VIDEO: Tim Walz Knew His Unit Deploying To Iraq And Promised To Go With Them When He Suddenly Retired
“Command Sergeant Major Doug Julin … definitively lays out the case of Walz abandoning his unit with knowledge of deployment”
Legal Insurrection readers voted by almost 2-1 that Tim Walz would make it to the Democratic National Convention where he will be nominated as candidate for Vice President.
Yet each passing day and hour, more evidence comes out that could make Walz untenable on the ticket.
Time is moving in some sort of warp, look at how much more evidence has come out proving the correctness of my initial take on Tim Walz just two days ago. https://t.co/UCNSEi6FjM
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) August 10, 2024
The scandal has two aspects, which the media loves to obfuscate and confuse to sow doubt. First is the claim of “stolen valor,” that Walz misrepresented or deceived the public while running for political office about his rank, whether he served in combat, and whether he served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The second aspect is whether he retired after knowing his unit was going to be deployed to Iraq, effectively abandoning the men and women under his command.
On that second aspect, the abandonment of his troops, Democrats and the media have tried to argue that at the time Walz put in for retirement, he did not know his unit would be deployed to Iraq because the actual Order came down a couple of months later. That claim is contradicted by contemporaneous reports, including Walz’s own March 2005 campaign press release, that the unit received word long prior to the official Order, and that Walz as a senior NCO would have known.
Now there is a video interview conducted by CNN of the person to whom Walz reported at the time, Command Sergeant Major Doug Julin, who states unequivocally that the unit knew for several months before the official Order that it would be deployed, and that Walz specifically knew. Not only did Walz know, he told Julin that Walz intended to go with the unit to Iraq.
While watching the video interview, note how the CNN anchor repeatedly tries to interrupt him and redirect and confuse the issues, making it seem like it was just a paperwork and reporting issue and whether Walz had a right to retire, but it didn’t work.
Laura Coates from CNN interviews Tim Walz’s former Command Sergeant Major Doug Julin. He definitively lays out the case of Walz abandoning his unit with knowledge of deployment in Nov of 2004, 6-7 months before he put in his retirement request. Along the way Walz assured he was going forward with the battalion/deployment. Then Walz went 2 levels above Julin (his chain of command) to put in retirement as his unit was getting ready to deploy.
Laura Coates from CNN interviews Tim Walz's former Command Sergeant Major Doug Julin. He definitively lays out the case of Walz abandoning his unit with knowledge of deployment in Nov of 2004, 6-7 months before he put in his retirement request. Along the way Walz assured he was… pic.twitter.com/bd1EPxg4p1
— Mike 🇺🇲 (@VegasMike27) August 9, 2024
Straw man defenses are rising all over the place, with defenders trying to make the issue something it’s not, and attacking Julin personally.
But Julin is not the first person to some forward with a similar story:
Julin is the third retired CSM to speak with Alpha News this month about a story that all three say deserves more attention.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen called a press conference Thursday to draw attention to the story. He was joined by retired Command Sergeant Major Tom Behrends, who ended up replacing Walz on the deployment.
“In my eyes, today is the day that Tim Walz is indicted for lack of leadership and an unwillingness to do his duty,” Jensen said.
Gov. Walz responded a short time later while he attended a dedication of a new Medal of Honor Memorial on the Capitol grounds.
“I don’t know if Tom just disagrees with my politics or whatever, but my record speaks for itself and my accomplishments in uniform speak for itself, and there’s many people in this crowd, too, that I served with,” Walz told KSTP. “It’s just unfortunate.
None of this is new. It was not invented because he’s the likely VP nominee. People with whom Walz served have been complaining about the “abandonment” and “stolen valor” for years.
In 2005, Tim Walz abruptly quit the Army National Guard to run for Congress right before his unit was deployed to Iraq.
The Guardsman who took his place told @AlphaNewsMN in 2022 that Walz said he would be going on the deployment before leaving them.
"He abandoned us." pic.twitter.com/SOb2lk8zTu
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 6, 2024
Is it the final nail in the Walz political coffin?
Coffin meet last nail
CSM Julin of Walz’s higher HQ says Walz knew of upcoming deployment in Fall 2004
Walz told him in Feb 2005 he would deploy with them
Otherwise they would have replaced him so someone else could team build
Walz dodge the deployment & screwed troops
Done
Is anyone ready to change their vote on whether Walz makes it to the convention?
