{"id":2520722,"date":"2025-12-12T19:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tim-walz-tries-to-make-somali-fraud-scandal-seem-perfectly-normal-blames-trump-for-talking-about-it\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:44:28","slug":"watch-tim-walz-tries-to-make-somali-fraud-scandal-seem-perfectly-normal-blames-trump-for-talking-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tim-walz-tries-to-make-somali-fraud-scandal-seem-perfectly-normal-blames-trump-for-talking-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Tim Walz Tries to Make Somali Fraud Scandal Seem Perfectly Normal, Blames Trump for Talking About It"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fwatch-tim-walz-tries-to-make-somali-fraud-scandal-seem-perfectly-normal-blames-trump-for-talking-about-it%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=2520722&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 discusses the $1 billion welfare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-trump-drops-a-bomb-during-phone-call-tells-raffensperger-vote-scammer-and-hustler-ruby-freeman-was-behind-18000-fraudulent-votes-in-suitcase-scandal-video\/\" title=\"HUGE: ... DROPS A BOMB DURING PHONE CALL! Tells Raffensperger \u201cVote Scammer and Hustler\u201d Ruby Freeman Was Behind 18,000 ...ULENT VOTES in Suitcase ...! (VIDEO)\">fraud scandal<\/a> in Minnesota, focusing on Governor Tim Walz&#8217;s response, wich the author criticizes as inadequate and misguided. Walz attempted too deflect blame away from Minnesota&#8217;s large Somali immigrant community, which was centrally implicated in the fraud, and rather pointed fingers at former President Donald Trump for politicizing the issue. Walz emphasized that Medicaid fraud occurs across all racial and ethnic groups and rejected holding the Somali community collectively responsible, suggesting that blaming them was unfair. The article argues that walz&#8217;s approach downplays the seriousness of the scandal, ignores his management&#8217;s failure to prevent the fraud, and unfairly shields the implicated community instead of condemning the crimes. It also notes that while fraud among various groups exists, this particular scandal involved meaningful theft linked to the Somali immigrant population, wiht some <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >funds potentially reaching terrorist organizations<\/a>. The piece criticizes Walz for not taking stronger responsibility, for using excuses about crime education, and for trying to shift blame politically, portraying him as a poor leader who has damaged his own reputation and that of his state.  <\/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><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>As bad as Minnesota&rsquo;s $1 billion welfare fraud scandal is already, Tim Walz on Friday found a way to make it even worse.<\/p>\n<p>The North Star State governor, the man Democrats would have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newt-gingrich-biden-family-the-delaware-sopranos\/\" title=\"Newt Gingrich: Biden Family: The Delaware Sopranos\">made vice president<\/a> of the United States, used a news conference to try to shift the focus away from his state&rsquo;s huge Somali immigrant community &mdash; and to blame President Donald Trump for all the fuss in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the guy who famously called himself a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tim-walz-digs-even-deeper-tries-explain-china-story-unraveled-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&ldquo;knucklehead&rdquo;<\/a> proved it again.<\/p>\n<p>The irony of the setting was unavoidable &mdash; a dog and pony show where Walz and various state cronies rolled out a statewide fraud prevention program. (Step 1 is closing the barn door after making sure the horse has already run off.)<\/p>\n<p>A questioner asked if he wanted to hear more from the Somali community taking &ldquo;ownership and oversight&rdquo; of systematic fraud that stole by the bucketload from COVID-era relief programs, Medicaid and efforts to feed hungry children.<\/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 practically bristled, and pointed out &mdash; bizarrely &mdash; that &ldquo;a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-celebs-rage-in-defeat-after-barrett-confirmation-revolting-disgraceful-unconscionable\/\" title=\"Hollywood Celebs Rage in Defeat After Barrett Confirmation: &#039;Revolting. Disgraceful. Unconscionable&#039;\">white men<\/a> should be holding white men accountable for the crimes they have committed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He then noted that &ldquo;Medicaid fraud will stretch across all racial demographics, all ethnic groups.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Check it out here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz unveils actions to address fraud | full video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ddX2gPYG7k?start=2476&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And it wouldn&rsquo;t be a Democratic utterance in public if it didn&rsquo;t find a way to point the finger at the man in the White House now.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Each community&rsquo;s got this in their own niche,&rdquo; Walz said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To blame them and say they should have been responsible for stopping it, I think that&rsquo;s a pretty hard reach &hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think we continue to educate folks about why they shouldn&rsquo;t commit crimes. You would hope that it&rsquo;s being taught both at home and at schools and in our society, but no, I think this idea that the Somali community is to blame for this because they didn&rsquo;t do more, I think that&rsquo;s how we got into this &hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump brought this to the attention, like this is something brand new. This is not brand new, and it&rsquo;s being worked on. But he made it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/diabetes-and-heart-attacks-abercrombie-deletes-photo-of-plus-sized-model-after-getting-mocked-on-twitter\/\" title=\"\u2018Diabetes And Heart Attacks\u2019: Abercrombie Deletes Photo Of Plus-Sized Model After Getting Mocked On Twitter\">white hot<\/a>. And, um, very dangerous.