Tim Walz Said He Was in Hong Kong During the Tiananmen Square Massacre. He Was Home in Nebraska
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At a 2014 congressional hearing held to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Tim Walz, then a congressman representing Minnesota’s first district, recalled being in Hong Kong when the Chinese Communist Party crushed the student protests that had roiled the country since mid-April of 1989. The unforgettable crackdown came on June 4 of that year.
"I was just going to teach high school in Foshan in Guangdong, and was in Hong Kong in May of ‘89," he said. "And as the events were unfolding, several of us went in. And I still remember the train station in Hong Kong." He went on: "There was a large number of, especially European, I think, very angry that we would still go after what had happened, but it was my belief at that time that the diplomacy was going to happen on many levels."
That anecdote has since been repeated, without scrutiny, by the New York Times , CBS News , and National Public Radio , among others. In reality, local news reports show that Walz was at home in Nebraska in May and June of 1989, as protests convulsed China and the government’s response turned the world’s attention to its gross human rights violations. He wouldn’t depart for China until August.
Contemporaneous news reports show Walz touring a National Guard storeroom in Alliance, Nebraska, in May 1989. They indicate that Walz did not leave the United States until August of that year, at least two months after the student protests ended with the Tiananmen Square massacre.
The discrepancy was first reported by Minnesota Public Radio’s APM Reports on Monday. The Walz campaign "was unable to produce documentation to back up Walz’s statement that he was there during the uprising," the news outlet said.
It is but the latest example of Walz inflating his resume and exaggerating parts of his biography. The Minnesota governor claimed for years to be a "retired command sergeant major," though he retired without completing the requirements to earn the title. Walz also stated that he was in the process of getting his doctorate degree years after he left the graduate program at St. Mary’s University in Minnesota, the Washington Free Beacon reported .
On Monday, Minnesota Public Radio also reported that Walz "was so proud of his extensive experience" traveling to China that he "occasionally used to exaggerate it"—claiming to have traveled there 30 times when his campaign now admits he has visited the country around 15 times.
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Guy lies about everything. Same type as Biden.
No wonder Homeland Security whistleblowers are worried about his ties to the CCP.
Becoming hard to believe anything he says
He's just afraid of embarrassing Kamala...
Wow, a Bluechew biography. Seems every little thing has been enlarged out of proportion.
Maybe he meant the total of times between his wife and himself.
I bet that most people think I've come to China only once. I actually came to China twice. When I was first here, after about 18 months I returned to Toronto in order to go to Baltimore for my son's wedding, and then returned to Toronto and flew back to China. So I took TWO trips to China not just one. See how people can get confused about things like that? LOL