Social media influencer Hope Walz posted video of her family, including Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, eating fast food Monday after the governor dropped his reelection bid.
Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president in the 2024 election, announced he was dropping his bid for a third term Monday after welfare fraud in Minnesota gained national attention following a viral video by independent journalist Nick Shirley about Somali-run day care centers in the state. In the video posted on TikTok, members of the Walz family shared their orders from Culver’s, a regional fast-food chain based in the Midwest.
“Okay, we got Culver’s. Here is Gus’s order,” Hope Walz said, turning the camera to her brother, who said he got three of the chain’s butter burgers and a frozen custard before explaining he was “going all-out” because it was his last meal before “wisdom teeth surgery.” Hope Walz then turned the camera to the governor after reminding her brother about his order of crinkle cut fries.
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“We’re repping Culver’s tonight. I’m just gonna say this: Their mushroom swiss burger is very difficult to beat and onion rings,” Walz said, before Hope panned the camera to her order of chicken tender and fries.
Federal officials believed the fraud targeting Minnesota’s welfare programs involved at least $9 billion, with the Treasury Department investigating reports that some of the money stolen in the fraud scheme went to the Somalia-based radical Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab. Walz attacked Shirley and President Donald Trump as he announced the end of his reelection bid.
“I cannot abide the actions of the political leadership in Washington – these opportunists who are willing to hurt our people to score a few cheap points,” Walz claimed. “They and their allies have no intention of helping us solve the problem – and every intention of profiting off of it.”
State employees accused Walz of engaging in “systemic” retaliation against whistleblowers who warned of the fraud in a Nov. 30 statement. Since the initial reports of the fraud in Minnesota surfaced, whistleblowers in other states, including Maine and Ohio, have alleged that similar schemes by Somali scammers took place.
The Somali ambassador to the United Nations was linked to some of the questionable firms in Ohio by the Department of Health and Human Services.
During the 2024 campaign, Walz went viral as he struggled to reload a $2100 shotgun while on a hunting trip.
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