Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, who is also Kamala Harris’ vice presidential running mate, has, according to his political campaign, taken far fewer trips to China than his alleged “dozens” of times, which he revealed in congressional hearings and media interviews. This man should never be allowed to serve in the federal government or any government position for that matter. Not with the evidence that exists to suggest he can be bought off by foreign countries.
via Fox News:
“I have been to China dozens of times,” Walz stated during a 2016 congressional hearing. “I’ve been there about 30 times,” Walz told an agriculture-focused publication the same year. However, a Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson recently acknowledged to Minnesota Public Radio that the number was “closer to 15 times.”
The revision comes amid growing scrutiny from GOP critics over Walz’s potential ties to the People’s Republic of China and its ruling Communist Party. Earlier this month, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter renewing pressure on the FBI to produce documents related to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities or officials that Walz has purportedly engaged with in the past.
Walz had previously testified that his first trip to China was back in 1989 when the whole Tiananmen Square uprising took place. This visit was due to his participation in the first delegation of American teachers to ever enter a communist nation. And boy is he blessed to have made it back out. Walz was also involved with the Harvard WorldTeach program. The program gave him a chance to live in the country for a year and teach children.
Walz apparently enjoyed his time in China so much that after transitioning his teaching career to the U.S., Walz continued to take annual trips back to China with his students. Walz eventually set up a company with his wife Gwen, called Educational Travel Adventures, Inc., which was dedicated to taking students on trips to China and other international destinations. The two even honeymooned in China on one of their trips in 1993. Walz’s annual trips with students took place between 1993 and the early 2000s, before he began running for public office. Walz and his wife dissolved their student-travel company after he won his seat in Congress in 2006. However, Walz’s China experience was a matter of pride for the now-vice presidential candidate when he was trying to join Congress.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate’s campaign website at that time shined a spotlight on his work as a visiting fellow at Macau Polytechnic University, which is deeply connected to the CCP. Nothing fishy about that, right?
“What we need in education, what we need in the military, and what we need when I’m fostering cultural exchanges with China, is real solutions,” Walz also went on to say when he debated incumbent GOP Rep. Gil Gutknecht in 2006, once again pointing to the work he did in China.
Once the Minnesota governor was tapped by Harris to be her running mate, the folks over at Minnesota Public Radio started trying to verify all of the alleged trips he took to China. Only 12 of them could be said to have happened for sure. That’s not remotely close to dozens.
The outlet soon reached out to Harris’ campaign and asked them for documentation that could prove Walz claim. However, rather than doing that — because they couldn’t, as that many trips never occurred, at least not “officially” — they said that he had exaggerated the actual number of visits to China. In reality, it wasn’t “dozens,” but was “closer to 15 times.”
Walz, like many Democrats, seems to be a pathological liar. Not only did he stretch the truth concerning how many times he went to China, but also misrepresented the rank he obtained during his time serving in the Army National Guard.
“I’m a retired command sergeant major,” Walz asserted while running for Congress in 2006. However, while Walz did serve briefly with that rank, he retired too early to keep it. Walz’s retirement also prevented him from deploying to the Middle East, another point of criticism against the vice presidential candidate who has suggested that he saw combat. Meanwhile, it has been alleged that Walz and his wife have made false assertions about their use of IVF as well.
According to a former veteran with the national guard who spoke with podcast host Megyn Kelly, Walz is a “habitual liar.”
“He’s a habitual liar. He lies about everything. He lies about stuff that doesn’t make sense,” the veteran stated.
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