Minnesota AG Posts About Cracking Down on Fraud — Seriously [WATCH]

Minnesota’s attorney general found himself getting torched online this weekend after boasting about cracking down on scammers, just as a massive fraud scandal, potentially totaling up to $9 billion, continues to engulf the state.

“Scammers thought Minnesotans were easy targets,” Keith Ellison, a Democrat who has held the office since 2019, posted Friday on X in a message nearing one million views.

“They were wrong. From student loan scams to fake utility callers, we shut them down this year — fast.”

But Ellison’s self-congratulatory tone quickly ran into a buzzsaw online, as critics pointed to the sprawling fraud scandal involving Minnesota government agencies and welfare programs that has unfolded under his watch.

The video, which highlighted enforcement actions against robocalls and online scams, was met with a flood of replies accusing the attorney general of ignoring — or failing to stop — far larger schemes that have rocked the state for years.

See Ellison’s post below:

Scammers thought Minnesotans were easy targets.
They were wrong.

From student loan scams to fake utility callers, we shut them down this year — fast. pic.twitter.com/fNVqctMy8N

— Keith Ellison (@keithellison) December 19, 2025

Responses calling out Ellison curated from Fox News:

“Arsonist claims to be fire fighter….,” GOP Sen. Ted Cruz posted on X. 

“Seriously?” Former sports broadcaster Michelle Tafoya, rumored to be mulling a run for Senate in Minnesota, posted on X.

“How could your team make this video when it was under your nose that Somalis in your state stole up to $9 billion of taxpayer funds meant to help Americans in need?” Post Millennial senior editor Andy Ngo posted on X. 

“Spare us your feign outrage, Keith,” Minnesota Republican Rep. Tom Emmer posted on X. “You’ve done nothing but enable and exacerbate fraud in Minnesota. This all happened on your watch. Welcome to the party.”

“Scammers were right,” former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, who worked on the Feeding Our Future fraud case in the state, posted on X. “Minnesota was an easy target. That’s why they stole literally BILLIONS of dollars from us.”

“You’re kidding right?” Townhall columnist Dustin Grage posted on X. “They literally created a new term called ‘fraud tourism’ to describe how easy it was to defraud Minnesota taxpayers.”

“No s—, Sherlock,” conservative communicator Steve Guest posted on X. “Minnesota was an easy target. Per CBS News, $9 BILLION worth of Medicaid fraud happened right under your nose. And the largest funder of Al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia is the Minnesota taxpayer.”

More responses below:

The audacity to post this trash. Per CBS News, $9 BILLION worth of Medicaid fraud happened right under your nose.

And the largest funder of Al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia is the Minnesota taxpayer. pic.twitter.com/cTZ7YaPkfb

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 19, 2025

How could your team make this video when it was under your nose that Somalis in your state stole up to $9 billion of taxpayer funds meant to help Americans in need?

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 20, 2025

What about the Somalian scammers who stole $18 billion?

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) December 19, 2025

Either you are the biggest failure ever at your job or you were in on it. Either way you should resign in shame.

— MAZE (@mazemoore) December 19, 2025