Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sidestepped questions about his history of lies and misstatements about his biography, claiming the American people did not care about it compared with the threat posed by former President Donald Trump.
Walz stumbled over his explanation of his rhetoric during the vice presidential debate last week describing himself as a ‘knucklehead’ to excuse his habit of exaggerating or misstating details about his life.
Walz dismissed a question on Fox News Sunday with host Shannon Bream about his habit, but argued that voters did not care.
‘I think they heard me, they heard me the other night speaking about gun violence and misspeaking and I gotta be honest with you Shannon, I don’t think people care whether I used IUI or IVF when I talk about this,’ he said.
Walz repeatedly turned the question back on the threat that former President Donald Trump posed to the country on issues of abortion, honoring the military, and whether he lost the 2020 presidential election.
‘I think folks know who I am, my constituents here in Minnesota have elected me eight times they know where I’m at and I’m proud to be on the ticket and we’ll deliver just like we have in Minnesota,’ he said.
Walz has been caught exaggerating details about his political story, including repeated misstatements about his military rank in the National Guard, falsely claiming he carried a ‘weapon of war’ in a war zone and downplaying details of the changing story about his 1995 DUI arrest.
Walz also repeatedly lied about he and his wife using in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive his children when they actually used the process of intrauterine insemination (IUI).
Walz attacked Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate for his pro-life views, and accused him of trying to block IVF.
‘If it was up to him, I wouldn’t have a family because of IVF,’ Walz said in August.
The Harris-Walz campaign has repeatedly excused his false statements as ‘misstatements’ attributing them to his simple background.
The Minnesota governor was also challenged during the vice presidential debate for repeatedly claiming he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen square pro-democracy protests in Spring 1989.
Multiple reports revealed that Walz actually did not get to China until August 1989, after the Tiananmen square protests had been suppressed by government officials.
When asked to explain the discrepancy during the debate, Walz dodged the question to focus on his biography and his trip to China but when pressed by the moderators he replied, ‘All I said on this was, is, I got there that summer and misspoke on this, so I will just, that’s what I’ve said.’