Hint: it wasn’t just his rank – the one he claims he had but, in reality, was demoted from.
He also lied about serving overseas, in combat. He is a flat-out stolen valor liar.
Want the specifics? Read Joshua Green’s article from the January/February, 2006 edition of The Atlantic, and see for yourself.
Here is how it starts – and please pay special attention to the parts I’ve put in bold print:
Command Sergeant Major Tim Walz is a twenty-four-year veteran of the Army National Guard, now retired but still on active duty when a visit from President George W. Bush shortly before the 2004 election coincided with Walz’s homecoming to Mankato, Minnesota. A high school teacher and football coach, he had left to serve overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom. Southern Minnesota is home to a large Guard contingent that includes Walz’s unit, the First 125th Field Artillery Battalion, so the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are naturally a pressing local concern—particularly to high school students headed into the armed services.
The president’s visit struck Walz as a teachable moment, and he and two students boarded a Bush campaign bus that took them to a quarry where the president was to speak. But after they had passed through a metal detector and their tickets and IDs were checked, they were denied admittance and ordered back onto the bus. One of the boys had a John Kerry sticker on his wallet.
Indignant, Walz refused. “As a soldier, I told them I had a right to see my commander-in-chief,” the normally jovial forty-one-year-old recently explained to a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party dinner in the small town of Albert Lea, Minnesota.
His challenge prompted a KGB-style interrogation that was sadly characteristic of Bush campaign events. Do you support the president? Walz refused to answer. Do you oppose the president? Walz replied that it was no one’s business but his own. (He later learned that his wife was informed that the Secret Service might arrest him.) Walz thought for a moment and asked the Bush staffers if they really wanted to arrest a command sergeant major who’d just returned from fighting the war on terrorism.
They did not.
Instead Walz was told to behave himself and permitted to attend the speech, albeit under heavy scrutiny. His students were not: they were sent home. Shortly after this Walz retired from the Guard. Then he did something that until recently was highly unusual for a military man. He announced he was running for Congress—as a Democrat.
Fascinating. And very illuminating…but not the way Walz and Kamala Harris would want it to be.
In reality, Tim Walz retired from the National Guard in 2005. And he retired as a master sergeant, not with the higher title of command sergeant major – which he held briefly, but was demoted from because he did not meet the requirements necessary to hold that title.
And, much more importantly, there is the issue of him “leaving to serve overseas”. That is a flat-out lie.
Walz never served overseas. Not for one day. When his battalion was deployed to Iraq he immediately retired rather than go there. That was for the other guys, not him.
There is a current level of euphoria among Democrats over Kamala Harris’s selection (assuming she was the one making that selection) of Tim Walz as her running mate.
But now that his stolen valor lie is coming out…along with his decades-long love affair with communist China (he and his wife actually honeymooned there!) and a reminder of his MIA performance as Governor while much of Minneapolis was burning/being looted in 2020? Don’t expect it to last.
Hey, maybe that guy from Pennsylvania – you know, the one who was too Jewish to be her Vice Presidential nominee – wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
