President Trump just dropped a hammer on one of Washington’s favorite dirty little secrets, fraud, and this time he is not playing around. In a major announcement, the president unveiled an entirely new division inside the Department of Justice dedicated solely to cracking down on fraud, and he already has his guy lined up to run it.
President Trump announced he is nominating Colin MacDonald to serve as the nation’s first Assistant Attorney General for National Fraud Enforcement. This is a brand-new DOJ division created specifically to “catch and stop fraudsters that have been stealing from the American people,” as Trump put it on Truth Social. The target list is not subtle either. Trump explicitly pointed to massive fraud schemes in states like Minnesota and California, where hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars have allegedly vanished into scams, shell nonprofits, and politically protected operations.
MacDonald is not some Beltway paper-pusher. He currently works under Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and has built a reputation as a ruthless, detail-oriented prosecutor who goes after powerful people instead of making excuses for them. According to the New York Post, MacDonald helped take down one of the most outrageous corruption cases in recent memory, the Hawaii law enforcement scandal involving Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, city prosecutor Katherine Kealoha.
That case was not small potatoes. The Kealohas and their accomplices framed an innocent man to cover up their own theft of $148,000 from an elderly relative. They used their badges and titles to try to destroy him, then spent the stolen money on luxury cars, extravagant vacations, and even a nearly $24,000 brunch. MacDonald helped put all of them behind bars, with sentences ranging from 42 to 156 months. That is what accountability actually looks like.
MacDonald has spent over a decade as a federal prosecutor in Southern California and Hawaii and is widely viewed as fearless when it comes to entrenched corruption. Vice President JD Vance publicly praised him earlier this month, calling him thorough, highly competent, and exactly the kind of prosecutor needed for this role. Blanche added that MacDonald loves family, God, and country, which already sets him apart from half the DOJ bureaucracy.
Of course, the usual critics are already whining. Some legal experts claim the new division is duplicative or unnecessary, arguing the DOJ already investigates fraud. That argument collapses the moment you look at Minnesota, where prosecutors estimate fraud tied to government programs could top $9 billion. Clearly, whatever system was in place before was not working.
MacDonald will still need Senate confirmation before he can officially take the reins. Lawmakers should move fast. Fraud is not a victimless crime, it steals directly from working Americans and guts trust in government. President Trump built this division for a reason, and Colin MacDonald looks like exactly the kind of prosecutor who will make scammers wish it had never been created.
Approve him quickly, and let him get to work.
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