Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is not the “type of character” who should make decisions about America’s future, his older brother warned in a series of damning Facebook comments this week.
“I’m 100% opposed to all his ideology,” Jeff Walz declared Friday evening about the far-left Minnesota governor and running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
And he has so little faith in his kid brother, Jeff Walz is now considering publicly endorsing former President Trump’s White House run, he told a Facebook poster who urged him to “Get on stage with President Trump and endorse him.”
“I’ve thought long and hard about doing something like that! I’m torn between that and just keeping my family out of it,” the 67-year-old Floridian wrote in a response which notched 449 likes.
“The stories I could tell. Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future,” he added.
Besides Jeff, Tim Walz, 60, has a sister, Sandy Dietrich, 63, who lives in Nebraska, where the Walz clan grew up. Another brother, Craig Walz, 44, died when a tree fell on him during a storm which ripped through a Minnesota campsite in 2016.
Jeff and Tim Walz haven’t spoken in eight years, Jeff Walz wrote.
And the governor — who has fudged details of his military career and who delayed calling the National Guard even as his state burned during the George Floyd riots — didn’t bother to let his older brother know that he was picked as Harris’ running mate.
“My family wasn’t given any notice that he was selected,” Jeff Walz wrote.
Jeff Walz’s feelings about his younger brother came to light after conservative activist Laura Loomer discovered a Facebook post he wrote on March 30, 2023 — the day Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury over hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
“We’ve just become a third-world banana republic,” he wrote in a post that has now gained 518 likes.
The registered Republican donated $20 to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Federal Election Commission records show. There were no recorded donations to his brother during Tim Walz’ years in the House of Representatives.
Jeff Walz told The Post Saturday: “I am not doing interviews.”
Tim Walz has made a name for himself as one of the most radical leftist leaders in the United States.
As governor of Minnesota, he imposed some of the harshest coronavirus lockdowns in the country — which led to education levels plummeting under his watch.
Like Harris, he has repeatedly pledged his commitment to equity — a bedrock of Marxist ideology. And he turned Minnesota into a “trans refugee” state by signing legislation to protect gender-affirming care and to provide tampons in school bathrooms.
“Tim Walz’s own brother knows his socialist ideology is dangerous for America. Together with Kamala Harris, inflation will get higher, the illegal immigration crisis will get worse and our nation will look more like Venezuela,” said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY).
“Someone who puts tampons in boys’ bathrooms, lets their cities burn during defund police riots and taxes citizens saddled with debt to give illegal immigrants free tuition should not be in elected office, let alone vice president,” she added.
Jeff Walz is not the first family member to take issue with a prominent politician-relative.
Harris is apparently estranged from her father, Donald; Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s family has denounced his now-defunct presidential campaign.
Former President Obama was famously dogged by his Kenyan half-brother Malik, while Trump has faced a book-length condemnation from his niece Mary Trump, along with another tome by his nephew, Fred Trump.
“If the mainstream media has no problem amplifying the voices of Mary Trump and the family of RFK Jr. who speak out against Republicans, then the American people deserve to hear more from Tim Walz’ brother,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) told The Post.
Reps for the Harris and Walz campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
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