Minnesota's first lady Gwen Walz called the 2020 riots a 'touchstone' of current events
She admits she sat by the window watching the poor neighborhood go up in flames, taking in the smell of burning tires as long as she could. Their daughter coordinated with the rioters, telling them the National Guard would not be deployed that night.Conservative commentators expressed astonishment at Gwen Walz's remarks after the clip started going viral on social media.
"What might you call this? Bizarre? Abnormal? Peculiar? Eccentric? Offbeat? Quirky?" Noah Rothman, a senior writer at the National Review Online, said. "Gotta be a word that describes reveling in the catharsis represented by the torching of other people’s property."
"Everything you need to know about leftist elites can be found in this short clip," Daily Wire host Matt Walsh said on X. "Tim Walz’s wife sat by the window enjoying the smell of poor neighborhoods burning during the Floyd riots. She did everything but pull out a fiddle."
Gov. Walz was criticized for his handling of the riots. Conservatives accused him of sitting on his hands as the state was engulfed by riots.
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Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz said in 2020 that she kept the windows of the governor's mansion open amid a smell of burning tires during the riots that hit the city.