Trump official freezes millions in SBA aid to Minnesota, slams Tampon Tim Walz’s policies as breeding ‘endemic’ fraud

[Maximum Overkill 2,716]

Tampon Tim and DEI Omar are thieves

 

Federal Small Business (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler sent a letter Tuesday to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz alerting him that her agency will "halt" more than $5.5 million in annual support to resource partners in the state "until further notice."

The move comes as Walz and his administration grapple with billions of dollars in social services fraud. U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said Thursday a "significant amount" of $18 billion worth of Medicaid funding was likely lost to fraud.

"I am notifying you that effective immediately and until further notice, the SBA is halting the disbursement of federal funds to SBA resource partners operating in the state of Minnesota, totaling over $5.5 million in annual support," Loeffler wrote Walz on Tuesday.

"This action is the result of a fundamental breakdown in the public trust. Under your leadership, Minnesota failed to safeguard taxpayer dollars, and SBA will not continue to place federal resources at risk in a state where oversight measures are ignored and accountability is abandoned."

Loeffler blamed Walz for making the Land of 10,000 Lakes the "epicenter" of the largest fraud scandal of the COVID-19 pandemic era, and that recent criminal convictions of Somalis and other figures prove such fraud is "endemic" to St. Paul’s vast welfare curriculum.

At least $2.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) funds issued during the pandemic were tied to the Somali fraud scheme, the SBA said.

Another $430 million in PPP subsidies – totaling 13,000 individual loans – had been flagged as fraudulent but funded anyway, including some that were among those loans altogether forgiven during the Biden administration, Loeffler wrote.

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[Hardcore troubadour 16,441]

I’m glad Somalis are being locked up, but we need their enablers in cuffs too  

[Maximum Overkill 2,716]

4 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I’m glad Somalis are being locked up, but we need their enablers in cuffs too  

Deport all of Minnesota. We need a re-do. 

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Can they deport the whole government of the US, they won’t jail them for their dangerous actions

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The US is healing.

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On 12/24/2025 at 6:49 AM, Maximum Overkill said:

Federal Small Business (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler sent a letter Tuesday to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz alerting him that her agency will "halt" more than $5.5 million in annual support to resource partners in the state "until further notice."

The move comes as Walz and his administration grapple with billions of dollars in social services fraud. U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said Thursday a "significant amount" of $18 billion worth of Medicaid funding was likely lost to fraud.

The lead prosecutor in the MN / Somali fraud investigation just resigned.

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Six Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and its reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.

Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.
….

Two other senior career prosecutors, Harry Jacobs and Melinda Williams, also resigned on Tuesday. Mr. Jacobs had been Mr. Thompson’s deputy overseeing the fraud investigation, which began in 2022. Mr. Thompson, Mr. Jacobs and Ms. Williams declined to discuss the reasons they resigned.

The fraud cases — which involve schemes to defraud safety net programs managed by state agencies — were the chief reason the Trump administration launched an immigration crackdown in the state. The vast majority of defendants charged in the cases are of Somali origin. …<<<

 

[seafoam1 3,691]

4 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

The lead prosecutor in the MN / Somali fraud investigation just resigned.

Death threats? 

[Hardcore troubadour 16,441]

17 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

The lead prosecutor in the MN / Somali fraud investigation just resigned.

That is good news. Flush them out. Let him go defend the fraudsters now. 

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

23 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

That is good news. Flush them out. Let him go defend the fraudsters now. 

Right, the people doing the prosecutions all of Magaworld is celebrating, flush them out. Got it.

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

36 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Death threats? 

No, apparently matter of principle & DOJ ethical guidelines.

[Hardcore troubadour 16,441]

9 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Right, the people doing the prosecutions all of Magaworld is celebrating, flush them out. Got it.

Next up. No big deal. 

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

Just now, Hardcore troubadour said:

Next up. No big deal. 

Really. Thompson created and ran this whole investigation since the start. You think it’s no big deal to knock the top 3 prosecutors off a case. Great, should be a breeze.

[seafoam1 3,691]

Death threats. 

