Office of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan / Flickr (Left), Adobe Stock (Right)
CV NEWS FEED // House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-KY, wrote in a Monday letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that his Committee “has recently received whistleblower disclosures … regarding a longstanding connection between the CCP and Minnesota Governor Timothy James Walz.”
Comer had subpoenaed the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to allegations that the Democratic vice presidential nominee had ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Comer indicated in his letter that the whistleblower told the Committee about “a non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat among DHS employees … that contains information about Governor Walz that is relevant to the Committee’s investigation.”
“In particular, if a state governor and major political party’s nominee for Vice President of the United States has been a witting or unwitting participant in the CCP’s efforts to weaken our nation,” Comer wrote later in the letter,
this would strongly suggest that there are alarming weaknesses in the federal government’s effort to defend the United States from the CCP’s political warfare that must be urgently addressed.
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The information required of DHS by the Committee’s subpoena will inform the Committee’s understanding of how successful the CCP has been in waging political warfare against the United States, how effectively federal agencies are addressing the communist regime’s campaign, and what reforms are necessary to counter this threat.
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Walz has served as the governor of Minnesota since 2019, and spent the previous 12 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.
According to a press release from the Oversight Committee, Comer’s subpoena requested “All documents and communications in the Microsoft Teams group chat” and “All Intelligence Information Reports and Regional Intelligence Notes” related to Walz.
FOX News reported that last month, Comer “revealed that Walz has ‘engaged and partnered with’ Chinese entities, making him ‘susceptible’ to the CCP’s strategy of ‘elite capture,’ which seeks to co-opt influential figures,” in the United States, particularly in politics.
“Comer has pointed to reports that Walz, while working as a teacher in the 1990s, organized a trip to China for Alliance High School students,” FOX’s report added. “The costs were reportedly ‘paid by the Chinese government.’”
Shortly after Comer sent his letter, multiple observers took to X (formerly Twitter) to provide several apparent examples of Walz’s alleged connections to China.
“Tim Walz has visited China, a lot,” wrote Dustin Grage, a journalist based in Minnesota. “He speaks Chinese and has visited the country 30+ times.”
Grage posted a video clip of Walz stating “I’m pretty friendly with China.”
“The Chinese Communist Party even helped Walz set up a business to facilitate his travel in China,” Grage added.
To substantiate this claim, the journalist posted a screenshot of a 1993 article that appeared in the Star-Herald, a western Nebraska newspaper.
The story, “Boarding the Orient Express,” detailed the experience of a group of Nebraska students making a summer trip to China. The group was led by Walz, then a 29-year-old teacher.
Walz was quoted in the article saying that the “purpose” of the trip “is just to give students and sponsors a real taste of Chinese life.”
In his series of X posts, Grage also suggested that Walz likely lied about being in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
As The New York Post reported:
In 2014, then-Rep. Tim Walz regaled fellow members of Congress with a recollection of being in Hong Kong during the notorious Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 — but contemporary local media coverage indicates he was actually safe and sound in his native Nebraska as the tanks rolled through Beijing.
Reporter Jerry Dunleavy IV posted a 1989 article and photo that seemed to prove Walz was in Nebraska during the massacre.
“All evidence indicates Tim Walz was actually living in Nebraska then,” Dunleavy wrote. “Now we can see a pattern of him lying about this.”
