Over the last few days, Donald Trump and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have been feuding.
Trump ended up calling Walz “retarded” in his holiday social media rant, and Walz fired back in kind.
Now, however, social services workers from Minnesota have come forward, vindicating the notion that Trump’s overall assessment of Walz, while harsh, may have been justified when one considers how much money has walked out of the state's till under his watch due to rampant fraud.
Trump was going off on Walz over what the president characterized as a Somali takeover of Minnesota, as well as a massive fraud case involving more than $250 million.
Walz responded to Trump’s use of the controversial aforementioned slur, stating, “I think we all know using that term is just so damaging. It’s hurtful. We have fought three decades to get this out of our schools, and kids know better than to use it.”
He continued, “But this is what Donald Trump has done, he’s normalized this type of hateful behavior… at first I think he’s just not a good human being but secondly to distract from his incompetency.”
Walz also defended his role in the prosecutions of the widespread fraud that has come to light, but then some state workers stepped forward to place the blame on Walz.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services Employees X account blistered Walz over the scandal, posting, “Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response.”
The post continued, “Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation.”
It concluded, “It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.”
According to the account's profile, the group is made up of nearly 500 state workers. So far, 78 fraud defendants have been prosecuted, with 59 convictions having already been handed down in what has become the largest COVID-19 funding scandal in the country.
It is a rare instance when Trump will apologize for anything. When his comments about Walz were challenged by the media, the president continued to press the same narrative.
Trump answered questions about Walz over the holiday weekend, stating, “I think there’s something wrong with him. Absolutely.”
He continued, “Anybody that would do what he did, anybody that would allow those people into his state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia. We give billions of dollars to Somalia. It’s not even a country because it doesn’t function like a country. It’s got a name but it doesn’t function like a country.”
Democrats, of course, are going to pounce all over the name-calling, as they always do, but there is no getting around the fact that hundreds of millions were stolen on Walz’s watch. Walz is clearly challenged when it comes to effectively running his state, so can you imagine the damage that could have been done to this country if he and Kamala Harris had managed to get into the White House?
