Whenever Minnesota Governor Tim Walz leaves office, he will leave in disgrace — even puttting the world-beating frauds over which he has presided to one side. He has compiled the worst gubernatorial record in Minnesota history. In addition to the damage he has done to the state, he is dishonest, stupid, vain, petty, thin-skinned, and tyrannical. On the national stage in the 2024 presidential elelction, with his previously undisaplayed effeminate theatrics, we also observed that he is a phony. All in all, a thoroughly repulsive character.
At his press conference yesterday Walz attacked First Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson, implying that Thompson should be fired for providing Minnesotans his assessment of the magnitude of the almost entirely Somali fraud in the mostly uncharged Minnesota Medicaid cases that has taken place under Walz’s administration. Walz construes Thompson’s assessment an “assault” on Minnesota.
BREAKING: Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who dropped his bid for reelection yesterday, appears to suggest that Joe Thompson, the top fraud prosecutor in the state, should be “let go.”
“You saw a US attorney stand up, which has been released by … would have been let go by… pic.twitter.com/yfjY1S1rZt
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) January 6, 2026
On the basis of one of Thompson’s red flags, by the way, Walz terminated Minnesota’s “waivered” Housing Stablization Service Medicaid program. Walz has placed the thirteen other such programs under review. Everything Walz says in the video clip is attributable to the personal qualities I itemize in the first paragraph above.
Walz has characterized the perpetrators of the massive public-programs fraud that has taken place under his (at best) averted gaze as “an organized gang of fraudsters and criminals.” This is yet another deflection. There was no organized gang. Everyone who heard about it wanted to get in on it and was able to do so. Beyond the Feeding Our Future nonprofit itself, whatever organization emerged was of the spontaneous variety.
As I have sought to document over and over here and elsewhere, as in the Free Beacon column on the second Feeding Our Future trial, Thompson is a model public servant to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. Thompson, incidentally, has gone out of his way to avoid criticism of Walz in his public remarks on the fraud cases. On the contrary. He has credited Walz when he could.
Thompson is not in a position to say what needs to be said regarding Walz’s attack, but John quotes the response of United States Attorney Dan Rosen:
Gov. Walz’s comments about First Assistant US Attorney Thompson constitute a contemptible attack on a federal prosecutor and a betrayal of the governor’s oath of office. Joe Thompson is an outstanding public servant who has my full confidence and that of the people of Minnesota.
In Minnesota Thompson has served under United States Attorney’s of both political parties and toed no one’s line in the process. He was recruited by Democrat United States Attorney Andrew Luger from the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois to serve here. Former Attorney General Merrick recruited Thompson to assist Special Counsel Robert Hur in the Biden documnets investigation, a job Thompson performed in addition to his other duties under Luger. Thompson has earned a stellar reputation in the Department of Justice under both Democrat and Republican administrations.
Much more could be said, and I could say it, but I will conclude on this repeated note. Walz will leave his office in disgrace, now compounded by his attack on Thompson. When Thompson leaves his office, it will be as a hometown hero.
