Avoiding deployment is one thing, not, to be sure, the sort of thing you’d expect someone in Walz’s position to do, but it’s one thing. Bald-faced lying about it later is quite another. And if Keilar wants to find out how veterans feel about it, she should ask a few actual ones rather than speculating.
It also demonstrates how comfortable he is with lying. Kind of reminds me of Resident Biden in that regard.