Vance accus­es Walz of lying about retire­ment from mil­i­tary for polit­i­cal gain

Sen. J.D. Vance (R‑OH) pushed back on Gov. Tim Walz’s ser­vice record, argu­ing that the Min­neso­ta gov­er­nor lied about his time in the mil­i­tary for polit­i­cal gain.
Vance was speak­ing to CNN’s State of the Union with host Dana Bash on Sun­day morn­ing when he made the remarks. Walz’s ser­vice has come under scruti­ny by the Trump cam­paign and media, par­tic­u­lar­ly about when and why Walz retired since he was tapped to be Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Harris’s run­ning mate.
“This is a guy who was cap­tured on video say­ing, ‘I car­ried a gun in war.’ He nev­er went to war,” said Vance, who also served in the mil­i­tary. “This is a guy who has been cap­tured on video as oth­er peo­ple say, ‘he‘s an Afghanistan vet­er­an, he‘s a vet­er­an of a war,’ nod­ding along in agree­ment instead of say­ing ‘no, no, no, I did serve my coun­try and I did it hon­or­ably, but I nev­er went to a war zone.’”
“I’m not crit­i­ciz­ing Tim Walz’s se …