Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is not the “type of person” who should be making decisions about America’s future, his older brother warned this week in a series of scathing Facebook comments.

“I am 100 percent against his entire ideology,” Jeff Walz said Friday evening about the left-leaning governor of Minnesota and running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

He has so little faith in his little brother that Jeff Walz is considering publicly endorsing former President Donald Trump for his run for the White House, he told a Facebook poster who urged him to “get on stage with President Trump and support him.”

“I’ve thought long and hard about doing something like this! I’m torn between doing one and keeping my family out of this,” the 67-year-old Floridian wrote in a response that received 449 likes.

“The stories I could tell. Not the kind of character you want to make decisions about their own 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 that devastated a Minnesota campground in 2016.

Jeff and Tim Walz haven’t spoken to each other in eight years, Jeff Walz wrote.

And the governor – who has glossed over details of his military career and delayed calling up the National Guard even as his state was in flames during the George Floyd riots in 2020 – didn’t even bother to tell his older brother that he had been chosen as Harris’s running mate.

“My family was not informed that he was selected,” wrote Jeff Walz.

Jeff Walz’s feelings for 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 for making hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

“We have just become a third world banana republic,” he wrote in a post that has now received 518 likes.

The registered Republican donated $20 to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Federal Election Commission records show. No donations to his brother were recorded during Tim Walz’s years in the House of Representatives.

Jeff Walz told the Post on Saturday: “I don’t give interviews.”

Little has been reported about the married father, who lives with his wife Laurie in Freeport on the Florida Panhandle.

He can be seen on social media sailfishing in Costa Rica in February. “This has been my dream for many years. This was the most exciting fishing trip I have ever been on!” he wrote.

Other posts show Walz on the beach, smiling and hugging two young children, on various family outings, including one with Disney World’s Tree of Life in the background.

According to public records, he and Laurie owned So Fine Music in Inverness, a musical instrument and supplies store, from 2001 to 2010. In the early 2000s, Walz also served as assistant principal at a middle school in Citrus County.

Laurie Walz is friends with numerous members of the extended Walz family via Facebook, including Jeff’s siblings Tim Walz and Sandy Dietrich, as well as several members of the Dietrich family.

She is also connected to Craig Walz’s widow, Julie Slominski, on Facebook. An obituary for Craig Walz also lists Jeff and Laurie Walz among his surviving relatives.

Jeff Walz and Sandy Dietrich, as well as Tim, are all graduates of Chadron State College in Nebraska.

In a 1977 article in the Chadron Record, Jeff Walz was recognized for his acceptance into a national research program and his studies in physics at Iowa State University.

It is unclear what caused the apparent rift between the brothers.

But they have something in common: They’ve had run-ins with the law. Tim Walz was arrested for drunken driving in 1995 after speeding more than 40 mph. His brother pleaded guilty to shoplifting in 2001 and was sentenced to six months’ probation, according to public records from Citrus Country, Florida.

While serving as assistant principal at Crystal River Middle School, Jeff Walz allegedly stole a bicycle tube, handlebar grips and a three-way outlet adapter valued at $13 from a Walmart in Inverness, according to the Tampa Bay Times and a letter of reprimand from the Florida Education Practices Commission.

Jeff Walz, who has a teaching certificate in mathematics and physics, was also sentenced to community service, attendance at a shoplifting course, a $260 fine and a ban from returning to the store, the commission’s complaint said.

Tim Walz, also a former educator, has made a name for himself as one of the most radical left-wing leaders in the United States.

As governor of Minnesota, he imposed some of the toughest coronavirus lockdowns in the country – leading to a drastic decline in educational attainment under his watch.

Like Harris, he has repeatedly emphasized his commitment to equal rights—a cornerstone of Marxist ideology. And he made Minnesota a “trans refugee state” by signing laws protecting gender-affirming care and providing tampons in school bathrooms.

“Tim Walz’s own brother knows that his socialist ideology poses a danger to America. Together with Kamala Harris, inflation will rise, the illegal immigration crisis will worsen and our country will look more like Venezuela,” said Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York.

“Someone who puts tampons in boys’ bathrooms, lets their cities burn down during riots against defunding the police, and taxes heavily indebted citizens to provide free college for illegal immigrants should not hold elected office, let alone be vice president,” she added.

Jeff Walz is not the first family member to have a dispute with a prominent relative of a politician.

Harris has apparently become estranged from her father Donald, while the family of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has condemned his now-canceled presidential campaign.

Former President Barack Obama was famously persecuted by his Kenyan half-brother Malik, and Trump faced a book-length condemnation from his niece Mary Trump and another tome from his nephew Fred Trump.

“If the mainstream media has no problem amplifying the voices of Mary Trump and RFK Jr.’s family speaking out against Republicans, then the American people deserve to hear more from Tim Walz’s brother,” Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado told the Washington Post.

Representatives for the Harris and Walz campaign did not respond to requests for comment.