House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., issued a subpoena to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday. The request is based on whistleblower information that allegedly ties Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

According to Comer, his committee was informed about a non-classified group chat on Microsoft Teams involving Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees. Comer explained in a letter accompanying the subpoena that this chat contains information pertinent to the committee’s ongoing investigation of Governor Walz.

The chat, as described by Comer, was labeled “NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync,” which stands for “Nation State Threat — National Functional Team,” a committee representative told the New York Post.

“The Committee has also learned that further relevant information regarding Governor Walz has been memorialized in both classified and unclassified documents in the control of DHS. The attached subpoena requires DHS to produce these documents and communications regarding Governor Walz’s connections with the CCP,” Comer stated in his letter to Mayorkas.

Mayorkas has been given a deadline of October 7 to provide the requested materials. The subpoena was issued just a day before the scheduled vice-presidential debate between Walz and the Republican candidate, J.D. Vance.

Governor Walz has caught the attention of House Republicans ever since he was selected as Kamala Harris’ running mate, in part due to his multiple trips to China. Walz visited China over 30 times, including for his honeymoon, and organized yearly student trips there while teaching at Alliance High School in Nebraska. Comer, in a letter to the FBI earlier this month, mentioned that a trip Walz took in 1993 was “partially funded by the Chinese government.”

Additionally, Comer pointed out Walz’s fellowship at Macau Polytechnic University, an institution associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a program that promotes Chinese influence. In his letter to the FBI, Comer suggested this could form part of a larger pattern of Chinese influence efforts.

Though it is unclear what exact information from the whistleblower triggered the subpoena, Comer stated in his letter to Mayorkas that he aims to “understand the extent of the CCP’s infiltration and influence campaign and to identify legislative reforms to combat CCP political warfare targeting prominent Americans for elite capture.”

“In particular, if a state governor and major political party’s nominee for Vice President of the United States has been a witting or unwitting participant in the CCP’s efforts to weaken our nation, this would strongly suggest that there are alarming weaknesses in the federal government’s effort to defend the United States from the CCP’s political warfare that must be urgently addressed,” Comer emphasized.

{Matzav.com}