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>At its best, Walz&rsquo;s statement is nonsense wrapped in non sequitur.<\/p>\n<p>At its worst, it&rsquo;s an admission of basic failure by Walz&rsquo;s own state government &mdash; and the reason for it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Incompetent scumbag Tim Walz says it&rsquo;s a &ldquo;pretty hard reach&rdquo; to expect the Somali community to not engage in the massive theft of tax dollars, criticizes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?\">@POTUS<\/a> for calling them out:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Each community&rsquo;s got this&hellip; Donald Trump brought this to the attention&hellip; very dangerous.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ffqmpQcT7G\">pic.twitter.com\/ffqmpQcT7G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1999533739777413620?\">December 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Medicaid fraud stretches across &ldquo;all racial demographics&rdquo;? Probably.<\/p>\n<p>Man is a fallen creature, so crime exists everywhere. In Walz&rsquo;s version of the world, that seems to make what happened in Minnesota perfectly normal.<\/p>\n<p>But that&rsquo;s not exactly relevant to the very specific problem of Minnesota&rsquo;s fraud scandal, which was made possible by the evident incompetence of Walz&rsquo;s own administration in making sure its citizens weren&rsquo;t be robbed by what amounts to a guest population.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To be fair, he&rsquo;s not completely wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We shouldn&rsquo;t be claiming the Somali community as much as we should be blaming Tim Walz, who allowed the fraud to balloon to these levels.<\/p>\n<p>This falls on him.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrageDustin\/status\/1999539755806073208?\">December 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Walz&rsquo;s &ldquo;everybody does it excuse&rdquo; also ignores the facts of this case, which was very specifically centered on the state&rsquo;s Somali immigrant population &mdash; and included massive transfers of wealth back to Somalia, and even potentially into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/treasury-department-investigating-apparent-taxpayer-funding-terror-organization-biden-walz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Somalia terrorist group al-Shabaab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&rsquo;t be asking much from the leaders of such a community to express regret at the crimes being committed. In fact, if a member of the community happened to rise to the level of, say, an outspoken Democratic congresswoman, that member might be expected to be particularly loud in her outrage over her compatriots ripping off the American taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, when it comes to Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Somalia native, the country hears mainly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-attempts-paint-alleged-perpetrators-1000000000-fraud-scheme-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complaints about victimization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What was even worse was Walz&rsquo;s tacit admission that it was his own administration that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/100-responsible-massive-fraud-government-employees-rip-tim-walz-shreds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unable to stop the fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he&rsquo;s talking about how the country needs to &ldquo;educate folks about why they shouldn&rsquo;t commit crime.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Why they shouldn&rsquo;t commit crime? Most people understand already that a &ldquo;crime&rdquo; is something that, by definition, they shouldn&rsquo;t commit.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Walz is saying this about a group that has escaped a North African hellhole and been welcomed into the United States makes it even worse.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, collective guilt is anathema to American law as well as Western morality, but it&rsquo;s safe to say that a group where literally life-saving generosity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/somalians-accused-another-mass-medicaid-fraud-operation-maine-whistleblower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is repaid<\/a> with theft on a massive scale is probably not exactly ripe for remedial lessons in ethics (not to mention the concept of &ldquo;sin&rdquo;).<\/p>\n<p>But Walz really gave the game away when he tried to find a way to put responsibility on Trump for stoking the scandal to a &ldquo;white hot&rdquo; state. (It&rsquo;s a rock-solid bet that &ldquo;white hot&rdquo; was no accident of phrasing.)<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t really Trump who made the Minnesota scandal national. If anything, it was a front-page report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/29\/us\/fraud-minnesota-somali.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> Nov. 29 that really brought it to the attention of the political class, the establishment media and the rest of the country. (Even the pious Times called the scandal &ldquo;staggering in its scale and brazenness.&rdquo;)<\/p>\n<p>Yet Walz thinks he can save his own skin by turning the fire on Trump &mdash; the words of a liar with the motivation of a coward.<\/p>\n<p>This is the man whom Democrats tried to put a heartbeat away from the presidency &mdash; a self-described &ldquo;knucklehead&rdquo; who&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/victor-davis-hanson-consequences-await-tim-walz-somali-fraud-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humiliated himself<\/a>, his party and his state by allowing one of the most sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tim-walz-presided-greatest-theft-taxes-welfare-fraud-american-history-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cases of public fraud<\/a> in the country&rsquo;s history to take place on his watch.<\/p>\n<p>In any setting it would be hard to make the Minnesota fraud scandal worse.<\/p>\n<p>But Tim Walz just did it.<\/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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