Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz failed to provide a clear answer on Tuesday night when confronted about false claims he has made about being in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, offering that he is “a knucklehead at times” and simply “misspoke.”
Walz was responding to a question during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate against Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), moderated by CBS News. The moderators challenged both candidates on their respective records, asking Walz to reply to a report that surfaced on Tuesday that Walz had falsely claimed in 2014 to have been present in Hong Kong during the communist mass killings. Walz reportedly made the comments during a congressional hearing in 2014, claiming he was in Hong Kong in May 1989. In reality, the Washington
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