President Donald Trump held a Friday night ceremony honoring the 1980 U.S. men’s hockey team and used it as an opportunity to escalate his messaging campaign surrounding the Minnesota Medicare fraud scandal.

Over the past two weeks, Trump has leaned into the scandal , in which dozens of members of the state’s Somali community have already been indicted, to steer the midterm conversation away from economic issues and back toward immigration.

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