WASHINGTON, D.C. (Michigan News Source) – The art of the deal is unfolding in real time. On Monday, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called him “with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota.”
Trump posted, “Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength. I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession. The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I! We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have “touched” and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!”
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This news comes after weeks of agitators in Minnesota thwarting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, impeding law enforcement duties, and storming a church service. As if tensions weren’t high enough, ICE agents shot and killed a man over the weekend who interfered with their duties. This follows the shooting of Renae Good who followed and taunted ICE agents for hours before slamming her car into one of them before being shot.
Over the weekend, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer posted on X that “Michiganders stand with Minnesotans as they exercise their First Amendment right to protest and make their voice heard peacefully.
We are witnessing unacceptable violations of Americans’ safety, rights, and freedoms. No one should accept this. ⁰⁰The violence must stop.⁰⁰Michiganders stand with Minnesotans as they exercise their First Amendment right to protest and make their voices heard peacefully.
— Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) January 24, 2026
Whitmer, who is also a lawyer, might think differently if she sparred with Constitutional scholar and Lansing-based attorney David Kallman. He told The Steve Gruber Show this morning saying comments like hers are “ridiculous.”
“I’ve litigated First Amendment cases for four decades. And for anybody to argue that a private setting in a church or a store that you have some First Amendment right shows you have no understanding of the First Amendment,” Kallman said, referencing the Jan. 18 invasion of a St. Paul, Minnesota church by anti-ICE protestors. “Any attorney that says that you might as well stop listening to them. They don’t know what they’re talking about.”
