WASHINGTON — Somali immigrants living in Minnesota effectively stole more than $1 billion in taxpayer money over the last five years, The New York Times reported Sunday.

In what White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called “a new bombshell report from The New York Times,” the Gray Lady reported on what law enforcement cited as fraud taking “root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided.”

Leavitt’s remarks tracked a November social media post in which Trump wrote, “Minnesota, under Governor Waltz [misspelled], is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity. I am, as President of the United States, hereby termin

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