The executive branch’s move to combat North Star State fraud found Gov. Tim Walz (D) doing his best to counter President Donald Trump and a supposed subversive “long game.”
In case concerns about gender ideology and allegations of stolen valor amid leftist motivations weren’t enough for the American people to see they’d dodged a bullet in the November 2024 election, the Democratic Party’s then-vice presidential nominee has found himself shouldering the blame for rampant fraud in his state.
Rather than working in coordination with the federal government to root out the fraud, Walz, facing calls for his resignation and demands for his arrest, took to social media Tuesday to spin the blame on Trump as the president’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) put a hard stop on child care funds to Minnesota with demands for receipts.
“We’ve spent years cracking down on fraud — referring cases to law enforcement, shutting down and auditing high-risk programs. Trump keeps letting fraudsters out of prison,” the governor wrote on X while sharing screenshots of an op-ed he penned in the Minnesota Star Tribune earlier in December. “To the national news just now paying attention, here’s what we’ve done to stop it.”
We’ve spent years cracking down on fraud – referring cases to law enforcement, shutting down and auditing high-risk programs.
Trump keeps letting fraudsters out of prison.
To the national news just now paying attention, here’s what we’ve done to stop it. pic.twitter.com/bgvKPxVxxm
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) December 30, 2025
Without naming names, Walz referenced Trump’s commutation of GPB Capital founder and CEO David Gentile, writing, “What is not helpful is the president of the United States demonizing an entire community or pardoning someone single-handedly responsible for $1.6 billion in fraud.”
Earning teeth-gnashing from the left, the chief executive granted clemency to Gentile after he had served 12 days of a seven-year sentence, having been convicted of fraud charges for misrepresenting his private equity fund’s success to investors.
Of course, the governor wasn’t done railing about the president, as he also fired off a response from his official account after HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill laid out exactly how the executive branch was responding to widespread fraud.
“This is Trump’s long game. We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue — but this has been his plan all along. He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans,” tried Walz as O’Neill and Assistant Secretary Alex J. Adams of the Administration for Children and Families outlined how, “We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota.”
This is Trump’s long game.
We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue – but this has been his plan all along.
He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans. https://t.co/7ByWjeXxu0
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) December 31, 2025
Demanding an audit of the centers was only part of the crackdown on fraud, as O’Neill explained, HHS has also activated the “defend the spend system for all ACF payments” in the country, requiring documented justification for access to the money in addition to launching a fraud-reporting hotline. “We have turned off the money spigot.”
The White House’s Rapid Response X account had a simple response for Walz, recycling the president’s Thanksgiving message with a focus on the line about the state executive in question that read, “The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both,” referring specifically to the outcome of “hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia … completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota.”
The account shared the message with the caption, “*taps the Truth*,” while others called Walz out for his “Pathetic” attempt at playing the blame game.
*taps the Truth* https://t.co/pMU7Q6ZhK3 pic.twitter.com/JZPiBHVqtD
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 31, 2025
After days of silence, your response to the fraud allegations is to blame Trump?
Pathetic. Even for you.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 30, 2025
Translation: you’ve known about the massive and systemic fraud going on in your state for years and have done nothing — and you have done nothing because you believed it worked in your favor.
— Joe Norman (@normonics) December 30, 2025
It’s funny how a young YouTuber found $111,000,000 in fraud in one afternoon.
Tim Walz is a liar or incompetent. Probably both!
— JJ (@JINVISIBLEWOMAN) December 31, 2025
*Tens of billions of dollars of fraud discovered in Minnesota*
Tampon Tim: “It’s all Trump’s fault!”
Lol. This doesn’t work anymore. You are going to have to answer for this.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 31, 2025
“this is Trump’s long game” pic.twitter.com/8maO5y1LU3
— Joel Grus 🤠 (@joelgrus) December 31, 2025
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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