This is how media spins work. Someone exposes millions being funneled to fraud and the story flips to “the messenger is the villain.”
WTF?! CNN’s Abby Phillip is now PILING ON Nick Shirley, attacking him as not doing real journalism
“The Somali community is under ATTACK!”
“Honestly, you knock on the door of a daycare center? Like, ‘let me in, let me in!’ What do you expect people to do?! In some cases, there WERE children in there. Open the door and say ‘come on in?!'”
They’re scared.
@nickshirleyy
didn’t say “LET ME IN.” They held up a piece of paper showing these Somalis get MILLIONS in taxpayer dollars – and simply asked for the documents allowing a child to be enrolled.Lie, lie, lie – it’s all they have.
🚨 WTF?! CNN's Abby Phillip is now PILING ON Nick Shirley, attacking him as not doing real journalism
"The Somali community is under ATTACK!"
"Honestly, you knock on the door of a daycare center? Like, 'let me in, let me in!' What do you expect people to do?! In some cases,… pic.twitter.com/iO7AZgzfa1
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 30, 2025
FIRST SIGNS OF MASSIVE POTENTIAL SOMALI FRAUD IN COLUMBUS, OHIO
The first Somali-affiliated daycare facility that we knocked after landing in Columbus, Ohio today did not answer.
A neighbor across the street told us, “I’ve never seen nobody come out the building or go in the… pic.twitter.com/zywy9lPDMw
— Muckraker (@realmuckraker) December 30, 2025
Politico senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein was roasted online after he suggested that a YouTuber investigating the bombshell Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota could have been legally shot for knocking on doors.
“At some point, the amateur effort to knock on doors of home daycares intersects with robust stand-your-ground laws,” mused Gerstein in a Monday night X post that was seemingly aimed at YouTuber Nick Shirley, whose video investigation into fraud at daycare centers has gone mega-viral.
At some point, the amateur effort to knock on doors of home daycares intersects with robust stand-your-ground laws
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) December 30, 2025