Walz ‘derelict leadership’ to blame in $1B fraud scandal with 'haunting reminds of Watergate': GOP challenger
As the city of Minneapolis faces a $1 billion welfare scandal, Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen spoke to Fox News Digital about his belief that Gov. Tim Walz...
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As the city of Minneapolis faces a $1 billion welfare scandal, Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen spoke to Fox News Digital about his belief that Gov. Tim Walz is not only directly responsible for the controversy, but suggested that a "cover up" that’s "worse than Watergate" is at play. Walz’s role in what’s been labeled by prosecutors as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country, stemming from allegations that the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future and its associates defrauded federal child-nutrition programs for hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID-19 aid, has been a major topic of conversation in the gubernatorial race in recent weeks. "In Minnesota, I don't think that there's any way to cut it other than to say the buck has to stop somewhere," Jensen told Fox News Digital. "And it's always been that the buck stops at the governor's desk. Arguably, the governor is the CEO of the state of Minnesota and the business of the government. And Tim Walz has been derelict in doing his duties, and he's absolutely corrupted common sense." The dereliction, Jensen explained, is evident when one examines a timeline he says shows Walz knew about Feeding Our Future fraud far earlier than he has admitted and then misled Minnesotans about his administration's response. OMAR ALLIES TIED TO MASSIVE MINNESOTA COVID MEAL FRAUD SCHEME INVOLVING SOMALI COMMUNITY "Tim Walz and the Minnesota Department of Education knew in 2020 that there was a problem… but they didn't get the FBI involved until 2021," Jensen said. "And yet they've made claims that as soon as they learned about it, they got the FBI involved. That's not true. Their timeline’s a year off." Jensen argues the delay was not just mismanagement but part of a broader pattern of deflection and dishonesty from the governor’s office. "At the end of the day, he’s demonstrated a very skilled approach to deflecting, so that he’s not being honest," Jensen said. Jensen cited several examples of…