Opinion
By Steve Nicklas, 9-2-24
From his Tallahassee office, Peter Schweizer sniffs out malfeasance like a hunting dog tracks an alluring scent. And this dog always finds a bone of contention.
Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute, a think tank based in our state capital. Its mission is specific, but sweeping: “To investigate and expose crony capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance.”
An old-style investigative journalist, Schweizer appears regularly on political shows and has written tell-all masterpieces like “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.” He’s recently penned several critical books about the evolving threat of China – “Red Handed,” and more recently, “Blood Money.”
Now Schweizer is hot on the trail of Tim Walz, the polarizing candidate for Democrat vice president. It turns out that Walz has more of a fondness for China than an authentic Chinese restaurant. The oddball Walz even spent his honeymoon there. (Bernie Sanders did too, when it was the Soviet Union.)
While Walz shares the same ultra-far-left views as Sanders, Kamala Harris is worse. Several years ago, Harris usurped Sanders’ distinction as the most liberal U.S. senator. And Walz is widely considered the most liberal governor.
To say the Harris/Walz presidential candidacy is radically liberal is like saying Amelia Island attracts tourists. It’s obvious, a painful understatement.
Walz has reportedly visited China more than 30 times. He coordinated an exchange program where American students would visit China. However, like with his other mistruths, Walz hid the Chinese Communist Party’s involvement in the program.
“He was masking the fact that these trips were actually financed by the Chinese Communist Party,” Schweizer says. “He was telling the American students curious things. He was telling them to downplay their American-ness.”
As with Joe Biden, Walz has potential conflicts and complicity with China. “I think if Kamala Harris is elected president,” Schweizer says, “he will become the point person on U.S policy with China. And that is an enormous problem.”
Walz tried to convince his American students to admire the Chinese communist system and lifestyle. “He gave this ridiculous analysis of the Chinese communist dictatorial system,” Schweizer says. “He said there’s no poverty in China, because they share – unlike in the United States.”
China is notorious for courting and grooming U.S. officials, like Walz and Biden. Schweizer sees it constantly with the Chinese.
“They’re interested in elite capture,” Schweizer says, “and the goal is to have somebody who provides big help with little badmouth.” With these types of inroads and back alleys, the Chinese pursue access to our technology, our capital markets, our economy.
Bringing Walz aboard the Harris ticket is like putting an 800-pound anvil in a canoe. He has brought with him more questions than answers. Harris is struggling on her own, despite him. She hasn’t held a press conference in over a month. Worse yet, she is reportedly dreading an upcoming debate with foe Donald Trump.
“They don’t want to put Kamala Harris out there, and you know why?” posed Trump adviser Jason Miller. “Because she’s going to have to answer for this last three and a half years.
“You can’t talk about turning the page when you’re the one who broke the economy, broke the border, broke the world,” Miller continued. “But that’s on Kamala, and she’s going to have to account for that.”
Steve Nicklas is a financial advisor on Amelia Island and an award-winning columnist. His columns appear in weekly newspapers in Northeast Florida. He has published a book of his favorite columns, “All About Money.” He has also done financial reports for area radio stations. He can be reached at 904-753-0236 at [email protected].
