Republican presidential nominee J.D. Vance (R-OH) has fired back at CNN after the network shamelessly questioned his military service while trying to defend Kamala Harris’s radical Democrat running mate Tim Walz’s stolen valor.
On Thursday, CNN’s Brianna Keilar said that Vance may be an “imperfect messenger” to knock Minnesota Gov. Walz over his military record.
The critique focused on how Vance served as a combat correspondent during the Iraq War.
Keilar suggested this gave the false impression that Vance saw combat.
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“Brianna this is disgusting, and you and your entire network should be ashamed of yourselves,” Vance said on X.
“When I got the call to go to Iraq, I went.
“Tim Walz said he carried a gun in a war. Did he? No. It was a lie.”
Brianna this is disgusting, and you and your entire network should be ashamed of yourselves.
When I got the call to go to Iraq, I went.
Tim Walz said he carried a gun in a war. Did he? No. It was a lie. https://t.co/kt0oxzZb83
— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 8, 2024
He was responding to a clip posted by the “Trump War Room,” which told Keilar:
“The difference is that [Vance] never lied about his rank or his service, and when his unit deployed to Iraq, he didn’t abandon them.”
Walz spent more than two decades in the Army National Guard.
He had been deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom after the September 11 attacks, but not in a combat zone, according to The New York Times.
CBS News reported that Walz retired in 2005 shortly before his artillery unit was deployed to Iraq.
A video of Walz, which Harris’ presidential campaign shared on social media this week, showed him claiming that he carried weapons “in war.”
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However, CNN’s own Tom Foreman reported on Wednesday how there was “no evidence” that Walz was ever in a position of “being shot at” as the governor had suggested.
Amid the controversy over Walz’s service record, Harris’ campaign revised a biography about her running mate on Thursday, as Slay News reported earlier.
Whereas it had described Walz as a “retired command sergeant major,” the description was changed to say he once served at the command sergeant major rank.
The first Green Beret to serve in Congress, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), explained how Walz got promoted to sergeant major.
Walz did not complete the sergeant major’s academy and was “demoted” to master sergeant.
During an appearance in Michigan on Wednesday, Vance slammed Walz over “stolen valor garbage.”
He also said, “I would be ashamed if I was him and I lied about my military service like he did.”
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