It’s bigger than Tim.

FILE PHOTO – Steve Karnowski, AP

Even though the legacy media are doing everything possible to look the other way, we are learning that Minnesota governor Tim Walz is at the center of a massive fraud and coverup.

You remember Tim Walz. He was Kamala Harris’s pick for VP on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket. He’s the guy that put tampon dispensers in the boys’ restrooms of Minnesota middle schools.

The things coming to light about Tampon Tim aren’t coming from a disgruntled employee or a lone wolf whistleblower, whose incentives and motivations might be called into question. These revelations come from no fewer than 480 employees of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, who have accused the governor of not only orchestrating a coverup, but vigorously – and at times viciously – retaliating against whistleblowers.

So, what’s it all about?

It’s about a ring of Somali immigrants who have stolen a great big pile of money. Thanks to the open arms of über-liberal Minnesota, Somali immigrants have flooded the state – to the point that Minnesota is home to the largest concentration of Somali immigrants in the country.

Somalis don’t bring a lot to the table. The majority Sunni Muslim nation is one of the least developed on the globe. It is deeply impoverished and torn by civil strife. The illiteracy rate exceeds 50 percent.

The Somali immigrants at the center of this story are either accused of – or in some cases have already been convicted of – stealing over a billion dollars of taxpayer money. A billion dollars – that’s with a “B.”

That pile of your money consists of funds stolen via COVID relief scams, money siphoned out of loophole-riddled government programs aimed at things like housing, mental health, disability services and childhood autism; and money purloined from other government do-good programs. The money that didn’t stick to the fingers of the accused Somalis was funneled back to Somalia – where a generous portion found its way into the hands of the terror group al-Shabaab.

Rather than address any of this, Tim Walz first tried to ignore it. When that didn’t work, he declared jihad on those blowing the whistle.

Tim Walz is a bad guy. We know that. But he’s not the real story.

The real story here is about much more than one corrupt, looney-leftist politician. What we should really be examining is the smorgasbord of high purpose-claiming government programs that are so massive in scope and possessed of such amorphous goals that they easily lend themselves to corruption on this scale.

In the 60 years since the birth of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty if we have learned nothing else, we have learned that massive government do-good programs funded by massive piles of taxpayer cash seldom accomplish their stated goals or do the good that they promise to do.

Instead, the money winds up being wasted at best or outright stolen at worst.

Forget about Tampon Tim. Focus instead on the fact that a nation that’s $37 trillion in debt can’t afford this kind of thing anymore.