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   From: loralandclinton@invalid.co   
      
   Minus the stolen valor and the rest of the deceitful paramilitary   
   gaslighting Tampon Tim has.   
      
   Demotards could have picked worse with Gavin Newscum, but not a lot   
   worse than this:   
      
   https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/08/12/tim-walz-called-national   
   guard-troops-as-19-year-old-cooks-when-refusing-to-deploy-them-i   
   -minneapolis-n2178008   
      
   As Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and his police chief were frantically   
   calling Governor Tim Walz in the summer of 2020 to save a besieged   
   police precinct, Governor Tim Walz refused to send National Guard   
   soldiers to help the beleaguered police officers. Later, in   
   rationalizing and justifying his conscious decision to let riots   
   metastasize, Walz said the Guard wasn't up to the task.   
      
   He went on to say, "Putting a young troop with limited experience in the   
   military with a loaded automatic weapon in the middle of a system with   
   no one giving him direction -- they don’t have zip ties. They don’t have   
   legal authority,"   
      
   That was on Wednesday, by the time Walz finally authorized the   
   deployment of "19-year-old" cooks, the Minneapolis Third Precinct had   
   been sacked, and the riots were widespread.   
      
   As a former National Guardsman, Walz's answers and responses sound   
   blatantly dishonest. He should have trained in crowd control at some   
   point in his career and would have known that you don't put troops on   
   the streets with automatic weapons until things have gone pear-shaped in   
   a major way. From personal experience, I was deployed as part of an   
   Operation GARDEN PLOT exercise to secure a real nuclear weapons storage   
   facility against a sizeable force of role-players. Even under those   
   circumstances, I had a strict progression in the use of force to follow.   
   You didn't load weapons until you were in extremis. I find it hard to   
   believe that an organization that has managing civil disturbances as a   
   primary mission would not have rules on the use of force.   
      
   When Walz bailed out of his National Guard unit rather than deploy to   
   Iraq, his unit, a field artillery battalion, was tasked with providing   
   convoy security. Among them were 19-year-olds who had been trained for   
   something entirely different. And some of the men Walz abandoned didn't   
   come home. Including at least one 19-year-old.   
      
   Walz’s old unit, whose main job was running security for US convoys in   
   Iraq, suffered three casualties during the deployment he missed —   
   including Kyle Miller, 19, who joined the National Guard while still in   
   high school, and David Berry, 37.   
      
   Soldiers are as good as their leaders. When you find a leader who is not   
   willing to trust his troops with a mission, that judgment is rendered on   
   the leader, not on the troops. The Guardsmen who successfully performed   
   their mission in Minneapolis were the same troops that Walz refused to   
   send on Wednesday. They were no better trained and no better led. Walz   
   denigrated their ability to do their job as an excuse not to do his. As   
   it turns out, that is on-brand for Walz.   
      
   https://thelibertydaily.com/more-scandal-tim-walz-lied-20th-anniversary-9/   
      
   (America First Report)—Minnesota Governor and Democrat VP nominee Tim   
   Walz is a liar. His service as a member of the National Guard was   
   fruitful… just not nearly as exciting as he makes it out to be.   
      
   The latest odd and confusing tale comes from a resurfaced speech he   
   delivered on September 11, 2021; a PDF is available on the Minnesota   
   government website. It was the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist   
   attacks. An interesting segment of his speech stood out for two reasons.   
   Here is the portion in question [emphasis added]:   
      
   In the years after that classroom, I had the privilege of serving in   
   this state’s national guard. I stood one night in the dark of night on   
   the tarmac at Bagram Air Base in Iraq and watched a military ramp   
   ceremony–a soldier’s body being loaded onto a plane to be returned home.   
   And if you’ve seen it, you don’t leave the same. It makes you wonder,   
   what are we doing? What are we trying to get to? And then watching as   
   all of you have been, the confusing last few weeks with the Taliban   
   takeover of Afghanistan.   
      
   There are two problems with his statement. By saying that he had the   
   privilege of serving in the National Guard and then telling the story of   
   watching a military ramp ceremony implies that the two are related. That   
   was his intention, otherwise he would have noted his time in Congress   
   during which he attended a military ramp ceremony as a member of a   
   delegation. Instead, he wanted listeners to believe he was with the   
   National Guard while in the Middle East watching the ceremony.   
      
   Here’s the video of Walz giving the speech itself. He doesn’t just   
   mention being in the National Guard before telling of the military ramp   
   ceremony. He took it a step further by talking of the “guilt” he felt in   
   being able to come home knowing so many others didn’t, insinuating that   
   he had “come home” from deployment in the Middle East, which never   
   actually happened.   
      
      
   The second error in his speech, which was written but not spoken, was   
   saying the air base is in Iraq. Bagram Air Base is in Afghanistan.   
   Details matter, especially when speaking from a position of authority on   
   a matter.   
      
   After many examples of Walz claiming either directly or indirectly that   
   he is a war veteran who saw combat, the Democrat party and the   
   mainstream media continue covering for him.   
      
   However, the incident underscores the delicate nature of discussing   
   military service, especially in the context of solemn remembrances like   
   those for 9/11.   
      
   While the controversy may fade, it highlights the intense scrutiny faced   
   by public figures, especially when it comes to their service records.   
   For Walz, a simple slip of the tongue or a minor factual error turned   
   into a significant political issue​.   
      
   Don’t believe it? Download the full pdf here.   
      
   If this was an isolated incident, we could give him the benefit of the   
   doubt that he simply failed to transition between mentioning being in   
   the military and telling the story about Bagram. But Walz has   
   demonstrated multiple times that he intentionally keeps his service   
   record hazy at best, distorted at worst. He has implied seeing combat,   
   which he never did. He has claimed to be retired with a rank that he   
   lost. He pretends he didn’t know about deploying to Iraq before   
   retirement despite many of those around him at the time debunking him.   
      
   Tim Walz is a liar and a bad one at that. We should appreciate his   
      
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