On taking office in 2019, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was restrained by a one-seat Republican majority in the state Senate—until Covid hit in the spring of 2020. He declared a state of emergency on March 25, 2020, and ruled by decree for 15 months. Walz now characterizes President Trump as a “fascist,” yet it is Walz himself who has exercised one-man rule and obviously loved it.
Walz proclaimed the emergency on the basis of an allegedly sophisticated Minnesota Model projection of the virus’s course in the state. In fact, the projection reflected a weekend’s work by graduate students at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Relying on their research, Walz presented a scenario in which an estimated 74,000 Minnesotans would perish from the virus. The following week the Star Tribune reported that with the lockdown Walz ordered, 50,000 would die. It would have been preferable to address the virus through democratic means.
Walz destroyed jobs and businesses. He also impeded life routines, including family get-togethers and church attendance. Over Walz’s objection, the legislature finally terminated the era of one-man rule effective July 1, 2021. When the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center stopped counting in March 2023, the deaths of 14,870 Minnesotans were attributed to the virus. In 2020, by the way, I had to sue the Walz administration for excluding me from Health Department press briefings on Covid. It was something I said.
During the state of emergency, protests broke out in Minneapolis on Memorial Day 2020 following the death of George Floyd. That Thursday, rioters burned Minneapolis’s Third Precinct police station to the ground. Walz didn’t deploy the National Guard until the weekend. Riots, arson and looting throughout the Twin Cities caused at least $500 million in damage. Walz could not find it in himself to enforce the sacred protocols of Covid.
The damage caused by rioters now pales next to the state public-progams fraud committed by mostly Somali perpetrators in the Walz era. The Feeding Our Future case opened a window on the wide world of frauds. Federaal indictments in the Feeding Our Future case by itself have now been brought against 78 defendants. The newest of the 78 cases was charged on November 24. The 78 indictments have resulted in seven guilty verdicts, two acquittals, 50 guilty pleas, and five fugitives, with one deceased defendant. Thirteen unresolved cases await trial.
In all, the Minnesota Department of Education oversaw the payout of some $300 million to reimburse fictitious meals. Chief prosecutor Joe Thompson estimates that a full accounting of all the public-programs fraud that has occurred under the auspices of the Walz regime amounts to “BILLIONS,” as President Trump recently put it. The nature and scale of the fraud are staggering.
Walz accepts no responsibility. The buck does not stop with him. He first tried to blame Ramsey County District Court Judge John Guthmann. In April 2021 Judge Guthmann handled a case regarding the department’s processing of applications for program “sites.” According to Walz, Judge Guthmann ordered the state to continue payouts to the alleged perpetrators of the fraud even after the Minnesota Department of Education had its suspicions aroused (and thus held up the processig of “sites”).
In September 2022, Judge Guthmann authorized a news release titled “Correcting media reports and statements by Gov. Tim Walz concerning orders issued by the court.” The release concluded: “As the public court record and Judge Guthmann’s orders make plain, Judge Guthmann never issued an order requiring the MN Department of Education to resume food reimbursement payments to FOF. The Department of Education voluntarily resumed payments and informed the court that FOF resolved the ‘serious deficiencies’ that prompted it to suspend payments temporarily. All of the MN Department of Education food reimbursement payments to FOF were made voluntarily, without any court order.”
Thanks to his selection as the running mate of Kamala Harris last year, the entire nation had the opportunity to see Walz for the voluble and fast-talking liar he is. Yesterday on Meet the Press Walz raised his dishonesty and irresponsibility to a new level with a DEI homily thrown in for good measure. This is the Walz way.
Tim Walz is running cover for Somali fraud once again.
He shouldn’t be running for re-election.
He should resign.pic.twitter.com/tLPFOOWEBc— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) November 30, 2025
Asked whether he takes responsibility by host Kristin Welker, Walz responded (transcript here):
Well, certainly, I take responsibility for putting people in jail. Governors don’t get to just talk theoretically. We have to solve problems. And I will note, it’s not just Somalis. Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota is a prosperous state, a well-run state. We’re AAA-bond rated. But that attracts criminals. Those people are going to jail. We’re doing everything we can. But to demonize an entire community on the actions of a few, it’s lazy.
We attract criminals! That’s quite a defense.
Let it be noted that Walz has put NO ONE in jail. Walz is “taking responsibility” for the work of federal prosecutors including Joe Thompson and others I saluted in the Free Beacon column “From Feeding the Kids to Fleecing the Government: Inside the Country’s Largest COVID Fraud.”
How do you think they feel about having the “responsibility” for their hard work misappropriated by a buck-passing liar? Suffice it to say that it must be an ordeal for those of have given up days, nights, and weekends to investigate, expose, and prosecute the massive frauds committed under the auspices of the Walz administration hear a craven politician lie about who has done what to whom.
