by Frank Holmes, reporter
The Left regularly links President Donald Trump and his supporters with anti-Semites and Nazis—but shocking new revelations show those allegations actually dog the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz.
In his role as the governor of Minnesota, Walz met with an extremist who promoted a movie singing the praises of Adolf Hitler at least five times in four years—and gave $100,000 to .
Indisputable records tie Walz, whom Kamala Harris has tried to present as a figure who exudes “joy,” to a man described as a fundamentalist Islamic radical who celebrated terrorist attacks that killed Israeli children and resulted in the rapes of Israeli women.
Walz has repeatedly selected Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota to take part in official events in the state capital.
Zaman “has used his Facebook page over the years to share official Hamas press releases, blog posts on antisemitic websites slamming Jews,” reported Gabe Kaminsky of The Washington Examiner.
If that weren’t enough, in 2015, Zaman linked to the website for the pro-Hitler film called The Greatest Story Never Told.
One description explains that the movie, which presents Hitler’s Nazi regime as an enormous success, “is widely described as adopting a revisionist, neonazi perspective on Hitler’s life, and has been described by one journalist as a six-hour Holocaust denial.”
Zaman has defended the most recent attacks on Jews in Israel, as well.
After the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, Zaman said the assault was just part of “the right of Palestinians to defend themselves.” His group, the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, also issued an official statement pledging its “unwavering support” to the terrorists.
His extremism isn’t that surprising: The Muslim American Society has been described by federal prosecutors in court documents as having been “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.”
The Muslim Brotherhood is the Islamist group that radicalized Osama bin Laden.
Tim Walz thought those words were golden. The Walz administration gave the Muslim American Society of Minnesota $100,000 in taxpayer funding.
Who could they may have passed that funding on to?
@RepKatiePorter. Do you also condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civilians and children? Do you also stand with the Palestinian people? Do you also reaffirm the right of Palestinians to defend themselves?
— Imam Asad Zaman (@ImamAsadZaman) October 8, 2023
Zaman also warned the former chairman of the Minnesota state affiliate of the Democratic Party, Ken Martin, that Democratic candidates “cannot be joined at the hip to apartheid Israel and still hope to court the Muslim vote.”
Martin merely said he was “heartbroken” that Israeli women and children had been “brutally killed or kidnapped” by terrorists…but evidently that’s too much for Walz’s favorite Muslim spokesman, Zaman.
Ken. Did you visit Gaza? Did you visit any Palestinians living under apartheid in the West Bank?
The DFL cannot be joined at the hip to apartheid Israel and still hope to court the Muslim vote.
When can we see a similar expression of grief over Palestinian children suffering?
— Imam Asad Zaman (@ImamAsadZaman) October 10, 2023
With that record in mind, Walz recruited Zaman as his connection to his state’s growing Muslim community.
In January 2019, Walz literally rubbed shoulders with Walz, as the two men acted as two of the chosen spokespeople at a press conference calling for the end of a government shutdown.
Four months later, Zaman was only inches away from Walz yet again—this time calling down God’s blessing on the governor as Walz gave his state address. (You can watch Zaman’s invocation here.)
Later the same year, Zaman showed up at Walz’s side again, this time at a state Ramadan event.
“Zaman also spoke at a May 2020 event to call for peaceful protests with the governor during the riots in Minnesota sparked after George Floyd’s death,” reports Kaminsky.
BLM and Antifa rioters trashed the Twin Cities and beyon, doing half-a-billion dollars in damage to the city.
Of course, Kamala Harris personally took up money to bail out the malefactors who destroyed the great urban landscape in the name of peace and reconciliation. At least one whistleblower said that Walz personally gave the order for Minneapolis police to abandon the precinct station and let rioters burn the symbol of law and order to the ground.
So, maybe Zaman doesn’t carry as much weight in the state as Walz thinks.
But what does it say that “Walz chooses advisers who think Adolf Hitler got a bad rap and that the Jews are evil,” asked Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com.
It certainly calls his judgment into question. And since Kamala Harris picked Walz, it calls her judgment into question, too.