Posted on 08/17/2024 8:56:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Walz’s connections to China raise questions about possible CCP influence in his decision-making as governor—and should he be elected, as vice president.
WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is launching an investigation into Minnesota Governor Timothy Walz, Kamala Harris’s recently announced vice-presidential running mate, following reports detailing the Governor’s longstanding connections to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities and officials. In a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray, Chairman Comer is requesting information, documents, and communications related to the CCP-connected entities and officials Governor Walz has engaged and partnered with, as well as any warnings or advice the FBI may have given to Governor Walz about U.S. political figures being targeted by or recruited for CCP influence operations.
“The CCP has sought to destroy the United States through coordinated influence and infiltration campaigns that target every aspect of American life, including our own elected officials. Americans should be deeply concerned that Governor Walz, Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential running mate, has a longstanding and cozy relationship with China. Mr. Walz has visited China dozens of times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the President of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders. FBI briefers recently informed the Committee that the Bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force investigates CCP activity that is similar to China’s engagement with Governor Walz. The American people deserve to fully understand how deep Governor Walz’s relationship with China goes,” said Chairman James Comer.
Reporting indicates Governor Walz has concerning ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In 1993, according to the Star-Herald, as a teacher, Mr. Walz organized a trip to the PRC with Alliance High School students, where costs were paid by the Chinese government. In 1994, Mr. Walz set up a private company named “Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.,” which coordinated annual student trips to the PRC until 2003 and was led by Mr. Walz himself. The corporation was reportedly dissolved four days after he took congressional office in 2007. Since his first trip to China, Governor Walz has visited the PRC an estimated 30 times. While serving in Congress, Mr. Walz also served as a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University, a Chinese institution that characterizes itself as having a “long held devotion to and love for the motherland.” Governor Walz spoke alongside the President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which, a year later, the Department of State exposed as “a Beijing-based organization tasked with co-opting subnational governments,” including efforts “to directly and malignly influence state and local leaders to promote the PRC’s global agenda.”
Read the letter to FBI Director Wray here.
Comer is the most useless, ineffectual, bloviating RePukertard out there... Trey Gowdy, Jr.
What an utter waste of time and resources.
Oh man, look out! There will be one scorching letter coming from this.
“What an utter waste of time and resources.”
Give the illusion of action while doing nothing. The GOP way.
The Manchurian candidate 2.0
“..What an utter waste of time and resources...”
I disagree! This unusual China relationship with Walz should have been thoroughly vetted long ago. I wonder how many more of our political pesonalities have similar connections with China.
I see America’s “Jughead” never learned anything all those years he was in the National Guard.
I wonder if he had a close personal relationship with Fang Fang😄
I guess Walz can expect to receive a strongly worded letter warning him that Comer is on his trail. Unfortunately, the joke is on the American people.
The GOP should be the SWLP(Strongly Worded Letter Party).
James Comey(SWLP-KY) is about as useful as Gowdy, Jordan and Johnson have been.
THE GREAT WALZ OF CHINA
Did DoD or the command of the MN National Guard have any problem with the number of trips Walz made to China? Was he debriefed after each visit like Carter Page returning from his Russia business trips? Was Walz acting on behalf of the US Government?
This can only backfire, as the connections and “campaign donations” from the CCP can only burnish his dem qualifications.
How did Putz generate a net worth of 138 million? I would really like to know how he did it.
Walz likes gifts
“How did Putz generate a net worth of 138 million? I would really like to know how he did it.”
Start with getting elected to an influential position.
This needs to be looked into... Bernie honeymooned in the USSR and Walz in China? Then there’s a tie in with the Tienanmen Square slaughter...
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