If you had a chance to see Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins holding up a picture of the South Dakotan Maude home if you watched Donald Trump’s government conference on Wednesday. I’d heard a little bit about the fifth-generation farming community before that, but I decided to learn more because I don’t believe the story Rollins told about how the Joe Biden presidency treated them. It’s incredible. Or perhaps not, given everything we’ve learned in the last four decades.  ,
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In 100 times, the Trump Administration is reversing Biden-era mistakes! The U.S. governor dropped charges against the Maude community, patients of lawfare, andamp;, and launched the a , @USDA site to protect farmers.
Over-criminalization by the federal government is OVER. No longer is there trial rules! photograph. twitter.com/79yM1VxpXv
— Secretary of State Brooke Rollins ( @secRollins ) 30 April 2025
So here’s the whole narrative. Charles and Heather Maude are a few in their twenties who own a huge estate — Maude Hog and Cattle — in northern South Dakota. The house has been a part of Charles ‘ home since 1907, according to their site. Charles himself has been involved in the business his whole life, yet getting his first cattle as a present before he even was a child. He purchased the estate from his father in 2002 and 2003. The ranch’s remaining background can be found on their website at  .
Thomas Maude purchased area on the Cheyenne River in northeast Custer County, South Dakota, in 1907, and the business Maude Hog and Cattle. His two daughters had homesteaded a dozen miles north, and are good who suggested he purchase land in the area. He resided in Burbank, South Dakota, and was an absent owner. His brother Bill, who had a homesteading career in the area in 1917, lived 160 acres less than a mile from Thomas’s property. Bill was a jack of all investments, running cattle and pigs in addition to growing both livestock feed and a trailer yard on the river bottom. Additionally, he and his family Nellie raised six children. Bill designed and constructed a massive water program that repeatedly rerouted the whole Cheyenne River stream before dumping it back into the river.  ,
Walter, one of Bill’s children, made a second world war visit to Scenic, South Dakota in 1945. Before moving to Scenic, he and his wife Gen lived in Scenic until they moved on to a property nine miles north of town, on the west bank of the Cheyenne River, just north of Highway 44. In 1963, the pair purchased the original Maude position from Bill. Walter and Gen kept a home on Highway 44, where they raised four kids, raised cows, had animals, farmed, and raised Hereford meat cattle. Ward and Walter’s brother, Ward, traded labour and equipment for the property that Walter’s brother bought next to Walter on Hwy 44.
In 2002, Walter sold the initial Maude area owned by Thomas and Bill Maude to his nephew Charles, who was 17 years old at the time. With the assistance of his parents, Charles purchased the remaining parts of Walter’s activity after his passing in 2003.
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I suggest you check out the much more information on their website. It sounds like they’re excellent managers of the environment and use various sustainable practices that should be a lot more common in modern cultivation and crops, but that’s a subject for another day.  ,
We take the land from our kids and make choices every day in an effort to give them the chance to pursue an agricultural career. Agriculture has always been focused on conservation, and we strive to build and improve upon what our forefathers started to confirm our area remains a practical, productive farm and house for another millennium”, their site reads.
Lyle and Kennedy are Charles and Heather’s secondborn kids. Let’s now get into what the Biden administration did to these underprivileged individuals that almost almost led to the loss of those young children. I’ll let the Tri-State Livestock News explain ( and I dare you not to get angry ):  ,
On March 29, 2024, special adviser Travis Lunders and U. S. Forest Service police captain Jeff Summers told the Maudes that a hunter complained that a fence with no trespassing sign had been posted on it and that it had been constructed upon the correct limit, according to a text from South Dakota lawmaker Mike Rounds in June of that year to finally U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The Maudes took the fence’s sign down. The family has owned the property adjacent to the U. S. Forest Service-managed Buffalo Gap National Grasslands since 1910.
Since Buffalo Gap National Grasslands was founded in 1960, the USDA has accepted the property boundary as the property boundary annually through the USDA Farm Service Agency’s annual certification of acres.
Lunders and USFS district ranger Julie Wheeler and the Maudes met on May 1. The conclusion reached that day was a land survey would be the first step, and that would take up to a year according to Wheeler. Wheeler could see the fence and work toward a resolution at the allotment thanks to the Maudes ‘ scheduled meeting at the allotment. Five days later, Lunders and a survey crew arrived with a survey crew to finish the survey on both the private and public property owned by the Maudes without informing Maudes. Neither the survey nor the original complaint allegedly made by a hunter has been made available to the press or to Maudes.
Lunders arrived unannounced at the Maudes ‘ home on June 24, 2024, armed and in tactical gear to indict the couple and file separate federal indictments against them. The indictments were brought in connection with the alleged theft of government property caused by the construction of a fence at least 75 years earlier. The Maudes each faced 10 years in prison and$ 250, 000 in fines over the 50 acres in question and were ordered not to speak to one another about the case.
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Isn’t that the most absurd thing you’ve ever heard? The Trump administration dropped the charges earlier this week, and the Biden Administration’s administration issued a statement stating, in part, that” This family has endured a senseless politically motivated prosecution waged by the Biden Administration over 25 acres of federal land.” Government resources for prosecution should be focused on true criminals, not a family farm trying to make ends meet”.  ,
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Rollins added,” The Maudes are not criminals. They have been working their land since the early 1900s, and what should have been a minor civil land dispute that was settled quickly turned into a zealous criminal prosecution of a hardworking family that was on the verge of losing their home, children, and livelihood. Not under President Trump, not in this country.
What’s a little scary is that she said other cases like this are currently” under review” . ,
I previously covered how Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the revelation that the Biden administration was allegedly “purveying” disinformation by keeping records on the social media posts of Americans.
The more we learn about what has happened over the past four years, the more terrifying it is. No wonder Democrats are spending all of their time defending criminals now. They believe that Americans who work hard are the real criminals. They view us as being their adversaries. Stories like this one just underscore that. They will fight to the death for you if you are in the country illegally, have a shady past that includes potential gang affiliation and numerous instances of domestic violence, or you are here on a visa pretending to be a student but actually spread antisemitism, trash campuses, and threaten Jewish students at universities.  ,
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But if you’re a hard-working business owner or even just someone who has an opinion on social media, they’ll fight against you. Every time you cast your ballot from here on out, remember that.  ,
Go do a quick Google search for the Maude family. I’ll hold off.  ,
You’ll find that not one single member of the fake news has covered the story of how unfairly these hard-working people were treated over a what should have been a minor civil dispute. I do what I do because of this. That’s why we at PJ Media are all the same way.  ,
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