Jacob Frey

It's it's, you know, the vice presidential candidate ran against Donald Trump.

And I think there is a I think perhaps Donald Trump is is unhappy that for three elections in a row, Minnesota did not support his candidacy.

I believe that he's trying to make a point here.

You know, it feels a little bit as if there were multiple things that were occurring in rapid succession that don't necessarily have anything to do with one another.

You know what I mean?

It almost feels like, remember, like post 9-11.

I remember, you know, you reporting on that, you know, 9-11.

And then you had going after the Taliban.

Then it was looking at Afghanistan.

Suddenly we're in Iraq again.

And so it was these things that, like, if you weren't paying a lot of attention, were seemingly linked, but they weren't at all.

And so we had an issue in our state around fraud.

And look, it's real.

It is a real issue.

And then there were these racist attacks on entire communities, most notably our Somali community, based on that fraud.

And then from there, it was let's, I believe, and this is not based on personal information, I speculate that somebody from relatively high up in the Trump administration said, go to Minneapolis, go deport a bunch of Somalis.

And whoever gave that directive didn't get the necessary pushback.

And then suddenly you got a bunch of ICE agents there in Minneapolis trying to deport Somalis only to find out they're from here, they're American citizens.

They got here on a plane.

They're here legally.