J.D. Vance had some bad news for Tim Walz
Tim Walz isn’t escaping his vortex of scandal anytime soon.
That is imminently clear.
And J.D. Vance had some bad news for Tim Walz.
Tim Walz fails to put his stolen valor scandal behind him
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz addressed a Big Labor conference in Los Angeles as the scandal surrounding him avoiding a deployment to Iraq and lying about the rank he retired from the Army National Guard mushroomed.
A member of the Guard who served with him named John Kolb authored a blistering Facebook post that essentially called Walz a coward for retiring just weeks before his battalion was set to deploy to Iraq.
His superior officer Doug Julin told CNN that the battalion knew it would be deploying to Iraq nearly a year ahead of time and that Walz went over his head to get his retirement approved knowing that he would have rejected the request since it was so close to the time the battalion was set to head to Iraq.
All this came to light because former President Trump’s running mate U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) – who served in the Marines – slammed Walz for stolen valor after seeing a video of him lying about how he carried firearms into war.
In his speech, Walz tried to claim his critics were denigrating his service and he said no veteran should face that while saying this also extended to Vance, who some mocked because he served as a campaign correspondent in the Marines.
“I firmly believe you should never denigrate another person’s service record. Anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent, I just have a few simple words. Thank you for your service and sacrifice,” Walz declared.
Walz: I firmly believe you should never denigrate another person’s service record. Anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent, I just have a few simple words. Thank you for your service and sacrifice pic.twitter.com/PcskL7zgiL
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 13, 2024
Vance fires back
But Vance wasn’t about to let Walz get away with this rhetorical sleight of hand.
He posted on X that no one was attacking Walz because of his service in the Minnesota National Guard or that he never deployed to combat.
The issue was that Walz quit ahead of his battalion deploying to combat and then spent 20 years taking credit for having served in a war zone and for retiring with the rank of Command Sergeant Major which he didn’t earn.
“Hi Tim, I thank you for your service. But you shouldn’t have lied about it. You shouldn’t have said you went to war when you didn’t,” Vance wrote.
“Nor should you have said that you didn’t know your unit was going to Iraq. Happy to discuss more in a debate,” Vance concluded.
