By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-01 16:52:05 | Updated at 2024-10-02 12:30:21
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Walz’s claim that he was in China during Tiananmen Square protests undercut by unearthed newspaper reports
CNN ^ | 01 Oct 2024 | Aaron Pellish
Posted on 10/01/2024 8:52:13 AM PDT by blueplum
Newly unearthed reports contradict previous claims made by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about his travel to China, including a claim that the Democratic vice presidential nominee traveled to China for a teaching position in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests...
Walz had previously said he visited Hong Kong in “May of ’89,” weeks before the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. ...
But contemporaneous newspaper reports first resurfaced by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news outlet, place Walz in Nebraska around that time. An issue of the Alliance Times-Herald dated May 16, 1989, features a photo of Walz touring a Nebraska National Guard storeroom... A separate newspaper article about Walz’s planned trip to China published by a Nebraska-based outlet in April 1989 reported that he planned to travel to China in early August of that year.
When asked by CNN if Walz was in China during the Tiananmen Square protests, the Harris campaign was unable to provide evidence to substantiate Walz’s claim.
The contradiction was first reported by Minnesota Public Radio News and APM Reports....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
TOPICS: China; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; elections; hesjustaliar; idarukavina; minnesota; nebraska; tiananmentim; timwalz; walz
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1 posted on 10/01/2024 8:52:13 AM PDT by blueplum
To: blueplum
now do the newspaper reports about his horse experience....
2 posted on 10/01/2024 8:55:31 AM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: blueplum
J.D. has so much stuff on this guy. He better bust his butt in the debate.
3 posted on 10/01/2024 8:55:49 AM PDT by sunny bonobo
To: blueplum
This guy is a bigger liar than Kammie the voodoo hoodoo.
4 posted on 10/01/2024 8:58:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)
To: blueplum
He was ducking sniper bullets in Kosovo, too.
5 posted on 10/01/2024 9:03:33 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
To: blueplum
Hard to fight against news articles published at the time. No reason for a cover up back in 1989.
6 posted on 10/01/2024 9:04:14 AM PDT by vaskypilot
To: blueplum
I do not recall reading that Walz claimed he was in China during Tiananmen Square. Unless he did, this is another squirrel for Republicans to chase so that Democrats can attack us for false accusation.
7 posted on 10/01/2024 9:04:17 AM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
To: Freee-dame
8 posted on 10/01/2024 9:09:25 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: blueplum
9 posted on 10/01/2024 9:13:27 AM PDT by nwrep
To: blueplum
He almost went to Iraq, where he almost carried a gun. He was almost in China for the Tiananmen Square protests, but he was actually in Nebraska (geography is hard).
To: Roadrunner383
Too bad he couldn’t have saved Uncle Bosie before the cannibals ate him!
To: Freee-dame
12 posted on 10/01/2024 9:24:35 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
To: blueplum
It’s another type of stolen valor.
13 posted on 10/01/2024 9:39:35 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: blueplum
He probably was there. Manning a machine gun!
14 posted on 10/01/2024 9:45:58 AM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
To: Jamestown1630
Yeah. Just such a liar.
He says he was in Hong Kong of May 89.
Massacre happened June 3/4.
He says people were angry that he would still go “after what happened.”
The massacred hadn’t happened in May.
That comment would make sense if he was going in August, like the 1989 report states.
Or he’d have to have gone to Hong Kong after this May 166 article. Then come back. Then go again in August. Or…etc…
15 posted on 10/01/2024 9:50:34 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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