Enraged Republican lawmakers urged President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after he issued a warning order preparing the National Guard amid tensions over a fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Freaking out, Gov. Walz stated Minnesota needs no further federal help and won’t be a political prop.
For context, Reps. Miller, Mace, McCormick, and Van Orden, all of them Republicans, accused Walz of threatening insurrection or civil war by potentially opposing federal agents, with calls for his arrest. Walz’s office did not respond.
In his initial comments, the disgraced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz whined, “We do not need any further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough. I’ve issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard.”
“We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary. I remind you, a warning order is a heads-up for folks. Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight,” the absurd politician claimed.
Fighting back, Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) blasted Walz. “If he says with that intent to oppose — you’re bringing in military force. Let’s lay out out. I’m going to bring out military force to oppose a federal armed force. What does that sound like to the average person? Kind of like you want to go to war,” he raged.
Continuing his condemnation, the courageous Georgia lawmaker noted, “I don’t know how else to take that. That does not give me any indication other than you want start some stuff. And when I say ‘stuff’ I’m being very polite.”
Likewise, Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) criticized the Democrats’ comments, making a historical analogy. “The last time they did that was at fort Sumter and it started the Civil War,” he stated in a withering statement.
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Wrapping up his comments, he attacked the governor’s intelligence. “If a state militia acts against the federal government that is actually a civil war. So that guy needs to shut his d-mn mouth now because he is calling for civil war. [Tim] Walz is an absolute moron,” he said.
Rounding out the condemnations, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), asserted, “Someone remind him: Donald Trump is the Commander in Chief. And federal authority supersedes state authority. That’s not an opinion, that’s the Constitution. What Walz is threatening has a name: insurrection. Mr. President, the law is on your side. Use it.”
When these absurd comments went viral on social media, conservatives slammed Tim Walz. “In the fog of everything that unfolded in Minneapolis yesterday, one fact stands above all others: Tim Walz suggested deploying the Minnesota National Guard to forcibly remove federal law-enforcement agents from the state,” a viral post read.
“That is not rhetoric. That is not protest language. That is a direct threat to federal authority. This is a sitting governor flirting with an action that would trigger a civil conflict. History is clear about where this road leads. And it never ends well,” the same post read.
Watch Walz face demands he be held legally accountable for the fraud scandal: