Fox News: GOP Candidate Alleges “Despicable” Violations of Worship Rights, Billions in Minnesota Fraud

In this segment, Fox News interviews a Minnesota Senate candidate and former NFL sideline reporter who alleges serious misconduct by state officials and claims to have uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota government.

The candidate discusses recent tensions in Minneapolis following what Fox News characterizes as protests against ICE operations. According to the candidate, local leadership under Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz allegedly failed to cooperate with federal law enforcement, creating dangerous conditions. The candidate argues that when the Trump administration sent Tom Homan to Minneapolis, things “settled down,” suggesting this was the appropriate response to the unrest.

The segment then pivots to allegations involving journalist Don Lemon. According to Fox News, Lemon allegedly entered a church and conducted interviews with worshippers during a religious service—activity the candidate describes as “despicable.” The candidate claims that a federal grand jury indicted Lemon and argues that Attorney General Keith Ellison was unfamiliar with the federal FACE Act, which Fox News says protects houses of worship from obstruction. The candidate alleges that congregants’ “rights to worship were taken from them” by this alleged conduct.

Fox News then introduces what it calls a “whistleblower” who alleges pervasive financial fraud in Minnesota government spanning decades. According to this whistleblower, fraud in Minnesota alone totals “$80 to $100 billion” going back to 1988. The whistleblower claims the fraud figure has grown as investigations expanded to include city, county, state, and grant money. The candidate characterizes this as affecting all U.S. taxpayers, suggesting that billions supposedly allocated for children’s meals, autism services, and daycare may have allegedly been “stolen by criminals.”

The candidate argues that recent protests were allegedly “well-funded” and “well-organized,” citing what he describes as evidence of coordination—including protesters with gas masks and people throwing frozen water bottles and ice at law enforcement. He calls for investigation into protest funding and attributes the broader crisis to what he frames as failed leadership unable to ask “inconvenient questions.”

The candidate frames his Senate run as a response to these alleged abuses, advocating for “new leadership” and “outsiders” to address what Fox News presents as systemic corruption affecting multiple states, including California under Governor Gavin Newsom.

In Fox News’s Own Words

“These people’s rights to worship were taken from them in the middle of this service in the most really despicable of ways.”

“$80 to $100 billion in Minnesota alone going back to 1988… you got to keep going because you have to include all of this city money, county money, state funding, grants.”

“My tax dollars to the tune of billions that was supposed to be going to children for meals or autism services or daycares is it being stolen by criminals.”