Paid Protesters? DOJ Urged to Follow the Money
In this explosive discussion, Gene Valentino and Andrew Wong react to Ilhan Omar joining anti-law enforcement protests as new footage raises serious questions about paid agitators, organized interference with ICE operations, and foreign funding.
President Trump weighs in, calling the protesters “professional agitators,” while calls grow for the DOJ to follow the money, subpoena funding sources, and investigate potential violations involving NGOs, foreign interests, and activist networks.
From sanctuary cities to obstructed ICE arrests, masked protesters, and activists allegedly training others to interfere with federal agents—this conversation breaks down why many say these protests are not organic and why accountability may finally be coming.
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Let’s bring in GOP political strategist
and insider and host of the grassroots
truth cast Jean Valentino as well as
Miami GOP committee woman and GP
strategist Angie Wong. Good morning to
you both. Uh Jean, just your reaction to
you see Ilhan Omar now joining with
these anti-law enforcement protesters.
It’s just it’s getting absurd.
Yeah. Yeah. It’s more of the same, Alex.
Uh the short version uh of the answer is
divert, deflect, and distract. I’m going
to do whatever I can to have you take
your attention and time off of the fraud
that’s going on in Minneapolis by
exacerbating and making evident alleged
um wrongdoing by ICE. Listen, we
wouldn’t be in Minneapolis or any other
state in the nation had we had the
cooperation of these sanctuary regions
in seeking out the criminals, the um the
rapists, the child molesters that are
now buried into our communities. Thank
you, Joe Biden. Had we had their
cooperation at the local level in
excising them from the community, we
wouldn’t have to go up and down these
streets like this, which is what they’re
protesting against. And they they
clearly show they’re not willing to
cooperate. What do you expect the
federal government to do?
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And I also want to
give, you know, a big thank you to Obama
for also putting a lot of them into
these these cities. And again, the
safest thing would be to do was for
these officers to be able to pick them
up in the jails, but now they’ve got to
run the streets. They’ve got to put
themselves in harm’s way to go out and
collect these violent, horrific
criminals on the streets. Uh, President
Trump actually spoke aboard Air Force
Air Force One last night talking about
the protests that we’re now seeing in
other parts of the country as well.
Let’s take a look at that.
It was highly disrespectful of law
enforcement. The woman and her friend
were highly disrespectful of law
enforcement. You saw that they were
harassing. They were following for for
days and for hours. Uh and I think
frankly they’re professional agitators
but just
and I’d like to find out and we are
going to find out who’s paying for it
with their brand new signs and all the
different things. But these are
professional agitators and law
enforcement should not be in a position
where they have to put up with the
stuff.
Yeah, I mean I would have to completely
agree. They were uh professional
agitators there, Angie. You know, we saw
the cell phone video of the wife
screaming at the agent. Then we saw
footage earlier in the day of Renee, you
know, blocking perpendicular to the
street so the officers couldn’t get
through. Uh, what do you make of what
you have been seeing, especially as now
this new footage has been released?
Yeah, I’ve been thinking a lot about
paid agitators and where it all stems
from. Yes, earlier videos were released,
but it goes back even further than that.
It goes back to how they’re organizing,
how they’re getting paid, who’s hiring
them, and I think President Trump is
absolutely right to have the DOJ set up
a task force looking into this. Follow
the money. It’s an old journalism trick.
We have to do it. But we have to
subpoena where the money is coming from,
whether or not there was money
laundering uh in this, whether or not
FAR is involved, any foreign money is
involved. Um, and also just like uh I I
think you know right now they’re taking
advantage of our protected speech. They
think that they can, you know, uh say
whatever they want, but they’re being
paid for their words, it seems. So what
is unprotected here? It’s the violence,
the harassment, the conspiracy, the
trespassing, all of that. Why don’t we
get them on that? But we do need to
follow the money on this because it
doesn’t feel organic. And when you look
at the demographic of who is protesting,
it all goes back to like kind of the
same demographic, right? So, you know,
there’s a lot of question marks here.
I’m very happy to hear that the DOJ is
looking into this.
Yeah. This is not organic whatsoever. My
goodness, it’s we we keep seeing the
same people, the same faces show up
across the country at all these
different protests. And now we’re
learning that the deceased woman, Renee
Good, yeah, she was part of an ICE watch
group that trained activists to
interfere with operations, including
blocking their vehicles. Uh, you know,
Jean, I can guarantee almost uh that 99%
of these protesters wouldn’t be out
there if they were not getting paid. Uh,
when do we get like like Angie was
saying, let’s back all the way up. Who
is paying these protesters and should
they not be held accountable?
Uh, a great book written by Scott
Walter, Arabella,
describes the billions of dollars that
have leaked into our society from
foreign interest groups, nos, people who
have intended to disrupt, dislodge
democracy as we know it here in America.
That’s who’s paying for it. And I think
we’ve got to keep a careful eye as Angie
was suggesting on the actors, the bad
actors who continue to be seen in these
circles. Uh he doth protestth too
loudly. Uh was a line out of Hamlet in a
Shakespearean play. Uh those who are
protesting that it’s wrong uh and that
they have a right to protest uh over and
over and over are the ones that may be
guilty of something else. like what like
hm uh welfare fraud, SNAP misuse of SNAP
funds. Let’s see where this ends up. And
I agree, a complete investigation is
necessary.
Yeah. And I’m also seeing reports early
this morning on X that Nick Shirley, the
one who investigated a lot of this
Minnesota fraud, is releasing a second
video and he said it’s much worse than
the first one. So that’s going to be
interesting. Uh really quickly, Angie,
let’s take a look at some of these
things that are being shared by these
paid groups. So this post instructing
anti protesters on how to track agents
vehicles so dangerous. Uh obviously to
harass them or this post reminding a
shaders to wear your mask, blur your
faces in the photos. And I’m now even
seeing protesters show up with infants
and babies um to the protest so they
won’t be attacked, but yet they can
still attack the ICE agents. My
goodness. Uh, President Trump obviously
referring to this larger left-wing
radical network. He’s not wrong. This is
insane.
Yeah. And it’s highly organized and
they’re getting paid in other ways with
Visa cards, with gift cards, with uh
phones, all this stuff. We’ve seen this
before. This goes back way back to other
protests that we’re seeing brewing
around the country. This is highly
organized. Who’s organizing it? Is it
lawful? I think at first we can go for
some civil actions just to get the
subpoenas going, just to see what’s
going on here. Um, but yeah, I think
this they they’ve covered up enough now.
They’re, you know, they’re out of room
to keep doing this. I think this is one
of the last protests that they’re going
to be able to do because President Trump
is coming after them.
Yeah. I mean, I’m sorry. It’s just, it’s
just really sad to look at these people.
They obviously don’t have anywhere else
to be. I mean, go you’re not at your job
if you even have one because you’re
getting paid to do this. But Gene
Valentino, Angie Wong, thank you both
for joining us this morning to discuss
all of this. Really appreciate your
time.
Good morning.
Thank you.
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