More than 400 Minnesota government workers say Governor Tim Walz "systematically retaliated" against whistleblowers. pic.twitter.com/I1cHTWr2K3

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) December 1, 2025

“Seriously retarded” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been stealing President Trump’s most tried and true method of handling scandals, Fox News reports by citing a devastating tweet from an account run from inside the state’s Department of Human Services that Fox News did not link.

“We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. In addition to retaliating against whistleblower[s], Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance,” tweeted the anon account that Fox didn’t link.

Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression,… https://t.co/cEtbnuKmgn

— Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees (@Minnesota_DHS) November 30, 2025

Tempting as it was to just leave it at Fox’s tweet, the hype pattern thus far tracks with the Biden-era “whistleblower” grifter playbook: Take what’s at the core a legitimate problem – that some assholes really have looted at least $250 million from food assistance programs under Walz’s watch – and crank out content to build up a following in the MAGAverse. Then, contact Jim Jordan and/or James Comer to schedule a hearing the same week your explosive tell-all book is coming out.

That Gary Shapley cocksucker is probably doing some consulting/mentorship work with this brave MAGA Minnesotan. Maybe even Riley Gaines, Matt Taibbi, or Michael Shellenberger if the fees are good enough. Also key to this playbook is to ignore that Walz’s actual closest allies and donors have yet to be implicated in this scandal at the headwaters of the Mississippi – a contrast with his counterpart in the river’s namesake state, where Brett Favre’s volleyball player daughter’s cow college got an awesome new $4 million volleyball gym from federal TANF funds while the WWF’s “Million Dollar Man”/Evangelical preacher Ted DiBiase stole $722,299 to fund his millionaire lifestyle.

Or that former North Carolina Lt Gov Minisoldr and his wife actually looted that state’s food program.