Tim Walz gets grilled for falsehoods, doubts people care about some of his misstatements

Democratic vice presidential hopeful Tim Walz fessed up to making numerous false statements, but implied that voters aren’t too concerned about his “misspeaking.” When confronted about his various fibs ranging from being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre to his wife’s reproductive assistance and more, Walz argued that sometimes he gets tripped up by his passion.“I think they heard me the other night speaking passionately about gun violence and misspeaking,” Walz told “Fox News Sunday,” alluding to how he flubbed an answer during the VP debate and sputtered out the unfortunate turn-of-phrase, “I’ve become friends with school shooters.”He also referenced how his wife Gwen corrected the record in August regarding the couple’s oft-stated claim they used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive their two children, revealing she had actually used intrauterine insemination (IUI).

Walz downplayed the discrepancy, and attempted to turn it around to attack former President Trump.“I don’t think people care whether I used IUI or IVF when we talk about this.What they understand is Donald Trump would resist those things,” he added in the Fox News interview.

Walz, 60, had spent weeks heavily implying — and at times outright claiming — that she used IVF when knocking Republicans on the issue.“I will own up when I misspeak.

I will own up when I make a mistake,” Walz further insisted during his first Sunday show interview since becoming the Democratic VP nominee.He then attempted to deflect.

“Let’s be very clear: On that debate stage The other night, I asked one very simple question, and Senator Vance would not acknowledge that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election,” he countered.The Harris-Walz campaign quickly made an ad out of that VP debate moment in which GOP vice presidential hopeful JD Vance, 40, declined to state that former President Donald Trump, 78, lost the election.Walz struggled during the debate when p...