The influential House Oversight Committee is investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz‘s “longstanding connections” to China and other CCP-linked entities.
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a letter that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray, notifying the bureau of the committee’s investigation into Walz.
“The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is conducting a government-wide investigation into the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare operations against America and the response from federal agencies,” he wrote. “Vice President Kamala Harris recently announced her vice presidential running mate, Timothy Walz, the current governor of Minnesota.”
Comer said that the committee had been briefed by the FBI on April 22 and July 17 — both briefings occurred before Walz was named Harris’ running mate.
Comer is now seeking information about the Chinese entities and officials 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.”
Comer said Walz has “longstanding connections to CCP-connected entities and officials that make him susceptible” to the CCP’s strategy of “elite capture,” which seeks to co-opt influential figures in elite political, cultural and academic circles to “influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and the detriment of Americans.”
Comer pointed to reports of Walz’s “extensive engagement with CCP officials and entities while serving in public office,” saying it raises questions about “possible CCP influence in his decision-making as governor — and, should he be elected, as vice president.”
“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,’” Comer wrote.
Comer also said Walz has traveled to China an estimated “30 times.”
Comer is now requesting that the FBI assist in the committee’s investigation by providing documents and information related to any Chinese entity or individual with whom Walz may have engaged or partnered.
Comer is also asking for any records between the FBI and Walz, or his gubernatorial office pertaining to warnings or guidance about subnational government officials engaging with the PRC, CCP and the CCP’s proxies.
Comer, in a statement to Fox News Digital, said “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,” Comer said. “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.”
“The American people deserve to fully understand how deep Governor Walz’s relationship with China goes,” Comer told Fox News Digital.
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If I wonder if Rep Comer will follow through with his findings this time. He didn’t seem to follow through when he released a presser on November 17, 2022, called “Comer Reveals Evidence of President Biden’s Involvement in His Family’s Business Schemes” that detailed extensive and hard evidence that Usurper Joe Biden might be a “National Security Threat.” There was little follow-up as far as I can tell. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform didn’t use the bully pulpit that we give them to warn the American people that our White House was being used as a Pay-For-Play revolving door that was open to every foreign and domestic enemy of America. They didn’t defund the massive amount of fiat money that Usurper Joe requested to be sent to Ukraine (that was the Real Hush Money to buy silence about the Biden crime family). They didn’t stop our military weapons from being sent to foreign adversaries. They didn’t defund the mass invasion of potentially dangerous illegal aliens from being bused all over our country, housed in hotels, given all kinds of public assistance, while our cities crumble as they are being burned down by anarchists. I am adding the contents of a URL but I am separating it out so that it gets to you without actually being a link. https oversight DOT house DOT GOV /release/icymi-comer-reveals-evidence-of-president-bidens-involvement-in-his-familys-business-schemes/