Max Nestorak

And al-Shabaab is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization that runs parts of Somalia.

And days later, President Trump calls Somali immigrants garbage and unleashes a torrent of other attacks on Somalis and draws national attention to Minnesota.

I should note that prosecutors have said that greed has been the motivating factor for these fraudsters, not ideology.

Prosecutors say they don't have evidence of people intentionally funding terrorist groups.

That said, al-Shabaab controls parts of Somalia.

So if people send money home...

that money likely, some of it likely ends up in the hands of al-Shabaab because they charge taxes or rather extort people.

All right.

So Chris Ruffo, who is an activist journalist, went out on a limb with the funding terrorism claim.

However, in his article, he points out that there was massive fraud and that local officials, most of whom, as I understand it, were Democrats, did not root it out.

This happened on their watch.

Yeah, that's right.

You know, Democrats have always condemned the fraud.

And Governor Tim Walz has said they take strong action against people accused and those people go to jail.

But I have to say the sheer scope of it is really an indictment of the Walz administration's ability to steward public resources.

And I think it's underscored that all of these social service programs have really been run on the belief that everyone is honest.

And I think that goes back to a tradition here in Minnesota of a Scandinavian style, high tax, high services government that is trusting and doesn't have the checks in place to prevent abuse.

How do we get from Chris Ruffo's expose, which included some truths as well as some unproven stuff, to Tim Walz resigning?

So pressure has been mounting for months.

The House Republicans created a committee, a fraud oversight committee.