Following accusations of stolen valor, the Kamala Harris campaign put out a Friday night statement saying Tim Walz "misspoke" in a 2018 video in which he talked about carrying a weapon of war in a combat zone. And a spokesperson for the campaign addressed Walz's many claims that he owed his family to in vitro fertilization: “Governor Walz talks how normal people talk. He was using commonly understood shorthand for fertility treatments.”
These are just the official statements from the campaign.
Axios notes that Walz's words have been getting him in trouble for years.
Tim Walz's words have been getting him in trouble for years https://t.co/g9PhPgXMT4
— Axios (@axios) August 21, 2024
Torey Van Oot reports:
Between the lines: Former President Trump is such a fountain of exaggerations and mistruths that media outlets have built fact-checking efforts around covering him.
What they're saying: "Governor Walz speaks the way real people speak and often off the cuff. The American people appreciate that Governor Walz tells it like it is and doesn't talk like a politician, and they appreciate the difference between someone who occasionally misspeaks and a pathological liar like Donald Trump," a spokesperson told Axios after this story published.
So now a spokesperson is calling Donald Trump a pathological liar and Walz just occasionally misspeak.
He misspoke about his military service. He misspoke about IVF treatments. He misspoke about his DUI arrest. He misspoke about the George Floyd riots. He misspoke about pandemic school closures. "To close observers back home, his tendency to misspeak or make inaccurate or inconsistent public comments may sound familiar," Van Oot writes.
Walz will formally accept the vice presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention tonight, and we'll see if the fact-checkers are on duty or if they went on vacation for the week like President Trump.
I'm sick of having a pathological liar in office. The media kept track of all of Trump's lies, but they've ignored President Biden's repeated stories about Trump calling neo-Nazis very fine people (which he repeated Monday night) and his lies about Trump telling Americans to "inject bleach." The guy lies about everything all the time, and it's all easily debunked stuff. No, his uncle was not shot down in combat over New Guinea and eaten by cannibals. He didn't attend a black church. He didn't get cancer from oil on his car windshield.
The list is nearly infinite, and now we have the Harris campaign having to put out two statements about Walz's lies.
If Walz does bring up his military service Wednesday night, I'm sure he'll just repeat that he's "damn proud" of his service to his country, as if that put the issue to bed.
Tim Walz is not "America's dad," so stop trying to push that narrative.
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