Things are getting testy in the political world. A storm is certainly brewing.
And impeachment articles have been filed in a move that has both Republicans and Democrats perplexed.
A Minnesota Republican lawmaker has launched impeachment articles against Democratic Governor Tim Walz, who’s drowning in a sea of corruption allegations tied to billions in stolen taxpayer dollars.
The scandal exploded into the spotlight after federal prosecutor Joseph Thompson dropped bombshells in a press conference last month, revealing that as much as $9 billion of public funds might have vanished under Walz’s watch, with much of it linked to Somali communities in the state.
GOP State Representative Mike Wiener didn’t mince words when he announced the action on his Facebook page this Monday, declaring war on what he sees as rampant Democratic mismanagement.
“I have officially filed Articles of Impeachment against Governor Tim Walz, initiating the impeachment process in the Minnesota House of Representatives,” he said in his post.
These impeachment articles hit Walz hard, charging him with corrupt behavior and breaking his sworn oath to the people of Minnesota.
Diving deeper, the documents lay out four d*mning claims: that Walz deliberately hid massive fraud in the state’s Department of Human Services even after getting multiple alerts; that he meddled in proper investigations and oversight; that he put his political agenda ahead of running the government by the book; and that he flat-out ignored state laws meant to protect public money.
Wiener pulled no punches in his chat with Newsweek, blasting the Democrats for turning a blind eye to the chaos.
“Democrat control of our state has led to 9 billion dollars of fraud that we currently know about,” Wiener said to the outlet.
“Governor Walz said ‘the buck stops with him.’ Since he refused to resign the next step is impeachment. Our taxpayers are demanding this, and if the Democrats don’t support the impeachment they are complicit with the fraud.”
For this impeachment to gain traction, it’ll need to clear hurdles in a divided Minnesota legislature, where both the House and Senate are locked at 67 seats apiece for Republicans and Democrats, per Newsweek.
Wiener knows the score – he’s counting on at least one Democrat on a key committee to cross the aisle and vote with him to push it to a full House debate.
Thompson’s revelations paint a grim picture of 14 different taxpayer-backed programs that have been bleeding money since 2018, totaling a whopping $18 billion in spending.
The prosecutor didn’t hold back, suggesting that fraud could account for half of that amount or more, turning Minnesota into a laughingstock of fiscal irresponsibility.
“I think we’re an outlier in a bad way,” Thompson stated. “You don’t see fraud on this scale in other states. … Every day we look under a rock and find a new $50 million fraud scheme. That shouldn’t be the case in a state of our size. Certainly other states have problems with frauds, but I think our problem is unique.”
Walz, scrambling to defend his tarnished record, has dismissed Thompson’s findings as overhyped nonsense, insisting there’s zero proof the theft hits that $9 billion mark.
Adding fuel to the fire, Walz recently bowed out of running for re-election this year, dropping a wordy statement that reeks of deflection, pinning the blame on the Trump administration for supposedly targeting his state amid the Justice Department’s probes, per The Daily Wire.
“Like many Minnesotans, I was glad to turn the page on 2025. It was an extraordinarily difficult year for our state. And it ended on a particularly sour note,” the governor stated.
This whole mess screams of the kind of elite Democratic incompetence that’s leaving hardworking Americans footing the bill for unchecked waste and fraud.
