https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/waste-of-our-time-trump-administration-officials-respond-to-kare-11-investigation-into-prison-sale/89-06700a38-fe80-408d-88e8-0d1f5b9fc4cf'Waste of our time' | Trump administration officials respond to KARE 11 investigation into prison saleMembers of the Trump administration, visiting St. Cloud to discuss fraud on Friday, dismissed a question about federal overpayment for a Minnesota private prison.ST. CLOUD, Minn. — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed a question about a recent KARE 11 investigation into the federal government's overpayment for a private prison in Appleton, Minnesota, in the administration's first public response to the report.KARE 11's reporting showed the Department of Homeland Security paid $495 million to purchase CoreCivic's abandoned private prison to use as an ICE facility, when that same facility was offered to the state one year earlier for $75 million.The price difference for the prison sale, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. Bessent was joined by other members of the Trump administration at a press event in St. Cloud Friday to discuss the administration's "War on Fraud."When the event opened to reporter questions, KARE 11's Lou Raguse asked Bessent, "If the administration has declared war on waste and fraud, could you explain the $420 million overpayment for a prison in Appleton, Minnesota, when the company offered it to the state of Minnesota for $75 million?""I don't know anything about that," Bessent responded. "What we are here to do is to prosecute criminal fraud, and any question like that, that deflects away from it, I think is a waste of our time, thanks."
KARE 11 attempted to contact Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin for comment prior to the report's publication, but the DHS secretary and his agency did not respond.The KARE 11 investigation found the Appleton prison sale was one of several sales that CoreCivic made to the federal government this year, and that CoreCivic previously donated $500,000 to the Trump-Vance inaugural committee.In a written statement regarding the prison sale, CoreCivic told KARE 11, “independent appraisers used a cost-based methodology” and in bold print, “The federal government ultimately determined the sale price following its assessment process.”On Friday, Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison called on Congress to conduct an investigation into the prison sale.
For reference, $420,000,000 is more than all of the fraud that the Trump admin has uncovered in the Minnesota Somalian community combined
Should have known as soon as he started locking in on fraud in Minnesota that he was committing fraud in MinnesotaIt's always projection with Trump, no exceptionsShame on me for not immediately assuming as much in this case
>>1546003https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/12/yes-theres-something-wrong-with-walz-and-it-cost-taxpayers-1-billion/420 million is lower than 1 billion
Private prisons? You can thank Reagan and Clinton for that. Asset forfeiture? Reagan and Clinton.
>>1546005Do you have a source who isn't a pathological liar, pedophile and fraudster?
>>1546007When a democrat is in office, you can trust white house press briefings as fact. If a republican is in office it's all pathological pedophile lies.If you didn't have double standards you would have no standards at all.https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/20/biden-cancer-hur-recording-cognitive-decline/83722854007/Biden didn't develop stage 4 cancer in the 4 months between when he left office and when he announced his cancer diagnosis in May of 2021. karine jean-pierre was lying about bidens health, including covering it up when Biden accidentally said he had cancer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVm6PNdtcVo
>>1546008>Joe Biden has cancer, that makes it okay for Trump to funnel 420,000,000 in taxpayer dollars to his buddies in the private prison industryFascinating
>>1546009And don't forget about the 16 billion dollars Elon stolehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/elon-musk-made-off-16-190907706.html
Does this mean Trump owes KARE 11 a million dollars for uncovering this fraud?
>>1546005>1 billionYeah sure. And I'm sure this number is real and totally not also adding in the fully prosecuted fraud cases from 2022 that got the ringleader of the whole thing.
>>1546001Are you telling me MAGA was making a false accusation of something they themselves were guilty of? Say it isn’t so!
>>1546011Even if he did owe money to them he still wouldn't pay it.
>>1546001>We're to investigate fraud!>"What about this thing that looks like fraud?">I don't know about that, what I waste of time, we're here to investigate fraud!>>1546008>If a republican is in office it's all pathological pedophile lies.Yes, because they're liars and hypocrites, as demonstrated by this report.
>>1546008when a democrat is in office you can trust yes men and only softball questions.also funny how you talk about cancer when democrats just got an MIT cancer researcher canned for fake #metoo shit and its taken 5 years to clear it up. we could've had a cure for cancer and you fucked it up
>>1546022Yes, but justice was served since big pharma is safe <3
>>1546022Trump is surrounded by yes men who flub softball questions. Trump has cut funding for cancer research. Trump is accusing Minnesotans of fraud while he is very, very obviously committing fraud in Minnesota.