[Hardcore troubadour 16,441]

3 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Really. Thompson created and ran this whole investigation since the start. You think it’s no big deal to knock the top 3 prosecutors off a case. Great, should be a breeze.

Happens 

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52 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Death threats? 

They resigned because DOJ instructed them to investigate Good’s spouse. Different case, collateral effects. I’m not criticizing the fraud investigation, Thompson was obviously an excellent prosecutor.

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

Just now, Hardcore troubadour said:

Happens 

Yeah, it does happen in this administration. In EDVA for instance. And then there are the firings. Its extremely abnormal in any other administration going back to the beginning.

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9 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Really. Thompson created and ran this whole investigation since the start. You think it’s no big deal to knock the top 3 prosecutors off a case. Great, should be a breeze.

Weren't you people saying this is a nothingburger since it was all handled in 2015? I would be very cautious about who the prosecutors are, because whatever they accomplished in 2015 didn't do anything to discourage the fraud from continuing.

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4 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Yeah, it does happen in this administration. In EDVA for instance. And then there are the firings. Its extremely abnormal in any other administration going back to the beginning.

Wait, Trump doesn't do things like the other administrations? Nooooo I voted for more of the same. Now I'm disappointed.

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

13 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Weren't you people saying this is a nothingburger since it was all handled in 2015? I would be very cautious about who the prosecutors are, because whatever they accomplished in 2015 didn't do anything to discourage the fraud from continuing.

Not me, somewhere in here I’ve got something or other about how far back this goes. That’s how I remember Thompson’s name, he’s driven this whole thing.

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

12 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Wait, Trump doesn't do things like the other administrations? Nooooo I voted for more of the same. Now I'm disappointed.

I get it, yes this is unique. Dems talked impeachment & had an investigation over Bush firing 5 US Attorneys. Nixon got removed for messing with the DOJ.

[Hardcore troubadour 16,441]

49 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Yeah, it does happen in this administration. In EDVA for instance. And then there are the firings. It’s extremely abnormal in any other administration going back to the beginning.

Didn’t Obama fire every Republican appointed US Attorney ? They weren’t working on any cases? 

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

2 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Didn’t Obama fire every Republican appointed US Attorney ? They weren’t working on any cases? 

They all do, it’s totally normal to replace US Attorneys (there have been a few exceptions). Bush took a long time to fire his so it stood out & the timing was weird with the savings & loan scandal. - What’s odd with Trump (not the only odd thing) is his trying to circumvent the nomination process in NY & VA. That’s not an issue in MN though.

[seafoam1 3,691]

7 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

They all do, it’s totally normal to replace US Attorneys (there have been a few exceptions). Bush took a long time to fire his so it stood out & the timing was weird with the savings & loan scandal. - What’s odd with Trump (not the only odd thing) is his trying to circumvent the nomination process in NY & VA. That’s not an issue in MN though.

When creppy joe was finally seen as an invalid by the liberals, they just decided to circumvent the nomination process and stick kameltoe into the spotlight. 

Don't get me wrong. I"m glad they did. But if I were a liberal, I would have burned down cities nothing short of 2020. 

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

26 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

When creppy joe was finally seen as an invalid by the liberals, they just decided to circumvent the nomination process and stick kameltoe into the spotlight. 

Don't get me wrong. I"m glad they did. But if I were a liberal, I would have burned down cities nothing short of 2020. 

Eh actually there was a nomination process. Biden only had one opponent is all.

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

Mass resignation at Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office stems from Renee Good shooting, investigation ~~~ At least six attorneys have left the U.S. Attorney’s Office, including Joe Thompson, who took the lead in prosecuting fraud in state government programs.

>>€A majority of the leadership team at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned on Jan. 13 over the direction of the Justice Department under the Trump administration.

The departures of several prosecutors stemmed from directives from top federal officials to staff members after the killing of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, according to sources familiar with the decision. That included blocking the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) from the investigation into the shooting and a request from the Justice Department to investigate Good’s widow for possible federal charges. A source also said the resignations resulted from a general frustration that a surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota ordered by the Trump administration has “eclipsed” fraud investigations by the office. 

