Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz struggled when he faced President Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance during their Tuesday night debate.
While Walz got a free pass from the CBS News moderators on his stolen valor scandal, he was pressed on his most recently exposed lie about China.
As Slay News reported, Walz, Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s running mate, was caught in yet another lie over his long-held claim that he was in China during the infamous massacre at Tiananmen Square in the summer of 1989.
However, documents contradict Walz’s story and prove that he couldn’t have been there at that time.
One of the debate moderators, CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan, noted how multiple news outlets reported that Walz did not actually travel to Asia until later that year after the protests.
When confronted with the discrepancy, Walz appeared to melt down and he scrambled to come up with an answer.
He responded with a lengthy pre-scripted discourse on his background and various accomplishments.
At one point, Walz even called himself a “knucklehead” while claiming that he lied because he “misspoke.”
“Well, and to the folks out there who didn’t get at the top of this, look, I grew up in small rural Nebraska, a town of 400, a town that you rode your bike with your buddies till the street lights come on, and I’m proud of that service,” Walz said when asked to explain the discrepancy on his claims.
“I joined the National Guard at 17, worked on family farms, and then I used the GI Bill to become a teacher, passionate about it, a young teacher.”
Walz eventually circled back to the question at hand.
“My first year out, I got the opportunity in the summer of ’89 to travel to China,” he continued.
“I will be the first to tell you, I have poured my heart into my community, I’ve tried to do the best I can, but I’ve not been perfect, and I’m a knucklehead at times, but it’s always been about that,” Walz continued.
He didn’t address the question, however, which was why he claimed to be in China during the massacre when he couldn’t have been there.
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Despite failing to answer the question, Walz used the opportunity to critique Trump’s policies toward China.
Walz suggested that firsthand experiences like his own could have informed better diplomatic strategies.
“I guarantee you he wouldn’t be praising Xi Jinping about Covid, and I guarantee you he wouldn’t start a trade war that he ends up losing,” Walz added.
When pressed for a direct answer by moderators regarding the timeline discrepancies, Walz admitted his earlier statements were not accurate.
“No, just all I said on this was I got there that summer and misspoke on this,” he continued.
“So I will just, that’s what I’ve said.
“So I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protest went in.
“And from that, I learned a lot of what needed to be in governance.”
