A Minnesota whistleblower who helped uncover a multimillion-dollar daycare fraud scheme is now raising alarms about what he sees as a troubling fusion of federal authority and religious control at a suburban Minneapolis mosque that houses a U.S. post office.
According to WND, David Hoch, known for assisting journalist Nick Shirley in exposing widespread daycare corruption in Minneapolis, visited a U.S. Postal Service facility on Friday with online journalist Zak X, only to be ordered off the premises and cited for trespassing after attempting to film inside the building. The postal unit operates at the same address as a Minnesota Islamic center, and the pair recorded a 27-minute video documenting their interactions with postal employees, private security and local police, a video that has since ignited outrage among conservatives concerned about election integrity and the politicization of federal institutions.
Hoch, wearing a Christian Crusader shirt, began filming inside the postal area when a visibly uneasy employee immediately called law enforcement. I am not comfortable at all, said Tina, a postal worker who phoned police as she was being recorded. Theyre refusing to leave. They got a camera in my face.
The situation escalated when a man appearing to be a security guard asserted that Hoch and his companion had no right to remain on the premises. This is their property, the mosque. Youre being trespassed, the guard told Hoch. From public property? Hoch asked.
The guard insisted that the facility was not open public space despite the presence of a federal post office. This is not public property. Its private, the guard claimed.
Its a post office! Hoch fired back. When police arrived, they sided with the postal staff and the propertys management, ordering Hoch and Zak X to leave or face arrest.
Later, a police officer told Hoch, The post office is asking us to ask you to leave. Hoch, pointing to others on the property, wondered aloud: Why can these [other] people be here? Did they get permission?
The officer responded that the others were not viewed as disruptive by the staff or security. Theyre not causing a problem, the officer replied.
Hoch pressed the issue, asking: What are we doing thats causing a problem? The officer framed the matter as a private-property dispute, not a First Amendment or public-access issue.
Theyre saying youre causing a disturbance. They have the right to trespass you. So you gotta leave. At one point, as the Islamic center appeared to be holding a prayer service, orange traffic cones were placed to block anyone from entering the property, further underscoring the tension between religious control of the site and the public function of the federal postal unit.
Hoch later said he had already tried to get law enforcement to address what he believes is an improper arrangement between a religious institution and a federal service. We called the police and they laughed because they know the police will not do anything about it even thought violates the law, explained Hoch.
His frustration boiled over into a broader warning about eroding public trust in law enforcement and government. The police dont care, and if youre a police officer, you better get your sh** together because people are gonna start turning on you, and its going to be a very dark day for you if you dont start enforcing the law.
The video quickly spread on social media, amplified by conservative actor and director Kevin Sorbo, who shared it with his 2.6 million followers on X. Sorbo wrote: This is treason. USPS inside of a mosque. The people who count mail-in ballots. But our elections are safe and secure.'
Online commenters seized on the incident as emblematic of a deeper problem: the blending of government services with private, ideologically driven entities, especially in Democrat-run jurisdictions. One user asked pointedly, What is happening in Plymouth MN? People should lose their jobs on this set-up of a postal office on private mosque property. End it now! Separation of Church and State!
Others questioned how a religious institution could effectively control access to a federal facility that handles sensitive materials, including election mail. This is crazy. How can a private entity own a public business? How can they be told to leave just for asking questions? This is a serious problem especially if they handle voting ballots. Another commenter tied the issue directly to long-standing conservative concerns about mail-in voting. Mail-in votes is rife with fraud. It starts with trusting chain-of-custody of ballots to the USPS workers. Anyone who has any common sense at all, and is not biased can understand that simple concept.
Some went further, suggesting that the Plymouth arrangement may be part of a broader pattern in left-leaning areas. I would BET that there are OTHER set ups like this around the country in Communist-Jihadist-Globalist democrat controlled cities and states. I would also bet that the main reason for doing this is to CHEAT IN OUR ELECTIONS WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS. President Trump and any federal agencies that SHOULD investigate this unholy, totally suspect rental arrangement, such as the FBI, investigates this IMMEDIATELY. If this arrangement ISNT ILLEGAL, it SHOULD be.
The sense of alarm extended beyond election mechanics to the broader question of cultural and national survival. I cant believe this. Why is the country allowed to be filled with SO many people who want to destroy it!! Why cant we effectively fight this sh**? No country will survive that allows this to happen. Another observer noted the apparent double standard in public reaction, remarking, If the mosque was substituted for a church, thered be hundreds of protestors outside, particularly blue-haired Karens.
As conservatives continue to question the integrity of mail-in voting and the neutrality of federal agencies, the Plymouth case raises unresolved questions about how far religious landlords can go in controlling access to government tenants, especially when those tenants handle election-related materials. The controversy, propelled by whistleblowers like Hoch and amplified by figures such as Sorbo, underscores a growing demand on the right for transparency, equal treatment of religious institutions, and a firm separation between partisan agendas and the machinery of American elections.
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