Clearly Trump hopes to bully Minnesota into submission. This is obviously a lie, just like "illegal immigrants" was a lie.

The larger question is why would a Minnesota voter, any voter, vote for Trump or any of his enablers ever again? We've all been told time and again that there's a rule of law, nobody above it, that the US has a federal system, that were all really citizens of a state, and that Congress allocates a budget, and all the executive branch does is implement the budget. Oh yeah, also there's checks and balances.

None of that is in evidence here. None. You can be arbitrarily punished and tax money taken away on the whim of one man. What should other Dem states like Colorado (prosecuted Tina Peterson, tried to take Trump off the primary's ballot) think and do here?

And those poor conservatives! Trump really pantsed all those small government, personal responsibility marks.

They don't mind. "Small government" was always about the things you care about, not what they care about.

It's why they've always talked about "states' rights": because they're not individual rights.

The first rule of Trump conservatism is that whatever goes wrong, it's always somebody else's fault.

The second through tenth rules of Trump conservatism are remarkably like the first.

These rules work as reliably as sunrise and sunset. The Trumpers will blame the nearest Democrat, as they are wont^H^H^H^H programmed to do.

There definitely is fraud in Minnesota but I agree that this isn't the way to fix it.

Sure. The executive branch uses law enforcement to find and punish it, The president doesn't get to unilaterally pull funding. Or if Trump does, it puts lie to congress making budgets, rule of law, representative democracy, checks and balances, and many other principles of US government.