‘Top priority’: Karoline Leavitt says President Trump believes Tim Walz is ‘criminally liable’ for Somali fraud

Under the leadership of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz in Minnesota, there have been a long list of fraudulent schemes put into place.

They largely claimed to be providing “services” to immigrants, mostly aliens from Somalia, and needing taxpayer dollars to do their work.

Now evidence is suggesting those children in daycares never were there, meals for which organizations were paid to deliver, weren’t. But there were luxury cars and luxury homes being purchased.

It’s not going away anytime soon, as multiple federal agencies now are investigating what appears to be the loss of billions of taxpayer dollars.

And White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt says President Donald Trump believes Walz is “criminally liable.”

She says the “Department of Justice is going to find out.

It was in an interview with Jesse Watters that Leavitt gave the details.

NEW: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just went SCORCHED-EARTH on Tim Walz

“This is a man they cannot even win the support of the voters within his home state because his policies have failed them.”

“Trump believes that Governor Walz is criminally liable…… pic.twitter.com/gbEGRII6tK

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) January 6, 2026

“The scale of the fraud that the Trump administration, with the help of great independent journalists like Nick Shirley, is uncovering right now, is surely shocking. But President Trump has been calling out Tim Walz for his incompetence and corrupt leadership for a very long time. And Trump was right about everything. This is another example of that, which is why Governor Walz is dropping out of the race for re-election today.

“This is a man who can no longer even win the support of the voters within his home state because his policies have failed them. And now, the great people of Minnesota—a state that was once known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes—has been turned into the land of 10,000 Somali schemes because of their governor. And don’t forget, this is a guy who is at the top of the Democrat Party’s ticket, the number two. He was Kamala Harris’s running mate just about a year ago, until President Trump crushed them last November.

“And it was in large part because the President was calling out this fraud. And so this has been a day-one priority for the Trump administration, Jesse. The Department of Justice has convicted and prosecuted nearly 100 defendants in Minnesota.

“And because of these new details and this new reporting that has come to light, this is an all-hands-on-deck, across-the-entire-government effort. We are surging resources. You saw today the Department of Homeland Security announced we have nearly 2,000 agents from the Homeland Security Investigations team. The FBI is on the ground, and we’re freezing money.

“HHS cut off funding for child care centers and for daycares. USDA Secretary Rollins has been asking Governor Walz to provide information on the recipients of SNAP in his state. This is all hands on deck—rest assured. It’s a top priority for President Trump. He believes that Governor Walz is criminally liable. I think the Department of Justice is going to find out.”