Tim Walz Should Face Charges of Aiding and Abetting Criminal Behavior: Rep Greg Steube [WATCH]

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz could face criminal liability in connection with a Somali fraud scheme that allegedly sent U.S. taxpayer dollars to al-Shabaab, arguing that both the perpetrators and state leadership should be investigated by the Department of Justice.

Steube’s remarks came during an exchange with conservative commentator Benny Johnson, who framed the issue around national security and the handling of Afghan refugees brought into the country under Joe Biden.

“The Somali fraud allegedly funded Muslim terrorism, the same kind of Muslim terrorism that we’re seeing on the streets of Washington, DC, and the killing of our National Guardsmen,” Johnson said.

“What needs to be done here with the Afghan refugees that were brought in here wholesale by Joe Biden? What needs to be done with the Somali fraudsters who are funding al Shabaab with our tax dollars?”

Steube responded by pointing first to what he described as serious failures in vetting Afghan refugees admitted into the United States.

“Well, we know that those Afghan refugees were not vetted,” Steube said.

“They should be fully vetted by this current administration, and I’m sure they’re working on doing that.”

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He said the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies have overwhelmed federal enforcement agencies.

“They have so many things that they’re working on that they need more ICE agents and they need more Border Patrol agents to go through all the litany of the open border policies of Joe Biden over the last four years, and the 12 million illegals that are in our country,” Steube said.

Steube cited testimony indicating that known security threats remain inside the United States.

“Yesterday, in the testimony, there was still, there’s still 100 something, or several 100 known terrorists that the Biden administration led into our country that they’re trying to search and get out,” he said.

Turning to the alleged fraud itself, Steube said criminal charges should be pursued.

“But that is one piece, and then the fraud should also be investigated from the DOJ, that’s criminal penalties,” he said.

“That’s stealing taxpayer dollars when you don’t have a right to be able to get those.”

Steube said accountability should extend beyond the individuals who carried out the fraud.

“And I believe not only the people that defrauded the United States out of those taxpayer dollars on those government programs should be held criminally liable,” he said.

“I think the leaders of that state, like Walz, who knew or should have known, that this was going on, should be held accountable as well.”

Johnson pressed Steube on how such accountability would work in practice.

“Okay, so how does that? How does that work? So, yeah, Tim Walz, like is, would this be a DOJ thing?” he asked.

Steube said federal prosecutors could pursue the matter under several criminal theories.

“Well, it’d be like a conspiracy case,” he said.

“It would be like you aided and abetted criminal behavior.”

He added that multiple legal avenues could apply if state leadership was aware of the fraud or allowed it to continue.

“I mean, there’s all sorts of different statutes you could probably tie in if he knew, or should have known, that fraudulent activity was going on in his state, or even took steps to allow it to occur,” Steube said.

“That’s aiding and abetting criminal behavior. That’s obstruction. I mean, there’s a whole bunch of different things, statues that they could lop in for that.”

WATCH:

BREAKING: Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) says Tim Walz should face CRIMINAL CHARGES of Conspiracy, and Aiding and Abetting Criminal Behavior due to his role in the Somali fraud scandal

“There’s a WHOLE BUNCH of statutes they could lock in.”

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