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The Debate Is Over — CNN Airs Investigation that Confirms Tim Walz Is Stolen Valor Fraud

CNN settled the debate about Governor Tim Walz and his alleged stolen valor scandal. The far-left channel ran a 10-minute investigation on Governor Walz, his time in the service, his abandoning his men after their deployment notice, and Tim later lying about his service in the Iraq War.

Mike Cernovich called the segment “absolutely devastating” and confirmed that CNN actually debunked all of the lies spread by Walz and his Democrat defenders.

“Absolutely devastating and it debunks all of the lies spread by Tim Walz’s defenders. I want him on the ticket as VP. The conversation is over. Tim Walz is a deployment dodging stolen valor fraud!” he wrote on X.

CNN host Laura Coates brought in retired Command Sergeant Major Doug Julien to discuss Walz and his record. Julien previously accused Walz of letting “his troops down” and going over his head to secure his retirement after decades of service in May 2005, a few months before the battalion was given a mobilization order to deploy to Iraq.

Julien’s testimony provides a stark contrast to the narrative Walz has long promoted, revealing a troubling pattern of deceit and self-serving decisions that have cast a shadow over his military legacy.

According to Julien, Walz, who filed paperwork for his Congressional bid in February 2005, deliberately went above his superior’s head to retire just as his unit was preparing for deployment to Iraq.

Julien revealed that in the fall of 2004, his brigade was informed of an upcoming deployment to Iraq, and the unit was in the process of preparing for the mission.

By February 2005, Walz was already laying the groundwork for his political career, notifying Julien of his intent to run for Congress but assuring him he would still deploy with his unit.

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Yes, Tim Walz signed a bill that removed anti-pedophile language from human rights act

On May 30, 2023, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed into law HF 1655, also known as the “Take Pride Act.” This controversial legislation, introduced by state Representative Leigh Finke, a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the first transgender legislator in Minnesota House history, has drawn significant attention for its removal of anti-pedophile language from the state’s Human Rights law.

The “Take Pride Act” sought to redefine “sexual orientation” in the Minnesota Human Rights Act, removing the explicit exclusion of pedophilia. The original text of the law stated that “‘Sexual orientation’ does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult.” However, the new law, signed by Walz, removes this crucial caveat, raising concerns about the potential implications for the protection of minors.

Critics argue that the removal of the anti-pedophile language could lead to the normalization of pedophilia and weaken the state’s ability to protect minors from sexual abuse and exploitation. They contend that the original language was necessary to ensure that pedophilia is not afforded any form of protection or legitimacy under the law where “sexual orientation” is a protected class.

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Tim Walz Was Dead Wrong About Misinformation and Free Speech

Now that Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has become Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, it is ostensibly time for the media to scrutinize his record and past statements. (Emphasis on ostensibly.)

To say the mainstream coverage of Walz has been fawning thus far would be quite an understatement; The New York Times described him as “a one-man rejoinder to the idea that the Democrats are the party of the cultural and coastal elite.” The Atlantic‘s Charlie Warzel merrily aided media efforts to portray Walz as a lovable, folksy paternal figure, writing that “dad is on the ballot.” CNN proclaimed the Harris-Walz team as “an antidote to Trump’s American carnage.”

“Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to make America joyful again,” wrote CNN’s Stephen Collinson.

The task of scrutinizing Walz will clearly fall to other interested parties. (See Reason‘s Eric Boehm on his overall record, and this piece by me on his COVID-19 policies.)

Conservatives on social media did manage to dig up an old clip of Walz making an alarming and false claim: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”

Walz is wrong, of course: The First Amendment, which vigorously protects Americans’ free speech rights, does not distinguish between good information and misinformation. Moreover, so-called hate speech—an arbitrary category, as different people find different sorts of speech to be hateful—is quite obviously protected.

But that clip of Walz is only eight seconds long, and I am wary of taking people out of context. So I looked for the rest of the clip, which is available here.

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Even CNN Admits There’s “No Evidence” Walz Saw Combat

It seems that Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz has repeatedly made misleading statements about his military service, and even CNN admitted Wednesday that there is no evidence to back up the notion that he ever saw combat.

CNN correspondent Tom Foreman noted that “Walz did make a comment speaking to a group, he’s done it a couple of times, where he has used language that has suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation.”

“As you know, with your contact with the military, I know from coming from a military family, there is a difference between being in a combat area, being involved at a time of war and actually being in a position where people are shooting at you,” Foreman continued.

