BREAKING: Vance announces new AG position directly accountable to pres, VP to target nationwide fraud against taxpayers

Vice President JD Vance has said that the Trump administration will establish a new assistant attorney general position in order to take on fraud across the nation. This comes after a massive fraud scandal in Minnesota, much of it linked to the Somali community in the state. 

"We are creating a new Assistant Attorney General position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud," Vance said during a White House press briefing on Thursday. He then touched on the fraud scandal that has taken place in Minnesota and that amid the scandal, Tim Walz has announced he will not run for reelection. 

"I want to thank a couple of people for the cooperation, particular Pam Bondi, our Attorney General, first of all, for getting a lot of resources to Minneapolis to start to investigate and prosecute this fraud, really at an industrial scale. We've never seen fraud like this in the history of our country.

"Pam has been doing a great job to get the resources there to uncover it, but importantly, creating a job like this often takes months, sometimes even longer, when we realized that we needed this Associate Attorney General position. Pam got this person up and running in about a week," Vance added. 

Vance said that the official will report directly to the vice president as well as President Donald Trump. “This is the person who is going to make sure that we stop defrauding the American people,” Vance said.  

During the press briefing, Vance also slammed the mainstream media surrounding the coverage of the shooting of a woman in Minnesota when she ran her car into an ICE agent.