Should Tim Walz Be Arrested For Insurrection?

The following is an adapted transcript excerpt from The Michael Knowles Show.

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An awful scene unfolded in Minneapolis yesterday. Everyone agrees it was an awful scene, but we can’t quite agree on why.

A leftist woman obstructed federal immigration enforcement, then hit an officer with her SUV, at which point the federal agent shot her. Now, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, is calling on the Minnesota National Guard to commit insurrection against the federal government, against which he says his state is at war.

Where to begin?

The federal agents were entirely in the right. Everyone obstructing law enforcement — from the woman in the SUV all the way to Governor Walz — is entirely in the wrong. But even though her death is entirely her own fault, I can’t help but feel sorry for her.

Amid the ICE raids in Minneapolis, amid the response to a woman being justly killed, you have examples of leftists not learning their lesson at all. One of the protesters was actually trying to grab the weapon of law enforcement.

Why might one think it’s okay to grab the weapon of a National Guardsman or law enforcement officer?

Well, one of the inciting incidents for all of BLM, for all of this leftist anarchy and rioting in recent years, was the Michael Brown case. In that case, Michael Brown, a young thug who had just robbed a store, goes up and starts taunting a cop, then threatens the cop, then reaches into the police car and grabs the cop’s weapon. The weapon actually discharges, and still the cop doesn’t kill him until he goes away. And then the thug turns around, comes back, and starts charging the cop. And the way that incident was rewritten by the media was, “that poor little child, Michael Brown, a gentle giant, was executed in cold blood by a racist officer. He did nothing wrong. He had his hands up. He said, ‘Don’t shoot.’”

Completely made up. 

But if you are one of these leftist activists in the streets and you learn that you can get away with this stuff; if you’re told law enforcement is evil and racist and terrible, then you need to stop them.

Take, for example, what Maxine Waters (D-CA) said back in 2018 during Trump’s first term:

If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station; you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome.

Then, if you see the Michael Brown case, which helped kick off BLM, you’ll say to yourself, “I can go grab a cop’s weapon, and I’m not at fault.” Well, sooner or later, you are going to get shot, and it’s going to be your fault. And I feel bad for that person.

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But I also blame the Democrats for this situation. I blame people like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

One day after January 6, on January 7, 2026, Tim Walz literally called for insurrection. He called on Minnesota National Guardsmen to violently oppose federal law enforcement, which is as clear-cut a case of insurrection as there can be. In my view, Walz should be arrested for it. 

Here’s what he had to say about the incident.

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BREAKING: Tim Walz announces that he issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard to “protect Minnesotans” from “rogue Ice Agents.”

Wow. pic.twitter.com/6L2EqIJxd1

— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) January 7, 2026

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He wants to be very careful? And deploy the Minnesota National Guard? For those of you who are confused on the matter, take a look at the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Article VI, clause two of the United States Constitution states:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

When Tim Walz says the Minnesota National Guard is there to protect people in the event of a natural disaster, chaos, or rioting, that’s true. When he says the Minnesota National Guard is there to protect them from federal agents, that’s not true. That is completely untrue.

That would violate not merely the law and the American political tradition, that would violate the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.

Either Walz doesn’t know anything, which is plausible, or he is reckless and a traitor to his country. Either way, there is a strong case to be made that Tim Walz should be arrested for his statements.

Now, I am not someone who says we need to round up all of our political opponents. I’m really not. I’m pretty moderate, relative to both the Left and the Right, with my rhetoric. I think there is a very strong case to be made, however, that Tim Walz should be arrested for his statements.

By the way, he doesn’t stop there.

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Did Tim Walz just say Minnesota is at war with the Federal Government??? pic.twitter.com/HbqxPZ9m6U

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) January 7, 2026

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Tim Walz is effectively stating that he views Minnesota as being at war with the federal government. It’s not quite a firm declaration, but it’s about as close as you can get. And he’s the governor of Minnesota. He’s declaring war on the government of the United States. He’s talking about calling up troops to fight the government of the United States.

There is a special irony here. Democrats recently guffawed and howled and cheered because a statue of Robert E. Lee, one of the greatest Americans in history, was taken down in the U.S. Capitol and replaced with someone no one’s ever heard of. Robert E. Lee was an American patriot who defended his homeland and also helped bring about peace and reconciliation in America.

Lee’s statue comes down because he was a “terrible, awful, evil insurrectionist.” You were not allowed to declare war on the government of the United States 150 years ago. Now, sitting Governor Tim Walz, a man who was the most recent Democrat nominee for vice president, was almost one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president — Tim Walz, as governor, more or less declares war on the federal government. And then begins to take actions to actually back it up.

There actually is a good argument to be made for arresting Tim Walz. He was just caught in a major fraud scandal with the Somalis, and it looks like he’s engaged in a cover-up of the scandal. Putting that aside, there is still a very strong argument to arrest him for his statements.

The liberals who whine about January 6 are not doing so in any kind of principled way. The same liberals who say you can’t question election results supported Al Gore when he held up the election results in 2000, probably the most famous example. Then, Hillary Clinton denied the election results, and Stacey Abrams denied the election results in Georgia. So principles play no role in this.

Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot. But let’s say the libs don’t believe in any of these principles. Just as a matter of law. Just as a matter of the Constitution. Tim Walz is leading a literal insurrection against the government of the United States.

I’m not saying that the federal government should arrest him. I’m not. I haven’t come to that conclusion. But they should strongly consider it.