House Republicans are singling out Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz as the two move forward as this year’s Democratic ticket for the presidential election.
In a recent interview with Fox subsequently quoted by The Hill, House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) brought up a supposedly possible “infatuation that Tim Walz has with China, with their Communist system, with the way they operated over the last 30 years.” Walz repeatedly visited there — and what Comer is alleging is entirely intangible and not reflected in what Walz has actually done throughout his time in office as both Congressman and governor of his state. In no meaningful sense did Walz promote Communism.
“We always knew that Chairman Comer’s investigations were always about hurting President Biden. Now that he’s not running he’s shifting focus to VP Harris. What a joke. It’s time to investigate the real corruption: the Kushner family and their billions from the Saudi government,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), a member of Comer’s committee, wrote on social media on Wednesday morning.
Garcia is hearkening specifically to billions of dollars that a Saudi public investment fund that’s led, in part, by the country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman put towards an investment business now operated by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner after years of participation on Trump’s team.
Notably, Trump’s own companies appear to also have benefited from Saudi money, as Trump properties have hosted events associated with the comparatively newer league LIV Golf — which has apparently been mostly funded by that same source in Saudi Arabia. And Trump wasn’t hosting these events just out of the goodness of his heart. Reports, rather, pointed to a large payout.
Comer, meanwhile, is also conducting an ostensible investigation into work by Harris around the border and immigration. He recently sought materials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, though Harris has been, in actuality, focusing largely elsewhere: specifically, in addressing Central American conditions behind migration through Mexico to the United States.