Michael Strahan asked Democrat VP candidate Gov. Tim Walz to address the many lies he’s told and the supposed “misspoken” statements he’s made since the nomination.
Well, Walz answered in true politician fashion. He shrugged it off and didn’t answer the questions.
Walz blamed it on his passion and others for spinning things in a political environment.
Give me a break:
STRAHAN: Let’s talk about your record. And you call yourself a knucklehead. Call yourself a knucklehead because you’ve made some statements that just aren’t true. And the comment about “weapon of the war that I carried in war,” which you didn’t. You said you were in Hong Kong during the Tan Mn. Square massacre when you weren’t. You kind of chalked it all up to bad grammar or getting the dates wrong. But your opponents say you lied to make yourself look better. Do they have a point?WALZ: Well, look. 35 years ago, got the opportunity to be in Hong Kong, be in China, learned a lot about it served 24 years in the National Guard passionately. In an instance talking about gun violence in schools. On an instance there. Proud of the service that I’ve done. Proud to be a teacher. In that classroom, proud to be very public all these years and owning it.When I said, look, I was there in August of 89, and I think what you see here you saw in Minnesota been elected eight times here. These things have been very public for folks here. They see the results of things that we pass. We see a state that’s a top five state for business. We see third best state, top three state for raising a child, and we’ve had the best health care and I think the policies, whether it be dealing with China and understanding China’s human rights record, what you can be certain there is that Kamala Harris and I aren’t going to pick dictators on speed dial. See, Xi Jinping is doing a good job during Covid, as Donald Trump said. And I think those lessons learned over a lifetime of being very public, whether it’s in the classroom or being elected.STRAHAN: Well. It’s one thing of a trust. So there are going to be some people who say we can’t trust him, even tell the truth about himself. What do you say to them?WALZ: Well, I said they know who I am. I know who I am. I know the work that I’ve done. I know that things get spun in a political environment. But I think what they see is if they want to compare that, talking about immigration, policy or seeing the things that Donald Trump would say, I think there’s a big difference than missing a date when you’re there. And again, spinning something for a political reason. I’m very clear of who I’ve been. I’m very proud of 24 years of doing that work. And I think going to Congress and working for veterans, they want to see it and make the difference, look a little different. I think people in Minnesota, my students, the folks I’ve worked with, members of Congress, they know who I am and they know the policies we put in place have made an impact.STRAHAN: And Vice president Harris said if she told you to be a little bit more careful on how you say things.WALZ: Well, I did it even the other day of just speaking passionately about these gun violence situations and meeting with these survivors. I’ve said in the room of the Sandy Hook folks, a friend with David Hogg, who’s been an activist on this. People know in that. And then that gets spun in that. He didn’t say something true. It was very clear that I was talking about these veterans. Very clear that I wear my emotions on my sleeve. And I do think in these positions, whether it be governor or being vice president of the United States, you do need to be careful. You do need to be a little more thoughtful on it and I think what you see is someone who’s been in classrooms a lot. I’ve been around coaching a lot. I speak passionately, and I think doing that. You need to combine the two, and I think that’s what she’s referring to.
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