Trump linked Somali fraud allegations to imported cultures in the State of the Union
Trump described alleged Minnesota fraud perpetrators with a Somali piracy label and argued that importing foreign cultures brought corruption, lawlessness, and other problems to the United States. [The American Presidency Project (official presidential transcript)]
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Trump described alleged Minnesota fraud perpetrators with a Somali piracy label and argued that importing foreign cultures brought corruption, lawlessness, and other problems to the United States. [The American Presidency Project (official presidential transcript)]
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The address first identified members of the Somali community, then made the broader cultural argument. This record does not verify the fraud figure or a general relationship between culture and crime. [The American Presidency Project (official presidential transcript)]
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The extension from alleged offenders to imported cultures supplies the rationale for ethnic disparagement; the criminal allegations remain attributed. [The American Presidency Project (official presidential transcript)]
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- Official presidential transcript · The American Presidency Project (official presidential transcript)Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union
Fraud passage following announcement of the war on fraud; paragraph beginning 'The Somali pirates'; web text lines 189–193
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-joint-session-the-congress-the-state-the-union-31
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