CNN correspondent Tom Foreman said this week that there is “no evidence” to suggest that Minnesota Governor and vice presidential pick Tim Walz has been shot at. Foreman said there is “no evidence” to suggest Walz’s comments were true.
“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,” Foreman said. “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. 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.”
“So that is absolutely false when he said that about gun rights out there. The campaign has essentially come forward to say, ‘Look, he had a long career, he would never want to purposely mislead people about this.’ It’s what campaigns tend to say. And I’m sure we haven’t heard the end of this, but it’s an interesting argument that brings to mind past conflicts we’ve had in politics where military people start going at each other. Then you start saying, ‘Well, what is the basis from this, how much of it is true and what are we to draw from that as voters,’” Foreman concluded.
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CNN: "[Tim] Walz did make a comment…he’s done it a couple times, where he has used language that has suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation…There is no evidence that any time that Gov. Walz was in the position of being shot at and some of his language could… pic.twitter.com/f3W6D3ZsIX
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The campaign has since told CNN, Walz “would never insult or undermine any American’s service to this country,” noting how he “carried, fired and trained others to use weapons of war innumerable times.”
[h/t The Daily Caller]
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