{"id":2518348,"date":"2025-12-06T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-billion-dollar-somali-fraud-scandal-minn-gov-tim-walz-reveals-what-hes-deeply-concerned-about-trump-insult\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:08:33","slug":"amid-billion-dollar-somali-fraud-scandal-minn-gov-tim-walz-reveals-what-hes-deeply-concerned-about-trump-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-billion-dollar-somali-fraud-scandal-minn-gov-tim-walz-reveals-what-hes-deeply-concerned-about-trump-insult\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Billion-Dollar Somali Fraud Scandal, Minn. Gov. Tim Walz Reveals What He&#8217;s &#8216;Deeply Concerned&#8217; About: Trump Insult"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famid-billion-dollar-somali-fraud-scandal-minn-gov-tim-walz-reveals-what-hes-deeply-concerned-about-trump-insult%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2518348&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article criticizes Minnesota Governor tim Walz for focusing on personal grievances, specifically about being insulted by President Donald Trump on social media, rather than addressing a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >major welfare fraud scandal<\/a> in Minnesota. Trump had called Walz &#8220;seriously retarded&#8221; amid controversy over a billion-dollar fraud involving the Somali immigrant community in the state. walz expressed concern that such insults could incite violence directed at him, highlighting incidents of people shouting offensive slurs near his home. The piece contrasts Walz&#8217;s reactions with his political actions,pointing out past inflammatory remarks made by walz himself and questioning his priorities given the ongoing welfare fraud case. The article suggests that Walz is neglecting serious issues by dwelling on insults and labels him as ineffective and overly focused on &#8220;woke&#8221; concerns rather of protecting taxpayers and managing his state&#8217;s budget.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sure, his state is engulfed in one of the largest welfare fraud cases in memory, but Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is worried about the things that really matter: namely, getting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/footballer-rips-marxist-blm-white-players-scared-to-be-branded-racist-ive-been-called-uncle-tom\/\" title=\"Footballer Rips \u2018Marxist\u2019 BLM: White Players Scared To Be \u2018Branded Racist,\u2019 I\u2019ve Been ... \u2018Uncle Tom\u2019\">called nasty names<\/a> on social media by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Friday report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/05\/us-news\/tim-walz-deeply-concerned-about-people-shouting-r-word-driving-by-his-home-after-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, Walz told reporter this week that he&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wife-of-american-wrongfully-detained-by-taliban-airs-frustration-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Wife of American wrongfully detained by Taliban airs frustration - Washington Examiner\">deeply concerned&#038;rdquo<\/a>; about the fallout from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for ...\">social media post<\/a> in which President Trump called Walz &ldquo;seriously retarded,&rdquo; saying that this could &ldquo;turn to violence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump was speaking about the theft of up to a billion dollars in benefits through scams perpetrated almost entirely by Minnesota&rsquo;s Somali community in a post in which he announced sweeping restrictions on immigration from the Third World.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for &lsquo;prey&rsquo; as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Walz, meanwhile, should be focused on delivering a state budget. Indeed, this was what he was talking about on Thursday when the r-word issue came to the fore.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This creates danger,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-terminates-immigrant-tps-status-minnesota-destroy-hub-money-laundering-governor-walz\/\">Walz<\/a> said. &ldquo;And I&rsquo;ll tell you what. In my time on this, I&rsquo;d never seen this before: People driving by my house and using the R-word in front of people.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is shameful. And I have yet to see an elected official, a Republican elected official say, &lsquo;You&rsquo;re right. That&rsquo;s shameful. He should not say it.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So look, I&rsquo;m worried. We know how these things go. They start with taunts, they turn to violence, so deeply concerned,&rdquo; Walz added.<\/p>\n<p>Where to begin? First off, in the area of decorum, Walz was part of a ticket where, as running mate for then-Vice President Kamala Harris, he suggested that Trump&rsquo;s running mate, future Vice President J.D. Vance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/outlet-snickered-vance-couch-fact-check-now-outraged-vp-made-baseless-joke-kamala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had sexually assaulted a piece of furniture<\/a>, as per a grotesque internet rumor:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tim Walz on JD Vance:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t wait to debate the guy&hellip;that is if he&rsquo;s willing to get off the *couch* and show up.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ajaaQJpkhD\">pic.twitter.com\/ajaaQJpkhD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yashar Ali &#128024; (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1820956928195105003?\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If Vance had claimed that he was being harassed by aggrieved Ethan Allen employees over Walz&rsquo;s insult, we&rsquo;d take him just as seriously as we should be taking Walz here.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on a more serious level, that same campaign &mdash; along with the Biden White House and Democrats in general &mdash; tried to convince America that Donald Trump was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/social-media-posts-trump-assassination-attempt-suspect-sound-exactly-like-hear-kamala-harris-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Threat To Democracy&trade;<\/a>. They did this even after two assassination attempts against him by people who took that rhetoric seriously. <em>Now<\/em> Walz wants to get upset about the violence &ldquo;seriously retarded&rdquo; might beget? This is not a serious argument or individual.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, however, there is the matter of priorities. As the board of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2025\/12\/minnesotas-massive-welfare-fraud-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Review<\/a> noted in a Dec. 3 editorial, Walz&rsquo;s &ldquo;taxpayers have had somewhere north of $1 billion stolen from them by concentric rings of welfare fraudsters based in and around Minneapolis&rsquo;s tightly knit Somali diaspora community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>At this point, Democratic dogma demands that Walz defend the immigrant communities in his state. Yet, at the same time, he has to assuage Minnesotans that are not wrongly upset at the fact that a billion bucks has reportedly been siphoned off due to the fact &ldquo;charities&rdquo; were able to bilk credulous state politicians out of the cash. At this point, there are no less than 75 defendants who claimed that they were &ldquo;providing school lunches&rdquo; with the dough, which &mdash; unless that&rsquo;s become some sort of youth slang for &ldquo;profligate spending of embezzled funds&rdquo; &mdash; they apparently did not do.<\/p>\n<p>So, how&rsquo;s Walz doing in that department? He&rsquo;s trying to convince the people of his state that, uh, did you hear the slur Donald Trump used on ? Yessir, people are coming by my house and yelling it out! Boy, I tell you, this could become&nbsp;<em>violent!&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Again, this man is not a serious individual. The fact that he&rsquo;s the best Kamala Harris could find as a backstop is telling and sad. As for the people of Minnesota, they do deserve better than a governor who retreats to woke pieties when his state is engulfed in one of the biggest welfare scandals in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>Walz, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campaign-2024-an-early-look-at-the-possible-republican-contenders\/\" title=\"Campaign 2024: An Early Look At The Possible Republican Contenders\">vice presidential debate<\/a> last year, called himself a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cbs-news-protected-tim-walz-not-asking-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knucklehead<\/a>.&rdquo; I can think of worse words for him &mdash; and so can the president &mdash; but he keeps proving that &ldquo;knucklehead,&rdquo; indeed, will do.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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