Tim Walz was pressed on why he falsely said he was in Hong Kong during the pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989 — something that was unearthed just hours before the debate.
Walz said he “hasn’t been perfect” and was a “knuckle head at times,” before saying he sometimes gets “caught up in the rhetoric.”
Multiple outlets have reported that Walz was actually in Nebraska during the 1989 protests — not in China, where he finally went that August, after the protests were crushed by the Chinese military.
Walz said he “misspoke” about that claim when asked a followup question.
