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Tim Walz Said He Was in Hong Kong During the Tiananmen Square Massacre. He Was Home in Nebraska.
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | September 30, 2024 | Alana Goodman

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: china; chinaownswalz; dishonestwalz; lyingwalz; marxistwalz; nebraska; tiananmen; tiananmensquare; walz; walzlies
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1 posted on 09/30/2024 3:53:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


2 posted on 09/30/2024 3:57:47 PM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Imagine picking the date of a massacre for your wedding to help you remember your anniversary. Weird guy.


3 posted on 09/30/2024 3:59:13 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
That anecdote has since been repeated, without scrutiny, by the New York Times, CBS News, and National Public Radio, among others.

Why Shakespeare was wrong about the lawyers first.

4 posted on 09/30/2024 4:00:47 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did Kamalamadingdong vet this goof at all?


5 posted on 09/30/2024 4:00:50 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant (“They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”)
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To: TexasKamaAina

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.


6 posted on 09/30/2024 4:05:22 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: SharpenedEdge

Democrat Dementia! It’s a thing…


7 posted on 09/30/2024 4:18:22 PM PDT by rootntootn (Until order is restored, there will be none.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

OH GREAT-——

COMPETING LIARS RUNNING FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.

FROM THE SAME PARTY.


8 posted on 09/30/2024 4:19:02 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Waltz is the offspring of Biden and Sanders. He lies like dad #1.


9 posted on 09/30/2024 4:21:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

he’s a DEMOCRAT....THEY LIE!!period!


10 posted on 09/30/2024 4:21:07 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He was in Dallas on 11/22/63...and he was in Memphis the day that MLK Jr was killed.


11 posted on 09/30/2024 4:21:08 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hong Kong phuey!
#1 super liar!!


12 posted on 09/30/2024 4:27:28 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

But he was in a booth at Panda Palace in Nebraska, eating a big Chinese meal. 🍵🥣🍖🍖🍤🍤🍤🍚🍛🥘🍲


13 posted on 09/30/2024 4:36:35 PM PDT by frank ballenger (so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! )
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To: Trump_Triumphant
Did Kamalamadingdong vet this goof at all?

Komi-La is a liar too. Why would she be bothered by his being a liar.

Being a liar is an asset to Democrats

14 posted on 09/30/2024 4:46:16 PM PDT by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She should have just picked Brian Williams aa VP.


15 posted on 09/30/2024 4:52:15 PM PDT by gopno1
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To: Pontiac

She was going for the Biden grandfather image. Grandpa Sniffy, I think she nailed it.


16 posted on 09/30/2024 4:53:43 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

At this point, a legimate question may be, “is there anything you’ve told us, Sir, that is true?”.


17 posted on 09/30/2024 4:55:51 PM PDT by Kudsman (Cat lives matter.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


18 posted on 09/30/2024 4:56:47 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: cnsmom

YEAH, THIS CLOWN REALLY GETS AROUND!

19 posted on 09/30/2024 5:03:36 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Night Hides Not

“ 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. ;-)


20 posted on 09/30/2024 5:10:20 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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