Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has some weird connections to China. Glenn speaks with “Red Handed” author Peter Schweizer about why he believes Harris’ vice presidential pick is a “fellow traveler” with the Chinese Communist Party. Schweizer explains that Walz may not have received boatloads of money from China like the Biden family, but he sure seems friendly to them! Why hasn’t he gone after the secret Chinese police station in the Twin Cities? Why is a committee he chairs investing millions of dollars in China? Why did he compare Tiananmen Square to Wounded Knee?
Transcript
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: We have Peter Schweizer on with us.
Peter is -- I mean, he's just tremendous. He's a guy who has written some of the best, most informative books on the corruption of our government. Both Republican and Democrat.
He's with the government accountability institute. He's the president there.
And I asked him to look at Tim Walz.
And tell us, you know, who this guy really is. Because he's a socialist. But is there any more to it?
Peter, welcome to the program.
PETER: Glenn, great to be with you always, my old friend. And, yeah. It's very interesting looking at Walz, particularly his relationship with China ask kind of contrasting it with the Bidens. The Bidens, of course, it was pretty much all transactional. They get paid, Joe Biden's policies on China changes. Tim Walz doesn't have that money. But I think he fits into the category of what used to be called a fellow traveler.
He has a soft spot for the CCP. He has relationships there. And he's taken policies in Minnesota, that are really quite stunning, when you look at it, in the context of what's going on in China.
GLENN: For instance, what?
PETER: So a couple of examples.
You've talked about it widely, as have others. This problem with these police departments. These overseas police departments that China has.
These are designed to intimidate Chinese nationals living in the United States, American citizens to not be critical of the CCP. And there have actually been reports of abductions, people have been abducted, using these unofficial police stations to send people back to mainland China.
Well, there's known to be seven of them in the United States. One of them is in the Twin Cities.
Now, Tim Walz has been very critical of the Minneapolis Police Department, police brutality, not treating people fairly. He has not --
GLENN: Reimagined.
PETER: Yeah. He's not uttered a word of criticism about this police station. Knowing even further, however, the organization. The so-called friendship organization that is running this police station in the Twin Cities, is part of a coalition, with something called Minnesota global.
Which is a pro-Walz linked organization.
So it's really quite interesting. The other thing I would look at, Glenn.
Again, you talked about. And other talked about. The fact that Americans are investing dollars in Chinese companies, or helping the Chinese military industrial complex grow and expand.
And as a result of that, over the last three to four years, states like Texas, Florida, have really curtailed their investments in China. And even states like Washington State, California, have slowed their investments in China.
One state, one state stands in contrast to that. That's it state of Minnesota. That over the last four years. It's got a billion and a half dollars invested in China. 900 million of that, has come in the last three or four years.
And the chairman of the investment committee, is the governor Tim Walz.
GLENN: Wow. Wow.
So, I mean, on the bright side, there's no evidence that he's taking money.
On the downside, he just agrees with China. Likes their system. Thinks they're, you know, freight.
PETER: Yeah. No. That's exactly right, Glenn. And there's a couple of sort of telltale signs. And, of course, we're continuing to investigate this.
He set up this exchange program, that the Chinese governments helped to fund and to bring students to China.
That, of course, was done with a known entity, connected to the Chinese foreign ministry. That has been known since the 1990s, to be linked to the CCP, for the purposes of spreading the good news about the communist gospel. Well, if you look at some of the press accounts, the local Midwestern papers when this exchange was going on, one of the things that Tim Walz was telling students, American students participating, was go to China. But, quote, downplay your American-ness.
Now, this may seem like an innocuous comment. But this is a cultural exchange.
I mean, we certainly would not tell Chinese students, coming to the United States, to play down their Chinese-ness. And so there are things like that.
There are statements. He's criticized Tiananmen Square. But he's created a moral equivalence with Wounded Knee in the United States. 10,000 Chinese were masked at Tiananmen Square. Of course, Wounded Knee was terrible. Native Americans were killed. But it's nowhere on the scale. And, of course, it happened, what? 150 years ago.
GLENN: Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
You know, there was a the difference between Tiananmen Square, where the world has been civilized, and Wounded Knee.
Wounded Knee is one of the worst scars in my opinion, than at that we have. It is an embarrassment to the United States. So I am big on Wounded Knee, and the truth on Wounded Knee. But I got to tell you, Tiananmen Square, that happened, what? 1989? We saw it live on television.
PETER: Yeah. Yeah.
And what you said, I think is so true, and sort of after Wounded Knee happened and word got out. The consensus was, this is terrible.
This is a scar on America. It's recognized as such, contrast that with China, with the treatment of Tiananmen Square and the president of China. President Xi, his wife is a very famous singer in China.
Has a been married for decades. She actually serenaded the troops at Tiananmen Square after the massacre.
That tells you how our political system, and their political system, sees it differently.
Tim Walz will not acknowledge that. He will always make excuses for China's conduct.
GLENN: Okay. So we haven't had -- I mean, Dick Cheney was very powerful.
And his influence was felt, in the Bush administration.
How much influence do you think Tim Walz will have, on Kamala? Because -- or is it just their fellow travelers again?
PETER: Yeah. That I think Walz will have a lot of influence. And I think particularly, in the area of foreign policy. I mean, he doesn't have experience, but she doesn't either. And the examples where she has traveled and met with diplomats overseas, whether it's Central America or Europe. Let's just say, has been underwhelming.
So I think Walz was brought in. He was seen by the advisers around her, as a sort of, quote, unquote, steady hand.
And the problem is, I kind of -- he kind of -- Glenn, he views himself as kind of a China expert. Because he's traveled there 30 times. He's done student exchanges.
When he was inaugurated, as the governor of China. Very strange. He invited Chinese diplomats, to which they did. To attend his inauguration as the governor of Minnesota. He's given speeches to these so-called cultural organizations. He gave one in 2019, that are actually front groups for the CCP. Well-known. So he knows just enough to be dangerous.
And I think that he would be at the center of US policy, towards China. Given that background. And, of course, we would be -- we would be in terrible hands, if that were the case.