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Tim Walz says he ‘got his dates wrong’ with Tiananmen Square lie — says he makes mistakes ‘like everybody else’
New York Post ^ | Oct. 2, 2024 | Diana Glebova

Posted on 10/02/2024 4:03:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tried again Wednesday to explain his repeated false statement that he was in China during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 — telling reporters in Pennsylvania that he “got his dates wrong” and suggesting he makes verbal mistakes “like everybody else.”

Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, was questioned during Tuesday night’s debate over a report that indicated that he was not in Hong Kong like he repeatedly previously claimed — but was actually back home in Nebraska.

“Look, I have my dates wrong. I was in Hong Kong and China in 1989,” Walz said Wednesday. “You’ve seen me. These teachers see me. I speak like everybody else speaks,” he added. “I need to be clearer. I will tell you that.”

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TOPICS: China; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chicomasset; creep; grifter; knucklehead; lyingliar; tiananmensquare; walz
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To: nickcarraway

I’m sure his latest excuse will be good enough for the media. Case closed!


21 posted on 10/02/2024 4:20:10 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: nickcarraway

It can happen to anybody. Hillary Clinton had a similar misrecollection about dodging sniper fire at the airport.


22 posted on 10/02/2024 4:20:37 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Ann Archy

He’s a public school teacher, so yeah he’s a knucklehead!


23 posted on 10/02/2024 4:21:52 PM PDT by RedMonqey (This is no longer America but "Amerika"!)
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To: nickcarraway

no no no no Tim ,you went ins oidarity with the guy being crushed by the tank... errr, maybe with the driver of the tank?


24 posted on 10/02/2024 4:26:10 PM PDT by sopo
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To: RedMonqey

I think Walz is trying to appeal to the knucklehead vote. After all, there are lots and lots of knuckleheads out there.


25 posted on 10/02/2024 4:28:07 PM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: nickcarraway

No kid ever said “I want to grow up to be a crooked politician”, and yet there he is.


26 posted on 10/02/2024 4:30:09 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: volare737

They already got the Union vote


27 posted on 10/02/2024 4:31:40 PM PDT by RedMonqey (This is no longer America but "Amerika"!)
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To: nickcarraway
I've been to China...and Hong Kong...several times. But I know damn well that I wasn't anywhere near East Asia when Tienanmen Square happened.
28 posted on 10/02/2024 4:32:45 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: nickcarraway

The thing is he did not even come close to answering the question. He rambled for a long time about nonsense, and did not answer.

The moderator actually surprisingly did then say “you didn’t answer the question.”

He then admitted he lied.

But then immediately lied about it in the last thing he said, that he was there during the democracy protests when he wasn’t.

Here’s the details. All through May millions of Chinese citizens demonstrated peacefully in Beijing calling for more freedom and democratic reform.

June 3 and 4 Chicom government sent in the army who massacred civilians.

Walz said for decades he was in China that May during the demonstrations (but not in Beijing).

But it was just shown he was in the US on May 16 and didn’t go until August.

So after admitting he got his dates wrong he still said he was there during the protests. When he obviously wasn’t.


29 posted on 10/02/2024 4:34:02 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: volare737

” After all, there are lots and lots of knuckleheads out there.”

Very true. We don’t need another lying knucklehead in Washington D C. We’re overstocked on them there.


30 posted on 10/02/2024 4:34:25 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t know if he’s scary enough to be Kamala’s “Impeachment Insurance,” but he might be close.


31 posted on 10/02/2024 4:34:33 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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To: Flaming Conservative
Walz is an accomplished liar. He is very good—as he lies with such passion!

His list of public lies gets longer every day.

32 posted on 10/02/2024 4:35:06 PM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, at least he has that COMBAT experience. (/S)


33 posted on 10/02/2024 4:35:11 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“ He has made a series of lies on many topics.”

He has a very specific modus operandi. That of a sociopathic con man.


34 posted on 10/02/2024 4:35:16 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

Aha ... the dems won’t like this. They expect polished liars that are able to obfuscate and double down.

Actually this version of Tim is refreshing to me. Yeah he is a buffoon but at least once he was able to fess up. That is more than can be said about many other dems.


35 posted on 10/02/2024 4:35:32 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: nickcarraway

Right… 🙄


36 posted on 10/02/2024 4:37:38 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: nickcarraway
"he makes mistakes ‘like everybody else’"


37 posted on 10/02/2024 4:38:49 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: nickcarraway

38 posted on 10/02/2024 4:39:08 PM PDT by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism, which is unique t)
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To: nickcarraway
You don't forget where you were with something major like that if you are invested in the situation.

For example I can remember where I was when Tiananmen Square happened. I can also tell you where I was when the Gulf War started and where I was when the Iran Contra hearings were happening. I was at my grandmother's.

I can not tell you where I was when Nixon resigned because I was rather young and was still hitting the bottle at that point in my life. :) But I can tell you where I was when Reagan was shot.

39 posted on 10/02/2024 4:39:49 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: nickcarraway

No he didn’t. He lied.


40 posted on 10/02/2024 4:41:05 PM PDT by Gaffer
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