$8.6B CA Fraud Exposed, Hegseth Cuts Harvard Ties, Tulsi Destroys Warner's Whistleblower Lies

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While the legacy media obsesses over Olympic drama and celebrity tantrums, Kelly Loeffler just exposed the biggest fraud scandal in SBA history. $8.6 billion stolen in California alone. But that's just story one. We've got Pete Hegseth ending all military ties with Harvard because, we train what warriors, not wokesters. And Tulsi Gabbard absolutely destroys Senator Mark Warner's whistleblower lies with receipts.

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But before we dive in, Patriots, let me ask you something. Do you think it's a coincidence that legacy media is silent on the $8.6 billion in fraud? Do you think they are ignoring Hegseth taking on Harvard by accident? Or is this exactly what they do? Bury stories that make Trump's team look good.

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Welcome, Patriots, to O'Connor's Quick Strike. I'm John O'Connor, and damn glad to have you. First, if I sound different today, I am testing out a new microphone. Let me know on X at O'Connor podcast if you like this microphone or just simply hate it. So today we are covering three stories the legacy media is either ignoring or completely misrepresenting. First, Kelly and Trump's SBA just suspended over 111,000 California borrowers for $8.6 billion in pandemic fraud.

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And Newsom's response? mock Trump on social media. This is the biggest fraud crackdown in SBA history, Patriots, and you won't hear a word about it on CNN. Second, War Department Secretary Pete ended all military education programs with Harvard Friday. He said it on camera. Harvard is woke. The War Department is not. We train warriors, not wokesters. Trump's taking on the Ivy League and it's long overdue. And finally,

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Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi, came out swinging against Senator Mark Warner's whistleblower accusations. Warner claimed she buried a complaint in a safe for eight months. Tulsi called it a blatant lie and posted the receipts. The deep state is panicking, Patriots. It's a packed briefing, so let's get into it. Tree. All right, Patriots, first story. And this is the biggest story you're not hearing about. Friday, Kelly Loeffler.

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Trump's Small Business Administration Administrator announced she's suspending 111,000 California borrowers for $8.6 billion in suspected pandemic loan fraud. Let me say that again, $8.6 billion. Loeffler visited San Diego on Friday and found one address with 14 different small businesses that were formed during the pandemic. They got over two

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million dollars in COVID era loans that still haven't been repaid. Think about that for a second, Patriots. 14 fake businesses at one address. Two million dollars out the door, and that's just one address in one city. This is the Trump administration going state by state, exposing the massive fraud that the Biden administration tolerated for years. Here's what Loeffler said Friday. She said,

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Once again, the Trump SBA is taking decisive action to deliver accountability in a state whose unaccountable welfare policies have created a culture of fraud and abuse at the expense of law abiding taxpayers and small business owners. A culture of fraud and abuse. That's California patriots. She continued, today we announced we have suspended nearly 112,000 borrowers tied to at least

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nine billion dollars in suspected fraud. This staggering number represents the most significant crackdown on those who defrauded pandemic programs and it illuminates the scale of corruption that the Biden administration tolerated for years." quote. Tolerated. The Biden administration knew this fraud was going on. They saw it and they did nothing. Now what programs are we talking about here?

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Paycheck Protection Program loans, PPP loans, and Economic Injury Disaster loans, EIDL loans. Money that was supposed to keep small businesses alive during COVID. Money that was supposed to keep American workers employed. Instead, it went to criminals, organized crime rings, fraudsters who set up shell companies, fake addresses, ghost employees. And here's the kicker patriots.

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This follows similar action in Minnesota. Just weeks ago, Loeffler suspended 6,900 Minnesota borrowers for $400 million in suspected fraud. Minnesota, 400 million. California, 8.6 billion. That's over 20 times worse. Loeffler said it herself. California, just like Minnesota, invites criminals to abuse the system with socialist welfare policies.

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Fraud scaled up massively during the pandemic and the Biden admin failed to stop it. Now, here's where it gets even better or worse, depending on how you look at it. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Democrat, obviously, released a statement Tuesday claiming Trump was promoting baseless claims of fraud. Baseless claims. Let me read you what Bonta said. He said the Trump administration is attempting to take the issue of fraud and weaponize it against democratic states.

