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President Donald Trump flipped the script on Democrats’ “nobody is above the legislation” mantra after years of listening to it aimed toward him, invoking the phrase after information broke Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz wouldn’t search re-election as a sweeping fraud scandal rocks his state.
“Governor Walz has destroyed the State of Minnesota, however others, like Governor Gavin Newscum, JB Pritzker, and Kathy Hochul, have finished, for my part, an much more dishonest and incompetent job. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!” Trump posted to Fact Social Monday afternoon.
The message adopted Walz saying Monday that he was withdrawing his re-election effort to function governor. Walz was first elected the state’s prime chief in 2018 in a political profession that additionally included him campaigning coast-to-coast in 2024 as former Vice President Kamala Harris’ operating mate.
“As I mirrored on this second with my household and my group over the vacations, I got here to the conclusion that I can’t give a political marketing campaign my all,” Walz wrote in an announcement. “Each minute I spend defending my very own political pursuits can be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota towards the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our variations.”
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota introduced Jan. 5, 2025, that he is dropping his bid for a 3rd time period as governor. (Scott Olson/Getty Pictures)
Minnesota has come underneath fierce scrutiny in latest weeks as a sprawling fraud scandal that has led to dozens of arrests, largely from the state’s massive Somali group, since 2022 involves gentle. Minnesota was allegedly dwelling to an enormous COVID-era scheme that allegedly concerned cash laundering operations associated to fraudulent meal and housing packages, daycare facilities and Medicaid companies, in keeping with investigators.
The Minnesota fraud continues to be being tabulated, with native officers speculating it may exceed $1 billion and rise to as high as $9 billion.
Trump’s use of the phrase “nobody is above the legislation” follows years of Democrats using the identical rhetoric towards Trump as he confronted a barrage of expenses and courtroom instances within the interim of his first and second administration.
“Nobody is above the legislation,” then-President Joe Biden mentioned after Trump was discovered responsible on 34 counts of falsified enterprise information in a Manhattan courtroom in Might 2024.
President Donald Trump confronted 4 legal indictments in the course of the interim of his first and second administrations. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool by way of Reuters)
Trump confronted 4 legal indictments in the course of the interim of his first and second administrations, which landed accusations of “lawfare” on the nationwide stage as Trump maintained his innocence and slammed the instances as efforts by the Democratic Social gathering to harm his political probabilities for re-election in the course of the 2024 cycle.
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“As I’ve mentioned earlier than, nobody is above the legislation, together with Donald Trump,” then-Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer mentioned in 2023 after the Biden administration’s Division of Justice introduced Trump had been indicted on 37 counts associated to his mishandling of categorized paperwork.
Donald Trump reserving picture supplied by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Workplace after he surrendered to authorities in Georgia on expenses of a plot to overturn the 2020 election. (Fulton County Sheriff’s Workplace by way of AP)
Even throughout Trump’s first administration, Democrats championed the phrase as they combated MAGA Republicans and Trump insurance policies.
“All people needs the president to be held accountable in essentially the most critical manner,” then-Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi mentioned of Trump in 2019 amid a dialogue Commonwealth Membership in San Francisco, underscoring that Democrats imagine “nobody is above the legislation.” “And everyone believes, now I am speaking on the Democratic facet, that nobody is above the legislation, particularly the President of america.”
“We should be clear: nobody, not even the President, is above the legislation,” Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) mentioned in an announcement in 2019 when introducing articles of impeachment towards Trump.
COMER WARNS WALZ ABSENCE AT MINNESOTA FRAUD HEARING WOULD BE ‘ADMISSION TO GUILT’ BY GOVERNOR
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, and Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota throughout a marketing campaign occasion on the Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee, Aug. 20, 2024. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
Upon his victory over the Harris–Walz presidential ticket in 2024, Trump has taken a victory lap for allegedly snuffing out the weaponization of presidency.
“We now have ended weaponized authorities, the place, for instance, a sitting President is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me. How did that work out?” he mentioned throughout his joint tackle to Congress in 2025. “Not too good. Not too good.”
Trump added in his Monday Fact Social submit that “Minnesota’s Corrupt Governor will probably go away workplace earlier than his Time period is up,” and that he is assured the fraud investigations “will reveal a severely unscrupulous, and wealthy, group of ‘SLIMEBALLS.'”
Walz has taken possession of correcting the fraud, and mentioned his administration had been taking motion to cease some suspected fraudulent funds over the summer season and that his workplace referred some for prosecution. The governor, nonetheless, has mentioned that multibillion figures have been “sensationalized” by Republicans.
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“That is on my watch, I’m accountable for this and, extra importantly, I’m the one that can repair it,” Walz advised reporters in December.
Fox Digital reached out to Walz’s workplace for a response to Trump’s Fact Social however didn’t instantly obtain a reply.
Fox Information Digital’s Amanda Macias contributed to this report.
