Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is now hailing a federal prosecutor he recently tried to discredit, underscoring the political tensions surrounding fraud investigations and immigration enforcement in his state.
According to The Post Millennial, Walz on Tuesday praised outgoing US Attorney Joseph Thompson as a principled public servant shortly after Thompson and five other federal prosecutors resigned. The timing has raised questions, as the departures coincide with reports that President Donald Trumps Department of Justice had been pressing the US Attorneys Office to investigate activist Becca Good, the widow of Renee Good, who was fatally shot last week by an ICE agent after she accelerated her vehicle toward him while obstructing immigration enforcement operations.
Joe is a principled public servant who spent more than a decade achieving justice for Minnesotans. This is a huge loss for our state, Walz wrote in a post on X, abruptly shifting his tone toward the prosecutor he had recently attacked. In the same post, Walz claimed, It's also the latest sign Trump is pushing nonpartisan career professionals out of the justice department, replacing them with his sycophants, casting the resignations as part of a broader political purge rather than a clash over law enforcement priorities.
The governors praise stands in sharp contrast to his remarks at a December 19, 2025, press conference, when he publicly rebuked Thompson for exposing the scale of fraud in Minnesotas Medicaid waiver programs. Thompson had estimated that fraud could exceed $9 billionpotentially half of the $18 billion disbursed since 2018prompting Walz to label the figure sensationalized and accuse the prosecutor of speculating about things with no factual information, even suggesting such statements amounted to defamation.
Thompsons office has aggressively pursued fraud, indicting over 90 individuals and securing more than 60 convictions in cases that often involved Somali-American communities and programs such as child nutrition and autism services. Republican lawmakers have argued that these prosecutions highlight systemic failures in Walzs administration, accusing the governor of lax oversight and, in some cases, calling for his resignation over the scale of the alleged abuse.
The resignations also follow a January 7 incident in Minneapolis in which 38-year-old Renee Good was killed after ramming her vehicle into ICE agent Jonathan Ross during an unlawful protest targeting immigration enforcement operations. Her wife, Becca Good, was on the scene filming and reportedly taunting officers as the confrontation escalated, and the couple has been linked to the leftist activist network Minnesota ICE Watch.
Sources told The Post Millennial that the DOJ sought to examine Becca Goods actions on the day of the shooting and her ties to militant far-left groups engaged in training to disrupt ICE operations. Thompson reportedly resisted that probe, viewing it as politically driven, and objected to the FBI taking the lead in the shooting investigation while sidelining state agencies.
The Trump administration has defended the DOJs posture, presenting it as part of a broader effort to crack down on fraud and restore order in the face of escalating left-wing activism. As Walz attempts to recast Thompson as a victim of partisan pressure, conservatives note that the governors shifting narrative does little to answer why his administration dismissed massive fraud warnings as sensationalized while federal prosecutors were busy proving them in court.
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