The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1713 - The Somali Daycare Scam Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. The Truth Will Shock You
07 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the Somali daycare scam and why is it significant?
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, you've heard about the rampant fraud by Somalis in Minnesota, but that is just the tip of a very large, very evil, and very expensive iceberg. The truth is that this kind of fraud is rampant across the country on every level. It's actively harming you and costing you and your family lots of money. We'll talk about it.
Also, Trump appears to be serious about acquiring Greenland. Is that a good idea? I say yes, definitively, and I'll explain. And a Democrat politician is asked to provide an example of a socialist country that is in good shape.
Chapter 2: How is fraud impacting families across the country?
Hilarity ensues. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show. Now, usually I don't feel any desire really to play devil's advocate. I have no interest in looking for ways just for the sake of argument to defend bad people or bad ideas. That's not to say that it's wrong to play devil's advocate or that people shouldn't do it. Generally, though, it's not my style.
I prefer to be as direct as possible.
Chapter 3: What are Trump's views on acquiring Greenland?
For example, if a certain group of people, say Somalis in Minnesota, are being dragged online by hundreds of millions of people, I feel no desire whatsoever to step in and ask an annoying question contrarian questions such as, hey, what if these people actually aren't so bad?
Now, all that said, at this point, I feel compelled to say one thing, just one thing that could be considered something of a defense of the hundreds of thousands of Somalis who are currently living in Minnesota and defrauding the American taxpayer.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's Greenland acquisition plan?
Now, you see, during yesterday's show, I pointed out that the average Somali has an IQ that approaches the level of mental retardation, in part because of rampant inbreeding and That affects roughly half of the population. It's not a talking point. It happens to be true that the typical Somali has an IQ below 70.
Chapter 5: What was the response to the Democrat politician's socialist country example?
Now, on the left, they'll claim that the IQ analysis is illegitimate because Somalia is a war-torn hellscape where everybody is malnourished, so you can't possibly administer a valid IQ test for some reason. But they'll never explain why when you look at the state of Somalia. Well, it looks an awful lot like a country run by people with an average IQ of 68.
They don't have a functioning economy or system of government or anything that would indicate that they're capable of establishing or maintaining any kind of civilization. So what explains all of that, if not for IQ? Is it climate change?
Chapter 6: How does the podcast address the complexities of socialism?
White supremacy? No one knows. In any event, I'm not here to play devil's advocate on that particular question. The science is settled on the issue of Somali IQ. But I do think it's worth asking an important follow-up, which naturally follows from our previous discussion. And that follow-up question is this. If the typical Somali is indeed very dumb,
Then how exactly were they able to scam taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in Minnesota alone? Now, sure, their fraud schemes weren't exactly subtle. They spelled Learning Center as Learing Center. They went slack-jawed when a YouTuber with an iPhone knocked on their front door. They had no kids inside their daycares at all.
And then when CNN shows up the next day, suddenly they had some woman standing out front insisting that, indeed, she does send her children to the daycare every day from 2 to 10 p.m., which just so happens to be the precise operating hours of the daycare. But none of this is particularly indicative of high IQs in the community.
But at the same time, if their IQ is really hovering around 68, you'd think they wouldn't even get that far. I mean, when your IQ is that low, you're not just putting up signs with obvious typos for your fraudulent business. That's more of a 80 to 85 IQ mistake. At 68 IQ, you're barely able to comprehend the idea of a business at all.
I mean, at that rung of the IQ spectrum, you hear about laundering money and you throw your cash into the washing machine. You hear about the importance of headhunting and you go and literally scalp your competition. And you certainly aren't navigating the bureaucracy of the state of Minnesota and filing lengthy forms or anything like that. So who exactly helped the Somalis? That's the question.
We know they didn't commit all this fraud on their own. which is the best defense I can muster for these people. And it requires us to figure out where did the help come from? Now, we know Democrats from Tim Walz on down were complicit in the fraud. They understood that they were getting scammed. The budgets alone made that obvious.
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Chapter 7: What are the broader issues related to fraud and government accountability?
