Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz claimed to have been in China during the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre, documents show. contradict his story.
This revelation is just the latest in a series of exaggerations and outright fabrications made by the Minnesota governor to exaggerate his political career.
“As events unfolded, some of us went inside.”
The discrepancy was first reported by Minnesota Public Radio's APM report, which said the Walz campaign was unable to “produce documentation to support Walz's statement that he was there during the riot.”
Mr. Walz has frequently claimed that he was visiting China when the government violently suppressed pro-democracy uprisings, but local reports suggest that Mr. Walz was in China during the historic event. He was actually at his home in Nebraska.
According to a local news report, Walz was at a National Guard warehouse in Alliance City in May 1989. According to reports, Walz did not leave for China until August, when the protests there had already ended.
Media outlets including the New York Times, CBS News, and National Public Radio repeated Walz's story without scrutiny.
“A few of us went inside as the incident unfolded. I still remember the train station in Hong Kong,” Walz said during a 2014 Congressional hearing. “I think a lot of people, especially Europeans, were very angry.”I knew we would continue to pursue what had happened, but my belief at the time was that diplomacy was done at many different levels. That's what I believed. ”
Walz's campaign has already admitted that he overstated the number of trips he made to China, claiming he had visited 30 times, when in reality it was about half that number.
He also extolled the virtues of the communist system when he returned to the United States and taught high school after receiving preferential treatment, comparing it to being treated “like a king.”
China's communist regime was condemned for military action against the protests, including the use of People's Liberation Army tanks. As many as 10,000 people may have been killed, although some estimate the number is much lower.
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