Comer subpoenas DHS for records relating to Walz's alleged ties to Chinese Communist Party

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security for records related to Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee Gov. Tim Walz’s alleged connections to the Chinese Communist Party, Fox News Digital has learned. 

Comer, R-Ky., who announced past period that his committee launched an investigation into those alleged "longstanding" ties, is seeking records including quality reports, documents, and communications from the Department of Homeland Security. 

Fox News Digital reviewed the subpoena, directed to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. 

Governor Tim Walz speaks to his supporters astatine Grand Rapids Public Museum connected Sep. 12. (Detroit Free Press/Adam Vander Kooy / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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The subpoena comes aft a whistleblower notified the committee of the beingness of a non-classified, Microsoft Teams radical chat among DHS employees, arsenic good arsenic further quality reports, that allegedly incorporate accusation regarding Walz’s alleged connections to the CCP. 

"The committee has precocious received whistleblower disclosures informing the Committee of superior interest among Department of Homeland Security unit regarding a longstanding transportation betwixt the CCP and Minnesota Governor Timothy James Walz," Comer wrote successful the subpoena screen missive to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. 

The non-classified Microsoft Teams radical chat is titled "NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync," and allegedly contains accusation applicable to Comer’s probe. 

House Oversight Committee officials told Fox News Digital that accusation regarding Walz and China person been memorialized successful some classified and unclassified documents nether the power of DHS. 

"Specifically, done whistleblower disclosures, the Committee has learned of a non-classified, Microsoft Teams radical chat among DHS employees—titled ‘NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync’—that contains accusation astir Governor Walz that is applicable to the Committee’s investigation," Comer wrote. "The Committee has besides learned that further applicable accusation regarding Governor Walz has been memorialized successful some classified and unclassified documents successful the power of DHS." 

Comer is subpoenaing Mayorkas for each documents and communications successful the Microsoft Teams radical chat from July 1, 2024 to present, arsenic good arsenic immoderate uploaded oregon embedded attachments and documents referring to oregon relating to Walz oregon his gubernatorial bureau oregon staff. 

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Comer is besides subpoenaing each quality accusation reports and determination quality notes from November 2023 to contiguous related to Walz. 

Comer, past month, revealed that Walz has "engaged and partnered with" Chinese entities, making him "susceptible" to the CCP’s strategy of "elite capture" which seeks to co-opt influential figures successful elite political, taste and world circles to "influence the United States to the payment of the communist authorities and the detriment of Americans." 

Comer has pointed to reports that Walz, portion moving arsenic a teacher successful the 1990s, organized a travel to China for Alliance High School students. The costs were reportedly "paid by the Chinese government." 

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., president of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, during a proceeding successful Washington, DC, US, connected Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Comer is investigating Walz’s 1994-created backstage institution named "Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.," which coordinated yearly pupil trips to China until 2003 and was led by Walz. 

The institution reportedly "dissolved 4 days aft helium took legislature bureau successful 2007." 

Comer said Walz has traveled to China an estimated "30 times." 

"In its investigation, the Committee has highlighted the value of U.S. officials being cognizant of CCP governmental and intelligence warfare efforts that question to endanger nationalist security," Comer said past month. 

Comer past pointed to Walz’s clip successful Congress, noting helium served arsenic a chap astatine the Macau Polytechnic University — a Chinese instauration that characterizes itself arsenic having a "long-held devotion to and emotion for the motherland." 

"At the clip helium disclosed serving arsenic a Macau fellow, Mr. Walz besides had important recognition paper debt," Comer said past period upon launching the investigation, noting that successful 2019, Walz headlined the 27th National Convention for the U.S. China Peoples Friendship Association successful Minnesota.

"Governor Walz spoke alongside the president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which, a twelvemonth later, the Department of State exposed arsenic ‘a Beijing-based enactment tasked with co-opting subnational governments,’ including efforts to ‘directly and malignly power authorities and section leaders to beforehand the PRC’s planetary agenda,’" Comer said. 

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Harris and Walz volition beryllium down for an interrogation with CNN anchor Dana Bash that airs connected Thursday evening ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Comer said Walz himself has "admitted that helium does not ‘fall into the class that China needfully needs to beryllium an adversarial relationship.’" 

"Despite bipartisan efforts to place and decision CCP unrestricted warfare against America, Governor Walz continues problematic engagement with concerning entities and individuals," Comer wrote. 

Comer besides pointed to a March 2024 gathering Walz had with Consul General Zhao Jian to discuss "China-U.S. relations and sub-national cooperation."

Comer, successful his missive to Mayorkas Monday, said that his committee's probe of the CCP began agelong earlier Walz became the Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee, and said it is focused connected knowing "the grade of the CCP’s infiltration and power run and to place legislative reforms to combat CCP governmental warfare targeting salient Americans for elite capture." 

"In particular, if a authorities politician and large governmental party’s nominee for Vice President of the United States has been a witting oregon unwitting subordinate successful the CCP’s efforts to weaken our nation, this would powerfully suggest that determination are alarming weaknesses successful the national government’s effort to support the United States from the CCP’s governmental warfare that indispensable beryllium urgently addressed," Comer wrote. "Along those lines, the Committee is presently considering legislative solutions to ameliorate deficiencies it already has identified among authorities agencies’ strategies to combat CCP governmental warfare."