Tim Walz is, in himself, not a particularly interesting man.
He has always been rather petty and stupid, with the intellectual and political depth of a puddle after a spring drizzle. Like many a petty and stupid man, he likes to puff up his resume, pretend to be more important than he is, and use decibels and large gestures to simulate passion and leadership abilities.
He is, literally, the assistant coach who tells everybody he coached his team to the big game, or the soldier who bails from deployment while claiming to be a war hero.
Yet the career of Tim Walz is, in fact, interesting. Very interesting, actually, since this petty and stupid man nearly rose to the top of the political heap despite having no talent, a dodgy background, and, under scrutiny, a story that stands up as well as a Potemkin village in a blizzard.
As everybody focuses on Walz's ignominious exit from politics, Americans should pay less attention to the specifics of Walz's career arc and more to the question of why the state and national Democratic Party looked to Walz as a model politician worthy of elevating to the Vice Presidency.
The scale and scope of the fraud being revealed in Minnesota are yet unknown. However, the former is likely "tens of billions of dollars" and the latter is being "everything not nailed down," but one thing is clear. Everybody in Democratic Party circles had to know what was going on, at least at some level.
After all, the prosecutions were ongoing for years. Keith Ellison, who was Deputy Chairman of the Democratic National Committee while a Congressman and is now Minnesota Attorney General, was an active player in the Feeding Our Future scandal, and Biden's FBI, which presumably helped vet Walz for his position as Vice Presidential candidate, was the lead investigator on the fraud.
Average Americans may just be hearing about all this corruption, but among politicos here in Minnesota, the basics were common knowledge. American Experiment, a Minnesota think tank, has been on it for years; Sahel Journal and The Minnesota Reformer, two independent news outlets, have been reporting on the story. The local mainstream "newspaper", The Star Tribune (published by a Walz friend and former appointee, of course), has not, which explains why few Minnesotans knew.
I don’t think we fully acknowledged how creepy Gwen Walz was. https://t.co/uGMguvUqmO pic.twitter.com/4amSETyGcu
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) December 31, 2024
What makes Walz interesting, then, is that it was he, among all the candidates, that the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris in particular chose as the next Vice President of the United States.
Anybody with half a brain and the wit to think about what this means knows that Tim Walz wasn't picked despite the corruption, but BECAUSE of the corruption. They knew that their pets in Pravda would smother the story with a pillow, as they have for years, and that no enterprising reporters at any of the major networks would do the deep dive to expose the rot. And none of them did, despite having a roadmap provided to them.
Instead, they took this rather unpleasant and vapid man and tried to turn him into an everyman who could "code talk" to rural white men.
Why? It's obvious: fraud is what funds the Democratic Party and its entire political operation. Welfare fraud. Contracting fraud. Small business loan fraud. Insider trading. The big mistake the Democratic Party made was thinking that Walz was any good at it. He never was; he existed as a cipher in a state where the establishment all wanted the grift to go on, and he was enjoying the ride.
If you want to understand how bad the fraud was in Minnesota, here is a picture of Tim Walz giving an award to one of the convicted Feeding Our Future fraudsters for her fraudulent businesses. pic.twitter.com/J3BSGKDWVe
— AG (@AGHamilton29) January 5, 2026
Half of all Medicaid spending in Minnesota is fraudulent. Billions of dollars. If you think that all stayed in the hands of third-world scammers here and in Somalia, you need your head examined.
Where do you think all that money that gets distributed through ActBlue smurfing comes from? It's not just George Soros. It comes from YOU.
Tim Walz is being forced out to cauterize the wound. To distract from all the fraud in other states.
Somaliagate: Where the Somalis keep grifting and the government keeps giving. The Somali Museum of Minneapolis is raking in millions of dollars from government bonding funds and grants so the Somalis can do Somalia in Minnesota. No wonder the employees at the museum love ActBlue… pic.twitter.com/PPr4CArDMW
— Saint James Hartline (@JamesHartline) January 4, 2026
Minnesota has less than 2% of the US population. California makes up 12%. You do the math. It is a state that can pull off a heist like the California High Speed Rail project without anybody going to jail.
It's given us Gavin Newsom. It gave us Kamala Harris. Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell.
Tim Walz had to go because the quicker this fraud story dies through Pravda strangulation, the better.
Tim Walz Retiring To Spend More Time In Prison https://t.co/3KxW5hLayB pic.twitter.com/B7YV7NhKP6
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 5, 2026
Will it work? It's hard to say. If it is true that Amy Klobuchar will jump into the Minnesota governor's race, she is almost sure to win. To that extent, it will work. Minnesota will remain in Democratic Party hands.
CNN was just forced to explain on air why Governor Tim Walz dropped out of the Minnesota governor’s race.
— Overton (@overton_news) January 5, 2026
And their viewers are not going to like what they heard...especially when they admitted:
“This comes as pressure has been growing around this widening welfare fraud… https://t.co/xgaQV0CAu4 pic.twitter.com/DDUrylHTFZ
CNN was just forced to explain on air why Governor Tim Walz dropped out of the Minnesota governor’s race.
And their viewers are not going to like what they heard...especially when they admitted:
“This comes as pressure has been growing around this widening welfare fraud scandal.”
This was the same story they tried to avoid covering at all costs.
CNN: “Big breaking political news out of Minnesota.”
“Governor Tim Walz, who, of course, was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2024, has ended his reelection bid for governor.”
“He is not going to run for reelection.”
“This comes as pressure has been growing around this widening welfare fraud scandal. Now, Walz has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but it has been a growing political headache.”
“Over the holidays, it certainly did widen.”
“There was a right wing influencer who posted a viral video on social media that quite literally went viral when the vice president of the United States and the FBI director leaned in on this.”
“And it shined a spotlight on what had been some deep concerns among Minnesota Democrats, even about the wisdom of Governor Walz seeking a third term.”
“They believe that this would hang over the entire reelection effort and perhaps even damage the Democratic Party.”
But Minnesota is not the big prize, and it's hard to see how, now that an "Army of Davids" has been unleashed to ferret out fraud, other scandals won't break out nationwide. Most will remain unprosecuted if for no other reason than that the sheer scale of so many difficult to prosecute white collar cases is beyond the capacity of even the federal government to follow through on.
But a lot of damage will be done, and the Trump administration may flood the zone in Blue states, and there may be some more scalps.
KLOBUCHAR LIKELY TO RUN: A source close to Senator Amy Klobuchar tells me this morning “in the event Governor Walz decides not to run” she will likely run for governor, saying she is “getting outreach from people encouraging her to run, and is seriously considering it." @kstp pic.twitter.com/VI8t4V3zRw
— Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) January 5, 2026
Tim Walz has gone from hero to goat for the same reason: his corruption. Democrats wanted somebody who got away with it on an industrial scale, but who wouldn't outshine Harris. Walz seemed to fit the bill. What they missed was how brittle Walz the man was, and how powerful social media can be.
Walz is, despite his national profile, small potatoes. There are much bigger frauds out there.
Go get them.
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