Tim Walz Appears To Ignore Shouted Questions About ‘Stolen Valor’ Accusation

Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota appeared to disregard shouted questions on Wednesday regarding allegations that he lied about his military service with the National Guard, instead walking to a nearby vehicle.

Walz’s 2005 retirement from the Minnesota National Guard after a 24-year career was questioned in a resurfaced 2018 Facebook post by retired Army Command Sergeant Major Thomas Behrends, who replaced Walz as the top enlisted man in an artillery battalion after the Minnesota governor’s retirement. The unidentified person twice shouted questions at Walz about “stolen valor” as Walz greeted people at the airport before he hurriedly moved to an SUV.

“Governor, Vance accused you of stolen valor; your response?” the person shouted. “Governor!”

“Governor, Vance accused you of stolen valor; your response?” the person repeated about thirty seconds later as Walz and Harris walked to the motorcade.

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Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, the party’s nominee for vice president, was among those accusing Walz of “stolen valor,” highlighting comments Walz made in a video posted on X by the Harris-Walz campaign in which he called for a ban on so-called “assault weapons,” labeling them “weapons of war, that I carried in war.” Walz never served in the Middle East but was deployed to Italy during the War on Terror, the Washington Free Beacon reported.