In an interview with CNN aired Thursday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, blamed “poor grammar” and “misspeaking” on his past lies about his military service.
“I want to ask you a question about how you described your service in the National Guard,” CNN’s Dana Bash said. “You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a warzone. A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?”
“My record speaks for itself but I think people are coming to get to know me. I speak like they do. I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my sleeves. I speak especially passionately about our children being shot in schools and around guns,” he droned on.
“The idea that you said that you were in war…” Bash began again. “Did you misspeak as the campaign has said?”
“We were talking about carrying these weapons of war…my grammar’s not always correct,” Walz said, before comparing this to the attacks that have come in on his children and his dog.
This wasn’t the only falsehood Walz was confronted about in the interview. Bash pointed out that Walz was dishonest about how his children were conceived. While he touted time and time again that they were born because of in vitro fertilization, it turns out that Walz and his wife used intrauterine insemination, or IUI.
“What do you say to voters who aren’t sure whether they can take you at your word?” Bash pressed.
“I certainly own my mistakes when I make ’em…I spoke about our infertility issues because it’s hell…I spoke about the treatments that were available to us that had those beautiful children..I think people know who I am. They’ve seen that record…I won’t apologize for speaking passionately.” he said.