Former federal prosecutor Joe Thompson and the unsatisfying reckoning with social services fraud

Joe Thompson stands by everything.

The former acting U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota confirmed in an interview at MinnPost Festival in Minneapolis on Saturday that:

• The reason Thompson resigned in January was because he disagreed with how the Trump administration wanted him to investigate ICE agent Jonathan Ross’ killing of protester Renee Good. 

• Thompson really believes there was over $9 billion in Medicaid fraud during the Walz administration, a comment he made in December that is the campaign mantra for Lisa Demuth and other Minnesota Republicans.

• Thompson believes his office was right to push forward with cases that involved mostly Somali defendants, even as the Trump administration used these cases as a pretext for Operation Met...