There are 3 ways to get to Washington.
A technique is to get elected.
The second is to be invited.
The third is to get subpoenaed.
Embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, together with Kamala Harris, did not get elected and has balked at a Congressional invitation to testify on huge welfare fraud in his state beneath his watch.
So, he’ll quickly arrive within the nation’s Capitol anyway, this time beneath a subpoena.
“I feel Tim Waltz higher lawyer up,” Rep. James Comer, chairman of the Home Oversight Committee, which is probing huge Minnesota welfare fraud, mentioned.
The scandal has already led to Waltz’s resolution to drop his marketing campaign for a 3rd time period. Nonetheless, critics have known as for him to outright resign.
Veteran U.S Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the third-ranking Democrat within the Home, mentioned, “Tim ought to do the appropriate factor and resign. And if he doesn’t, I feel he is perhaps leaving in cuffs.”
Waltz, relatively than take accountability for the sweeping fraud that passed off beneath his administration, has tried to shift the blame to President Trump.
The Republican managed Congress, in the meantime, and the American folks, frankly, need to know the way Waltz turned Minnesota, the bucolic “Land of 10,000 Lakes” into the dirty “Land of 10,000 Fakes.”
It’s apparent that huge welfare theft by fakers — lots of whom are conniving Somali immigrants — had lots to do with it.
And all of it passed off throughout Waltz’s two phrases as governor. The surprise is how Kamala Harris ever selected this creepy blowhard as her 2024 vice presidential operating mate. Somebody needed to be drunk.
To this point, the U.S. Justice Division has charged 98 folks, largely Somali immigrants, with fraud, 64 of whom have already been convicted. It’s estimated that some $9 billion in federal assist applications has been stolen, however the determine could possibly be even increased.
Congress now desires to know what Waltz knew concerning the huge fraud and when he knew it.
Welfare fraud in Minnesota by so many individuals beneath Waltz’s governorship was so large, unhealthy and daring that it’s a surprise that there’s something left price stealing.
Not solely have been the taxpayers ripped off as Somali criminals stole tens of millions, however the reliable providers offered of individuals in want of assist, like SNAP meals help and childcare, suffered and are nonetheless struggling
All of this may occasionally account for Walz’s pathetic and determined try and divert consideration from the welfare scandal by roiling Minneapolis protesters over the capturing of the girl who appeared to assault an ICE agent together with her car.
Amongst his inflammatory remarks about calling out the Minnesota Nationwide Guard to guard folks from federal brokers legally charged with deporting legal unlawful immigrants, Waltz known as the federal officer “a rogue agent.”
When all of it comes out, we simply would possibly discover out — if there have been any earlier doubt–that the primary rogue in Minnesota was Waltz. And he might have been a heartbeat away from the presidency.
If that doesn’t make you shudder, nothing will.
The one surprise is why President Donald Trump has not but despatched in a few Black Hawk helicopters to St. Paul or Minneapolis to scoop up the soon-to-be-indicted Waltz the best way he did with former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in Caracas.
Unlikely, after all, however that’s what Maduro thought, too.
Moreover, Minneapolis will not be Caracas. It simply appears that manner.
And with Trump, you by no means know.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas will be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
