Tim Walz fancies himself a future presidential contender, but these days, he looks like a man desperately scrambling to save his political career and his freedom. A viral video just exposed empty daycare centers in Minnesota raking in millions from taxpayers. The heat is up, and now the governor's office is getting more desperate, acting more like they’re hiding something than trying to get to the bottom of the fraud. The question is, what are they hiding?
Independent journalist Nick Shirley dropped a 42-minute bombshell on Friday, hitting the streets of Minneapolis and beyond, uncovering as much as $110 million in fraud in a single day of citizen journalism. He walked into spots like the Quality Learning Center on Nicollet Avenue, a dump with a sign that misspells "learning" as "learing."
State records show it handles 99 children while collecting $4 million in funding, yet it sits mostly deserted. Shirley hit Fox News Sunday and nailed it: the fraud screams so loud "a kindergartner could figure out that there is fraud going on." He shrugged off the usual smears, saying reporters dodge these stories to avoid "Islamophobic" labels. "Fraud is fraud," he told them, "and we work too hard simply just to be paying taxes and enabling fraud to be happening."
As for Tim Walz, he’s less concerned about fraud and more focused on managing a public relations disaster, and he’s not doing a great job.
Would you believe that Walz’s administration is trying to save face by claiming that Tampon Tim battled fraud for years?
"The governor has worked for years to crack down on fraud and ask the state legislature for more authority to take aggressive action," a Walz spokesperson said. "He has strengthened oversight — including launching investigations into these specific facilities, one of which was already closed."
Well, that explains why we’re only talking about $9 billion in fraud, right? I mean, it’s only being dubbed the largest fraud scandal in history, so obviously, Walz was really cracking down on the fraud, right?
Yeah, great job, buddy.
I’ve said many times that $9 billion in fraud doesn’t just happen without anyone noticing, and each day more and more people are suspecting that this scandal goes all the way to the top. In fact, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) is demanding answers from Walz in the wake of Shirley’s video exposé.
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In a letter dated Monday, Emmer blasted Walz over what he described as a “national disgrace.” Emmer urged immediate action and questioned whether Walz’s administration played a role in allowing the operations to continue, writing, “I pray you were not complicit in allowing these centers to survive.”
Walz has given us little reason to believe otherwise, and, as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has said before, the walls are closing in on Gov. Walz.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced he’s sending resources to Minnesota to investigate the fraud—exactly what Walz didn’t want to happen. He told the feds that he could handle it. What a joke. His administration insists he was already cracking down on fraud, yet we’re now supposed to trust that he can impartially investigate the fraud that flourished under his own watch. If Walz truly had this under control, the FBI wouldn’t be stepping in.
He’s hiding something.
Make no mistake about it, Walz is acting guilty as sin. He downplays the fraud, accuses those who care about the scandal of being white supremacists, then postures as the cleanup guy in the hopes of keeping the feds away. It’s obviously the only reason he wants to investigate the fraud is to cover up his culpability.
