At the beginning of August, I thought Tim Walz was totally cooked.
Once upon a time, not all that long ago, accusations of impropriety or dishonourable conduct as a serviceman were enough to kill a political candidate stone dead.
With John Kerry, back in 2004, the “Swift Boat” accusations were pretty vague and it’s still not clear to this day that he was guilty of whatever it was he was actually accused of, but the general odour of dishonour was enough to make Americans turn their noses up and vote for George W. Bush instead. And remember: Kerry was a man who served in a warzone—that warzone being Vietnam.
With Tim Walz, by contrast, there can be little doubt that he is guilty of stolen valor, that he has inflated his military rank and record and lied to the faces of Gold Star families and tried to pass himself off as a combat veteran suffering from PTSD. Walz even said at a 9/11 memorial event that he remembered watching bodies being loaded onto a military plane at “Bagram Air Base in Iraq.”
Like I said, there are two problems with this claim: Bagram Airbase is in Afghanistan, not Iraq; and Tim Walz never went to either of those countries. The closest he got to a Middle East deployment was running support duties in Italy, where the local Taliban is a culinary one that will only skin you alive if you order a milky coffee past midday.
Former National Guard members have lined up to launch buckets of steaming excrement over Walz. Men who served under him and above him. Walz is absolutely covered. A former commander of Walz’s battalion, John Kolb, described Walz as a self-serving coward whose abandonment of his battalion before its deployment to Iraq in 2004 was a blessing in disguise.
“I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major,” Kolb wrote on Facebook.
“Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership.”
I’ll say it again: Ouch.
But it seems America is a different country now, even from 20 years ago. What was once fatal in the eyes of the American public, now barely leaves a wound.
I won’t say the accusations will have no effect—they could still tip the balance against the Harris-Walz ticket—but it will be hard to gauge their effects. It certainly looks like Kamala Harris’s choice of VP is driving independents in Minnesota away from the Democrats, especially white men. Minnesotans are the people who know Walz best of all, apart from the soldiers who served with him in the National Guard and can’t stop saying dreadful things about him. Minnesotans remember the snitch hotline from the pandemic and they see the transformation of parts of their state into an exclave of Somalia and they know who’s responsible. They see him smirking on Twitter and pretending he cares about the state of his truck’s air filter—“just like they do.”
Even so, it’s clear these accusations about his military service are not going to force Tim Walz to bow out as Kamala Harris’s running mate, or force Kamala Harris to fire him. I thought they would. I was wrong.
The general sense with Walz, whether he’s talking about his wife’s fertility treatments, his political “origin story” or just opening his mouth, is that he is a pathological liar. The kind of person who simply can’t stop telling lies, even about small, silly things that can easily be refuted.
You may have met liars like Tim Walz. I have. They simply can’t be helped. The best thing you can do is to extricate or insulate yourself from them.
Such people are dangerous even at the best of times. But Walz is much more dangerous than that, I think, and not just because he’s running for the second highest political office in the land. Walz may also be a spy for the Chinese government.
Walz is now being investigated for his ties to the Chinese Communist Party, spanning a period of decades. The House Oversight Committee, led by Rep. James Comer, announced an investigation last month. Comer sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, demanding information on Walz’s links to the CCP, and issued a press release about the investigation.
“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,” Comer said in the press release.
“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.”
The press release goes on to detail how Walz began organizing school trips to China, funded by the CCP, in the early 1990s, and then set up a private company which organized annual trips to China, until it was dissolved days before Walz entered Congress in 2007. Walz has visited China an estimated 30 times, and held various positions of influence with regard to US-China relations.
He’s also promoted a biotech lab in Minnesota with close links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the COVID-19 virus originated from.
One former student who travelled to China with Walz described him recently as “Maoist to the core.”
And the accusations keep coming. A new, hugely serious, one is that Walz may have transferred classified military secrets about a nuclear-capable howitzer gun to the Chinese, in the mid 1990s. That’s what a former member of Walz’s battalion alleged this week.
Speaking to Alpha News, the retired soldier, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described how the standard operating procedure manual for the M109A5 howitzer, detailing the gun’s nuclear capabilities, went missing.
He said Walz was one of the few men with access to the building where the manual was kept and was “often the only one there.” The soldier believes Walz stole the manual and later returned it. The disappearance, which was never reported, coincided with one of Walz’s many visits to China.
When asked why the manual’s disappearance was never reported, the former soldier said that the battalion was more concerned with Walz’s neglect of key duties, because he was “double-dipping,” or working a full-time job when he should have been working full-time with his unit.
“He claims that Walz frequently neglected key duties, such as recruitment and payroll, which allegedly raised concerns to the point that a superior had to investigate,” Alpha News reports.
“The former soldier stated that the unit was more focused on those issues, and when the manual eventually reappeared, it went unreported. In hindsight, the soldier believes he should have reported it when it first went missing but feared repercussions for not addressing it sooner.”
The Chinese began developing a howitzer, the PLZ-05, with striking similarities to the US M109A5 in the mid-1990s, around the time the former soldier alleges Walz stole the manual.
Another interesting coincidence: Tim Walz was arrested for DUI in 1995. He was caught travelling 96mph in a 55mph zone. His lawyer later alleged that his client was being chased. By whom? Why?
America’s elite have been beholden to the Chinese for decades. They have sold America out, actively driving the decline of American economic, technological and military power and the rise of China as a global superpower, solely as a means of enriching themselves.
That’s the whole meaning of MAGA: to put America, not the rest of the world—and especially not America’s principal competitor—first. To restore America to its rightful position in the world and throw off the new carpetbaggers who have done America and the American people so much harm.
But what would it mean to have an actual agent of China in the White House? Not just somebody who’s interested in making big bucks at the expense of ordinary Americans, but an actual representative of a foreign power, working to advance its interests at the expense of America’s? We don’t know, but soon we might.
Don’t expect the mainstream media to cover this new story about Walz or to interrogate the accusations against him in any detail. It’s also unlikely that the House Oversight Committee will be able to provide its findings in good time before the election.
So It will be left to the American public at the ballot box to decide whether America gets Trump and Vance, or Kamala Harris and the Timchurian Candidate. I pray they make the right decision.
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