{"id":120412,"date":"2024-10-31T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T03:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120412"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T03:43:07","slug":"trump-campaigns-with-brett-favre-linked-to-welfare-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120412","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaigns with Brett Favre, linked to welfare scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) \u2014 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> showered former NFL star Brett Favre with praise on Wednesday at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where the former Packers quarterback campaigned for the Republican presidential nominee in the final week before <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/election-2024\">Election Day<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, Brett. What a great honor. What a great champion,\u201d Trump said shortly after taking the stage at the Resch Center. Describing Favre\u2019s fingers as \u201clike sausages,\u201d he said, \u201cNo wonder he could throw the ball.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a little upset because I think he got bigger applause than me, and I\u2019m not happy,\u201d the former president went on, joking about the ovation Favre received in a county that Trump narrowly won in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Trump appeared onstage in a orange safety vest after <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-garbage-truck-wisconsin-1b9b2882b59639ba0dc898b0b45e395b\">riding in a garbage truck<\/a><\/span> to draw attention to an offensive comment by President Joe Biden. But he reignited a different controversy by revisiting his promise to \u201cprotect the women of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After complaining about his own staffers tell him it was \u201cinappropriate,\u201d Trump insisted, \u201cI\u2019m gonna do it whether the women like it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump rallied alongside Favre in the critical battleground state with just six days until the election. In a sign of the importance of the state, Trump\u2019s Democratic opponent, Vice President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a><\/span>, was campaigning simultaneously in overwhelmingly Democratic-voting Madison, roughly a 2 1\/2-hour drive away. <\/p>\n<p>Favre, who won three NFL Most Valuable Player awards and a Super Bowl for Green Bay in the 1990s, praised Trump before the former president arrived, telling the crowd, \u201cMuch like the Packer organization, Donald Trump and his organization was a winner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States of America won with his leadership,\u201d Favre said.<\/p>\n<p>In relying on Favre, Trump is tapping into the state\u2019s deep and loyal support for the Packers and the team\u2019s onetime star quarterback. But Favre also comes with increased baggage after becoming enmeshed in Mississippi\u2019s welfare spending scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Favre, 55, is not facing any criminal charges, but he is among more than three dozen people or groups being sued as the state tries to recover misspent money. Favre has repaid just over $1 million he received in speaking fees funded by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Mississippi Auditor Shad White, a Republican, has said Favre never showed up for the speaking engagements. White also said <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brett-favre-mississippi-welfare-money-nfl-59d5047f9e8b1cd6055f13697eea7027\">Favre still owes<\/a><\/span> nearly $730,000 in interest.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi has ranked among the poorest states for decades, but only <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-mississippi-state-government-jobs-and-careers-scandals-79be4e8ed08d119a2b05da9441c5d8ea\">a fraction of its federal welfare money<\/a><\/span> has been going to families. Instead, the Mississippi Department of Human Services allowed well-connected people to waste tens of millions of welfare dollars from 2016 to 2019, according to White and state and federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>A nonprofit group called the Mississippi Community Education Center made two payments of welfare money to Favre Enterprises, the athlete\u2019s business: $500,000 in December 2017 and $600,000 in June 2018. The TANF money was to go toward a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brett-favre-welfare-money-ed4cd2825a366af603634c82a4ddddbf\">volleyball arena<\/a><\/span> at the University of Southern Mississippi. Favre agreed to lead fundraising efforts for the facility at his alma mater, where his daughter started playing on the volleyball team in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi Community Education Center director, Nancy New, pleaded guilty in April 2022 to charges of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-mississippi-philanthropy-jackson-9954cef4686574fb2ebba772039248b0\">misspending welfare money<\/a><\/span>, as did her son Zachary New, who helped run the nonprofit. They await sentencing and have agreed to testify against others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about the 2024 Election Today's news: Follow live updates from the campaign trail from the AP. Elections, explained: We answer your election questions. Ground Game: Sign up for AP's weekly politics newsletter to get it in your inbox every Monday. 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Learn more.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>What to know about the 2024 Election<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Favre <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brett-favre-welfare-misspending-mississippi-fe22a2a106b7944b2e1bfef022f5d790\">appeared in September<\/a><\/span> before a Republican-led congressional committee that was examining how states are falling short on using welfare to help families in need. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/waysandmeans.house.gov\/2022\/11\/16\/in-light-of-favre-welfare-scandal-gop-members-renew-calls-for-accountability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. House Republicans<\/a><\/span> have said a Mississippi welfare misspending scandal involving Favre and others points to the need for \u201cserious reform\u201d in the TANF program.<\/p>\n<p>Favre told the congressional committee that he was <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brett-favre-parkinsons-congress-mississippi-welfare-fraud-4d1635ac54ee5ab156fd2825fcd29430\">diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/a><\/span> in January.<\/p>\n<h2>____<\/h2>\n<p>Wagster Pettus reported from Jackson, Mississippi. 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