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With the ENTIRE media establishment aligned against Trump, could anyone reasonably think that the Walz commotion will make one iota of difference?
Walz is not a good dude; we got it. But Harris is even more flawed — orders of magnitude more flawed. Remember her ABYSMAL performance in 2020. The people looked at her, judged her, and found her unacceptable.
Yet here she is, Madam Cackles. Whether or not she is dumb as a post is not for me to say. But she comes across as dumb as a post (and not honest on top of that), yet here she is.
A huge swath of the American public has bought into the Dems playbook and would vote for Jeremy Dahmer if he were running against Trump.
I see nothing that will change that.
And that’s the way it is, Saturday August 10, 2024.
Walz’s favorable/disfavorable rating is currently at +10. Vance’s is at -10. The power of the media to set the initial narrative is still unbelievably powerful.
Trump’s Achilles heal has always been the % of people who detest him. That number is fixed at around 51%. After he had two of the best weeks imaginable with two huge Supreme Court cases going his way, then getting shot and then having what was, by all accounts, an incredibly successful convention, he was still within the MOE with Biden and stuck at 47.9% in the RCP average. Today, he’s at 47.1% in that average. The reality is that while it’s possible to win a national election with 47%+/- in the national popular vote (as Trump proved in 2016), it’s still unusual particularly without a very strong 3rd-party candidate in the race which RFK is proving not to be. Since Biden was removed from the ballot, the Dems who were supporting RFK have largely come home. I’m afraid your conclusion is more likely than not. Absent some kind of economic meltdown between now and the first week in October (when early voting begins in earnest), I’m not very hopeful.
Media used to have to comply with a slew of regulations that held them in check. They should be promptly reregulated .
No, they did not. Any such regulations would be unconstitutional.
Jeffrey Dahmer.
He’s the perfect choice to front an administration the managed the Afghanistan abortion.
Cackles got the nod because they don’t have anybody else. The Dems don’t have a deep bench. Newsome, Pritzker, Warren, Klobuchar, Whitmer all socialist fools who Trump would destroy in Nov. Cackles is the sacrificial lamb. If they leave Walz on the ticket I think that’s a sign of surrender. And watch all the down ticket candidates avoid Harris/Walz like the plague.
I voted that he would remain on the ticket in spite of his stolen valor and abandonment of his comrades in arms, and I still believe that to be the case. Katz is being held to the “live boy, dead girl” standard. He ain’t goin’ nowhere.
Katz on the ticket matters to me and to many of you; it doesn’t matter to the ilk of Harris supporters.
We exist at a terrible inflection point today. Israel is threatened by radical Islam, and Islam has all but conquered Great Britain without a shot. Communists control the U.S. government. We have reason to believe the current administration tried to assassinate Donald Trump.
There is every indication that Harris will occupy the White House. She won’t be the victor as a result of our votes, but neither was Biden. Our voting system is utterly compromised and corrupted.
Folks, the sad truth is that we are not voting our way out of this.
I pray that you are wrong about voting, fear that you are right That would most certainly mean civil war
If Trump had to win the popular vote I wouldn’t like his odds.
However, he is leading in the red states and essentially tied or ahead in the 7 swing states. The demographics in the swing states are far different than the blue coastal areas. Trump and Vance need to continue to focus on working class and middle-class voters which have been victimized by our leftist government since 2008.
If the Trump/Vance team stay on message they have an excellent shot at an electoral college victory and winning both houses of congress.
Katz?! Is that some weird kind of typo, or are you implying that Harris picked a Jew despite herself?
(If his original family name is Katz, that would make him a distant relative of John Kerry, whose original family name is Kohen. Katz is an acronym for Kohen Tzedek, so the Katz and Kohen families are related, being ultimately descended in the male line from Aaron.)
LOL, you owe me a keyboard, Milhouse for this one! Still giggling.
Really?
THAT made you laugh so hard that Milhouse owes you a keyboard?
Kamala, is that you?
Walz made it as far as Italy military base, but never actually did any time in combat. He lied about his record numerous times. I’m guessing he’s losing the military vote in swing states. Walz is drag on ticket.
