The Trump administration fumbled its Minnesota advantage when it emphasized ICE over DOJ. The Minnesota fraud scandal was exploding; it was huge and blatant; Democrats were thoroughly enmeshed in it; and it looked to reach beyond Minnesota – all the way to Somalia and terror organizations. The administration should have put all its emphasis on the DOJ’s investigation there. Instead, it sent ICE into a hotbed of extremism at a time when Democrats desperately needed their fraud scandal to disappear.
The Minnesota federal payment scandal appears gargantuan – even in context of the fraud-plagued federal COVID programs. As of early January, the administration had already charged 98 defendants in Minnesota alone, obtained 64 convictions, issued over 1,750 subpoenas, held over 1,000 witness interviews, and executed over 130 search warrants.
Further, Democrats were implicated in the Minnesota scandal. Fraud of this size, scope, and duration does not take place unless its perpetrators are so sure they will not be caught that they become blatant about it. Such assurance only comes in one of two ways: indirectly, from long experience of having not been caught, or directly, from the perpetrators being told they will not be investigated.
The Democrats were guilty of either complicity or incompetence. Both were damning.
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