In another epic press conference moment, Vice President JD Vance sounded off on Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, accusing the blue state governor of having either turned a blind eye to the massive fraud scandals taking place in his state or of having directly participated in that massive fraud. The vice president made the claim multiple times, in fact.
For reference, the deep blue state of Minnesota has remained in the news, particularly conservative media circles, for weeks and weeks because of the massive scale of the fraud committed by Somalis in the state, namely the pilfering of welfare programs funded by state and federal taxpayers, such as the “Feeding Our Future” program that provided free meals to needy kids and the daycare program scandal.
In fact, the fraud scandal has been so bad that Trump’s USDA cut off all federal aid to Minnesota, with Secretary Brooke Rollins noting in a letter to Gov. Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, “While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership or lack thereof— fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established.”
In any case, JD Vance, when asked about the matter of Walz resigning during a White House press conference given alongside White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, said, “I think Tim Walz should resign because it’s very clear either that he knew about the fraud in Minneapolis, he knew about welfare fraud, or at the very least, he looked the other way.”
Continuing, VP Vance pointed to the fact that the sort of fraud seen out of Minnesota is hardly an example of supervillain-tier planning, but rather looks like Somalis being allowed to get away with stealing vast amounts of taxpayer money. He said, “I mean, this is not… like Lex Luthor… This is not movie villain fraud. This is the lowest-IQ possible fraud.”
Adding to that, the vice president said, “This is, ‘We’re going to take kids, or, sorry, we’re going to take the absence of kids and set up a daycare center where there are no children, and we’re going to call our early childhood education center the Quality Learing Center.’”
Using that example of the ridiculously named daycare to further express his point, the VP then said, “By the way, if you can’t spell learning, maybe you shouldn’t be in early childhood education, but people got rich off of this. We know that there were schools who either had no enrollment, or at least they overstated their enrollment.”
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Still not done, he contended that the Governor of Minnesota is either utterly incompetent or himself engaging in the sort of fraud the administration is trying to uncover and fight. “That’s one of the things we’re going to get to the bottom of,” Vance added.
Making much the same point at a different point in the press conference, the VP said, “Tim Walz is a joke. His entire administration has been a joke…He’s a guy who has enabled fraud, and maybe, in fact, has participated in fraud. That’s what this new Assistant Attorney General position is going to find out.”
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