'Weaponizing the government': Comer to target Walz after Biden blitz a bust

Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Comer has announced he will open an investigation into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee, after almost two years of targeting President Joe Biden yielded no crimes or criminal intent.

“They’re scared. Really scared,” The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols, a retired U.S. Naval War College professor wrote, appearing to refer to Republicans. “With Comer in charge, this can only be good for Walz.”

“This is ‘weaponizing the government’ and it’s what authoritarians do,” Nichols noted.

Friday afternoon Politico reported on the House Republicans’ efforts, calling the decision to open an investigation, “the latest indication that they are using their slim majority to go after former President Donald Trump’s political opponents.”

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“Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Friday announced that he is opening an investigation into Walz’s work related to China, including coordinating student trips, and sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting a swath of documents and any correspondence with Walz related to China.”

The New Republic reports, “This is the second time in a matter of days that Comer has launched an investigation into Donald Trump’s opposition.”

“Walz is said to have traveled to China an estimated 30 times, and set up a program to take high school students on educational trips there in the 1990s and 2000s,” TNR adds. “As a member of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, Walz was able to use his firsthand knowledge of China to wield well-informed criticisms of China’s government and its reported human rights abuses, according to The New York Times.”

Former member of the CIA Clandestine Service, John Cipher remarked on Comer’s new investigation: “This is wrong. Political corruption.”

Eric Lisann, a former federal prosecutor commented, “Remember when Comer hijacked the Committee’s time and resources into pursuing Hunter Biden, and he justified this by relying on fanciful allegations from a known Russian agent? And then he stopped talking about it?”

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