The NYT story travels widely. Conservative influencers, who for years have been portraying Minneapolis as a Camp of the Saints hellhole ruined by Somalis, hype the story. One Fox News segment even asks why Biden's DOJ didn't probe it. (Again, the probe *started under Biden.*)

This happened right as early voting began in state elections; voters re-elected Gov. Walz and gave Democrats a trifecta. It was a damaging scandal, but hardly covered up. Rs whacked at it when Walz became VP nominee, but it didn't become a decisive issue.

Only public figure I've seen they didn't blur out so far is Bill Clinton, which we probably should've expected.

Anyway a couple interesting ones. These photos are directly next to redacted child pornography in the files.

Hamm is only among a dozen or so key oil CEOs. But his friendship with Trump allowed him to play an outsized role in naming Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Hamm is a good buddy with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Here they were last year with Burgum at a VIP dinner in North Dakota.