One falsehood tends to lead to another, and then another…
During a November 30 appearence on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker asked Governor Walz: “Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud in your state?”
He replied:
Well, certainly, I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
As even Politifact noted, Gov. Walz has put exactly nobody in jail for the billions of dollars in fraud committed against Minnesota’s taxpayers on his watch. Everybody who has been prosecuted and convicted has been prosecuted and convicted by the federal authorities.
Minnesota’s media followed up last Tuesday. When a reporter asked Gov. Walz why he would claim state leaders were “putting people in jail” when all the Feeding Our Future prosecutions so far have come from federal authorities, the Governor replied:
We’re the ones who brought it to them. We’re the ones who alerted the FBI.
This isn’t true.
St. Paul’s outgoing mayor Melvin Carter repeated this false narrative, embellishing it with more details, like a prosecution by Attorney General Keith Ellison. This is pure fantasy: it never happened, Mayor Carter made it up.
Kare 11’s Lou Raguse did a fine job of debunking these lies:
With such a staggering willingness to misrepresent the reality of fraud in Minnesota, it isn’t hard to see why there is so much of it.
