Trump and Walz tell dif­fer­ent tales about con­ver­sa­tions dur­ing 2020 unrest

For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Gov. Tim Walz (D‑MN), the new Demo­c­ra­t­ic vice pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee, have dif­fer­ent sto­ries about the 2020 Min­neapo­lis unrest that brought riot­ers to the governor’s house.
Walz framed his sto­ry as Trump aggra­vat­ing riot­ers into com­ing to his house while the for­mer pres­i­dent sug­gest­ed he saved the gov­er­nor. Their sto­ries have reen­tered the nation­al con­ver­sa­tion after Trump crit­i­cized Walz for his han­dling of the George Floyd riots, even though unearthed audio shows he praised the gov­er­nor in 2020, say­ing he’s “an excel­lent guy.”
The for­mer pres­i­dent said Wednes­day on Fox News’s Fox & Friends that Walz asked him to tell pro-Trump pro­test­ers out­side the governor’s house that he was “a good per­son.”
“And I did. I put out the word. I said, ‘He’s a good per­son. I hope everything’s good.’ And every­body put down their flags and took their flags with them, but they took the Amer­i­can flags and their MAGA flags, and …