Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson lambasted Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” Tuesday after he complained that individuals have been driving by his house and calling him retarded.
Walz made the complaint during a Thursday budget meeting after President Donald Trump wrote in a Nov. 27 Truth Social post that he was “seriously retarded” for not stopping alleged Somali crime in his state following a welfare fraud scandal. Hanson said on his podcast that while Trump should not have used the insult, Walz’ own rhetoric has been far more damaging.
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“I know the words change and Trump is from an old generation, but he shouldn’t use it. He should be aware that you should try to say another word … Remember when they had that big Madison Square rally, that gosh right before the election it was just packed, and Tim Walz said, ‘This reminds me of Nuremberg, Hitler gathering in the 1930s,’” Hanson said. “That’s all he did is traffic in ‘fascist, Hitler.’ And he’s talking about hypotheticals that people come by and yell retard. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I don’t know if he’s called the police.”
“And he says it could lead to violence, but it did lead to violence in your case, governor, because you called the presidential candidate of the opposite party a fascist and then you compared his rallies to Nuremberg,” he added. “And then two people tried to kill him, both on the left. And maybe your vocabulary and your reckless speech had something to do with it. So, you are in no position to call anybody anything. He should be ashamed of himself.”
Hanson also recounted Walz’ record of misleading statements.
“And then if you add that to his resume where the ‘I was in Tiananmen Square,’ everything he said — ‘I never left Iraq unit’ — everything he said was false almost. And now he’s in knee deep in a jam that he can’t get out,” he said. “He is such a liar, excuse the word, but he is a liar and so dishonest that he knew, and he had what we call in Greek, a hamartia, a fatal flaw. And it was just a matter of time before nemesis caught up with him, and now it always catches up to a person in the most spectacular fashion.”
“He’s the governor of a state with the biggest welfare fraud in history and there’s no way he didn’t know about it and excuse it. And he’s going to have to deal with it,” he continued. “But he’s a nasty person. He really is. And the only good thing about all this is he’s dead politically. His career is — nobody would ever vote for that guy for any national office.”
Walz deflected blame for more than $1 billion in taxpayer funds stolen through multiple state programs during a Nov. 30 interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” He also said during the interview that people should not “demonize” his state’s Somali community, which is disproportionately represented in the federal fraud cases, according to multiple reports.
Moreover, a portion of the stolen funds went to Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, City Journal reported on Nov. 20, citing counterterrorism sources.
A coalition of Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) personnel wrote that “Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud” in the state in a Nov. 29 X post, alleging he “systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports.”
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