U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) spoke from the Senate floor on Thursday about the massive fraud recently uncovered in Minnesota's Somali community.
During his remarks, the lawmaker accused two Minnesota Democrats, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Gov. Tim Walz, of enabling the scheme and defending those taking part in it.
"Fox News recently reported that members of Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar's inner circle, people working for her, were personally profiting from this fraud," Tuberville said. "Omar held at least one event at one of the restaurants named in the massive fraud scheme. And by the way, one of Congresswoman Omar’s staffers has already been convicted for his role in the fraud. It runs very deep."
"All of this has taken place inside of Omar's congressional district, and she's doing everything she can to defend these Somali criminals," he added.
Tuberville specifically criticized Walz for allowing a scam involving a Somali non-profit that posed as a housing assistance program.
"These people were empowered by the woke and clueless so-called governor Tim Walz, whose government handed the funds to these Somali criminals. He turned a blind eye," argued Tuberville.
"For example, one of the scams run by the Somali nonprofit disguised itself as a housing assistance program. Sounds great," he continued. "The initial budget for this program was $2.6 million. However, the annual budget quickly increased to over $100 million due to fake billing and fraud. And whose money is that? The American taxpayers."
The senator called on Walz to be jailed for his complicity, also noting the governor's predictable push to label anyone critical of the fraud as a racist.
"Tim Walz had every opportunity to see this, investigate, and stop this fraud and corruption," noted Tuberville. "Instead, he looked the other way. That makes him complicit. He should go to jail for this. Anybody else would. Now he's trying to deflect by calling those who are angry about the Somali fraud ‘racist.’ That's the word they always use."
"This has nothing to do with racism. Somali immigrants stole more than $1 billion and counting from the American taxpayers. Again, proven. That should make every single American’s blood boil," he added.
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