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He continued, Trump and his cronies are alleging that the government of California is somehow in on the fraud. This lie is aimed at sowing distrust. Well, Rob, if it's a lie, then explain the $8.6 billion. Explain the 111,000 suspended borrowers. Explain the 14 fake businesses at one address getting $2 million. You can't, because it's not a lie. It's fraud, massive, systemic,

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organized fraud. But wait, it gets even more ridiculous. Gavin Newsom's press office mocked Loffler's announcement on X. They wrote, the Trump administration found major fraud in programs they control. The state has no role running or administering these programs. Translation, it's not our fault California is a fraud magnet. Blame Trump. Except here's the problem with that argument, Patriots. The fraud happened

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under Biden. Biden approved these loans. Biden even forgave fraudulent loans knowing they were fraudulent. Loeffler said it. have gone back through loans that the Biden administration tried to forgive that were known to be fraudulent. We already had 13,000 loans that we knew had been marked as fraudulent. 13,000 loans marked as fraudulent and Biden tried to forgive them away. This is what the Trump administration is cleaning up.

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This is the swamp and California seems to be ground zero. Now, Patriots, let me ask you a question. Do you think this is limited to just California and Minnesota? Do you think fraud only happened in those two states? Of course not. Loeffler herself said this is just the first state. She's going state by state and the total number, it's going to be staggering. Steve Hilton, Republican candidate for California governor.

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did a preliminary review based on whistleblowers and contractors. His estimate for California alone? Over $250 billion in fraud across all federally funded programs. $250 billion! Not just pandemic loans, Patriots, all federal programs. Think about what that means. California, the state with the highest taxes, the biggest budgets, the most regulations, is also the

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biggest magnet for fraud in the entire country. Why? Because Democrats create the systems that invite fraud. Welfare programs with no oversight. Loan programs with no verification. They make it easy to steal and then act shocked when criminals take advantage. Now the SBA said these suspended borrowers are banned from all SBA programs going forward. No new loans.

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No disaster relief, no federal contracting, and Loeffler is working with the DOJ to pursue criminal referrals. She said, we will pursue criminal referrals with the DOJ and fight to claw every dollar back. Under this administration, any fraudster who broke the law will no longer get a free pass. All they will get is a free trip to jail. A free trip to jail, I love that. But here's what makes this so frustrating for me, Patriots.

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Where is the legacy media? Where's CNN, MSNOW, the New York Times? Silent. Because this story doesn't fit their narrative. This is Trump fighting corruption, and they can't admit that, so they ignore it. Meanwhile, though they will spend hours covering Olympic athletes whining about representing America, that's their priority. Here's the bottom line, Patriots. Kelly Loeffler and the Trump SBA are finally holding fraudsters accountable.

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They are going state by state, exposing the corruption Biden tolerated. They are suspending criminals. They are clawing back billions. And they are sending a message. If you defrauded American taxpayers, you're going to jail. Gavin Newsom can mock all he wants. Rob Bonta can cry about weaponization all he wants. The facts don't lie. $8.6 billion. 111,000 fraudsters.

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And that's just so far in California. The swamp is being drained, Patriots, and it's about damn time. Two. All right, next story. And this one's been a long time coming. Friday, War Department Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he's ending all military education ties with Harvard University. Not some programs, not reducing funding, all programs. Every graduate level professional military education program.

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every fellowship, every certificate program between Harvard and the War Department over. And Hegseth didn't mince words about why he's doing this. He posted a video Friday that is must watch content, Patriots go check it out. Hegseth said, for far too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class. Instead,

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Too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard, heads full of globalist and radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks. Let that sink in, Patriots. We sent our best military leaders to Harvard for advanced education, and they came back worse. They came back with globalist ideologies, radical left-wing politics, anti-American centipede. Hegseth continued.

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So starting now and beginning in the 2026 and 2027 school year, I am discontinuing all graduate level, professional military education, all fellowships, and certificate programs between Harvard University and the War Department for active duty service members. Done. No more Harvard. And Hegseth made it very clear this isn't just about Harvard. He said, with some exceptions, the Ivy League as a whole has pervasive institutional bias and a lack of viewpoint diversity.

