Posted on 09/30/2024 3:53:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
At a 2014 congressional hearing held to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Tim Walz, then a congressman representing Minnesota’s first district, recalled being in Hong Kong when the Chinese Communist Party crushed the student protests that had roiled the country since mid-April of 1989. The unforgettable crackdown came on June 4 of that year.
"I was just going to teach high school in Foshan in Guangdong, and was in Hong Kong in May of ‘89," he said. "And as the events were unfolding, several of us went in. And I still remember the train station in Hong Kong." He went on: "There was a large number of, especially European, I think, very angry that we would still go after what had happened, but it was my belief at that time that the diplomacy was going to happen on many levels."
That anecdote has since been repeated, without scrutiny, by the New York Times, CBS News, and National Public Radio, among others. In reality, local news reports show that Walz was at home in Nebraska in May and June of 1989, as protests convulsed China and the government’s response turned the world’s attention to its gross human rights violations. He wouldn’t depart for China until August.
Contemporaneous news reports show Walz touring a National Guard storeroom in Alliance, Nebraska, in May 1989. They indicate that Walz did not leave the United States until August of that year, at least two months after the student protests ended with the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Tim Walz tours the Alliance, Nebraska, National Guard storeroom in May 1989, as shown in the Alliance Times-Herald.
The discrepancy was first reported by Minnesota Public Radio’s APM Reports on Monday. The Walz campaign "was unable to produce...
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Clearly he has Democrat Disease. One of the major symptoms is that the sufferer just tells whatever lie seems to suit his interest at the moment. Biden has been a poster boy for this for decades.
And millions of idiots vote for them.
Imagine picking the date of a massacre for your wedding to help you remember your anniversary. Weird guy.
Why Shakespeare was wrong about the lawyers first.
Did Kamalamadingdong vet this goof at all?
Could be worse…I’m a tax accountant who got married on April 14th. I didn’t plan it, that’s just how it worked out.
Democrat Dementia! It’s a thing…
OH GREAT-——
COMPETING LIARS RUNNING FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.
FROM THE SAME PARTY.
Waltz is the offspring of Biden and Sanders. He lies like dad #1.
he’s a DEMOCRAT....THEY LIE!!period!
He was in Dallas on 11/22/63...and he was in Memphis the day that MLK Jr was killed.
Hong Kong phuey!
#1 super liar!!
But he was in a booth at Panda Palace in Nebraska, eating a big Chinese meal. 🍵🥣🍖🍖🍤🍤🍤🍚🍛🥘🍲
Komi-La is a liar too. Why would she be bothered by his being a liar.
Being a liar is an asset to Democrats
She should have just picked Brian Williams aa VP.
She was going for the Biden grandfather image. Grandpa Sniffy, I think she nailed it.
At this point, a legimate question may be, “is there anything you’ve told us, Sir, that is true?”.
It is a sad reminder of the times we live in, that the willful stupidity of hordes of voters can put someone like Walz in a position to possibly become Vice President.
“ Could be worse…I’m a tax accountant who got married on April 14th.”
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Jeez…. some people will do anything to get out of last minute work crunches. ;-)
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