The gloves are off…
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance (R-Ohio) had a slot to say after a CNN anchor suggested he embellished his own military service record.
Vance, who served as a U.S. Marine in Iraq, has taken aim at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as questions have been swirling over how he represented his military service since he was selected by Vice President Harris as her running mate.
But, according to CNN's Brianna Keilar, Vance “may be an imperfect messenger” on the issue.
“Because we have, as you introduced him, as a combat correspondent, which is what [Vance's] title was,” Keilar told her CNN colleague Dana Bash Thursday. “But when you dig a little deeper into that, he was a public affairs specialist, someone who did not see combat, which certainly the title ‘combat correspondent,' kind of gives you a different impression. So he may be the imperfect messenger on that.”
Vance Immediately tore into the CNN host on X.
“Brianna this is disgusting, and you and your entire network should be ashamed of yourselves,” Vance wrote. “When I got the call to go to Iraq, I went. Tim Walz said he carried a gun in a war. Did he? No. It was a lie.”
Vance told reporters Wednesday, “I served in a combat zone. I never said that I saw a firefight myself, but I've always told the truth about my Marine Corps service. That's the difference.”
Recently critics have put a spotlight on an old video shared by the Harris campaign of Walz pushing for gun control, telling voters, “We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at.”
Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Behrends, who said he was a member of Walz's battalion, blasted the governor's comments.
“To most people, that would mean that he was actually in combat, carrying a weapon in a combat zone and getting combat pay and in a dangerous and hostile environment where he is getting shot at,” Behrends told the ‘Ingraham Angle' on Wednesday.
A CNN correspondent even fact-checked Walz on Wednesday, declaring that “there is no evidence” he carried weapons in combat as the vice presidential candidate appeared to previously imply.
According to Fox News, Walz was never in an active war zone. He deployed with the Minnesota National Guard to Italy on Aug. 3, 2003, to support Operation Enduring Freedom, according to the Minnesota Guard. The battalion supported security missions at various locations in Europe and Turkey, according to the Guard, and Walz was stationed in Vicenza, Italy, until returning to Minnesota in 2004. He did not deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan.
The Harris campaign changed the language in Walz's bio on their website following the criticismeqw23. The biography initially said Walz was a “retired Command Sergeant Major,” but was then updated to say he “served as a command sergeant major.”
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My concern is that Walz is a far-left Socialist, spent many years in China, taught English there for 7 years, spent his honeymoon there, and is very sympathetic to them, our #1 enemy, He has lied about his military service, he allowed the BLM to burn his city down for 3 days before acting at the behest of Pres, Trump, pushing him to act., he ordered the police to abandon their precinct, and then defunded them
Bad record. I don’t trust him. No thanks.