If Republicans didn’t have a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, we would probably never get answers to the misadventures of the Biden-Harris administration – and the possible Harris-Walz administration. Case in point: Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, just SubpoenasD the DHS and Alejandro Mayorkas for information about Tim Walz’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This comes one day before Walz faces JD Vance in the only vice presidential debate of this cycle.
Comer’s committee was informed by a DHS whistleblower about an unclassified Microsoft Teams group used by DHS employees where they allegedly disseminated information about Walz’s “longstanding association” with the CCP. The subpoena seeks all “intelligence reports, documents and communications” in DHS’s possession related to the team discussion, as well as all “other relevant information regarding Governor Walz” contained “in both classified and unclassified documents under the control of the DHS.” DHS were stored”.
🚨BREAKING: Chairman Comer Subpoenas DHS After Whistleblower Reveals Information About Gov. Walz’s CCP Ties
According to recent whistleblower revelations, we learned of an unclassified Microsoft Teams group chat between DHS employees and more… pic.twitter.com/VRuXBbf2dR
– Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) September 30, 2024
RedState’s Jennifer Oliver O’Connell likes to call him a “Manchurian candidate.”
Tim Walz isn’t exactly shy about his connections to China, having made contacts before boasted about staying in neighboring Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989:
“As a young man, I was about to teach high school in Foshan, Guangdong province, and I was in Hong Kong in May 1989,” he told a congressional panel on China in 2014. Walz taught American culture and English as a second language to 1,000 people. He said high school and middle school students attended every week.
“As the events were unfolding, several of us went inside,” he said. “I still remember the train station in Hong Kong. There were a lot of people – especially Europeans, I think – who were very upset that we were still going to investigate what had happened.”
Here’s how the uninterested New York Times reported regarding the alleged incident last month:
Walz was in “Hong Kong, just across the Chinese border, when People’s Liberation Army tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square to crush pro-democracy protests.”
Walz “lived in the cocoon of daily life on a small-town campus while the chaos of the Tiananmen Square crackdown swept across the country more than 1,100 miles away,” the reported Just.
As with everything that has to do with Tim Walz, special scrutiny must be carried out here. It turns out that Minnesota Public Radio did this revealed a discrepancy in Walz’s claim about Hong Kong, and Walz’s own campaign team “was unable to provide documentation to support Walz’s statement that he was there during the uprising.” He may also have lied about how often he visited China, but that doesn’t surprise anyone at this point. Tim Walz has a rather dubious relationship with the truth, not unlike Kamala Harris.
None of this means that Tim Walz hasn’t maintained a close relationship with China; he has. There is another subpoena asking the Defense Department for information about his repeated trips to China, while presumably traveling under secret U.S. government authorization.
New: @Jim_Banks sends letter to defense minister. Lloyd Austin wonders how @Tim_Walz“a high-ranking security guard, presumably with a secret security clearance,” traveled “regularly to China on unofficial business without raising any red flags?”
Letter: pic.twitter.com/WEW5RMF9lP
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) August 13, 2024
These subpoenas and related questions about Tim Walz’s communist ties will almost certainly be raised by JD Vance at Tuesday’s vice presidential debate; Vance is unlikely to let Walz get away with a weird catchphrase and a twitchy leg kick.
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