by Frank Holmes, reporter
The Kamala Harris presidential campaign thought it had gotten by with putting over a huge lie during the 2024 Democratic National Convention—and almost every campaign stop of the presidential election.
But dozens of prominent military veterans slammed their “blatant misrepresentations” in the most satisfyingly brutal ways possible.
Kamala Harris’ first decision came when she tapped Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
Democrats tried to sell the far-Left liberal as America’s dad—a teacher, a normal guy, a coach.
And most of all, a veteran.
Since then, some of the facts have come out—including harsh words of rebuke from four members of his own unit, including its chaplain.
Walz was supposed to accompany them into Iraq in 2005, but bailed on them early to run for Congress…then lied about his service.
His unit just got reinforcements.
A group of 50 military veterans in the Congress have demanded Walz come clean about his record if he wants to be one heartbeat away from becoming commander-in-chief of the entire U.S. military.
“We feel compelled to address your egregious misrepresentations and urge you to come clean to the American people,” wrote the congressmen to Walz.
Americans are “rightfully concerned about what would happen to them should you ascend to the Presidency,” they wrote.
Their “grave concern stems from the fact that the office of the Vice President is one heartbeat away from becoming the Commander-In-Chief. You’ve already demonstrated your unwillingness to lead in time of war and a lack of honor through your blatant misrepresentations exploiting and co-opting the experiences of America’s combat veterans for personal gain.”
Walz has spent his entire political career referring to himself as a “retired command sergeant major.” While trying to undermine the Second Amendment by taking guns away from law-abiding citizens, Walz compared those legally registered guns to “weapons of war that I carried in war.”
The official Harris-Walz campaign claimed Walz “misspoke” about his miltary service—that somehow he had the Mandela Effect about his own battlefield experience.
The congressmen shot him down with the truth. “There is no honor in lying about the nature of your service,” they wrote. “To be blunt, when you falsely claim military service that did not happen and abandon your post, you diminish the real sacrifices made by veterans who did serve in combat.”
Walz was AWOL when his troops needed him most, they said.
“When America asked you to lead your troops into War, you turned your back on your troops. You have violated the trust of our brothers and sisters in arms. Their blood, sweat, and sacrifice are the only reason our nation is able to exist.”
“Until you admit you lied to them, there is no way you can be trusted to serve as Vice President,” they concluded.
Like his combat unit, Walz blew them off.
The official video introducing Tim Walz at this week’s Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night said that Walz enlisted when he was 17 years old and “served 24 years in the National Guard, rising to Command Sergeant Major.”
STOLEN VALOR: During DNC intro video, Tim Walz's fake rank exploited yet again. He never completed the requirements for Command Sergeant Major, he abandoned his unit before they deployed to Iraq and was demoted. pic.twitter.com/Z88aBAGhFN
— Storm Paglia 🇺🇸 (@storm_paglia) August 22, 2024
In a speech earlier this month. Walz skimmed over the details of his story, saying he’s “proud” of his service and comparing fighting terrorists to sitting in the cushy halls of Congress. “In 2005, I felt the call of duty” to leave the National Guard unit that was about to deploy to Iraq and instead run for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat.
After the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, Walz was deployed to serve in the red-hot theater of Norway.
Later, when National Guard units got sent to fight in Afghanistan, Tim Walz was there to take their place in Italy.
Walz has kept insisting he’s a war hero so much that Trump calls him “Freakish Timothy.”
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., who lost both his legs when he served in a combat theater in Afghanistan, led the letter. It was also signed by other veteran lawmakers including Sens., Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Reps. Jim Banks, R-Ind.,Jennifer Kiggans, Cory Mills, R-Fla., Scott Perry, R-Pa.,R-Va., and more.
At a press conference revealing the letter, Mast pointed out how Kamala Harris went along with the Afghanistan withdrawal that claimed the lives of 13 U.S. service members in August of 2021. Kamala praised herself, magnifying her role as a future commander-in-chief by claiming she was “the last person in the room” before Biden gave the deadly order that left American service members vulnerable to attack in Kabul.
Steve Nikoui, the father of a Marine who was murdered in the Kabul airport caused by Biden and Harris’ foreign policy insights – yelled at President Biden from the gallery during the 2024 State of the Union address.
Biden angered family members before by staring at his watch during the dignified transfer of the soldiers’ bodies. Family members also say Biden did little to comfort them, spending most of their time talking about himself and his late son, Beau, whom the president has fallaciously claimed “died in Iraq.”
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have “never said any of the 13 service members’ names,” said Mast.
Mast said he will never let the country forget about the loss of American lives “due to incompetence and to literally idiotic and asinine decision-making out of that White House.”
And he won’t let Kamala Harris separate herself from the decision that killed people who actually had the courage to serve in Iraq.
“She was proud of it. She bragged about it,” said Mast.
Now, “She owns it.”