Tim Walz Shamed After Trying to Take Credit for Federal Raids on Somali-Owned Minnesota Businesses

Americans rarely remember those who held the nation’s second-highest office (quick: name Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president), let alone those who sought the vice presidency and lost.

Now, assuming posterity stoops to notice Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, it will forever associate him with massive fraud.

In the wake of reports early Tuesday that the FBI and local authorities in Minnesota had raided nearly two dozen businesses — most of them Somali-owned — as part of a fraud investigation, Walz went on the social media platform X and tried to take partial credit for the raid, only to encounter reminders from X users that Walz himself both enabled the fraud and not long ago fought the federal government tooth and nail over it.

“If you commit fraud in Minnesota you’re going to get caught — and that’s exactly what we saw today,” Walz wrote. “We catch criminals when state