Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz isn’t the “sort of character” who ought to make choices about America’s future, his older brother warned in a collection of damning Fb feedback this week.
“I’m 100% against all his ideology,” Jeff Walz declared Friday night in regards to the far-left Minnesota governor and operating mate of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
And he has so little religion in his child brother, Jeff Walz is now contemplating publicly endorsing former President Trump’s White Home run, he informed a Fb poster who urged him to “Get on stage with President Trump and endorse him.”
“I’ve thought lengthy and arduous about doing one thing like that! I’m torn between that and simply conserving my household out of it,” the 67-year-old Floridian wrote in a response which notched 449 likes.
“The tales I may inform. Not the kind of character you need making choices about your future,” he added.
Moreover Jeff, Tim Walz, 60, has a sister, Sandy Dietrich, 63, who lives in Nebraska, the place the Walz clan grew up. One other brother, Craig Walz, 44, died when a tree fell on him throughout a storm which ripped by means of a Minnesota campsite in 2016.
Jeff and Tim Walz haven’t spoken in eight years, Jeff Walz wrote.
And the governor — who has fudged particulars of his army profession and who delayed calling the Nationwide Guard at the same time as his state burned in the course of the George Floyd riots — didn’t hassle to let his older brother know that he was picked as Harris’ operating mate.
“My household wasn’t given any discover that he was chosen,” Jeff Walz wrote.
Jeff Walz’s emotions about his youthful brother got here to gentle after conservative activist Laura Loomer found a Fb submit he wrote on March 30, 2023 — the day Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury over hush cash funds made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
“We’ve simply change into a 3rd world banana republic,” he wrote in a submit that has now gained 518 likes.
The registered Republican donated $20 to Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign, Federal Election Fee information present. There have been no recorded donations to his brother throughout Tim Walz’ years within the Home of Representatives.
Jeff Walz informed The Submit Saturday: “I’m not doing interviews.”
Little has been reported in regards to the married dad who lives on the Florida panhandle in Freeport along with his spouse Laurie.
Social media reveals him sailfishing in Costa Rica in February. “It’s been a dream for a few years. Most enjoyable fishing I’ve ever accomplished!” he wrote.
Different posts present Walz on the seashore, and smiling and hugging two younger kids on numerous household outings, together with one with Disney World’s “Tree of Life” within the background.
He and Laurie owned So Tremendous Music in Inverness, a musical instrument and tools retailer from 2001 to 2010, in response to public information.
Laurie Walz is Fb buddies with quite a lot of family members within the prolonged Walz household, together with Jeff’s siblings Tim Walz and Sandy Dietrich, and a number of other Dietrich members of the family.
She’s additionally linked on Fb with Craig Walz’ widow Julie Slominski. An obituary for Craig Walz additionally lists Jeff and Laurie Walz amongst his surviving family members.
Jeff Walz and Sandy Dietrich, together with Tim, are all graduates of Chadron State Faculty in Nebraska.
It’s unclear what Jeff Walz does for a dwelling, or what triggered the obvious rift between the brothers.
However they’ve one thing in widespread — brushes with the regulation. Tim Walz was arrested in 1995 for drunken driving after he was busted going greater than 40 mph over the velocity restrict, and his brother pleaded responsible in 2001 to misdemeanor retail theft and was sentenced to 6 months of probation, in response to public information from Citrus Nation, Florida.
Tim Walz has made a reputation for himself as some of the radical leftist leaders in america.
As governor of Minnesota he imposed a few of the harshest coronavirus lockdowns within the nation — which led to training ranges plummeting beneath his watch.
Like Harris, he has repeatedly pledged his dedication to fairness — a bedrock of Marxist ideology. And he turned Minnesota right into a “trans refugee” state signing laws to guard gender-affirming care and to offer tampons in class bogs.
“Tim Walz’s personal brother is aware of his socialist ideology is harmful for America. Along with Kamala Harris, inflation will get greater, the unlawful immigration disaster will worsen and our nation will look extra like Venezuela,” mentioned Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY).
“Somebody who places tampons in boys’ bogs, lets their cities burn throughout defund police riots and taxes residents saddled with debt to offer unlawful immigrants free tuition shouldn’t be in elected workplace, not to mention vp,” she added.
Jeff Walz isn’t the primary member of the family to take difficulty with a distinguished politician-relative.
Harris is outwardly estranged from her father, Donald; Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s household has denounced his now-defunct presidential marketing campaign.
Former President Obama was famously dogged by his Kenyan half-brother Malik, whereas Trump has confronted a book-length condemnation from his niece Mary Trump, together with one other tome by his nephew, Fred Trump.
“If the mainstream media has no drawback amplifying the voices of Mary Trump and the household of RFK Jr. who converse out towards Republicans, then the American folks deserve to listen to extra from Tim Walz’ brother,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) informed The Submit.
Reps for the Harris and Walz marketing campaign didn’t reply to requests for remark.