Episode 12: Tim Walz Complicit in Somali Fraud?

Episode 12 of The Reagan Faulkner Show, “Tim Walz Complicit in Somali Fraud?”, argues that Minnesota governor and former 2024 vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz bears direct responsibility for a series of fraud schemes tied to Somali-linked nonprofits and autism clinics that allegedly stole over a billion dollars from state and federal taxpayers. The host centers on the Feeding Our Future scandal and related cases, noting that dozens of defendants have been convicted and highlighting a statement from a Minnesota Department of Human Services employee group representing about 480 staff that accuses Walz of knowing about the fraud for nearly five years and doing nothing, even as he pursued higher office and a third term as governor.​

The episode portrays Walz as politically weak and ideologically captured, recalling his vice-presidential debate performance against JD Vance, the “tampon Tim” controversy, and what the host describes as pandering to “radical gender ideology.” It further claims that Walz rewarded friends and allies with political jobs inside the state bureaucracy, that some of these allies may have been involved in or aware of the fraud, and that Walz discouraged auditors from fully investigating red flags while later issuing a generic statement condemning fraud as a way to distance himself from a scandal he allegedly enabled.​

From there, the show widens its focus to the Democratic Party, asserting that Democrats routinely platform “radical” figures like Ilhan Omar and other left-wing candidates while branding them as protectors of democracy. The host contrasts Walz’s criticism of Donald Trump’s revocation of Temporary Protected Status for some Somali immigrants with allegations that Somali actors in the scandal offshored stolen funds to foreign terrorist groups, arguing this justifies strict immigration enforcement. The episode closes with a call for moderate Democrats to stop “blindly” voting blue and for conservatives to end infighting, unite behind an America First agenda, and expose what it characterizes as a double standard that aggressively prosecutes Trump while minimizing alleged wrongdoing by Democratic officials.

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Come back to the Reagan Faulkner show. So last week, we talked about the Somalian fraud taking place in Minnesota. And upon recent social media postings and new information, we have to ask the question was Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota complicit in this complicit in this billion dollar fraud that took place against Minnesota taxpayers and just national taxpayers as a whole, some of these programs were federally funded. So what's been going on what I'm talking about. So the 78th person in the feeding our futures scandal was he received new charges. And with that came more information about Tim Walz is potential impact on the fraud. So, so far, 58 people have been convicted over $1 billion in taxpayer funds that being Minnesota taxpayers and national taxpayers have been stolen from three specific separate scandals. We talked about the feeding our futures scandal, and our Somalian autism scandal with those autism clinics. So those were two of the three. And we talked about all that last week. So if you haven't watched that yet, go check it out. It provides a lot of context as to what we're talking about today. But we see President Trump cracking down on immigration, we see the ice raids, we see him revoking the temporary protected status of the Somalians in Minnesota, we see him really after the Afghan attack of last week, the Afghan national attacking the two national guardsmen, we see a really, really intense crackdown. So as Trump is cracking down on this exposing rampant crime, exposing the abuses of government, and the this this fraud in Minnesota is getting a lot more media attention. And then you also have to look at Tim Walz. I mean, he's the governor of Minnesota and the former 2024 vice presidential candidate. So he has a lot that he needs to own up to as well, if he was involved in this in any way. And that's really what's furthering this scandal is his potential involvement or at least knowledge and not stopping the fraud at an absolute minimum. So over 400 individuals working for the Minnesota Department of Human Services have come out against Tim Walz in a statement that they posted to X. And these aren't just individual whistleblowers or some vague claims of like, oh, I don't like Tim Walz, I think he was involved or anything like that. This is an intense amount of people coming out as a united front against Tim Walz all with the exact same statement. So the Minnesota Department of Human Services employee account on X, this is made up of about 480 employees, or I guess represents not made up of, but it represents 480 employees within this department. It released a message claiming that Walz was fully and completely responsible for the fraud. I think the exact quote was Tim Walz is 100% responsible for the fraud. And employees have come out claiming that not only is he responsible for it, but he was fully and completely aware of the fraud of the waste of the abuse of exactly what was happening of who was perpetuating this scandal, and he did nothing to stop it. And they said that these whistleblowers said that they had been saying this that they've been telling Tim Walz this since the start, which was an astonishing five years ago when this started. So potentially, Tim Walz could have known about this for almost five years, he could have known about this the entire time he was running for vice president, which was like a little over 100 days. So I guess it's pretty easy to keep a secret like this for a little over 100 days for a really just briefly put together really bad campaign. But you