Please tell me you are not surprised to find out that another Tim Walz lie has been uncovered.
From Alana Goodman’s article for Washington Free Beacon, we have this:
At a 2014 congressional hearing held to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Tim Walz, then a congressman representing Minnesota’s first district, recalled being in Hong Kong when the Chinese Communist Party crushed the student protests that had roiled the country since mid-April of 1989. The unforgettable crackdown came on June 4 of that year.
“I was just going to teach high school in Foshan in Guangdong, and was in Hong Kong in May of ‘89,” he said. “And as the events were unfolding, several of us went in. And I still remember the train station in Hong Kong.” He went on: “There was a large number of, especially European, I think, very angry that we would still go after what had happened, but it was my belief at that time that the diplomacy was going to happen on many levels.”
That anecdote has since been repeated, without scrutiny, by the New York Times, CBS News, and National Public Radio, among others. In reality, local news reports show that Walz was at home in Nebraska in May and June of 1989, as protests convulsed China and the government’s response turned the world’s attention to its gross human rights violations. He wouldn’t depart for China until August.
Contemporaneous news reports show Walz touring a National Guard storeroom in Alliance, Nebraska, in May 1989. They indicate that Walz did not leave the United States until August of that year, at least two months after the student protests ended with the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Another Walz lie. Like his lie about his military rank, his implied lie about being part of Operation Enduring Freedom, his lie about coaching a football team to an undefeated season, his lie about……ok, enough. I think you get the idea.
Tonight is the debate between Walz and Republican Vice Presidential candidate J. D. Vance. Vance, a Yale Law School graduate and best-selling author, is a very nimble, quick-witted speaker…one who has put the wood to more than a few “journalists” who tried to turn supposedly neutral interviews with him into attack opportunities.
I will assume out of hand that now-Senator Vance will make mention of Walz’s serial lying…along with his tip of the hat to socialism (“We should never shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness”) and his 30 (or was it 15? As of yesterday I read that was a lie too) trips to China, including his honeymoon.
Are you married? Did you go somewhere for your honeymoon? If so, I would assume it was somewhere you really wanted to be, somewhere you liked a great deal, even loved. Well, communist China is where Tim Walz and his bride went. What does that tell you?
This is one debate I absolutely do not want to miss.