President Donald Trump has said fraud in Minnesota’s social programs was the reason for the surge in immigration officers to the state. Among the attorneys who resigned was Joe Thompson, the leading federal prosecutor and public voice on uncovering rampant fraud in Minnesota.

“It has been an honor and a privilege to represent the United States and this office,” Thompson, who joined the office in 2014, wrote in an email obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune. His email did not give any reason for his resignation or indication of where he is going next. He did not respond to requests for comment.

His resignation was followed by at least five other senior members of the office, including Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry Jacobs, chief of the criminal division and the lead attorney prosecuting Vance Boelter in the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and attempted killing of Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. Jacobs was also instrumental in prosecuting the Feeding Our Future trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Calhoun-Lopez also resigned; he was the lead investigator for a series of federal racketeering trials targeting members of Minneapolis street gangs. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Melinda Williams, who led the prosecution of sex trafficker Anton Lazzaro, is also among the resignations. Thompson, Jacobs and Williams are the three top-ranking prosecutors in the office.<<<

 

 

 

The departures come after an internal email was recently sent by U.S. Attorney of Minnesota Daniel Rosen. He directed prosecutors to “say nothing” about the FBI’s investigation into the killing of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, specifically to law enforcement and media. He wrote that only assistant U.S. attorneys designated by him may speak to investigators about the federal probe.

“The shooting investigation is highly sensitive,” Rosen wrote. “It has been the subject of continuing inflammatory statements by state and local elected officials.”

A source familiar with the office said morale has been low since Rosen took over, saying there has been little confidence in his leadership by many current attorneys, and several former attorneys from the office were planning to publish a letter criticizing the decision to cut the BCA out of the investigation. 

The resignations in Minnesota come on the same day that several media outlets reported a wave of resignations by career prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. That office recently learned there would not be a civil rights investigation into Good’s killing.

The division saw another mass exodus of attorneys last year after the Trump administration changed the department’s longstanding mission of protecting the constitutional rights of marginalized communities. In May 2025, DOJ attorneys moved to dismiss the long-awaited federal consent decree over Minneapolis police, mandating sweeping reforms after the murder of George Floyd.

Gov. Tim Walz said in a statement that Thompson’s departure was a direct result of President Trump pushing out career professionals and “replacing them with sycophants.” 

“Joe is a principled public servant who spent more than a decade achieving justice for Minnesotans,” Walz wrote. “This is a huge loss for our state.”

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara also lamented the loss of Thompson.

“The legitimacy of the justice system depends on institutions — not rhetoric," O’Hara said in a statement. “Joe Thompson is an institution within law enforcement.”

O’Hara said the fact that Thompson is leaving at the same time that the federal government is using fraud investigations to justify a surge of ICE agents is notable. 

“When you lose the leader responsible for making the fraud cases, it tells you this [immigration enforcement] isn’t really about prosecuting fraud,” O’Hara said.

Thompson was appointed acting U.S. Attorney of Minnesota by Trump in May 2025 and served in that role for six months until Rosen took office last October. Thompson was the lead prosecutorin the sprawling Feeding Our Future food fraud case.

Thompson covered several other high-profile cases during his brief tenure, including filing federal charges against Boelter.

But Thompson has been most notable for uncovering fraud throughout the state. “Our state is far and away the leader in fraud now, and everyone sees it,” Thompson told the Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board last year. He has claimed that the fraud is in the billions — a number that has been contested by Walz.

 

 

 

 

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How many times and in how many threads are you going to post about this his? In the last hour? 

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4 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

How many times and in how many threads are you going to post about this his? In the last hour? 

Well the number has grown from 3 to 6+, it’s local reporting, & it’s affected investigations into an assassination, gangs, sex trafficking & other fraud cases. It’s pretty much a cave-in at DOJ MSP.

[Hardcore troubadour 16,441]

1 minute ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Well the number has grown from 3 to 6+, it’s local reporting, & it’s affected investigations into an assassination, gangs, sex trafficking & other fraud cases. It’s pretty much a cave-in at DOJ MSP.

