Episode 5550 cont. Memorial Special: Honoring The Life Legacy And Service Of Sam Faddis

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Previously titled “Episode 5550 cont. Memorial Special: Honoring The Life Legacy And Service Of Sam Fadis” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026

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What controversies surround Tim Walz's repeated travel to China and why does it matter?

Dr. Bradley Thayer 0:09
Tim Walz has been to the People's Republic of China over 30 times, beginning first in September 1989, just after Tiananmen, when the People's Republic of China was very much a closed society. But he was there and came back many times, got married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, when the Chinese Communist Party crushed a pro-democracy movement. And he started a business, Sam, that provided educational exchange between America and the People's Republic of China. We don't know anything about his partners in the People's Republic of China for his business. But clearly, the Chinese Communist Party gave it the green light or he wouldn't have been able to return and he would not have been able to have his business.
Dr. Bradley Thayer 1:00
So, Sam, what do you think of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, who's going to be debating J.D. Vance on October 1st? Sam, what do you think?
Unknown 1:10
Yeah, the Great Walls of China. That's what I call him. I think I stole that from somebody else, but I'll run with it. Look, I feel like. So much of what goes on politically these days boils down to, I'm tempted to say that the people who are talking to us are stupid, but I think that's actually not true. I think they think we're stupid. So they say things that just defy common sense and logic. You don't have to be a super spook or a guy with a background in intel to know that this whole business with walls just stinks, right? Here's a guy who has traveled to China over 30 times. And as you suggested, it's not just that he's gone there. He has taken groups of American students and been there for extended periods of time.
Unknown 2:05
And he taught there for a year. And as you noted, we still actually don't know really exactly what this arrangement was. I have in my own digging, established, I think conclusively, that at least the initial trips that Walls made to China were paid for by the Chinese. And then it's unclear where the money came from these continuing trips. But now what we're told is, I mean, the line that's pushed from the Democrat side is he is a defender of the Chinese people. He loves the Chinese people, Chinese culture. He opposes communism. And he's been going there as like some sort of advocate defending them. Okay, this is ludicrous, right? You can't travel to communist China and wander around and preach democracy and liberty and stay, and you certainly don't get invited back.
Unknown 3:03
I mean, these people track down dissidents that are relatively obscure to the far ends of the earth, literally, including on US soil. hunt them down confront them either kidnap them and drag them back to china or do things like you're either getting on the plane and coming home or grandma is going to pay the price so they have this worldwide dragnet to hunt down everybody that criticizes the chinese communist party And yet the line from the other side is this dude came going, kept going back over and over and over and over preaching democracy. That's garbage, but not to mention, there are a whole bunch of people that have come out and talked about his behavior on the ground in China, dozens of copies of Mao's Little Red Book he would buy and bring back, and how anybody who started criticizing the Chinese Communist Party on Chinese soil, he would jump on them.
Unknown 4:04
So to what extent this guy is co-opted controlled owned by the chinese that remains to me a little bit unclear i'm not necessarily saying that he's out in the dead of night passing classified information to them but clearly he's chosen a side and it's not ours and now this guy is supposed to be you know one heartbeat away from the presidency so it's not a joke this is really serious
Stephen K. Bannon 4:38
In baseball, they call it a five-tool player. Here's what made Faddis so extraordinary. He looks like a movie star. He's a man's man. He always came in perfectly ready to go, camera ready. You throw him questions, it could be the most complicated. He could hit the beats, speak in paragraphs, well-formed, logical. A man of tremendous physical courage that had been in some of the tightest situations in the world, Colonel Grant Newsham.

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