Stolen Valor Scandal Gets Worse, If Possible
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Did you know that Tim Walz served in Afghanistan?

In the book “Winning the Wellstone Way,” a book specifically endorsed by none other than Tim Walz, we learn that this warmhearted, genuine, avuncular candidate who won his election did so partly because he was a veteran who served in Afghanistan. 

Walz, who was quoted in the book right after the claim he served there, went on to endorse the book. 

The claim is very clear, and made just prior to a quote from Walz. There is really no ambiguity at all about the claim or Walz’s awareness of it. 

A longtime National Guardsman who served in Afghanistan, Walz was a popular high school teacher and football coach who believed that because of his life experience he could do a better job in Congress than the incumbent. He appealed to voters with a great “authentic” message…

You could easily assume that Walz wasn’t aware, but for the fact that he endorses the book as a winning formula. If you are quoted in the book, recommend the book, and are praised as an example in the book, then you read the book and know what it is in. Anybody who is featured in a book and then recommends it to others obviously knows what is in it. 

Walz has some other skeletons in his closet too. Special forces folks are very annoyed that he has been parading around in a camo hat with a special forces logo. 

In fact, POLITICO features a photo of him praising his use of a camo hat with precisely that logo. 

Walz can pull it off! 

Yeah, but it is apparently a fraud. I am not a military guy, so I don’t have the greatest insight into how significant this issue will be to veterans, but it sure sounds bad to me. Going around talking about your service in a war that you never gave, wearing special forces logos that you never earned sure looks to this ill-informed guy to be pretty bad. 

So far, we have learned that Walz lied about where he served, what rank he left the Guard with, whether he served in a war, that he left to avoid deployment to Iraq, and that he endorsed a claim he served in Afghanistan. 

Bloomberg wrote a profile of Walz having him in Afghanistan and Iraq and had to correct it when this issue came to the fore. The correction on it is hilarious:

(Corrects to remove reference to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in fifth paragraph; an earlier version of this story corrected where Walz served overseas in the third paragraph and Colón’s position with Rock Steady in the introduction to that item.)

Does that sound like a guy who is up-front and honest?

The Harris campaign can’t even get Walz’s service in Congress correct, having claimed he was Chair of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee. 

No doubt it was an innocent mistake. Just like every other “mistake” made about Walz’s military affairs. 

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