Kamala Harris’ selection of Tim Walz as her running mate is turning into disaster.
Walz has had one of the worst rollouts ever.
And now Tim Walz got caught red-handed in this growing stolen valor scandal.
Walz’s stolen valor scandal
Harris picked Walz – the far-left Governor of Minnesota – because her campaign wants this election to be about “vibes.”
Walz is a former football coach who served 24-years in the National Guard.
Harris hopes this biography and presentation will fool voters into thinking Walz isn’t a radical liberal.
But those hopes imploded on Walz’s second day on the trial.
Trump running mate J.D. Vance – a Marine Corps veteran – slammed Walz for “stolen valor” after video surfaced of Walz declaring that no American should be able to own a gun that he “carried into war.”
The only problem is Walz never served in war, with his overseas deployment taking place in Italy.
But serving in combat isn’t the only part of his military record that Walz is lying about.
Newsweek confirmed that Walz lied for years about retiring as a Command Sergeant Major – the highest noncommissioned officer ranking – one can achieve.
“The Minnesota National Guard confirmed Wednesday that Gov. Tim Walz . . . was demoted and did not retire as a Command Sergeant Major like he has claimed for years, including on his official gubernatorial biography,” Newsweek reports.
“While Walz temporarily held the title of Command Sergeant Major he “retired as a Master Sergeant in 2005 for benefit purposes because he did not complete additional coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy,” Army Lt. Col. Kristen Augé, the Minnesota National Guard’s State Public Affairs Officer, told Just the News.
More corrections to the record
Bloomberg also stealth edited an article by reporter Josh Green where Walz falsely claimed he returned from a tour of duty in Iraq when he really deployed to Italy.
WOW!!! That’s one amazing STEALTH EDIT there, @Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/qp4t35AF0r
— Alan R. Levy (@alanesque) August 7, 2024
Walz faced allegations of stolen valor from the men he served with in the Minnesota National Guard.
“I served in the Minnesota National Guard with him. He literally abandoned us when we were about to be deployed to Iraq. He’s a coward and should be treated as such,” J.R. Salzman wrote on X.
Walz quit the guard in May 2005, weeks before his battalion deployed to Iraq.
But Walz appeared to take credit for that deployment – as well as a rank – that he never earned.
The first rule of a Vice-Presidential pick is do no harm.
Walz clearly fell far short of that standard by engulfing the Harris campaign in this stolen valor scandal.
Democrats asked for this when they pushed Joe Biden out of the race and asked Harris to vet a running mate in a matter of weeks.
