'Despicable And Desperate': Marine Veteran Slams JD Vance For Accusing Tim Walz Of 'Stolen Valor'

Joining Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Newsroom", former Marine Corps Major Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) reacts to Republican VP nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) accusing Democratic VP nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) of 'stolen valor'.

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[johnnastrom]

This Forbes "reporter" is an embarrassment.

[steelheart]

How is it accusations when you have piles of evidence confirming it?

[dimassalazar]

No Ballz Wallz. Abandoned his soldiers when he found out he had to go.

[Scole]

He has no clue what he is talking about. Stop making accusations that have no merit just to confuse voters. Shameful act and disappointing to hear someone support these type of actions from any service member.

[fredmckinley]

My son was a member of the MN National Guard that deployed to Iraq in 2006. Walz was supposed to be on that deployment...
My son only told me that every Guard member thought Walz was a POS

[kaceebaby]

What s tough lookin Marine! Must have been in the band .😂

[ctam]

The vice presidential debate is going to be soooo bloody....

[ImTheBestestEver]

He lied about his retired rank and the extent of his service. That's literally stolen valor.

[louispastore]

Vance did not attack his service. Walsh dis honored himself saying he achieved a rank he did not achieve and embellished his active service by insinuating he was in combat.

[mysticmandy]

This guy is literally being the same dispicaple individual he is describing. JD is right about Waltz

[logicomega]

Jd Vance was dead on! It was the truth

[katie]

Not much of a Marine if he thinks what Walz did was acceptable and justifiable.

[blankblank]

Who gives af about insults, what are the policies. people out here voting with feelings.

[Julio-vkoq]

This guy is so triggered. What an embarrassment.

[amiechumbler]

What a cute little reporter. Has she finished elementary school?

[laurieparks]

This guy doesn't know what he is talking about about. JD Vance is a far superior human being than chicken walls.

[richardjones]

Waltz is Stolen Valor and why did he quit before deployment.

[RubenStuveling]

Why does it look like he is reading his response from a prompter?

[MrDavePed]

Despicable and desperate? Such unrestrained descriptions are evil. They are so extremely false only an evil man and an evil reporter would broadcast such things. People are getting thoroughly sick of this. This isn't journalism.

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[patrickphelan]

JD Vance (The Marine Combat Veteran) didn't "slam" anyone's military service ... he rightly pointed out the false claims & uncorrected record of Tim Walz's retirement from the reserves. These are facts, no matter how you want to spin it as an attack. It is an insult to all veterans, & this one should be ashamed to put political bias ahead of that. Stolen Valour is a Federal crime 18 U.S.C. § 704.