Then came the kicker.

“There is no evidence that at any time Governor Walz was in a position of being shot at, and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was,” the correspondent urged.

Walz said in 2018 after the Parkland shooting that he wanted to ban weapons that he “carried in war.” The Harris HQ X account even boasted about the claim earlier this week.

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Tim Walz Falsely Claimed He Served in Afghanistan. When a Local Vet Called Him Out, His Office Did Nothing.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz has described himself as “a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom,” the official name of the U.S. government’s war in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks. 

But Walz never deployed to the Middle East. And, when an Iraq war veteran confronted Walz’s aides with evidence of what he called “stolen valor,” his aides didn’t do much to address his concerns.

As a first-time congressional candidate in 2006, Walz’s campaign announcement described him as “a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom,” an archived version of the press release shows. Two years earlier, in 2004, Walz organized a protest against then-President George W. Bush in Mankato, Minn. A photo of the rally shows Walz carrying a sign reading “Enduring Freedom Veterans for Kerry.”

Such a title historically applies to someone who served on the ground in Afghanistan during the Global War on Terrorism. Walz, a 24-year veteran of the Army National Guard, spent time in Norway in support of NATO forces and in Italy working in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He had never seen combat, he told Minnesota Public Radio in 2018.

Walz’s claims spurred Iraq war veteran David Thul, a sergeant in the Minnesota National Guard, to approach Walz’s aides at the Democrat’s Mankato office in 2009. Thul filmed the encounter, in which a staffer told Thul she was “not aware” of Walz serving in Afghanistan. Thul went on to present the 2004 photo of Walz, as well as Walz’s website, to another aide, who acknowledged that constituents could get the false impression that Walz served in Afghanistan.

“Operation Enduring Freedom is limited to Afghanistan and the airspace directly above,” Thul told the aide. “Congressman Walz is clearly claiming … to be an Enduring Freedom veteran. Nobody disputes the fact that he is not an Afghanistan or Enduring Freedom veteran. So this represents a fairly serious issue.” Asked whether he understood how constituents could falsely “assume that means [Walz] served in Afghanistan,” the aide responded, “Perhaps, I guess.”

The aide did not dispute that Walz was pictured in the 2004 photograph, and, indeed, a 2006 Atlantic article describes the spectacle of the future governor protesting the Bush visit with a group of high school students. The aide told Thul he would follow up with him. A source familiar with the situation said neither Walz nor his staffers followed through with that pledge.

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Walz administration threatened voters for not masking up; critics tear apart new mask study

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris picked a running mate, Tim Walz, known for severe COVID-19 restrictions as Minnesota’s governor, including a hotline on which residents could report each other for violating his stay-at-home executive order.

Walz’s administration threatened the medical license of his 2022 Republican challenger, Scott Jensen, who won Minnesota’s Family Physician of the Year award in 2016, for COVID wrongthink. Two of its five investigations were opened after Jensen entered the race.

But it’s Walz’s crusade for masking, which he called  “one of the last” COVID mandates he would lift in fall 2020 and was upheld as constitutional a year ago, that could make swing voters more wary of a Democratic ticket that, unlike the GOP ticket, might bring mandates back.

When Minnesota Republicans sued to block Walz’s mask mandate at polling places ahead of the 2020 primary, Secretary of State Steve Simon told the Star Tribune that he would direct officials to record the names of voters who refused to accept masks “and let them know they will be reported to authorities” if they vote inside without a “health reason.”

Germany is still using a similar tack to protect masking from scrutiny.

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Minnesota Nice: Creepy Tim Walz Uses Fake Internet Sex Meme to Mock JD Vance

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) referred to a crude sex joke based on a fake meme to make fun of rival Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) during a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate.

“I can’t wait to debate the guy,” Walz said, to cheers. Then he added: “That is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up.”

The crowd roared with laughter.

“You see what I did there?” he said, clearly aware of the joke.

The joke refers to a meme that claims Vance had sex with a couch, based on a fake citation from his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

The meme was widely shared and repeated among “progressives” looking for something bad to say about Vance.

The author of the original hoax told Business Insider that the ease with which people believed his fake citation “hasn’t bolstered his faith in the critical-thinking skills of the electorate.”

Walz, supposedly bringing Midwest decency to the ticket, launched his campaign with a crude sexual joke — one based on deliberate misinformation.

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Kamala and Tampon Tim Are Caught Astroturfing Support – Paying Social Media Users to Post Pro Kamala-Walz Content on Instagram

What a shock!