So they abandoned the victims. Good riddance. 

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2 hours ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Really. Thompson created and ran this whole investigation since the start. You think it’s no big deal to knock the top 3 prosecutors off a case. Great, should be a breeze.

This is a guy who has done manual labor his whole life.  He thinks it like building a brick wall, just pick up where it was left off.

[Ron_Artest 3,037]

Rumors that they were asked to investigate the wife of the murder victim Renee Good

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It's funny how liberals love throwing around the terms racist and misogynist, yet not a word about how radical Islam brutalizes women. Tortures them. Burns them alive. Rapes them when they feel like it.

So weird. Almost like they move their attention onto whatever target they are told to.

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4 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

It's funny how liberals love throwing around the terms racist and misogynist, yet not a word about how radical Islam brutalizes women. Tortures them. Burns them alive. Rapes them when they feel like it.

So weird. Almost like they move their attention onto whatever target they are told to.

They are like the Borg in Star Trek. Or like fire ants here in reality. Their communication within their liberal collective is nearly instantanious.

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1 hour ago, Ron_Artest said:

This is a guy who has done manual labor his whole life.  He thinks it like building a brick wall, just pick up where it was left off.

It is.  Prosecutors leave all the time in the middle of a case. You don’t know that? Leave what you have for the next guy.  Thank you for your service.  Stay in your lane Gutterboy. I know it’s an extremely narrow one, but stay in it. 

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1 hour ago, Ron_Artest said:

Rumors that they were asked to investigate the wife of the murder victim Renee Good

Mora Gerrity 

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

MSP US Attorney office is in crisis

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The case has badly soured relations between the department and the chief federal judge in Minnesota, Patrick J. Schiltz, a staunch Republican who once clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia. In an extraordinary rebuke last week, Judge Schiltz fought back as the department sought to force him to issue arrest warrants for Mr. Lemon and his producer, calling the effort “frivolous” and rejecting the idea that either one had committed crimes.<<<

>>>

An aide to Mr. Blanche, Colin McDonald, has emerged as a central player in the department’s counterattack against Minnesota officials and protesters.

Mr. McDonald, who is close to Mr. Miller, has taken on a supervisory role, coordinating with top officials at the F.B.I. and the Homeland Security Department’s investigative arm to streamline and speed up prosecutions of protesters, current and former officials said.

(On Wednesday, Mr. Trump tapped him to run a White House-controlled investigation into Minnesota day care facilities.)

He has worked closely with Aakash Singh, who oversees the operations of U.S. attorney’s offices across the country, to find evidence sufficient to justify issuing grand jury subpoenas this month to Mr. Walz, Mr. Frey, Mr. Ellison and other local officials, according to people familiar the situation.<<<

For nearly a year, Justice Department leaders have adopted President Trump’s strong-arm approach to the law, punishing his enemies, protecting his friends and attacking the credibility of judges, prosecutors and even the victims of law-enforcement violence.

But playing to an audience of one inside the White House has its limits, especially when an audience of millions is watching.

The two fatal shootings in Minnesota this month, captured on video, have shocked the country and spurred a backlash from Mr. Trump’s habitually acquiescent allies in Congress.

So far, however, the department has largely stuck to the playbook it has learned from the president, eschewing procedures embraced by recent administrations that are intended to foster accountability in favor of the tactical bellicosity pressed by Mr. Trump and his top aide, Stephen Miller, the architect of his hard-line immigration policy.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and her chief deputy, Todd Blanche, have resisted calls to authorize civil rights investigations into the immigration agent who killed Renee Good, a mother of three shot in early January behind the wheel of her car.

They have yet to make any final determination about whether prosecutors will investigate the killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse who died on Saturday in a hail of bullets as he came to the aid of a fellow protester. They are awaiting the result of two internal inquiries by homeland security investigators with the F.B.I., according to senior federal law enforcement officials.

In the interim, Ms. Bondi and Mr. Blanche have tried to refocus public attention on the aggressive tactics of demonstrators. They have also pushed prosecutors and the F.B.I. to turn up the heat on critics of the immigration crackdown: politicians, protesters, even relatives of the victims.

