“You’ve been talking about Tim Walz and obviously his connections to not just China, which is one thing, but his particularly warm connection with the Communist Party of China,” Rion said. “Talk to us about what else you&’ve been learning as you dig into his past and his record. How does he surprise or not surprise you as you dig in and compare him to other politicians that are more on the compromised scale?” Rion asked Schweizer.
“Tim Walz does not seem to have received any money that we know of from the Chinese,” Schweizer said. “But in a respect, you could argue his circumstances are worse.”
Schweizer continued: “He is what they used to call during the Cold War a ‘fellow traveler.’ A ‘fellow traveler’ is somebody who’s maybe not a member of the Communist Party, is not even necessarily a communist themselves.”
“But they travel along. They think the communists are good guys, and they have good goals. And we need to be good friends,” Schweizer continued.
“Whenever he brings up the human rights situation in China, he immediately pivots to the fact that we have had human rights situations in the United States in the past, even though there’s absolutely no comparison between the two. That’s the first thing that I think is disconcerting.”
“The second thing is he claimed that this exchange program, where there were some 30 trips, was a Harvard-funded program. It was not a Harvard-funded program. It was a program that involved two Harvard graduates. But we now know that it was actually funded by the Chinese government.”
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