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including the coddling of toxic ideologies that undercuts our mission right here in this building. The Ivy League, the entire system, it's broken, Patriots, and the Trump administration is finally saying it out loud. Hegseth ended his statement with this absolute mic drop. He said, we train warriors, not wokesters. Harvard, good riddance. Warriors, not wokesters. That's going on a t-shirt, Patriots. Now,

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Let me give you some context here. Harvard has been in Trump's crosshairs for months. Rampant anti-Semitism after October 7th. Their former president resigned over plagiarism. Trump is demanding $1 billion sentiment. And now, Hegseth is pulling the plug on military partnerships. But here's the kicker. Hegseth announced that within two weeks, all military branches will evaluate programs at all Ivy League universities. The goal?

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Determine if they deliver cost-effective education or if they are just indoctrination centers. If they can't beat Ohio State or the Naval War College, they're out. Now, Patriots, this matters because for decades the military sent officers to elite universities for advanced degrees. The idea? Broaden their perspectives, prepare them for leadership. But these universities stopped being learning centers and became activism centers.

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They stopped teaching critical thinking and started teaching critical race theory. They stopped promoting American values and started promoting anti-American ideology. Hegseth is a Harvard graduate himself. He got a master's from Harvard Kennedy School. In 2022, he symbolically returned his degree. And now, as War Department Secretary, he's making it official. No more Harvard. But let me ask you something, Patriots.

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What took so long? How many years did we send our best officers to these universities knowing they were pushing anti-American propaganda? Too many. And it's finally ending. Because here's the truth. Harvard doesn't need Pentagon money. They have $50 billion dollar endowment. But they do need legitimacy. They need the prestige of training America's leaders. And now they can't say that anymore. Hegseth is stripping them of legitimacy.

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He's saying, you want to be woke? Fine, but not with our officers. And this is going to ripple beyond the military. If the Pentagon is cutting ties over woke ideology, what about other federal agencies, other funding? This could be the beginning of a broader pushback, and it's long overdue. Here's the bottom line, Patriots. Pete Hegseth just ended all military ties with Harvard.

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He called out the Ivy League for institutional bias and toxic ideologies. He's ordering a full review of all university partnerships. This is what leadership looks like. This is what happens when you have a War Department secretary who actually cares about military readiness instead of appeasing the academic elite. Harvard can keep their $50 billion dollar endowment. They can keep their plagiarist presidents and their anti-Israel activists. But they are not getting our warriors anymore.

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Good riddance, indeed. Final story, and this one shows you exactly how the deep state operates. Friday night, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard absolutely destroyed Senator Mark Warner's whistleblower accusations. Warner, Democrat from Virginia, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has been spreading a story for weeks that Gabbard buried a whistleblower complaint in a safe for eight months. The legacy media ran with it.

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Because of course they do. The Wall Street Journal published a story Monday based on anonymous sources claiming Gabbard was sitting on a highly classified complaint. Warner went on NBC Thursday and said Gabbard was not competent to do the job. Well, Tulsi has had enough and she came out swinging. She posted on X Friday night. Senator Mark Warner and his friends in the propaganda media have repeatedly lied to the American people that I

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or the ODNI hid a whistleblower complaint in a safe for eight months. This is a blatant lie. A blatant lie. Those were her words, Patriots, not mine, hers. She continued, the truth, I am not now, nor have I ever been, in possession or control of the whistleblower's complaint. So I obviously could not have hidden it in a safe. Let me break down this story for you, Patriots.

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Warner and the legacy media claim Gabbard took a whistleblower complaint and hid it to cover something up. But here's the truth. Gabbard was never in possession of the complaint. It was held by the intelligence community Inspector General, first under Biden's Tamara Johnson, then under Trump's Chris Fox. And where do highly classified complaints go? In a safe, because they are classified.

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Gabbard said Senator Mark Warner knows very well that whistleblower complaints with highly classified intelligence must be secured in a safe. So the complaint was in a safe, because that's where it belongs. But Warner twisted that into Gabbard is hiding something. It's a complete fabrication. And Gabbard didn't stop there. She said, the first time I saw the whistleblower complaint was two weeks ago.

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when I had to review it to provide guidance on how it should be securely shared with Congress. Two weeks ago, not eight months ago, two weeks. So how could she have been hiding it for eight months if she just saw it two weeks ago? Well, she couldn't because the entire story is garbage. Now, here's where it gets even better. House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Rick Crawford, a Republican from Arkansas, reviewed the complaint.

