Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz suggested in an interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes that aired on Tuesday that his “misspeaking” does not matter because Minnesotans know and support him.
“I think folks know who I am. And I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong by — you — rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump,” he responded when asked about his lie that he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square Massacre when he was actually in Nebraska.
When pressed on whether he could be trusted to tell the truth, he added, “Well — I can — I think I can. I will own up to being a knucklehead at times, but the folks closest to me know that I keep my word.”
Walz said something similar at the debate with Republican presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), when asked about the…
