Radical Democrat Governor Tim Walz is at it again.
Years after he sat back and watched Minneapolis burn during the 2020 BLM riots, Walz has suddenly found his “authority” to mobilize the Minnesota National Guard.
As TGP reported at the time, Walz’s delay in 2020 allowed rioters to torch the Third Precinct and cause over $500 million in damages.
Now, facing a new crisis, the Governor appears to be playing the same political games, pleading for “peace” while simultaneously attacking federal law enforcement.
On Wednesday, Walz issued a “warning order” for the National Guard following a fatal officer-involved shooting involving a federal ICE agent in South Minneapolis.
Walz explicitly described the order as a “heads-up” for the troops to begin preparations for potential deployment.
Walz is framing this preparation as a protective measure for Minnesotans against what he calls “sensationalized” federal operations. He stated, “These National Guard troops are our National Guard troops.”
On Thursday, Walz is now positioning the National Guard not just to stop rioters, but as a “heads up” against what he calls a “war” being waged by federal agencies against his state.
According to the press release:
Out of an Abundance of Caution and in Coordination with Local Officials, Governor Walz Authorizes Minnesota National Guard to be Staged and Ready to Support Local Law Enforcement If Needed
The National Guard remains ready if needed to help keep the peace, ensure public safety, and allow for peaceful demonstrations
Governor Tim Walz has authorized the Minnesota National Guard to be staged and ready to support local and state law enforcement in protecting critical infrastructure and maintaining public safety following a shooting involving federal immigration enforcement agents in south Minneapolis.
Executive Order 26-01 provides the ability for the Minnesota National Guard to protect critical infrastructure and to assist local law enforcement with additional tasks as requested. The state is providing additional law enforcement resources in a coordinated response to aid local law enforcement. The Minnesota State Patrol has mobilized 85 members of its Mobile Response Team to support law enforcement efforts in the Twin Cities.
“Minnesotans have met this moment. Thousands of people have peacefully made their voices heard. Minnesota: thank you. We saw powerful peace,” said Governor Walz. “We have every reason to believe that peace will hold. Yesterday, I directed the National Guard to be ready should they be needed. They remain ready in the event they are needed to help keep the peace, ensure public safety, and allow for peaceful demonstrations.”
Executive Order 26-01 authorizes the Adjutant General to place National Guard personnel, equipment, and facilities on state active duty to coordinate and support public safety and security services in Minnesota. The Guard will serve in a support role, focused on protecting property, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and allowing local law enforcement to remain focused on community safety and investigative responsibilities.
Executive Order 26-01 provides access to an additional tool that can include preparation and planning in support of local and state law enforcement and emergency management agencies, as well as the support of local law enforcement efforts to protect life and property, ensure public safety, and protect freedom of speech by allowing for peaceful demonstrations.
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Minneapolis ICE shooting: Gov. Walz authorizes MN National Guard
Bessent Drops a Remittance Bomb Last Night in Minnesota
If you are wiring money out of the country, one of two things must be true: You’re either getting TOO MUCH money and your benefits should be cut or you’re part of this CONSPIRACY.
I do believe that Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent’s announcement on Laura Ingraham’s show, which was broadcast from Minneapolis last night, is going to become one of my ‘Hell, yeah I voted for this!’ triggers.
Because that was pretty much exactly what I squawked on the couch as the words came out of his mouth.
It was a thing of beauty to my ears, and, if you haven’t heard it yet, I’m pretty sure it will be to yours as well.
What Bessent said was all about the beefed-up federal investigation the burgeoning Somali fraud scandal is bringing to Minnesota.
Yesterday, in addition to the 2000 agents that DHS is surging into the area, Vice President J.D. Vance announced the creation of a new Assistant Attorney General position. The new AAG will focus on hunting down fraud associated with federal programs, starting with Minnesota.
Bessent, as acting head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), will also be working hand in glove.
The Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement is going to be digging through four money services that have been operating in the state and have become notorious for sending vast amounts of cash to mostly Somalia. There are indications that plenty of it went to terrorist groups in the country, like Al-Shabaab. Nice, right?
While the investigation is ongoing, Treasury is requiring that wired amounts exceeding $3000 be reported to the government. They’re going to use ‘suspicious activity reporting’ with a ‘geographical targeting order,’ much as they do when tracking drug money laundering or, as Bessent notes, years ago, when they were targeting Mafia transactions.
…The US Treasury is preparing to announce a crackdown on money services businesses in Minnesota as part of an ongoing probe into fraud and alleged money laundering in the state, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday.
Bessent said the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, would lead an investigation into at least four money services businesses, which facilitate wire transfers, as part of the push.
He also said that FinCEN would require transactions over $3,000 to be reported to the government as part of a geographic targeting order. Bessent said in December that this information will be shared with law enforcement agencies investigating the transfer of money to areas of concern, including Somalia.
But it was what he said next that had us cheering.
How is it that a community which, on paper, is one in which a majority of it subsists on some measure of public assistance – read welfare handouts – and yet has so much cash to send overseas?
That implies those are American taxpayer funds being looted.
So in these two counties and targeted areas, anyone attempting to wire money is going to have to check a box on the form that asks them if they are on any form of public assistance.
If you are on any form of public assistance, we are going to start pushing that you cannot wire any money out of the country.
Hallelujah, YES.
Ingraham follows up with a perfectly reasonable ‘What if they lie?’ pointing out that’s another crime for lying on a federal form.
Bessent answers there’s going to be follow-ups – as the transactions are already being scrutinized by the IRS and can easily be cross-referenced with public assistance records – and then he says the obvious but so refreshing:
If you are wiring money out of the country, one of two things must be true:
You’re either getting TOO MUCH money and your benefits should be cut or you’re part of this CONSPIRACY.
Where did that money come from and we’re going to find it out.
Hawt DAWG.
DERAILING THE GRAVY TRAIN
It IS probably going to be a sticky legal wicket telling people they can’t wire money…
…The Treasury will push to require that people on public assistance can no longer wire money out of the country if on public assistance in these cases, Bessent said.
…but if the government can make the process uncomfortable enough for those sending the cash, they can probably put a serious crimp in the dollar flow to overseas without the legal fight over an outright ban on welfare recipients wiring funds. There is no law against monitoring what money leaves the country in these suspicious cases, and if someone pops up in a cross-reference on the public assistance lists, they also have parameters they cannot exceed income-wise to be on those lists.
An audit of their circumstances could be very illuminating. An excess household cash flow that exceeded income limits for public assistance could see benefits shut down without ever telling them ‘no, you can’t wire cash’ once.
As it is, this has to have the fraudsters in the target area squirming in their slippers, and that’s a great thing.
Hell, yeah, I voted for this.
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