Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz deflected from false statements about his whereabouts during the Tiananmen Square protests by calling former President Donald Trump "a pathological liar," Breitbart reported. The Democratic vice presidential hopeful made this remark on CBS's 60 Minutes, which aired Monday.
During the vice presidential debate earlier this month, the moderators confronted Walz about being caught in this big lie. The governor's response became infamous as he copped to the truth that he wasn't there and could be a "knucklehead at times."
Correspondent Bill Whitaker once again asked Walz about the falsehood during his interview, perhaps giving him a chance to come up with something better than calling himself names. Rather than make things better, Walz deflected by smearing Trump.
60 Minutes obliterated Harris/Walz
Wow
Tim Walz gets called out as someone Americans can't trust
pic.twitter.com/wY0pWUpA9N— Tim Pool (@Timcast) October 8, 2024
According to Fox News, Whitaker said that Walz "has been criticized for embellishing or telling outright falsehoods about his military record and about his travels to Asia in the 1980s." To his credit, Whitaker was direct in confronting him about the Tiananmen Square whopper.
"In your debate with Sen. JD Vance, you said, 'I’m a knucklehead at times.' And I think you were referring to the time that you said that you were in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square unrest when you were not," Whitaker said.
"Is that kind of misrepresentation — isn’t that more than just being a 'knucklehead?'" Whitaker prodded. Walz responded by claiming it is his opponent who is a liar.
"I think folks know who I am, and I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong, by — rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump. I will own up to being a knucklehead at times, but the folks closest to me know that I keep my word," Walz claimed.
Rather than backing down, Whitaker said that the issue "comes down to the question of whether you can be trusted to tell the truth," he said to Walz. "Yeah, well, I can. I think I can," Walz replied.
Walz has claimed that Trump is "a pathological liar," but the Minnesota governor is deflecting. The most notorious of Walz's lies is that he is a combat veteran when, in reality, Walz retired just before his National Guard unit deployed to Iraq, the Associated Press reported.
He then lied about the rank he had when he was honorably discharged. Walz also misrepresented the truth about how his children were conceived when some Republicans were looking to limit in vitro fertilization fertility treatments.
As the New York Post reported, Walz said that he and his wife "have two beautiful children" because of IVF. However, the procedure they used was actually intrauterine insemination, which does not create embryos and therefore doesn't carry the same moral issues.
Walz claimed he misspoke and meant they utilized "reproductive health care like IVF" instead. It's clear from all of these situations that Walz favors whatever has the most utility rather than the actual truth about anything.
Walz is absolutely correct that he's a knucklehead. He forgot to say that he's also manipulative, dishonest, radical, and unfit for office.