know, did he know about this while he was running? Was he keeping it hidden? Was he too distracted by his vice presidential aspirations to, you know, try to handle this situation that was going on in his home state. And even more astonishing, he's seeking his third term. After all of this after his failed vice presidential bid after the just absolutely doomed Kamala Harris campaign after everything that was exposed about him during the campaign. He's still trying to run even after this, he's still trying to run. But the whistleblowers have accused him of quote, monitoring threats and repression. So they're accusing him of monitoring them watching them, they didn't get specific potentially monitoring social media or messaging, I would assume, direct threats and repression. So trying to silence them or silence these allegations, these, um, you know, them telling him what's going on. And I think it's really interesting. We look at the 2024 election cycle, and the Democrats really, really tried to push this image of the all American man and they wanted Tim Walz to be the front runner. They wanted to put Tim Walz as this picture perfect all American man, he's a Democrat, but he enjoys sports, he enjoys shooting, I'm sure you remember the embarrassing video of him trying to shoot his gun. And he just quite frankly, had no clue what he was trying to do there. Um, him working on his car, they were like, look at Tim Walz, this masculine Democrat, picture perfect American, all this stuff. And nobody really fell for it. It was embarrassing. It was completely emasculating for Tim Walz. I actually do feel slightly sorry for him, because it was just embarrassing. It made him look like a joke. But really, the crux of Tim Walz's failed bid vice president aside from Kamala Harris, and just how badly she failed. It was his sheer incompetence during the JD Vance debate. I mean, he just stared into the camera like a lost puppy. He had no clue what was happening. He ended up agreeing with JD Vance on probably more than any of the policies he argued against JD for it wasn't even really a debate. It was JD presenting facts and Tim Walz being like, yeah, you know, you're right. There was no very little back and forth and the memes the next day, the social media posts that tick tocks were just insane because he failed so badly, he could not stand on his own two feet against an adversary like that of JD Vance. And we saw his pandering just his sheer pandering when he got dubbed tampon Tim, because he cowered down to radical gender ideology and advocated for putting tampons in the men's bathroom, which, if somebody can leave a comment and explain to me how that makes sense, I would greatly appreciate it because I'm still not understanding anything about how that works. But he just cowered down to this radical gender ideology. He is afraid of his base. He is not able to hold a debate against somebody that's as sharp as JD Vance. And a lot of people they thought of Tim Walz as Oh, he's unqualified. He's just kind of came out of nowhere. He's even a little goofy. He's a little goofy working on his car. But I don't think anybody expected something like this to come out where we see Tim Walz complicit in billion dollar scandal committed by one of America's largest diaspora groups. I don't think anybody expected to see that headline, maybe him doing something else weird, like the tampon situation, but committing billion dollar fraud, or at least being complicit in it and not stopping it is absolutely shocking, completely shocking for somebody like Tim Walz. And even as he's being accused of all of this, he's, he's getting further accusations as well. He's being accused of getting political jobs, jobs within the Department of Human Services and other political jobs, political favors to his friends, and even protecting them from just during the fallout of this Somalian fraud case, he's being accused of giving out these political jobs of protecting his friends of protecting his buddies of protecting people within these rules. And it's also alleged from some of these high ranking employees and government officials within the DHS that not only were his friends and his buddies and these people that he gave these political jobs and political favors to not only were they aware of the fraud, but they may have even been engaging in it. And that's absolutely insane that Tim Walz is associating himself with people who could be actually trying to profit off of this billion dollar scandal. So some of these people have resigned, some have been fired from what the media is saying, but it doesn't appear that anybody's actually had criminal charges taken out against them, which is really interesting if they actually were part of the problem in perpetuating this scandal and this fraud. So Walz has fired back against the allegations and even fired back against Donald Trump, and he gave a really weak cop-out statement. I don't know what else we would have expected from Tim Walz, but he basically said that fraud is bad, fraud undermines trust in the government, and it undermines trust in government officials, and that it's just bad, you shouldn't commit fraud. He went on to say that anybody who perpetuates fraud should go to jail, it doesn't matter who you are, what you believe in, where you're from, anything like that. But that really begs the question, if these allegations are accurate, is he going to stand by that for his friends or for other government officials? Does it really include everybody, or is he just saying that to try to cop out of his knowledge of this and not stopping it? I guess we'll find out as more charges come out and as more people are brought in for questioning and as the investigation continues. But he also fired back against President Trump, like I said, and Trump's revocation of the temporary protected