Tim Walz’s Worst ‘Stolen Valor’ Sin

Walz’s history of stolen valor is extensive and undeniable.

Apologists in the mainstream corporate media insist that no evidence of Governor Tim Walz lying about his military service or falsely claiming to have been in combat exists and dismiss the legitimate questions raised by Republicans, including most prominently by Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance.

They lie about his being guilty of “stolen valor” and of deliberately and cynically misrepresenting his military service in order to further his ambitions.

Walz and his apologists claim that anti-military Republicans are attacking a decorated patriot because of partisan hackery. But a closer examination of Walz’s history demonstrates that the Republican criticisms are deadly accurate, and Walz has frequently used deceptive speech and outright lied about his military service to advance as a career politician.

The most recently exposed example of Walz’s stolen valor campaign comes from the speech he made on the 20^th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks as governor. Walz spoke about his time in the Minnesota National Guard and being in Iraq.

“I had the privilege of serving in this state's NG. I stood one night in dark of night on tarmac at Bagram Air Base in Iraq and watched a military ramp ceremony-a soldier's body being loaded onto a plane to be returned home,” Walz said.

Walz may have been referring to what he had seen at the Bagram Air Base, which is located in Afghanistan, not Iraq as Walz falsely stated, during a Congressional delegation to Afghanistan in 2008. As is Walz’s MO, he word-smithed his statements to give the impression that he served in war to sustain his war veteran façade.

Walz’s sophistry has been a staple of his political messaging from the outset, crafting propaganda to deceive the public into thinking he was deployed in combat. During a 2007 appearance on C-SPAN, Walz nodded in agreement after a news reporter falsely claimed he was deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in the early stages of the War in Afghanistan.

Other times, Walz’s deceptions are more subtle. He stated during another C-SPAN appearance: “I deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. My battalion provided security in the early stages of the war in Afghanistan.” The context makes it appear like he fought in Afghanistan, but the weasel words “in support of” belie the fact that he was stationed in Italy – far away from any real action.

In what may be Walz’s most blatant and despicable act of stolen valor, Walz claimed he carried “weapons of war” in a disingenuous appeal to tear up the 2^nd Amendment of the Constitution.

"We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at," Walz told a cheering group of Democrats while on the campaign trail as a Congressman. Unable to make up any excuses for this monumental falsehood, the Harris campaign said Walz “misspoke.”

Walz has also been attacked for abruptly leaving the Minnesota National Guard before his battalion was scheduled for deployment in Iraq. Walz claims the timing was coincidental, pointing to his age and years of service in his own defense. But members of Walz’s former battalion are not accepting the excuses.

Retired Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Paul Herr told Alpha News that “Gov. Walz had disappeared, retired out, and basically left his troops high and dry … leaderless.”

Herr noted that Walz never fully received the CSM rank, shirking the duties required to achieve that designation. Walz was essentially able to use his political talents to engineer a phony rank to help him on the campaign trail.

“[Walz is] talking, he’s making comments to other CSMs in the room that, ‘Yeah, I really appreciate this … I have a really good chance of winning this seat,’” Herr said.

Herr said that Walz was demoted shortly after his retirement for refusing to fulfill his obligations. He stated that Walz is a “habitual liar” who will “say anything to anybody to make it sound like he’s going to do the best thing for you.”

Retired Command Sergeant Major Thomas Behrends, a member of Walz's battalion, has echoed many of Herr’s criticisms against Walz.

“What he did, basically, was he quit. He didn't complete that condition of doing two years after graduation, so he gets reduced to a master sergeant, and that's what he is right now, is a retired master sergeant,” Behrends said.

“From what I get from the soldiers that I went to Iraq with, probably 98% of them are completely against him embellishing his record,” Behrends added.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi helped perpetrate Walz’s charade when she spoke of Walz’s fictional time on the “battlefield” back when he was a newly-elected Congressman in 2007.

“He will speak for himself, but I want him to know how much we all appreciate his service to our country, whether it’s in the classroom or on the battlefield,” Pelosi said. Walz then thanked Pelosi profusely and refused to correct her glaring error.

Unsurprisingly, Walz was rewarded for his deceitfulness by the federal swamp with a premo slot on the House Veterans Affairs Committee. There, he was able to use falsified sob stories – such as an inference that he had PTSD from his OEF deployment  – to pad his resume en route to taking the Minnesota governorship.

As can be seen, Walz’s history of stolen valor is extensive and undeniable.

Stolen valor helped put Walz in Congress, then catapult himself to the governorship, and now he even has a chance of becoming Vice President – a slap in the face to our nation’s heroes. All military personnel and patriots nationwide should be up in arms that a man with such an incredible lack of character has exploited their blood, sweat and tears to further his ego-driven lust for power.