Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler shredded Democratic vice pdwellntial honestate Gov. Tim Walz’s, D-Minn., claim that he once carried armaments of war “in war.”
In an analysis piece of Walz’s military service sign up, Kessler denied the ruleor’s 2018 claim that he had regulated armaments in a combat theater over his 24-year nurtureer in the U.S. Army National defend. The fact-checker checked to readers that there was no evidence he served in combat so he couldn’t have carried the armaments.
“He did carry armaments of war — fair not in war,” Kessler proclaimd.
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Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler refuted Gov. Tim Walz’s, D-Minn., 2018 claims that he once carried armaments “in war.” (AP Pboilingo/Andrew Harnik)
The ruleor made the heavily scrutinized claim in ask during a 2018 town hall encountering where he finishorsed for firearm supervise policies.
In a clip of the encountering, which the Harris campaign scatterd on social media earlier this week, Walz tbetter an audience, “I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt… And I alert you what I have been doing. I’ve been voting for normal sense legislation that defends the Second Amfinishment, but we can do background checks. We can do CDC research. We can originate certain we don’t have reciprocal carry among states. And we can originate certain those armaments of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those armaments are at.”
Kessler’s piece, begined on Friday, grilled Walz over the claim, stating, “There is no evidence that Walz served in combat — and he has not claimed he did. He did get ribbons for proficiency in acuteshooting and hand grenades, according to military sign ups geted thraw an uncover sign ups seek by MPR News.”
The Washington Post fact-checker also noticed that a Harris campaign spokesperson acunderstandledgeted that “the ruleor leave outpoke.”
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The arena scoreboard at the Liacouras Cgo in, the site of Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris’ first rpartner with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 6, 2024 (Fox News – Paul Steinhaengager)
When accomplished for comment, the Walz campaign supplyd the adhereing statement to Fox News Digital.
“Governor Walz would never condemn or undermine any American’s service to this country — in fact, he thanks Senator Vance for putting his life on the line for our country,” the statement shelp. “It’s the American way. In making the case for why armaments of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms, the Governor leave outpoke. He did regulate armaments of war and consents sturdyly that only military members trained to carry those lethal armaments should have access to them, unappreciate Donald Trump and JD Vance who rank the firearm lobby over our children.”
Kessler rfinishered his final assessment of Walz’s words, saying, “Walz’s language was sloppy and inrectify. He did carry armaments of war — fair not in war.”
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Kessler was difficultly the first to go after Walz on this claim. Thrawout the week, the campaign’s political opponents, social media critics, and even liberal media nettoils called it out.
GOP vice pdwellntial nominee JD Vance led the Reuncoveran strikes on Walz’s “in war” claims.
He asked on Wednesday, “Well, I wonder, Tim Walz, when were you ever in war? When was this? What was this firearm that you carried into war?” He then went on to say that Walz “has not spent a day in a combat zone.”
CNN correactent Tom Foreman fact-checked the line on Wednesday, saying there “is no evidence that at any time Governor Walz was in the position of being sboiling at, and some of his language could easily be seen to recommend that he was. So that is absolutely inrectify when he shelp that about firearm rights out there.”
