Americans rarely remember those who held the nation’s second-highest office (quick: name Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president), let alone those who sought the vice presidency and lost.
Now, assuming posterity stoops to notice Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, it will forever associate him with massive fraud.
In the wake ofreportsearly Tuesday that the FBI and local authorities in Minnesota had raided nearly two dozen businesses — most of them Somali-owned — as part of a fraud investigation, Walz went on the social media platform X and tried to take partial credit for the raid, only to encounter reminders from X users that Walz himself both enabled the fraud and not long ago fought the federal government tooth and nail over it.
“If you commit fraud in Minnesota you’re going to get caught — and that’s exactly what we saw today,” Walz wrote. “We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information. Joint investigations work, and securing justice depends on it.”
If you commit fraud in Minnesota you’re going to get caught — and that’s exactly what we saw today. We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information. Joint investigations work, and securing justice depends on it.
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz)April 28, 2026
But Walz, who served as then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate during her failed 2024 presidential campaign, appears to have a short or selective memory.
In a series of videos that went viral in December, YouTuberNick Shirleyvisited locations across Minneapolis that supposedly provided publicly funded services such as child care to the Somali immigrant community, only to discover evidence of massive fraud, including the absence of children at those locations.
Partly in response to Shirley’s reporting, PresidentDonald Trumpsent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Minneapolis.
Walzthen responded to the ICE deployment by talking of “war” with the federal government.
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