ICYMI: Top House Republican Tom Emmer accuses Minnesota AG Keith Ellison of lying about benefit fraud

ICYMI: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer publicly accused Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Wednesday of lying about a 2021 meeting with later-convicted Somali fraudsters.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on welfare fraud in Minnesota, Emmer (R-Minn.) lambasted Ellison over audio of the meeting in which the AG told the future felons, who were claiming at the time to be victims of racist government policy, that “I got your back.”

Ellison has claimed that the scammers ensnared in the Feeding Our Future scandal lied to him and took advantage of his “good faith.”

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