Also in today's episode: Tom Cruise's "Digger" opens to about $8 million in more than 3,300 theaters, his lowest debut since 2007, with a C-plus CinemaScore, per Breitbart News and Deadline; an Alhambra, California police dog named Otis finds about 440 pounds of cocaine in an SUV the department said was carrying "more cardboard boxes than Amazon on Prime Day," per Fox News; Cornell's president says his "heart aches" for the woman at the center of a fraternity rape allegation now in the hands of a special prosecutor, while CBS News reports a 2024 sworn statement that points the other way and Cornell's own process found four of seven students responsible; the Bouquet Fire near Santa Clarita holds at about 1,048 acres and 40% contained in triple-digit October heat, per ABC7, and the Santa Clarita Valley Signal reports a possible explosive ordnance was found at the fire's origin, cause still undetermined; a Paris police intelligence note revealed by Le Figaro says France's school riots trace to "the manipulation of student union structures" as elections approach, with more than 5,000 arrests, most of them minors, per Breitbart News, and the party it names denies it; a case report in Frontiers in Neuroscience describes a woman in her 80s with advanced Alzheimer's who spoke about her own life again after supervised psilocybin, an improvement the paper itself calls transient, in one patient, and not a recommendation for anyone; in Orange County, Florida, 17-year-old twins Carlo and Melanie are found dead with their father in what the sheriff's office says detectives believe was a murder and suicide, per FOX 35 and the Orlando Sentinel; Britain's Home Office handed out 974 hijabs to small-boat arrivals in six months, per the Mail on Sunday via GB News, calling it a standard welfare arrangement; and at Stanford, 46 adults entered the Catholic Church this Easter, up from 14, per the Stanford Review.

00:00 Welcome and Headlines

01:33 Tom Cruise Box Office Flop

02:51 Cocaine Bust in California

04:06 Cornell Fraternity Case Update

05:45 Trump Targets Benefit Fraud

07:38 Bouquet Fire Evacuations

08:55 France Riots Manipulation Claim

10:53 Psilocybin and Alzheimer's Case

12:56 Florida Family Tragedy

15:52 UK Migrant Hijab Spending

17:05 Stanford Catholic Revival

18:24 Wrap Up and Prayer

There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.

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