While serving in Congress, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz advocated for securing millions in funding for a Minnesota laboratory collaborating with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on various projects. According to the Washington Examiner, Waltz successfully earmarked $7 million for the Hormel Institute in Austin, Minnesota, and commended the research conducted of this publicly-funded institution.

Nonetheless, the Minnesota research center frequently collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China—suspected by many as the origin of the COVID-19 virus. This association included work on COVID-19 research in 2020 and bacteria research in 2024.

The Examiner also says the Wuhan Institute of Virology is managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which reports directly to the State Council of the Chinese Communist Party. According to the U.S. State Department, the institute has been involved in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, for the Chinese military since at least 2017.

Lawmakers argue that there is evidence suggesting the COVID-19 pandemic started at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In May, the federal government ceased funding for the EcoHealth Alliance, a publicly funded U.S. environmentalist nonprofit that provided subgrants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research. This decision was partly due to concerns that the funded research lacked adequate oversight.

Waltz is a strong supporter of the Hormel Institute and, besides its collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Hormel Institute has also engaged extensively with the Beijing Genomics Institute. The U.S. Defense Department has classified the Beijing Genomics Institute as a Chinese military company, indicating that it is either directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or beneficially owned by the Chinese military, or contributes to the military-civil fusion of China’s defense industrial base.

Not only did Walz tell his social studies students in 1991 while working as a school teacher in Minnesota that communism means everyone is the same and everyone shares while reflecting on life in Communist China, the Daily Caller reveals Waltz has participated in multiple events organized by members of the Chinese American Association of Minnesota (CAAM), a nonprofit linked to a Chinese Communist Party intelligence agency.

All of these links are very concerning. Not only did Waltz help enable funding for COVID-19 research but it is very likely he is compromised or a Manchurian Candidate, someone who not only has Communist sympathies and attempts to hide them but has the support of or is heavily influenced by the Chinese Communist regime. This on top of Kamala Harris’s upbringing, does not bode well for the country if the Harris-Waltz ticket wins in November.

PHOTO CREDIT: Wuhan Institute of Virology is a research institute by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Jiangxia District, south of the Wuhan city, Hubei province, China. By Ureem2805 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91054329