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Tim Walz is more famous for lies than Joe Biden, so how will you tell at tonight’s debate?

October 1, 2024 | | Print Article

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:

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But Walz was never a head 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 has also been caught pretending to be a coach:

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:

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 it.

Next up is Walz’s 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.”

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 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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