Tim Walz’s Lies Disqualify Him From Being Near Power

I once had a boss who was filled with big ideas. I quickly learned he was full of something else. He was eternally on the verge of landing the next lucrative deal that would save the company and make everyone rich. He delivered empty promises. Lies. 

But to this day I can’t decide whether he was just a run-of-the-mill, big-talking BSer or a malignant narcissist telling people what they want to hear to serve selfish purposes, buying time with the next lie.

Pathological gamblers think that way. 

Tim Walz is a “lying dog-faced pony soldier,” as Democratic Party-deposed President Joe Biden — a world-class liar in his own right — would say. Walz, the Marxist Minnesota governor who finds himself in the white-hot national spotlight as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate on the Dem presidential ticket, can’t even keep the “soldier” part of his story straight. His impressive resume of public lies has always seemed to be for the furtherance of power. 

The Liar and His Lies

Walz has justifiably taken a lot of heat from veterans for “misrepresenting” his leadership rank in the National Guard and abandoning his Iraq-bound unit in his first run for Congress. His critics say Walz has built a nearly 20-year political career on stolen valor. He has on multiple occasions “misspoke” in implying that he served in a war zone, when he has served in Italy and Norway. He left the National Guard just as his unit was alerted it would be heading off to war in Iraq. 

During Walz’s run for Congress in 2006, his campaign told some whoppers about his Driving Under the Influence and speeding charges in Nebraska, insisting that the DUI charge wasn’t true. It was a really bad lie, one that Walz allowed to live on for years.   

In the same election year, the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce took Walz to task for declaring on his congressional campaign website that he was the recipient of an award for his work with the business community. As Fox News reported, a scathing letter to Walz in 2006 by Barry L. Kennedy, then-president of the Nebraska Chamber, called Walz out on his BS. 

“We researched this matter and can confirm that you have not been the recipient of any award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce,” the letter states. 

Walz has for years said his two children were conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) when in fact the governor and his wife used intrauterine insemination (IUI), a significantly different form of assisted reproductive technology. As my Federalist colleague Jordan Boyd reported last week, Walz has used the IVF issue as a political cudgel, attacking pro-life conservatives who have raised ethical and moral questions about conception practices that involve “serially creating or destroying embryos outside the womb.” He ran for governor on the lie that he and his wife used  IVF to start a family, and the accomplice media covered for him by suggesting Walz used a “catchall phrase for a wide range of fertility treatments.” 

‘The Coach’ 

Everything is a political calculation for Tim Walz. For the Minnesota governor and far-left vice-presidential candidate, the truth is fluid in the laboratory of manufactured facts. And his allies in the Democratic Party and corporate media have helped him amplify his narrative inventions — from false military ranks to Al Bundy-style football glory stories.

“In Minnesota, we trust a coach who turned a team that was 0-27 into state champions,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., told the “joy-filled” useful idiots assembled at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 

He was an assistant coach on the Mankato West High School football team, but Walz and his political handlers have certainly inflated the former linebackers coach’s role in turning the losing team around. 

“He was NEVER a head coach. He didn’t ‘turn’ anyone into state champions,” an X user posted on the social network platform after the Harris-Walz campaign paraded former Mankato football players out on the convention stage. 

“Still really, really confused about why they keep pushing the ‘Coach Walz’ thing from a million years ago when Tim Walz was a volunteer assistant coach…why not focus on his Governorship…?…no…they just want to focus on Coach Walz…it’s strange,” wrote another person wrote on X. 

It’s weird. 

Two Different Tims

The “Coach” narrative is part of the biggest lie about Walz as he steps onto his biggest political stage — that he’s just your average, flannel shirt-wearing Midwest guy. His campaign message and the record stand in contrast. 

He has painted himself as a hunter and a Second Amendment defender, while he goes about watering down gun owner rights. He’s a proud dad of two who has turned Minnesota into a sanctuary state for child sex changes,  promoting the mutilation of minors to residents of neighboring states that ban such horrific procedures. He’s a “folksy” Minnesotan and a small business promoter who believes “one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.” He’s a defender of liberty who tyrannically locked down the citizens of his state during the pandemic and threatened them with fines and jail time if they didn’t stay locked down. Some have never recovered. 

“We respect our neighbors, and the personal choices they make, and even if we wouldn’t make those same choices for ourselves, we’ve got a golden rule: ‘Mind your own damn business!’” Walz said in accepting the vice presidential nomination. During his tenure as governor, the power-hungry Democrat has failed time and again to mind his own damn business. 

He is not a centrist. A moderate. A consensus-builder. A uniter. 

The real Tim Walz, not the fake everyman being sold to the American voter, is a radical leftist committed to aggrandizing the power of his party and himself. 

He’s a liar. Not just a big-talking BSer, but the malignant kind that has no business being anywhere near power. 

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.