A conservative legal firm launched an investigation on Monday into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s over the vice presidential candidate’s “extensive, multi-decade” ties to China.
The America First Legal Foundation pressed the Minnesota governor’s office, the FBI, and the Justice Department for documents on Walz’s links to China, according to Freedom of Information Act requests sent to the entities shared with The Daily Wire. The firm said that Walz’s numerous trips to China, and his professional and academic ties to the country could have major national security implications.
“Now that he is the official Democrat nominee for Vice President of the United States, Gov. Walz will receive classified national security briefings,” AFL lawyer Michael Ding wrote in a letter to the FBI. “If there is reason to believe that Gov. Walz is, willingly or unwillingly, an asset of a…