>>1546024Remember his last press secretary who lasted less than a week because she couldn't handle an interview with Sean Hannity?
>>1546022>also funny how you talk about cancer when democrats just got an MIT cancer researcher canned for fake #metoo shit and its taken 5 years to clear it up. we could've had a cure for cancer and you fucked it upPlease explain how one guy having a career derailment stopped us from having a cure for cancer, yet Trump cutting the cancer research budget almost in half didn't.
>>1546028your politics led to a leading scientist being terminated for fake metoo allegations. Gotta love your hypocrisy downplaying that. You should just be killed for aiding cancer.I hope you get cancer
>>1546029Curious: who exactly are you going on about?
>>1546029>>1546030Looked it up: David Sabatini.Funnily enough, what got him fired from MIT wasn't actually the false allegations. It's because he admitted he was in a consensual relationship with the person making the allegations, which violated MIT's policy on sexual relationships with individuals who faculty could influence the careers of.
>A guy got fired five years ago>That makes it okay for Trump to funnel four hundred and twenty million dollars of taxpayer money to his buddies in the private prison industryFascinating
>>1546029Sabatini was studying a specific cellular pathway involved in cancer research, not working on a cure for cancer. His resignation didn't bring cancer research to a halt.He also wasn't simply fired over an accusation. He resigned from the Whitehead Institute after an investigation found he violated workplace policies by having a sexual relationship with a subordinate and creating an inappropriate lab environment. The later defamation verdict is a separate issue.Meanwhile, Trump's proposed FY2026 budget would have slashed NIH funding by 40.6%, from roughly $47 billion to $27.9 billion, including a 37.3% cut to the National Cancer Institute. That's billions in potential cuts to medical research across the country. Congress fortunately rejected them.One scientist losing his job is unfortunate. Trying to blame Democrats for that while defending an administration that wanted to slash cancer research funding on a massive scale is pretty fucking rich. Maybe wipe the shit from under your nose before you start claiming other people stink
>>1546034>5years of a top researcher on the edge of curing cancerdemocrat cope is amazing
No life piggerals
>>1546062Read the post directly above yours.
>>1546062But what does it have to do with Trump and his administration funnelling four hundred and twenty million dollars of taxpayer money to his buddies in the private prison industry by fraudulently overvaluing a prison in Minnesota, while whining and seething about fraud in Minnesota?
>>1546065protecting lives by imprisoning domestic terrorism.
>>1546068But he could have done that without overpaying for the prison by four hundred and twenty million dollars in taxpayer money
>>1546069we should start using Eminent domain laws to start seizing democrat homes and building prisons over them. They can be paid what they're worth in peanuts
>>1546069Don’t try to argue with children, anon. It’s unseemly and not worth it.
>>1546070>The migger schizo is spending Halloween night downplaying massive government fraud in MinnesotaLol, lmao
>>1546072ikr democrats trying to commit more fraud minnesota's a blue state
>>1546075>Republican arguments literally only work if you leave out most of the relevant information.Trick or treat, chomo?
>>1546077>if you leave out most of the relevant information.typical democrat projection name 100 times.
>>1546080>Incoherent faggot rambling.Can you say that in English?
>>1546084see, you democrat lying rat you can't even bring up enough any examples when someone asks, you disgusting liar
>>1546005Where's my $2000 stimmy check you FUCKING NIGGER?
>>1546086It's in the mail along with that $10,000 Student Loan Forgiveness check Biden was promising. $20,000 if you had Pell Grants.
>>1546087I'm completely debt free, nice try nigger.Who was it that struck down the student loan forgiveness though?
>>1546089Biden bypassed Congress by promising something' that required the power of the purse to authorize, so his over reach was struck down by the Supreme court.That same supreme court could block Trump from sending checks if he tries to do so as an executive order instead of getting the Republicans in the House to put the money forward
>>1546091>couldlmaoIt doesn't matter though cause Trump is a conman and you'll never get money out of him unless it benefits him directly. Only retards who can't see this support him.
>>1546091Look at this guy acting like Trump doesn't just spend our money however the fuck he wants.
