Walz Says Harris Told Him To Be Careful When He Speaks

Democrat vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has made a habit of misrepresenting stories from his own life that some have described as lying and apparently Democrat presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, is not a fan.

The Minnesota governor sat for an interview with “Good Morning America” host and NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan and was grilled about his previous lies and how the vice president responded.

“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?” the host said.

“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. 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 said as he danced around the question.

But the host was not going to let it slide by that easily.

“But it’s one of the things about trust. Some people will say, ‘We can’t trust him to even tell the truth about himself.’ What do you say to them?” he said.

“Well, I say they know who I am. I know who I am. I know the work that I’ve done. I know that things get spun in a political environment, but I think what they see is, if they want to compare that talking about immigration policy or seeing the things that Donald Trump would say, I think there’s a big difference than missing a date when you’re there and, again, spinning something for political reason. I’m very clear who I have been. I’m proud of 24 years of doing that work. And I think going to Congress and working for veterans, they want to see it and make the difference, look a little different. I think people in Minnesota, my students, the folks I’ve worked with, members of Congress, they know who I am and they know the policies we’ve put in place have made an impact,” he said.

But simply “missing a date” does not explain how someone who has never been in a war zone claims they were, or how someone who was not present when the Chinese communist government cracked down with an iron fist on peaceful protesters says he was there.

When asked about it on GMA, he admitted that the vice president had scolded him.

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

“Well, I did it, you know, even the other day for just start speaking passionately about these gun violence situations and meeting with these survivors. I’ve sat in the room with the Sandy Hook folks, I have a friend in David Hogg, who’s been an activist on this- People know in that, and then that gets spun into, ‘Well, he didn’t say something true.’ It was very clear that I was talking about these veterans, very clear that I wear, you know, my — I wear my emotions on my sleeve, and I do think in these positions, whether it be governor or being vice president of the United States, you do need to be collected, careful,” the Minnesota governor said.

“You do need to be a little more thoughtful on it. And I think what you see is just someone who’s been in classrooms a lot. I’ve been around coaching a lot. I speak passionately and I — I think doing that, you need — you need to combine the two. And I think that’s what she’s referring to,” he said.