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“They caught 'em already — dozens of drivers, blue-state paper, off the road — then Duffy struts out with DHS and DOJ standing behind him to announce a crackdown on a case that's already closed. That's not enforcement, that's a highlight reel with a podium. Watch the gap between what they finish quiet and what they announce loud; that gap is the whole budget nobody voted on.”
“This is a Secretary demonstrating that fraud enforcement works, full stop — the arrests prove the system caught it, and the press conference proves we're proud of it, not that the announcement follows the — look, the timeline isn't the story. The truckers are off the road. That's the story.”
The receipts
The DOJ disbanded its crypto enforcement team in April 2025 and ordered inconsistent investigations closed - while the president's family runs a crypto business CNBC, 8 April 2025 (Blanche memo)
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy teases ‘unprecedented fraud crackdown’ announcement with DHS, DOJSecretary of Transportation Sean Duffy on Sunday teased an upcoming announcement about the Trump administration's fraud crackdown.
Arizona's Yuma Sector bust netted 95 illegal alien truck drivers with state-issued CDLs, seizing methamphetamine and marijuana in smuggling crackdown.
This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front.