Democrats have relentlessly attacked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over his origin story ever since GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump announced in late July that Vance would be his vice presidential running mate.
For instance, when Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was auditioning in July to be Kamala Harris’ pick, he oddly proclaimed he wanted “the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like. Because let me just tell you that J.D. Vance ain’t from here.”
In response, Vance shut Beshear down by noting, “Eastern Kentucky will always have a special place in my heart…it’s very weird to have a guy whose first job was at his dad’s law firm and who inherited the governorship from his father criticize my origin story.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, too, has taken cheap shots at Vance’s story of growing up to make something of himself rather than stay poor and uneducated by dinging Vance for attending Yale.
“Now, I grew up in Butte, Nebraska, a town of 400 people. I had 24 kids in my high school class.” Walz said at the Democrat National Convention. “And none of them went to Yale.”
Interestingly enough, moments later Walz declared that “when we Democrats talk about freedom, we mean the freedom to make a better life for yourself and the people that you love.”
Except when your political opposition goes to Yale, I guess.
It’s fascinating how often Walz takes cheap shots at the back stories of his political opponents considering all the holes that have been poked in his, which have included embellishments and flat-out lies — most notably the one where he strongly insinuated he was a combat veteran.
Legal Insurrection has documented many of them:
It will surprise exactly no one outside of the Harris-Walz campaign that yet another story Walz has told over the years has come under scrutiny: How he got into politics.
He told the story in a Twitter/X thread on August 17th, 2020. Here’s what he wrote:
The last sitting President to visit my hometown of Mankato, Minnesota was George W. Bush in 2004. As a high school teacher and football coach, I brought two fellow teachers’ children to the speech as an educational experience. We were denied entry…because the students had previously volunteered for the democratic party. Having just returned from military duty in Italy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom I wished to hear directly from the President…and my students, regardless of political party, deserved to witness the historical moment of a sitting president coming to our city. Above all, I was struck by how deeply divided our country was becoming that a veteran & a group of high schoolers would be turned away at the door.It was at this moment that I decided to run for office. While I had a passion for politics, I had never been overly involved in political campaigns, and many people thought that a high school teacher and football coach didn’t stand a chance.
First things first: Walz was not a “high school football coach.” He was an assistant coach. Secondly, his political origin story contains “significant inaccuracies,” according to an investigative report from the Washington Examiner:
This version of the political origin story for the Democratic vice presidential nominee, who is already facing “stolen valor” accusations over claims about his military service from combat veterans, contains significant inaccuracies.For one, Walz was admitted into the Bush rally, according to a source familiar, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the August 2004 event. The two teenagers Walz arrived with, Matt Klaber and Nick Burkhart, were not his students, the Washington Examiner confirmed.Moreover, the teenagers were barred from the event after a confrontation that made local news earlier in the week — leading to them initially being denied tickets.[…]He was looking for an origin story,” Chris Faulkner, a former Bush campaign staffer in Minnesota in 2004 who worked the August rally, told the Washington Examiner. “And he made one up.”
Like Joe Biden’s penchant for making up stories out of whole cloth (not to mention outright stealing other people’s family stories and claiming them for himself), Walz’s propensity to do the same raises bigger questions about what else he’s said about himself and his life that isn’t true.
While this one, in particular, isn’t as egregious as the ones related to the stolen valor allegations, voters should ask themselves if they’re comfortable electing someone as vice president who simply can’t be trusted to tell the truth about himself or anything else.
After all, we’ve had nearly four years of it with Joe Biden. Do we really want four with Tim Walz who, in the event something — God forbid — happened to Kamala Harris, would be put in the position of president?
Question of the day.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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