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and he backed Gabbard up completely. Crawford said, After doing so, concur with the conclusion that the Biden-era ICIG reached regarding the non-credible nature of the complaint. So, non-credible. The complaint itself is not credible. Crawford continued, The ensuing media firestorm was an attempt to smear DNI Gabbard and the Trump administration. There it is, Patriots.

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a smear campaign. The Deep State doesn't want Tulsi Gabbard as DNI because she's a threat. She's investigating the 2020 election. She's cleaning house and she's not playing their games. So they fabricated a scandal. They leaked it to the Wall Street Journal. They got Warner to amplify it and they hoped it would destroy her. But it backfired. Gabbard didn't issue some weak statement. She came out herself and called Warner

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a liar. Then she went further. She said Warner is either intentionally lying to the American people or he doesn't have a clue how these things work and is therefore not qualified to be in the Senate and certainly not vice chair of intelligence. She questioned his competence and his integrity and she's right to do so. Warner is vice chair of Senate Intel. He knows how classified complaints are handled.

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He knows they are stored in safes. So, he's either lying or incompetent. There's no third option. Gabbard ended by saying, Warner's decision to spread lies and baseless accusations undermines our national security and is a disservice to the intelligence community. That's a serious charge, but she's absolutely correct. When you lie about the D and I, when you fabricate scandals, you are not just attacking Tulsi Gabbard.

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You are attacking the office. You are undermining America's intelligence. For what? Political points? To help Democrats in the midterms? It's disgraceful. Now, Patriots, let me ask you something. Do you think Mark Warner is going to apologize? Do you think the Wall Street Journal is going to retract their story? Of course not. Because they don't care about the truth. They care about the narrative. The narrative is Tulsi Gabbard is incompetent.

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The narrative is Trump's appointees are dangerous. Facts don't matter. Truth doesn't matter. All that matters is the smear. But here's the good news, Patriots. It's not working. Gabbard is still DNI. The House Intel chairman backs her. The whistleblower complaint was found to be non-credible. And Warner looks like a fool. The Deep State threw their best shot at Tulsi Gabbard and she destroyed them with facts. Here's the bottom line, Patriots.

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Senator Mark Warner has accused Tulsi Gabbard of hiding a whistleblower complaint for eight months. The legacy media amplified his lies and Gabbard destroyed them both with receipts. She proved she was never in possession of the complaint. She proved it was stored properly. She proved the complaint was non-credible and she called Warner incompetent or a liar or both. This is what it looks like when someone fights back against the deep state. No apologies, no retreats.

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just truth and accountability. So there you have it, Patriots. Story one, Kelly Loeffler suspended 111,000 California borrowers for $8.6 billion in pandemic fraud. Gavin Newsom mocked Trump, but the facts don't lie. This is the biggest fraud crackdown in SBA history, and it's just the beginning. Story two, Pete Hegseth ended all military ties with Harvard, saying, we train warriors, not wokesters.

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He's reviewing all Ivy League partnerships and cutting programs that push globalist ideology. The Pentagon is done with woke universities. Story three, Tulsi Gabbard destroyed Mark Warner's whistleblower lies with receipts. She proved the complaint was not credible, properly stored and never in her possession. The deep state smear campaign failed. California fraud exposed. Harvard gets cut. Tulsi fights back. That's where we are, patriots.

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But here's what I want to leave you with today. The Trump administration is fighting on all fronts. They are exposing fraud. They are taking on woke institutions. They are defending their people against deep state attacks. And they are winning. Kelly Loeffler isn't backing down on fraud. Pete Hegseth isn't backing down on wokeness. And Tulsa Gabbard isn't backing down on the truth. And here's my question for you, patriots. If they are not backing down, why should we?

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Because the legacy media won't tell you these stories. They'll ignore the 8.6 billion. They'll mock Hegseth. They'll amplify Warner's lies. But we know the truth. We see the fight. And we see the wins. So keep spreading these stories. Keep sharing the truth. Keep holding the line. Because when you stand for truth, when you stand for accountability, when you stand for America, you don't apologize. You don't back down. And you don't compromise.

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This is O'Connor's Quick Strike and I'm John O'Connor. I'll see you on Wednesday with three more stories the legacy media won't touch. And until then, keep holding the line, Patriots, unapologetically.