status of the Somalians, specifically in Minnesota. And he just said, other people were involved too, you can't target this whole, this whole immigrant population, because there were other people that were involved that weren't immigrants that were regular old Americans. Again, is he talking about his friends? We don't know yet. But he was saying, no, other people were involved too. So don't target this entire diaspora group that is really behind it. When you look at all the people that were charged and the 58 that have been convicted so far, like literally the majority of them, literally, there's a list of names that has been posted online. They are almost all foreign. It is not like a 50-50 or a 75 American 25 Somalian. It is an insane amount of the Somalians that have been involved. So while other people were involved in Tim Walz isn't exactly wrong, I guess. And the Somalians have also been offshoring the money to foreign terrorist groups. So I think that's really where Trump is revoking their temporary protected status. It's not just because I mean, a, they are here as a as a service as a gift as a generosity of the Americans because their country's in turmoil, and then they're stealing billions of dollars from taxpayers. So I mean, that's one reason to revoke their TPS. But also, when you're sending us taxpayer money to groups that hate us and want to destroy us, I think that's also reason to send you home. I mean, if you're in, you know, think about being in high school, go back to when you're in high school. If you're in high school now, think about if you went and did drugs on your high school trip, you're going to be sent home, you're going to face punishment, your school is not going to be like, Oh, yeah, we brought you on this amazing trip to wherever it is, you might go. I know, um, my high school or one of the high schools I went to, they went to Atlanta, like we took you on this great trip to Atlanta, and you're breaking school policy, and you're breaking the student code of conduct. But it's okay, we'll let you keep doing it. Like, nowhere does that colleges don't do that. If you went on a study abroad, and you broke a foreign law, you're you're coming home. So I don't understand why Tim Walz and other politicians think that people that are here from the generosity of Americans hearts trying to take them away from a terrible situation in their home country, why they should be allowed to come here, break our laws, steal our money, send them to people that want to destroy us and then be like, Oh, it's okay. Other people committed it to you can stay here like no, that's insane. That is absolutely wild. No, no other country would do that. I think JD Vance said something along the lines of, yes, our country, this is going, you know, against the the Democrats, the left that says, Well, we were built by immigrants, so we should keep immigrants. Well, JD said, just because our country was, you know, built by and helped by immigrants and immigration doesn't mean we need to have the dumbest immigration policies of all time. I think that just goes perfectly with this. If people are breaking the law, after they have come to the US and not fully and completely become legal citizens, they should have to go home or they should have to go to jail. And if they go to jail, personally, I don't think that the US taxpayers should pay for them to be in jail when they could just go home. But aside from all that, that was completely aside from everything we were trying to talk about. I got on a tangent there. Tim Walz is again failing to see the complexity of the situation. He is choosing to play identity politics, he's choosing to side with the minority group, he's choosing to play the hand of empathy and oh, we need to give them a second chance and all that, instead of actually taking responsibility for his part of the scandal and trying to solve the issue and prevent it from happening again. So he actually was asked if he takes responsibility, a reporter asked you take responsibility for the scandal or for the fraud or for anything that happened. And he said that he will take responsibility for putting the people in jail, the people that committed the fraud, he'll take responsibility for that, which is kind of crazy to me. That's the role of the state auditor's office for finding the fraud, following the paper trail, figuring out who's involved, law enforcement, police for arresting people, the district attorney's office for going to court and continuing to conduct the investigation with the state auditor's office. A lot of different government entities and individuals are involved, but Tim Walz is definitely not the one putting people behind bars. If anything, he's the one that allowed people to not go behind bars for maybe close to five years. He could completely be complicit in that, but no, he wants to take responsibility for solving the whole thing, putting them in jail, putting this whole mess behind him so he can run for his third term. He's also actually, funny enough, he's been accused of preventing the state auditor's office from actually doing their job. He's been accused of encouraging and allowing them to ignore inconsistencies, to ignore findings in their audits that were not what those entities normally report that were misleading or concerning or questionable. He told them it was fine to just give them the check mark and the green light to move on and do business as usual without further investigation. And, I mean, how many years was that going on? How many years ago did the state auditor's office realize that something was amiss and that there might be, at that point, it might have only been tens of millions of dollars or maybe a hundred million dollars instead of a billion dollars, but they couldn't do their job. Walz would rather allow one of the largest cases of fraud