Stolen Valor: The Many Lies of Tim Walz
The Kamala Campaign has a problem.

Techno Fog | Aug 09, 2024

https://technofog.substack.com/p/stolen-valor

Kamala’s campaign faces its first real controversy. And it started soon after she picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.

After his selection, a tweet from @KamalaHQ featured a video of Walz falsely claiming that he served “in war.” This statement was made in a Minnesota town hall, a fabrication of his military history - stolen valor - to promote gun confiscation and the curtailment of Second Amendment rights.

The full quote from Walz: “We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are allowed.”

As we now know, Walz never served in war. As a member of the Minnesota National Guard, Walz deployed to Italy with his battalion (the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery) to help guard U.S. military interests “in support of Operation Enduring Freedom” – that is, the War in Afghanistan.

Walz wasn’t part of Operation Enduring Freedom and never served in Afghanistan or Iraq (more on that below), but that didn’t stop him from stealing that valor in 2004 when he protested then-President George W. Bush’s visit to Mankota, Minnesota. That’s Tim Walz on the right, representing himself as a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom.



That image comes from Michael Brodkorb, who worked for the Minnesota GOP at the time. Not only does it prove that Walz was lying about his service, but it shows that Walz has been deceiving the public for years about his reasons for seeking public office.

His official story has always been that he was denied entry to the Bush speech, that he was “struck by how deeply divided our country was becoming that a veteran & a group of high schoolers would be turned away at the door. It was at this moment that I decided to run for office.” Walz made it out that he and some of his high school students showed up to the event because they “wished to hear directly from the President.” But that’s not exactly true - they didn’t show up to hear a speech (they may have tried to watch Bush after their protest), but they were primarily there to demonstrate.

Conveniently, the lies about Walz’s service in Afghanistan made its way to his official announcement for his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives back in 2006:



An article from The Atlantic in that same press packet reported that Walz had “just returned from fighting the war on terrorism” and labeled Walz as one of the “number of veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq” running for Congress.

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