President Donald Trump on Saturday escalated his attacks on Minnesota’s Democratic leadership, blasting what he described as a sprawling welfare and daycare fraud scandal and renewing personal assaults on Rep. Ilhan Omar and Gov. Tim Walz.
In an early-morning post on Truth Social, Trump claimed the scale of alleged fraud in Minnesota far exceeded earlier estimates. “The Theft and Fraud in Minnesota is far greater than the 19 Billion Dollars originally projected,” Trump wrote, accusing the Biden administration of having prior knowledge of the activity and failing to intervene. “The Biden Administration knew this FRAUD was happening, and did absolutely nothing about it.”
Trump then singled out Omar and Walz by name, intensifying rhetoric that has defined his long-running feud with both Democrats. Referring to Omar as a “scammer,” Trump suggested she and her associates should face criminal punishment or deportation, while accusing Walz of either corruption or gross incompetence for failing to stop the alleged schemes.
Trump has frequently targeted Omar in speeches and on social media, accusing her of fraud, questioning her loyalty and suggesting she should be removed from the country. He has also repeatedly alleged that Omar committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother, a claim she has consistently denied.
The president renewed those attacks earlier this week after Omar was sprayed with a liquid during a Minneapolis town hall, suggesting without evidence that the incident may have been staged.
Omar has said Trump’s rhetoric directly contributes to threats against her, arguing that each round of attacks fuels harassment and death threats directed at her and the broader Somali community. She has previously described Trump as “racist,” “bigoted,” “xenophobic,” and “Islamophobic” in response to his comments.
The latest remarks come amid ongoing federal investigations into large-scale fraud schemes in Minnesota. Dozens of individuals — many of them Somali-born or Somali American — have been prosecuted in cases involving food assistance programs and autism services, with federal prosecutors alleging that hundreds of millions of dollars were siphoned from taxpayer-funded benefits. Separate probes have examined alleged fraud within the state’s daycare system, further fueling political scrutiny.
Trump has repeatedly linked Walz to those scandals, accusing the governor of failed leadership as investigations have expanded. The two have clashed publicly multiple times since Walz became Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, with Trump using Minnesota’s fraud cases as a central line of attack.
That feud has grown increasingly personal. In a previous Truth Social post, Trump used an offensive slur to insult Walz, prompting condemnation from Democrats and civil rights groups and deepening the political rift between the two camps.
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Just about everything he said about her is true and proven. But unfortunately there is nothing she can do that would get her deported. She’s a US citizen, so deportation is not an option. And so far no one has alleged there was any irregularity in her naturalization, so it can’t be undone.
US naturalization works like geirus. If you find the original giyur was invalid, then the person was never a Jew in the first place; but once someone has had a valid giyur nothing can change it, even if they later return to avoda zara, and do every aveira in the Torah.