Tim Walz Falters When Confronted Over His 'Numerous Misstatements'

Vice presidential hopeful Tim Walz appeared on ABC's "The View" on Monday, and it didn’t take long for things to take an unexpected turn.

The interview quickly shifted when Walz attempted to point fingers at former President Donald Trump for the economy’s prolonged slump, which has now been ongoing for over three years.

“It’s very clear that, as you said, Donald Trump is spiraling down, unhinged,” Walz stated. “What worries me about these comments, some of these are just so strange that they’re hard to imagine, are the dangerous ones in the middle of that — the ‘enemy from within’ and some of that.”

“But on the flip side of that is the message that’s starting to break through is this opportunity economy, a new way forward,” Walz added.

Walz faced significant difficulty when probed about his “numerous misstatements” and exaggerations, especially those made during his campaign appearances.

The Democratic vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor has, over the years, often embellished personal stories, which some critics have labeled as lies. Even the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, appears not to appreciate this tendency.

Walz recently appeared on "Good Morning America," where host and former NFL star Michael Strahan pressed him on his past untruths and questioned him on Harris’s response.

“You call yourself a knucklehead. You call yourself a knucklehead because you’ve made some statements that just aren’t true. In a comment about ‘weapons of war that I carried in war,’ which you didn’t. You said you were in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre when you weren’t. You kind of chalked it up to bad grammar or getting the dates wrong. But your opponents say you lied to make yourself look better. Do they have a point?” Strahan asked.

“Well, look, 35 years ago got the opportunity to be in Hong Kong, be in China, learned a lot about it. Served 24 years in the National Guard. Passionately, in an instance, talking about gun violence in schools on an instance there. Proud of the service that I have done. Proud to be a teacher in that classroom. Proud to have been very public all these years and owning it when I said, look, I was there in August of ’89,” Walz responded.

“And I think what you see here, you saw it in Minnesota, I have been elected eight times here, these things have been very public for folks here. We see the results of the things that we passed. We see a state that’s top five state for business. We see third-best state, top three states for raising a child. We’ve got the best health care. I think the policies, whether it be dealing with China and understanding China’s human rights record, what you can be certain there is that Kamala Harris and I aren’t gonna put dictators on speed dial, say Xi Jinping is doing a good job during Covid, as Donald Trump said. And I think the lessons learned over a lifetime, being very public, whether it’s in the classroom or being elected,” he continued, sidestepping the question.

When the topic came up on GMA, he acknowledged that Harris had indeed cautioned him.

“And Vice President Harris, said she told you to be a little bit more careful on how you say things?” Strahan prompted.