The Minnesota fraud scandal is not going away any time soon, and it sure looks like the walls are closing in on Tim Walz. In fact, his latest public performance made that even clearer. Instead of meeting a widening fraud scandal head-on, Walz reached for the familiar Democrat playbook: claim victimhood, accuse critics of bigotry, and change the subject.
He flew to Seattle on Tuesday to headline a fundraiser for Gov. Bob Ferguson, and he used the friendly room to launder his talking points without any pushback. Walz told the crowd that Somalis in Minnesota are getting “demonized,” then promised the “antidote” would be to “welcome more in,” as if importing more people into the same broken system fixes the system.
As you might expect, he framed the whole mess as a morality tale, warning, “These folks better not ever mistake our kindness for our weakness because we are going to defend our neighbors,” and then leaned even harder into the grievance routine: “These guys bring out the worst in me…. But the antidote to that is positive actions to improve lives.… So instead of demonizing our Somali community, we’re going to do more to welcome more in.”
This is the classic playbook. When a scandal threatens their own side, the left scrambles to smother it under manufactured outrage. They invent some flimsy charge of bigotry and hope the media pounces on that narrative instead of the story that matters. They rely on this tactic because it works for them. The hope is that the accusation becomes the headline, the real scandal gets buried, and their allies walk away untouched. It’s manipulative, it’s calculated, and it shows how desperate they get when the truth cuts too close to home.
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And, obviously, Walz also mixed in his now-standard Trump obsession. He took a swipe at President Donald Trump within minutes and tossed out this line: “There’s just some people that really rub Donald Trump the wrong way, and I’m guessing it’s people who are smart.” He has also claimed the rhetoric around him has gotten so heated that “people driving by my house and using the R-word in front of people.”
Poor boy.
Here’s the problem for Walz: the scandal isn’t going away, even when he tries to wave it away with applause lines and victim cards. We’ve seen this phony bravado from Walz before, and trust me, complaining about Somalis being “demonized” doesn’t magically make the fraud disappear. Now House Oversight Chairman James Comer has formally launched an investigation into not just the fraud, but what Walz’s administration knew and whether it acted to stop it.
I said recently that this could be the scandal that takes down Walz, and that is looking more likely every day.
"You know, Walz gets due process, but the way he's handling this, and the way Ellison, the attorney general, has kind of hid right now, makes me pretty confident that there's a massive amount of waste, fraud and abuse that's about to be detected here, and I'm going to predict that Walz's political career is closer to an end than somewhere in the middle,” Comer told Just the News.
For sure, the investigation is growing, and the walls are closing in on the Minnesota governor.