This strategy has left the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis, one of the most respected in the nation, in crisis. On Tuesday, prosecutors in the office’s criminal division confronted the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney, Daniel Rosen, and an aide to Mr. Blanche, over concerns that they were being asked to execute orders that went against the department’s mission and best practices, according to four people briefed on the exchange.

Some of the prosecutors suggested they were considering resigning in protest, those people said, days after six others had quit over similar concerns. Their departures would exacerbate a staffing shortfall that has already forced the department to shift prosecutors from other jurisdictions to bolster the depleted ranks in Minnesota.

On Tuesday, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, announced one of the most aggressive actions to date, saying that the bureau would investigate an encrypted Signal chat used by local activists to monitor immigration raids. The move was immediately denounced by free-speech groups, including the libertarian Cato Institute, as unlawful and contrary to the constitutional protections afforded to political groups.

In the days after Ms. Good’s killing, federal prosecutors and agents in Minneapolis were inclined to proceed as they had under the Biden administration. They began to open a civil rights investigation into Jonathan Ross, the agent who had shot Ms. Good, taking steps like obtaining a warrant on that basis to examine the car at the center of the incident, according to people familiar with the matter.

But the department’s leadership interrupted that effort, demanding that the U.S. attorney’s office abandon its inquiry into Mr. Ross and focus instead on ties between Ms. Good’s partner, Becca Good, and local activists. The warrant issued to search Renee Good’s car for evidence of use of excessive force was scrapped and a new one was obtained to seek evidence of a potential assault on Mr. Ross.

They also put a halt to plans by prosecutors and agents to work with their local counterparts, taking the highly unusual step of retracting an evidence-sharing agreement with local authorities, claiming that leaders were too biased to conduct a fair inquiry, according to federal and state officials.

At the same time, the department opened a separate inquiry targeting elected Democrats in the state, including Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, examining whether they had taken actions to impede immigration agents.

They also moved aggressively to charge the journalist Don Lemon in connection with a demonstration at a church in St. Paul, even though a federal judge later determined there was no evidence he had committed any crimes.

Few, if any, of these actions have been taken without the knowledge of the White House. Trump aides participated in the drafting of a threatening letter that Ms. Bondi sent to local officials last weeksaying the administration would wind down its immigration enforcement efforts but only in exchange for concessions — including the handing over of state voter information, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Ms. Bondi also met earlier this month with Mr. Rosen, pushing him to take a more aggressive approach, according to an official with knowledge of her actions.

The attorney general has focused much of her attention on a protest at the church service in St. Paul this month, which Mr. Lemon and his producer documented. The Justice Department has brought charges against three of the demonstrators but failed to get warrants to arrest five more, including Mr. Lemon, a frequent target of Mr. Trump’s ire.

The case has badly soured relations between the department and the chief federal judge in Minnesota, Patrick J. Schiltz, a staunch Republican who once clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia. In an extraordinary rebuke last week, Judge Schiltz fought back as the department sought to force him to issue arrest warrants for Mr. Lemon and his producer, calling the effort “frivolous” and rejecting the idea that either one had committed crimes.
 

Harmeet K. Dhillon, the head of the department’s civil rights division and a former Trump election lawyer, has also weighed in on the church case, despite saying little about the killings of Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti, incidents her unit would typically investigate.

“We’re going to pursue this to the ends of the earth,” she said in an interview with the podcaster Megyn Kelly. In her remarks, Ms. Dhillon also went after the federal judge who first refused to issue an arrest warrant for Mr. Lemon, noting he was married to someone who works for Keith Ellison, the Democratic state attorney general under scrutiny in a different department inquiry.

Ms. Bondi was back in Minnesota on Wednesday to oversee the filing of charges against 16 protesters accused of interfering with law enforcement officers, even as Mr. Rosen grappled with a potential staff revolt. She celebrated the move on social media by posting photos of the defendants.

At a hearing that same day, a federal judge said he was “deeply disturbed” by the post, reminding the attorney general that the defendants were presumed to be innocent.