against the U.S. government and against U.S. taxpayers to take place and then take credit for busting it, to take credit for just solving the whole thing and putting everybody in jail, then just admit that he was incompetent, admit that he might have been complicit, admit that he wants his political friends to stay out of jail, throw away the third term, just go live on his farm or wherever he lives, whatever he does, keep being a Boy Scout coach or whatever, just put it all behind him and move on. He could do that, but instead he just wants to keep perpetuating this fraud and then hiding, even though it really, as the leader of the state, it really does, the buck stops with him. It really does stop with him. And through all this, it really makes you wonder who the left is endorsing. I mean, they disguised Tim Walz as this all-American man's man that liked his gun and his car like we talked about, and they're pushing foreign socialists like Mamdani, radical foreign feminists like Ilhan Omar, Somalian Muslims with limited loyalty to America like Omar Fattah, who's running for mayor of Minneapolis, and then we have scandalous snakes like Tim Walz that are allowing fraud to fester, they're allowing money laundering, they're allowing money to be offshore to groups that literally want to destroy America. Like, who are they endorsing nowadays? Because we don't see just normal everyday people like JFK, just normal Democrats. We are seeing just absolutely radical Marxist, socialist, Islamic, criminal individuals being endorsed by the Democratic Party and being platformed by them. Why should we trust any of their candidates? Why should we trust anything that they say? Why should we trust any of these people when they're disguising their candidates and they're just these terrible people that hate America and they're being advertised as the protectors of democracy, just like the Seditious Six that we talked about a few days ago. I mean, it just really, really is crazy who they're advocating for and platforming and pushing for. And it's time for us to realize that the left is pushing a radical campaign to indoctrinate Americans, to make Americans distrust our government, and then to push for Marxism, communism, socialism. They're pushing for all of it. They're doing it through, oh, we're advocating for public programs. We're advocating for helping the impoverished or the homeless or advocating for mental health programs. No, they're pushing for socialism, which is going to turn into communism, which is going to fail, and it's going to destroy our country. And Americans, if we don't realize this, and I'm speaking specifically, if anybody in this category listens to my show, specifically, I'm talking to the people left of center that aren't full-on radical left, not even identify as left, maybe still identify as traditional Democrats. You have to stop just blindly voting blue and checking the box because some of these people actually are crazy and some of these people do want to destroy America. They do want to see America fail. They do want to see the demise of our constitution. And if people who vote blue, but they don't really know why, just keep voting blue, then we really are doomed as a country. That's an entire sect of people that could stop this. And as controversial as this is, although I don't understand why it's controversial, conservatives really, really, really need to stop with the infighting. We need to stop with the, oh, I'm more conservative than you. Well, I'm more MAGA than you. Well, I'm more America First than you. We all just need to come together as conservatives because it's impossible for a fragmented group, like what the conservative party is at the moment, to fight against an absolutely amazing propaganda machine, this unified entity that is the democratic party, that is the democratic socialists of America. They're backed by billionaires. They're packed by politicians. They're backed by grassroots and potentially they're even backed by foreign nations because why else would people like Tim Walz be allowing US taxpayer dollars to get offshore to random foreign groups and terrorists? We don't know who these people are backed by, but the conservatives can't just stay fragmented like this if we actually want to stop this and we actually want to win and we actually do want to save America. We need to call the bluff of the democratic party and the democratic candidates. We need to call out the hypocrisy that politicians like Tim Walz and Joe Biden can perpetuate crime and fraud and all whatever they've been doing, Joe Biden protecting Hunter, just all of the criminal activity they've been doing that we can brush that aside and pretend like it didn't happen or pretend like it's political persecution and then we want to put Trump in court every time he sneezes wrong. The Republicans and Americans as a whole have a duty to call out that hypocrisy. It is a double standard and it is just genuinely wild to see it taking place in America. We have to step up and stop it or else we really are doomed against just the machine that is the democratic party right now, their propaganda and their fraud and criminal activity. Americans need to stand up. We need to say no more of it, no more hypocrisy. Everybody's being treated on it, even playing field from now on and really just get to the bottom of what's happening in our country because it's absolutely insane right now. Thank y'all so much for joining me on today's episode of The Reagan-Faulkner Show. If you want more, check us out on Spotify, YouTube. We're on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook. You're going to find us at The Reagan-Faulkner Show and at The Wilmington Standard. And remember to check out our websites, thewilmingtonstandard.com and reaganfaulkner.com. Thank y'all so much and see you on the next one.