Tim Walz Under Fire After His Line Attacking Trump-Vance Backfires: ‘Manufacturing Bulls***’

Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, published a post on Friday that he might already be regretting. “All Donald Trump and JD Vance know about manufacturing is how to manufacture bulls***,” Walz wrote after pulling out the line during a rally. In a response to the post, the Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross dismantled the entire premise of Walz’s statement, writing, “Walz admitted he lied about being at Tiananmen Square during the massacre, and that he did not actually carry guns ‘in war,’ and that he did not actually conceive his kids through IVF, and that he actually was drinking when he was pulled over for DUI.”

Walz admitted he lied about being at Tiananmen Square during the massacre, and that he did not actually carry guns “in war,” and that he did not actually conceive his kids through IVF, and that he actually was drinking when he was pulled over for DUI https://t.co/EFrctaiDmS

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) October 11, 2024

As pointed out by Ross, Walz has earned a bit of a reputation for fabricating incidents throughout his past, something he was called out for by veterans of the National Guard, the military branch the governor served in years ago before he started his career in politics. Some of his former platoonmates have gone so far as to call him an “impersonator,” according to a report published by Newsweek.

Appearing in a Monday interview with Megyn Kelly, four National Guard veterans who served alongside Walz, Tom Behrends, Paul Herr, Tom Schilling, and Rodney Tow, spoke on and criticized Walz for his previous statements on his service. In the in-depth hour-long interview, when asked by Kelly about Walz’s rank and “how does it make you feel,” Behrends took aim at the governor, calling him a “military impersonator.”

“You know this guy is a military impersonator with that…like you said he’s a retired command sergeant major, he said it so many times that it just makes a person sick hearing. Yeah the state of Minnesota said he can say he served as a command sergeant major, which he has never said ‘I served as a command sergeant major’, he blabs that he is a retired one,” Behrends commented. Herr later in the interview referred to Walz as a “habitual liar” adding that “he lies about everything. He lies about stuff that doesn’t even make sense.”

“We have stolen valor [because] people make decisions that are cowardly, and they come back and they try to live vicariously by robbing…all the other soldiers of all the benefits…and all the sacrifices,” Herr continued during the conversation with Kelly.

Critics also allege that Walz falsely claimed he had been deployed to Bagram Airfield, which is located in Afghanistan, during his service with the National Guard.

“Walz, who served with the Minnesota National Guard from 1981 to 2005, was sent overseas only once and not in a direct combat role. He then did not deploy to Iraq in 2005 as he decided to leave the Guard to pursue his political career,” the report said.