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BumRushDaShow

(164,480 posts)
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 03:47 AM Yesterday

'This creates danger': Walz hits back after Trump targets Somali immigrants

Source: msn/USA Today

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is hitting back at President Donald Trump’s repeated comments targeting the state’s Somali immigrant community.

During a press conference on Dec. 4 announcing Minnesota's new budget forecast, Walz called the president's series of social media posts and public remarks "vile" and "racist lies." “This creates danger,” Walz reportedly said during the news conference. “We know how these things go, they start with taunts, they turn to violence.”

In recent weeks, Trump has zeroed in on swaths of Somali people in the state, issuing several insults toward Somalia, the Somali-American immigrant population and some of Minnesota's Democratic lawmakers.

Starting on Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, Trump posted about a massive fraud and money laundering investigation in the state, in which a group of people allegedly perpetuated what the state's district attorney's office called the "largest Covid-19 fraud scheme in the country." Many of those accused in the scheme, though not all, are of Somali descent

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tim-walz-warns-trumps-language-attacking-somalis-creates-danger/ar-AA1RSVTv

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'This creates danger': Walz hits back after Trump targets Somali immigrants (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP
Given mango Mussolini always projects...which business stole Covid funds? JT45242 Yesterday #1
Yes, it is about distracting from ALL TRUMP'S CRIMES debsy Yesterday #2
Yeah...like the MAGOT Trump supporters that were going to blow up an apt complex Bengus81 Yesterday #3
Yeah, because it was only Somalis that committed COVID-19 fraud. OldBaldy1701E Yesterday #4
trump knows his base PSPS Yesterday #5
Wasn't Jared given 100 million $$ to procure PPE equiptment for Covid? 70sEraVet Yesterday #6

JT45242

(3,788 posts)
1. Given mango Mussolini always projects...which business stole Covid funds?
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 06:17 AM
Yesterday

Is it a kid, in law, or the family business that committed large COVID fraud.
We already know that some Republican Congress critters engaged in fraud with those funds. But mango only lashes out when it is close to home.

Maybe hotels owned by shell corporations that took the PPP money?

Every accusation with him is an admission. This is about more than distracting from the Epstein files.

debsy

(736 posts)
2. Yes, it is about distracting from ALL TRUMP'S CRIMES
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 06:44 AM
Yesterday

There are many of them. It is also about projection, as you stated.

Bengus81

(9,674 posts)
3. Yeah...like the MAGOT Trump supporters that were going to blow up an apt complex
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 07:00 AM
Yesterday

in Garden City,Ks that had over 100 Somalians living there including women,children in Trumps first term,right after he was elected. Luckily the FBI got a tip and it was stopped. Three Trump sycophants were arrested and convicted. This same thing could happen again because of Trumps renewed vile,hate filled shit talk.

The attempted bombing of an apartment complex, which was in Garden City, Kansas, resulted in three men receiving prison sentences of 25 to 30 years. The defendants were members of a militia group called "the Crusaders" and plotted to bomb an apartment complex housing Somali refugees and a mosque.

The men were convicted of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy against the civil rights of their intended victims. The plot, which was thwarted by an FBI informant, involved using four vehicles packed with explosives to surround and destroy the apartment complex just after the November 2016 election.

OldBaldy1701E

(9,799 posts)
4. Yeah, because it was only Somalis that committed COVID-19 fraud.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 08:25 AM
Yesterday

Shall we go to the files, Mr. President?

Just how many rethug businesses did the exact same thing?

Let's see...

(I do not have that information, but I am betting it is out there.)

70sEraVet

(5,191 posts)
6. Wasn't Jared given 100 million $$ to procure PPE equiptment for Covid?
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:53 AM
Yesterday

And nurses still had to wear garbage bags and re-use gloves?
Is Trump looking into that?

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