GOP Rep. Floats Bonkers Theory That China Tried to ‘Compromise’ Tim Walz in the 1980s By Setting Him Up With Daughter of Communist Official

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) explained his theory that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s alleged relationship with a Chinese woman 30 years ago was part of a plot by the Chinese Communist Party on Wednesday, telling Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo that it’s “classic compromise.”

On Monday, The Daily Mail published a report revealing that Walz — a teacher at the time — was involved in a “secret fling” with a woman whose father was a “high-ranking Communist official.” In the report, the woman details how the relationship began in secret in 1989, and how it ended in 1992. Two years later, Walz married his current wife Gwen.

Although Walz did not even become active in politics until 2004 — 15 years after the start of the relationship — McCaul believes China was playing the long game with him.

Speaking with Bartiromo on Fox Business Wednesday, the representative said:

It’s classic compromise. They get a woman to compromise. In my case, it was my FBI agent who I worked with. I broke the case on the Clinton campaign receiving money from the Director of Chinese Intelligence and China Aerospace. That was in 1997, Maria. Think about where they are today; and now we’re seeing that, you know, vice presidential candidate Walz had an affair with the daughter of a CCP official — you know, he had his affair with her — obviously compromised. We don’t know how many more of these affairs he had. It certainly compromised my FBI agent to the point where he was indicted for espionage. The double agent, if you will — her name was Katrina Leung — for 20 years, was a double agent working with the FBI as an asset, and then turning against the United States reporting back to Beijing.

“This is their M.O. This is how they operate. We’ve seen it with [Rep. Eric Swalwell]. They take these women, they compromise candidates,” concluded McCaul. “What they’ve been doing lately, Maria, is trying to get state and locals; so this makes perfect sense that they would go after a state governor — in this case, Minnesota — who is now who has become the VP nominee. I find this really disturbing.”

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