Trump had more bullets fired at him than Walz did.
My Air National Guard unit mobilized, and we had much earlier unofficial notification that we would before we ever got any official notification. As the senior NCO, Walz would have been fully informed weeks before the first official announcements for his unit.
If you were the Harris campaign would you want to focus attention on a senile president, a political assassination attempt, the fact you’re the most unpopular VP in history, gas prices, food prices, rents, unaffordable houses, spiking crime, looming nuclear war and mass migration destroying American communities?
Or the fine points of what exactly is the difference between a sergeant major and a command sergeant major?
This is a terrific observation that will be lost on everyone who matters. While I understand the reflexive desire for Trump campaign and friendly conservative influencers/media to hit Walz as hard as possible considering how effective the Dems were at marginalizing Vance, it’s probably not all that effective at the end of the day. If the things you’ve outlined aren’t what are driving the news cycle each and every day, the Democrats are winning. I don’t care if its Walz’ stolen valor or Harris’ husband’s lovechild. None of it is going to make a difference this fall.
It won’t make any difference.
Just a variation on what some servicewomen do when a deployment is announced. He retired, the women get in a family way. Show of hands: how many of you who were or are in the service have seen this take place? I saw it quite a bit.
The main difference is the women are usually not in a senior leadership position.
Very true.
We had that in medical residencies…. some… not all… the women residents got pregnant and bailed from call leaving mostly guys to fill in that empty slot on top of theirs. Not appreciated.
“Is anyone ready to change their vote on whether Walz makes it to the convention?”
The Democrats will drop Walz just like they dropped Kerry.
There’s your answer.
People who will happily vote for a dotard will just as happily vote for a coward.
too hurt to be polite.
fuck him.
there I said it.
It would be disqualifying for a GOP candidate but not for a Democrat in their current Progressive insanity.
He probably won’t do much for their ticket in the rust belt states to attract working class voters which is why he was most likely selected.
It appears their strategy is now totally focused on turnout of their base of black women, young progressives and wealthy suburban women. Since Waltz is a radical progressive, he can beat that drum.
No one knows what will occur between now and Nov. 5 but that strategy will likely not be enough if the GOP hammers home their energy/economic and illegal migration issues.
There was a great ad I saw the other day featuring a narrative by Ronald Reagan revising the successful question “are you better off today than four years ago”. Keep focused on the America first policy, vision and road map.
We live in a precious democracy so facts and logic do not matter. Use the word “contemporaneous” with an undecided voter and you will receive either a snicker or a troubled and confused look. These arguments are hot stuff for a formal Ivy League debate, but a waste of time in a political campaign. Anything that can’t be explained in a few short declarative sentences is a waste of time. Asking the voter to pay attention to a story which contains timelines, procedures, customs and differing interpretations is a joke. One’s only chance is to appeal to the electorate’s most base instincts and hit the other side, low and dirty. That’s democracy.
If voters allow themselves to be duped, they will be. As the saying goes: “Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me.”
An issue that looms larger is the integrity of the voting itself.
Now CNN has scrounged up an NG fellow of Walz to say this is all nonsense and that accusations are not “credible”. So we have one FOW (Friend of Walz) waltzing in. Oh… that resolves it all….
This what happens when you think you have to win every battle at all costs. Far too many people are trying to defend a position that is clearly a loser. Walz bailed out on his unit when he got word they were actually going to be in the war zone and not doing some job in Italy. Because he was in a leadership position he knew before it became official. He also signed an extension to remain in the guard, complete the training he signed up for to be awarded a higher rank all in the name of running for congress instead.
You can’t spin this any other way, the fact pattern is confirmed by multiple people and agencies.
I didn’t get that impression, at all. She interjected a couple of times, but she let him talk – a lot – and she let him clarify what he was saying after she interjected. He got all of his points across without any problem and he explicitly corrected her and went on with his point – which she let him do without any interference. I thought she gave Julin more leeway to speak than I usually see in any interviews on any of the news stations.
No one could watch that interview and come away with an opinion of Walz that was anything but awful.
Walz’s press release mentions a previous deployment as part of Op Enduring Freedom. What it doesn’t say is that he was deployed to Vicenza, Italy.