"The Manchurian Candidate," a 1959 novel by Richard Condon, posits the son of a prominent American political dynasty who is captured by a Soviet Union commando unit during the Korean War and brainwashed into becoming a Soviet sleeper agent, an assassin who is triggered into action by, of all things, a card game. The goal of the Soviet Union in this exercise? To have their sleeper agent kill a presidential candidate to install his running mate, who is secretly controlled by his wife, a secret KGB operator.

It seems a bit of a far-fetched scenario. Then again, we look at all the time the Democrat's vice presidential candidate, "China Tim" Walz, has spent in China, in no small part as a guest of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and one has to wonder. 

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is asking some pointed questions about that.

DUFFY: Walz taught in China, he visited China 30 times, he honeymooned in China, and he promoted Chinese communism to his American students as a teacher. Is Tim Walz a national security risk?@KristiNoem: Absolutely. I am 100% convinced he's a national security risk. pic.twitter.com/kOjTCj7xWo

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 1, 2024

When I was on a general staff, working for the Command Surgeon, U.S. Army, Europe (USAEUR), I had to have a Top Secret clearance. It was quite the process; the FBI talked to my parents, they talked to my in-laws, they talked to old friends; they even talked to my first wife, who later mentioned to me that she told them that while she and I had our differences, I was as solid an American patriot as one was likely to find. I give her full honesty points for that.

But had I had Tim Walz's China background, I doubt I would have received my clearance. Yet Kamala Harris thinks that putting China Tim a heartbeat away from nuclear weapons release authority is just hunky-dory.

Kristi Noem makes some more good points.

.@KristiNoem on Tim Walz: He's a bully, and he pushes mandates down on his people. He's got ties to companies in China. You don't go to China 30 times to be a tourist. You go because you have an affiliation with their government. pic.twitter.com/3R7WX9tCXV

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 1, 2024

Thirty times. China Tim has been to the homeland of the Chinese Communist Party 30 times. He lived there. He taught there, which could only have been done with the approval of the Chinese Communist Party. He doubtless has ties to Chinese business interests, which are all arms of the CCP.

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Kristi Noem is correct; Tim Walz should not, must not be trusted anywhere near the national levers of power. Should Kamala Harris win in November, that puts China Tim a heartbeat away from the presidency, and while I don't believe he is a brainwashed Chinese assassin, I do believe he should not be in any position of authority. His background is, to indulge in a gross understatement, suspicious.

In summary: Tim Walz is a national security risk. Governor Noem points out that Tim Walz wants America to become more like China. China, I remind you, is entering into an economic crisis because of all their years of economic fakery. They are entering into a demographic collapse because of decades of the idiotic "one-child policy." China, I remind you, tightly controls every aspect of the lives of Chinese subjects; I will not call those poor people citizens, as they are not. One cannot own a home in China; land and apartments are leased from the Chinese Communist Party. China is on a dark road into an uncertain future, including very possibly a complete collapse. 

"China Tim" Walz wants to take us down that same road.