Cruz [Hearing on Somali Scammers]: As one confidential source told the Manhattan Institute, "The largest funder of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist terrorist organization in Somalia, is the Minnesota taxpayer."

Schmitt [Hearing on Somali Scammers; addressing Robert Weissman]: We are going to prosecute, and it has nothing to do with race. We're going to prosecute because fraud was committed on a level that is so offensive to this country, your words that don't mean anything, aren't gonna stop what's comin'. And I want you to take that back to George Soros and all these ridiculous funders you have to try and muddle the issue, because justice is coming.

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