The killing of Mr. Pretti, who was shot several times even though videos show he did not pose a threatto officers, appears to have profoundly shifted the public mood, and prompted a shake-up at the Homeland Security Department. But it has not had a major impact on the Justice Department, at least not yet.

Mr. Blanche, a former Trump defense lawyer who has an open line of communication with the president, quickly ruled out opening an investigation by Ms. Dhillon’s civil rights division into the Good shooting.

He did not rule one out after the Pretti shooting, but he also did not greenlight a civil rights inquiry and adopted what one aide called a wait-and-see approach. The department is deferring his decision until a narrow “use of force” review that homeland security investigators seem poised to conduct, meant to establish whether government employees had violated training standards, is completed.

A spokeswoman for the Justice Department said it did not automatically open civil rights investigations into law enforcement-involved shootings, as critics have claimed.

Shootings by federal agents are treated like every other case, the spokeswoman said, adding that further along the line, the department might opt to “investigate for civil rights violations if the evidence presents itself.”

But some career prosecutors believe the department is prioritizing politics over fairness. Two weeks ago, six top prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis quit their jobs after facing pressure from department leaders to close the investigation into Mr. Ross. Their departures were quickly followed by the news that Tracee Mergen, a respected F.B.I. supervisor who had opened the inquiry, had resigned for similar reasons.

Last weekend, state investigators, concerned that the Trump administration might destroy evidence of Mr. Pretti’s killing, obtained an extraordinary court order forcing federal officials to preserve the scene of Mr. Pretti’s death.

At the same time, the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association called for a meeting with the White House in a statement saying that “communities across our state are experiencing heightened stress and uncertainty,” and that officers were “facing growing challenges.”

But there was no sign that the department planned to pull back on its aggressive approach, even as Mr. Trump floated the idea of de-escalating immigration enforcement in the state.

An aide to Mr. Blanche, Colin McDonald, has emerged as a central player in the department’s counterattack against Minnesota officials and protesters.

Mr. McDonald, who is close to Mr. Miller, has taken on a supervisory role, coordinating with top officials at the F.B.I. and the Homeland Security Department’s investigative arm to streamline and speed up prosecutions of protesters, current and former officials said.

(On Wednesday, Mr. Trump tapped him to run a White House-controlled investigation into Minnesota day care facilities.)

He has worked closely with Aakash Singh, who oversees the operations of U.S. attorney’s offices across the country, to find evidence sufficient to justify issuing grand jury subpoenas this month to Mr. Walz, Mr. Frey, Mr. Ellison and other local officials, according to people familiar the situation.

While the department’s aggressive actions have been hailed by Trump supporters, it has done little to quell growing furor over the violence on the streets of Minneapolis.

And in some instances, officials at the department and the F.B.I. have made things worse.

On the day of Mr. Pretti’s death, Bill Essayli, the top Trump-appointed prosecutor in Los Angeles, suggested that the victim’s legal possession of a handgun at the time of his killing was improper. The statement stood at odds with a pillar of Trump-era Republican orthodoxy.

“If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you. Don’t do it!” he wrote on social media.

Mr. Patel and others followed suit, drawing a rare rebuke from gun rights groups, including the National Rifle Association.

If their statements flopped badly with a broad audience, it appeared to pass muster with the man to whom both Mr. Essayli and Mr. Patel owe their jobs.

“You can’t have guns,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Tuesday as he walked to Marine One whirring on the South Lawn. “You can’t walk in with guns.”

[seafoam1 3,691]

On 12/24/2025 at 7:57 AM, Maximum Overkill said:

Deport all of Minnesota. We need a re-do. 

Excellent solution. 

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

After the FBI chief in MSP was removed, the acting chief for MSP FBI has also been removed.

[Hardcore troubadour 16,441]

Smoking them out.  And they leave on their own. Awesome 

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

DOJ chief of staff is actively putting out want ads on twitter.

[SaintsInDome2006 980]

15 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Smoking them out.  And they leave on their own. Awesome 

Ha, yeah ‘til ya gotta file something against a hated Trump ‘enemy.’