Trump: Vance to focus solely on ‘Massive Corruption and Crime’ in Democrat-led cities, states

President Trump said he directed Vice President Vance on Thursday to focus on alleged corruption in Democrat-controlled cities and states, asserting that the Iran war is not something the administration needs “to deal with.”

Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said he directed Vance to “focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime” in blue states such as Minnesota, California and Illinois, among others.

“Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month,” he continued. “Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity. CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood!”

“We don’t need to deal with Iran,” the president added. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait.”

Vance is the chair of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a group that Trump created through executive order earlier this year.

He has held several meetings and press conferences, and the administration has claimed it has found more than $200 billion in fraud.

Trump in April designated Vance as his “fraud czar,” and he said the vice president would focus his attention on alleged fraud in Democrat-led cities.

“We will call him the ‘FRAUD CZAR,’ and his focus will be ‘EVERYWHERE,’ but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS, like those in California, Illinois, Minnesota (Somalia beware!), Maine, New York, and many others, have had a ‘free for all’ in the unprecedented theft of Taxpayer Money,” the president wrote on Truth Social at the time.

“The numbers are so large that, if successful, we would literally be able to balance our American Budget,” he added.

However, Trump shifting Vance to focus more on the antifraud efforts and less on Iran comes after Axios reported that the vice president was involved in the indirect talks with Iran earlier this month. The Wall Street Journal also reported earlier this week that Vance was considering face-to-face talks with top Iranian security officials.

The vice president has also faced backlash in recent days after tying GOP midterm losses to the Middle East conflict.

In a separate post Thursday, Trump turned the attention back to Democrats — who will take control of both chambers of Congress next term.

“If the Democrats want to ‘root out corruption’ they should start with investigating Blue States, perhaps the most CORRUPT governmental structures and entities anywhere on Earth,” he wrote. “Big time money is being stolen each and every hour of the day!”