And they did nothing to stop it. That still doesn't address the question of who specifically held the hands of these Somalis as they set up these fraudulent businesses. We know about a lot of people in government who knew that it was happening and allowed it to happen. But who are the people that facilitated, that helped them do it?
Well, to figure out who did hold their hands, I went looking through various online resources for citizens of Minnesota who want to start their own daycare. As it turns out, Blue Cross, which administers Medicaid in Minnesota, put out a video to that effect around four years ago. And here's a portion of the video from a foundation established by Blue Cross. And see if you notice anything unusual.
Watch.
So the world. We are.
Oh, sorry. We played the Somali language version of the video that Blue Cross uploaded. So that's our mistake. But here's the English language version, which they also provided, helpfully enough. And again, see what you notice. Watch.
Are you thinking of opening a family child care business here in Minnesota and would like to get information? If so, you came to the right place. We hope these videos will help answer some of the questions you may have and help you understand the process of family child care licensing in Minnesota and learn about the regulations required to run a family child care business.
What is family child care? Family child care is a care provided in a caregiver's home where no more than 10 children are cared for at any one time, of which no more than six of those children are under school age. Why become a licensed family child care provider? Opening a family child care can be a very rewarding career and comes with many benefits.
You are opening your house to children while you are caring for your own children. Somali parents and guardians believe in keeping Somali culture and religion alive and embedded in child learning. Parents and guardians expect that their child will receive quality care and stay in a safe and clean environment while reaching learning milestones.
You, as a family child care provider, are in a unique position to provide quality child care and protect the health and safety of children in your care while at the same time keeping parents' values and cultural beliefs intact.
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Chapter 8: How does the episode conclude on the topic of American identity and expansionism?
I don't know one way or another, but in general, when you have armies of NGOs flushed with millions of taxpayer dollars, all setting up Somali daycares, many of which are indeed obviously fraudulent, that at some point you need to start raiding the NGOs and conducting some investigations into what they knew or did not know.
Just the other day, we learned that Amy Bach, the white woman who helped organize the massive Feeding Our Future scam for the Somalis, was also listed as the point of contact for 47 daycare centers in Minnesota. Now, Amy Bach was the ultimate middleman for Somali entrepreneurs, all of whom, strangely enough, wanted to start daycares.
As a nonprofit director, she helped an awful lot of Somalis make an awful lot of profits. And then when she was busted for a fraud scheme, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, the daycares dropped her. Now, how many other Amy Bachs are out there? We should really find out.
In other words, we can't pretend that Somalis are the only ones scamming us with fake claims of autism and other disabilities. Yes, it is righteous to arrest and deport every single one of these people, which we should. Yes, Somalis are committing horrific crimes. Yes, their average IQ is extremely low. Yes, they should not be in this country in the first place.
But it's also true that this goes much deeper. It's a much wider problem. Americans are also committing an awful lot of fraud. In some cases, they're helping Somalis while lining their own pockets. In many other cases, they're simply helping themselves. So take, for example, the curious case of Graham Plattner, who's running for the Democrat Party's nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine.
And Plattner is best known as the guy with the Nazi tattoo who supposedly didn't realize it was a Nazi tattoo. But what's interesting about Plattner is not the tattoo. What's interesting about him is that as of now, he has a disability rating of of 100% from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which stems from his deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Now, publicly, Plattner has said that these benefits amount to roughly $5,000 a month or about 60 grand a year. Now, wait a minute, you might say. 100% disability. How can someone who is 100% disabled to the point that they receive a substantial amount of cash every year from the taxpayer, possibly serve as a U.S. senator? Like, what does the term 100% mean?
Because when I hear that, I think, oh, totally disabled. Like, you are not able to do anything. And yet you can serve as a U.S. senator? Which, on second thought, given the quality of our politicians, maybe is not so hard to believe. But for that matter, he also continues to work as an oyster farmer and harbor master. How does he do that if he's 100% disabled? He's 100% disabled.
He's got a full-time job. He's 100% disabled. He's got a full-time job, and he's running for Senate. 100% disabled. Now, in response, you might point out that under our current laws, it's possible to receive $60,000 a year with 100% disability while also working full-time in an extremely demanding job and obviously not being 100% disabled. And that's probably true.
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