The National Guard just smacked Tim Walz with a sobering reality check
Walz has been caught lying about his military record. But his own fellow guardsmen are taking him to task.
And now the National Guard just smacked Tim Walz with a sobering reality check.
Tim Walz’s tangled web of deceit surrounding his military record took center stage on Megyn Kelly’s podcast this week, as four veterans who served alongside him in the Minnesota Army National Guard exposed his years of fabrications.
Walz, now the Democratic vice presidential nominee, faces mounting accusations that he’s been misrepresenting his service for personal gain.
Retired Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Paul Herr minced no words when he told Kelly that Walz is “a liar, because he told me and other sergeant majors … that ‘You can count on me. I will deploy with my unit.’ His words to my ears and others.’”
“That’s how I know,” Herr added. “I’m not making it up.”
Critics, including fellow guardsmen, have long alleged that Walz deliberately retired from the National Guard to avoid deployment to Iraq — abandoning his men when they needed him most.
Herr expressed his frustration, saying his “blood” is “boiling” because “Walz has done nothing but lie to feather his own bed his entire career.” That’s a damning statement from someone who served with Walz and witnessed firsthand his betrayal of those who trusted him.
Adding fuel to the fire, Kelly highlighted how Walz has repeatedly referred to himself as a CSM, a rank he allegedly never earned. His former battalion commander backs that up, saying, “He did not earn” the rank.
“We have pushed back against that,” Herr said, referring to Walz’s dubious claim. “We tried doing it … relatively quietly and we were ignored.”
Retired CSM Tom Behrends cut even deeper, comparing Walz’s false claims to a medical school dropout calling himself a doctor. “If a civilian saw that … he’d get thrown in jail,” Behrends declared. “This guy is a military impersonator with that.”
Kelly didn’t hold back, playing a montage of Walz referring to himself — or allowing others to do so — as a retired CSM. Former battalion member Tom Schilling added a sharp jab, saying, “He misspoke a lot.”
And then there’s the glaring instance from 2018, where Walz falsely claimed to have carried weapons “in war” during a speech supporting gun control. Once caught, the Harris-Walz campaign chalked it up to yet another “misspoke” moment.
But Kelly didn’t let that slide either, pointing out how Walz has consistently failed to correct people who mistakenly claim he served in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
As Behrends said, “He allows things to get said that are lies.” A supposed leader who can’t even muster the integrity to set the record straight when it’s politically inconvenient? That’s Tim Walz.
Behrends wasn’t done, noting that Walz “does the wrong thing when everybody’s watching,” always spinning his deceit to snag more votes and climb the political ladder.
“It’s everything together,” Herr emphasized. “It’s not just that he misspoke about being a Command Sergeant Major. It’s not just that he lied directly to my face and to other sergeant majors’ and officers’ faces about his commitment to going to war with his unit.”
As Kelly underscored, Walz falsely claimed he was a retired CSM on the Harris-Walz campaign website, and only pulled it after it was called out. Yet he still clings to the narrative, with even the Minnesota governor’s office pushing the lie.
It’s been “brought to his attention for every year that he’s been doing it, and he continues to do it,” Kelly pointed out. “It must mean something to him.”
Herr wrapped up the damning interview by calling out Walz’s theft of valor: “When someone exaggerates his military role, he is robbing that suffering and that commitment … You’re taking a piece of their thunder and … using that for your own benefit.”
Kelly concluded the episode by summarizing the accusations: Walz inflated his rank and abandoned his men in Iraq. For someone who’s supposedly served with honor, Walz’s record reeks of opportunism and deceit. He’s spent the better part of two decades dodging accountability, and as Kelly remarked, “He never does anything about it.”
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