Rep. Jim Banks Demands Pentagon Probe into Tim Walz’s Frequent Trips to China While Serving in the N

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Rep. Jim Banks Demands Pentagon Probe into Tim Walz’s Frequent Trips to China While Serving in the National Guard
by Jim Hᴏft Aug. 15, 2024 2:20 pm

Representative Jim Banks (R-IN) has called on Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to launch an immediate investigation into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s repeated visits to China during his tenure with the Nebraska and Minnesota National Guards.

Banks’ letter to the Pentagon raises serious concerns about whether Walz, a former senior enlisted service member, properly reported his frequent foreign travels, potentially putting national security at risk.

Walz, who served in the National Guard for nearly 24 years, reportedly made nearly 30 trips to China between 1989 and 2005, many of which took place while he held a security clearance as part of his duties.

“He and his wife also organized trips to China from 1994 to 2003 at least annually. During this whole period, Walz remained a service member in either the Nebraska or Minnesota National Guards and presumably held a clearance for much or all of this time. Walz claimed in 2016 that he had traveled to China nearly 30 times; it is likely that at least a dozen of these trips occurred while he was a guardsman,” according to the letter.

“The CCP can use this optimism to exploit naïve foreign visitors, particularly visitors who are military servicemembers. Walz bragged after one trip to China that “they gave me more gifts than I could bring home” and that “I will never be treated that well again.””

Banks asserts that the Governor’s travels to China, an adversary nation, should have been subject to strict scrutiny and prior approval from security offices, as is standard procedure for any clearance holder.

Yet, there is growing concern that Walz may have circumvented these protocols, failing to disclose his trips and the nature of his interactions with Chinese officials.

“Clearance holders often require prior approval and threat briefings for foreign travel to prepare them for the risks of hostile foreign intelligence activity,” said Banks.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/rep-jim-banks-demands-pentagon-probe-tim-walzs/

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House Oversight investigating Walz over 'longstanding connections' to China
Rep. James Comer probes 'possible CCP influence' in Tim Walz's decision making as governor
 By Brooke Singman Fox News
Published August 16, 2024 8:30am EDT

EXCLUSIVE: The House Oversight Committee is investigating Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and his alleged "longstanding connections" to China and CCP-linked entities, Fox News Digital has learned.

Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a letter that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., penned 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.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-oversight-investigating-walz-over-longstanding-connections-china

[Fishrrman]

Mr. Banks can "demand" all he wants, but the "biden pentagon" isn't going to do much of anything...

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Report: Tim Walz Caught Inflating Background Again, Making It Look Like Harvard Behind China Classes

Elizabeth Weibel 24 Aug 2024

Democrat vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) was caught inflating his background and making it seem like Harvard University was behind a teaching program in China in which he participated, according to a recent report.

A report from the Washington Free Beacon found that Walz had lied about being “named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce,” and seemingly implying that Harvard University was behind a teaching program, and had picked Walz for “an opportunity” to teach in China through a university program. The program, WorldTeach, was founded in 1986 by several graduates from Harvard University, according to the organization’s LinkedIn page.

Both lies appear in his biography in an archived version of his campaign website in 2006 as he was running for Congress.

This comes after Walz previously falsely claimed that his children were conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), claimed that he had carried weapons of war “in war,” and that he had retired as a “command sergeant major” when he had actually retired as a Master Sergeant.

“With his teaching degree complete, Harvard University offered Walz an opportunity to gain a new perspective on global education by teaching in the People’s Republic of China,” Walz’s biography on the archived website says. “Working in China during 1989-1990, Walz was a member of one of the first government sanctioned groups of American educators to teach in Chinese high schools.”

The outlet noted that Walz’s congressional biography had allegedly “said the same thing,” and that a 2018 biography allegedly implied that Walz had been teaching in China through the WorldTeach program, “a program at Harvard University.”

    The program in question is the WorldTeach program, a nonprofit founded by Harvard undergraduates, including the Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Kremer, in 1986. For a time, the program was funded by Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association, which the Harvard Crimson has characterized as “a student-run community service group” that disburses resources to an array of nonprofit organizations and facilitates volunteerism for Harvard students. WorldTeach, which is currently dormant, does not appear to have ever been an official program of Harvard.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/24/report-tim-walz-caught-inflating-background-again-making-it-look-like-harvard-behind-china-classes/

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Walz is going to need his own category soon...Walz Lies!

[mountaineer]

The story of Walz and his China travel tour company keeps getting weirder. His spokesman described it as a nonprofit, but there's no nonprofit listing for it and it was actually listed as a business corporation.

https://twitter.com/Sultanknish/status/1828245043200827756

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Mr. Banks can "demand" all he wants, but the "biden pentagon" isn't going to do much of anything...

The Dimmies did a worse job vetting him that they di vetting Kameltoe

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Cruadin
@cruadin
There's no way Walz bankrolled 30 trips to China on a public school teacher's salary.
So the obvious questions are, "Who picked up the tab?" and "Why?"
There was a time in this country when somebody with unanswered questions like that couldn't get a security clearance.
8:01 AM · Sep 2, 2024

Dustin Grage
@GrageDustin
Those 30+ trips to China might become a problem for Tim Walz pretty quickly.
We’ve already seen one of Walz’s classmates who went to China with him refer to Walz as a Maoist.
1:02 PM · Sep 1, 2024