Comment by Capricorn2481

I'm not disputing there was fraud, I'm disputing your framing that nothing was being done about it, and Walz should be arrested.

I can't tell you about California. But when it comes to Minnesota, this was already a multi year investigation where Minnesota collaborated with the FBI. Nothing was "brought to light" by this video, the fraud was being investigated, and Trump was aware of it. Several names I've seen thrown around were people who are already convicted. You are acting like they were disinterested in investigating fraud entirely.

Nor did this happen in a vacuum. A lot of this came from emergency economic relief, like PPP funds. Both Trump and Biden weanened PPP oversight in favor of getting funds out quickly. When you do that, there is an understanding there will be some order of fraud.

The completely last minute decision of Trump to make a public spectacle of something he already knew about was just a power grab to justify the ICE surge, and an opportunity to demonize the people of the state. Anyone who hasn't drunk the Koolaid would understand that. That's why the white house site does not approach the fraud in a matter of fact way. It literally calls Walz "deranged."

And of course, that situation spawned the trolls, where people would make videos with a deluge of "facts", where one instance of legitimate fraud would be combined with a bunch of bullshit evidence to make it seem like the fraud is widespread and unstoppable without Trump's intervention. That's why they are throwing out completely random numbers for the scale of fraud.

Anyway, it's a legitimate issue with a lot of bipartisan factors that contributed to it, and could have been handled gracefully, but then it got turned into a political dick measuring contest in the name of retribution. Ironically Walz is still working with Trump on it.