Kamala Harris’ vice presidential running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, gave the most absurd excuse possible during an interview on Friday for why he keeps on lying about his past and misspeaking. Try not to let your eyes roll out of your skull on this one.
Walz said he keeps fibbing because he “wears his emotions on his sleeve” and is a very passionate person. Too bad he isn’t passionate about telling the truth. I, on the other hand, have a much different explanation for the deception. He’s a liar. A pathological one. He just can’t help himself. It’s a compulsion, a deep need to look and sound cooler or smarter than he actually is. Totally makes sense why he has a career in politics, right? All politicians tell lies. Thing is, most of them are a heck of a lot better at it than Walz.
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Walz joined ABC News’ Michael Strahan on Friday as a part of a friendly media blitz the Harris campaign is sending him over the next few days. Strahan pressed Walz about saying he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre when he wasn’t and the vice president’s desire for her running mate to be more careful with how he says things.
“You call yourself a knucklehead but you made some statements that just aren’t true. And the comment about weapons of war that I carried in war, which you didn’t. You said you were in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre, when you weren’t. You kinda chalked it all up to bad grammar or getting the dates wrong,” Strahan started things off, asking Walz if his opponents are correct about him lying in order to make himself look better.
“Well, look, 35 years ago, I got the opportunity to be in Hong Kong — be in China, learned a lot about it. Served 24 years in the National Guard. Passionately, in an instance talking about gun violence in schools — on an instance there,” Walz kicked off his answer, seemingly referring to when he committed a gaffe and said he was “friends with school shooters” during the vice presidential debate. “Proud of the service that I have done. Proud to be a teacher in that classroom. Proud to have been very public all these years. And — and owning it when I — you know, when I said I was there in August of ’89. I think what you see here, you saw it in Minnesota. Been elected eight times here. These things have been very public for folks here. They see the results of things that we’ve passed,” Walz continued.
Strahan continued to press Walz on his military falsehoods and lies about his trips to China, asking the governor to respond to people who feel they cannot trust him because of all past false statements. CNN previously reported that while Walz had claimed to have been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre, he was actually not there. Walz first responded to the report during the vice presidential debate on Oct. 1, calling himself a “knucklehead” and explaining that despite the lies, the people of Minnesota know who he is.
Walz was also caught telling fibs about the time he served in the National Guard. Not long after Harris selected him to be her running mate, the campaign posted up a video that was from 2018 where Walz pushed for gun control, saying, “those weapons of war, that I carried in war,” should only be used in military combat. Well, the problem with that statement is that he never carried any weapons into war. Walz never experienced combat.
“Well, I — I said they know who I am. I know who I am. I know the work that I’ve done. I know things get — get spun in a political environment, but I think what they see is, if they want to compare that talking about immigration policy or seeing the things that Donald Trump would say, I think there’s a big difference than — than missing a date when you’re there and, again, spinning something for political reason. I’m very clear who I have been,” the governor replied before Strahan started to grill him on his deception.
“And Vice President Harris said that she told you to be a little more careful on how you say things,” Strahan followed up, referring to a previous interview with “60 Minutes” where Walz said one of the disagreements he and Harris have had since hitting the campaign trail is over his tendency to gaffe and be caught in lies. “Yeah. Well, I did it, you know, even the other day of just speaking passionately about these gun violence situations and meeting with these survivors. I sat in the room with the Sandy Hook folks. I — a friend of David Hogg, who’s been an activist on this. People know in — that — and then it gets spun in that ‘he didn’t say something true.’ It was very clear that I was talking about these veterans,” Walz said, appearing to again discuss his “school shooters” gaffe on the vice presidential debate stage.
“Very clear that I wear — you know, my — I wear my emotions on my sleeve. And I do think in these positions, whether it be governor or being Vice President of the United States, you do need to be collect — careful. You do need to be a little more thoughtful on it. And I think that — what you see is someone who’s been in classrooms a lot. I have been around coaching a lot. I speak passionately and I — I think doing that, you need to combine the two and I think that’s what she’s — she’s referring to,” he finished.
I don’t think it’s possible for Walz to tell the truth. What’s even more ridiculous is that he’s likely lied so many times, for so many years, he actually believes the garbage that falls out of his mouth. Can you imagine looking back on your life towards the end and not being able to tell what was and wasn’t real? What you really did with yourself and the time God gave you? Not knowing who you are. Sad and pathetic.