Besides being a weird guy, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is also a notorious fabulist known for telling lies galore.
In fact, the lies started from day one, when, during their first campaign rally together, Vice President Kamala Harris described Walz, her running mate, as “coach.”
“To his former high school football players, he was coach,” Harris told the crowd. “And in 91 days, the nation will know Coach Walz by another name: vice president of the United States.”
Walz said nothing at the time to dispel the lie.
Listen:
But Walz was never coach. He was just one of several assistant coaches.
“Tim Walz was not the head coach of the Mankato West High School team; he primarily served as the team’s defensive coordinator, which means he was one member of the team’s coaching staff,” even Snopes admits.
Yet he himself has also been caught pretending to be coach:
Timothy Walz once again tries to make it seem as if he was the head football coach of his high school team
“I had great coaches with me”
“You build culture — you build winning”
Timothy Walz was an assistant coach… pic.twitter.com/euU0YXGaYY
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) August 17, 2024
Of course, the lies extend way beyond just this. He’s also lied about his military service.
While speaking out for gun control in a 2018 video, he said, “We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at.”
Listen:
Here Walz is stumping for banning your guns and at the end of his rant, he claims he carried “weapons of war” “in war”. Everything I can find about him says he didn’t serve in combat and it’s being reported when war came, he dodged deployment. pic.twitter.com/79TlC7aloB
— Military Arms (@MAC_Arms) August 7, 2024
The problem is he never served in a combat zone during his 24 years in the Nebraska and Minnesota Army National Guard.
His only deployment was to Italy in 2003 reportedly to provide security at a U.S. military base.
Confronted about what Walz said in 2018, Harris’ campaign for its part later claimed he “misspoke,” though few believed ’em.
BREAKING: A Kamala Harris campaign spokesperson just announced a statement to NBC saying that Tim Walz “misspoke” when he said in 2018 that he wants to ban guns that he “carried in war”.
Tim didn’t misspoke! He’s been lying for years!
A liar can’t live without lying! pic.twitter.com/jb7vE9nb1c
— AJ Huber (@Huberton) August 10, 2024
Next up is Walz’ drunk driving lie.
As previously reported, in 1995 Walz, then a teacher, was clocked driving 96 mph in a 55 mph zone. The police officer who pulled him over proceeded to test his sobriety. He failed and was taken to jail. He later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of reckless driving.
When running for Congress years later in 2006, his campaign blatantly lied to the media about what had transpired that night.
“[I]n 2006, his campaign repeatedly told the press that he had not been drinking that night, claiming that his failed field sobriety test was due to a misunderstanding related to hearing loss from his time in the National Guard,” according to CNN. “The campaign also claimed that Walz was allowed to drive himself to jail that night. None of that was true.”
Holy crap, @Tim_Walz falsely claimed his DUI — which was for driving 96 in a 55 with a .128 BAC — was because he had hearing loss from his national guard service when he ran for Congress in 2006. Per @cnn of all places. Total fraud and liar: https://t.co/nQFyXv2bxq
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 15, 2024
Walz has also lied about his professional achievements.
When first running for Congress in 2016, he claimed he’d previously been named “Outstanding Young Nebraskan” by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce. That was a lie.
“The Nebraska Chamber of Commerce sent Walz a withering letter saying they had not given him the award – adding in a particularly embarrassing note that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had endorsed his Republican opponent,” according to the Daily Mail.
It turns out that the award has come from the significantly less relevant Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce instead.
And finally, Walz has exaggerated his economic achievements as governor of Minnesota.
“After Walz was tapped to be the Harris’s running mate in early August, her campaign touted his economic record, claiming that he ‘led Minnesota back with strong leadership, competent management, and smart policies, cutting taxes for working families and reaching the lowest state unemployment rate in recorded history,” the Daily Mail notes.
Meanwhile in reality, Minnesota’s real GDP is among the slowest in the country, with only New York, Wisconsin, Delaware, and Georgia growing at a slower pace.
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Author: Vivek Saxena
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