The Kamala-Walz campaign was caught today astroturfing their grassroots support. Everyone knows Kamala Harris, the worst vice president in US history, has no wide support from the American people – especially after the Biden coup!

But this won’t stop Democrats from buying the appearance of support! Just like they buy votes.

State Senator Jake Hoffman from Arizona posted evidence that Democrats are reaching out to social media users to pay them to say nice things about Kamala and Tampon Tim.

Senator Hoffman posted the proof. Kamala’s campaign worker, Alicia Howard, sent out letters to Instagram users to pay them for supporting her campaign.

The email reads in part:

Over a series of three posts, we’re inviting you to share what you admire about the Biden-Harris Administration, what initiatives you support, or simply why you believe Kamala Harris, with Biden’s endorsement, is the best candidate for the job.

At MJ Ventures, we specialize in organizing impactful projects – and I’d be happy to share with you some of our previous work if you’re interested.

This project is moving quickly, so if you’re interested in creating content on Instagram, please let me know as soon as possible. We can discuss the details and compensation for your involvement.

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Israel lobby spends millions to unseat US lawmaker critical of Gaza war

The pro-Israel lobby in the US is pouring millions into a campaign to unseat an African-American Congresswoman from Missouri, Cori Bush, as part of a broader effort to replace critics of Israel’s war in Gaza with more Israel-friendly Democrats, The Washington Post reported on 6 August.

“It’s because I called for a cease-fire in Gaza,” Bush told a potential voter as she campaigned door-to-door in her district. “That’s where all of this started.”

Bush is facing a tight primary contest Tuesday against St Louis County Prosecutor and fellow African-American and Democrat Wesley Bell, who is supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the largest and most powerful pro-Israel group in the US.

Whoever wins the primary will run against the Republican party’s candidate for the congressional seat in November.

Outside groups have already spent over $15 million in Missouri’s 1st Congressional district race, with 80 percent of the funds going toward ads opposing Bush and supporting her AIPAC-backed opponent.

In June, AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups spent $17 million to help defeat another progressive African-American member of the US Congress who was critical of the Gaza war, Democrat Jamaal Bowman from New York.

The Washington Post adds that the National Black Empowerment Action Fund (NBEA), founded by AIPAC veteran Darius Jones, donated $1 million to the campaign against Bush last week.

Most of the voters in Bush’s district with whom the Washington Post spoke said they did not know that AIPAC and other Israel lobby groups were so involved in tipping the race.

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The Left’s Apparent Coup d’état Against Trump, Version 2.0

Much to the Left’s chagrin, Donald Trump appears to be unstoppable.

The Dems and their allies have tried everything—impeachments, a stolen election, the Mar-a-lago raid, multiple bogus “lawfare” cases—to keep him out of the White House. Why wouldn’t they go for broke and try to kill him, as he’s clearly poised to become the 47th President of the United States?

Apparently, they did.

If so, this was their second coup d’état against him—this one coming in anticipation of his winning the 2024 election. The first was the stolen election as a result of the Color Revolution in 2020, leading up to the faux “insurrection” on January 6th that provided cover for the real insurrection: the overthrow of our government and our legitimately elected President.

As new facts emerge about the assassination attempt on Trump, the picture appears to go far beyond “mere incompetence.”

For example, we learned this from Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, a very caring person adamant about protecting…her staff:

That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.

Placing Madame DEI Cheatle as Director of the Secret Service was tantamount to putting Inspector Clouseau—one of actor Peter Sellers great comedic triumphs—in charge of the operation. After all, Clouseau could be counted on to put the Marx brothers in key positions as counter-snipers, so instead of Cheatle’s agents guarding the rooftop from would-be assassins, they sat inside the adjacent building like fireman drinking coffee and playing cards in the fire station, while the assassin clambered up to the roof, his backpack full of ammo and a rangefinder, and his AK-15 in tow, in full view of many bystanders who kept unsuccessfully trying to alert law enforcement.

Then for the local police, we have the Keystone Cops or Three Stooges, one of whom hoists his buddy up to the roof to check things out. He takes a peek, and upon seeing the assassin—who of course points his rifle at him—he panics and promptly falls to the ground. Does he, or do Moe or Curly immediately contact Clouseau and tell him to get Trump off the stage and to safety? Not a chance. That is, either the Stooges hopelessly bungled their chance to save the day, or they did contact the Secret Service D-Team, who then fumbled the ball themselves.

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