Vance claimed Walz had ‘stolen valor.’ CNN anchor fact-checks him

CNN's Laura Coates fact-checks Sen. JD Vance's (R-OH) claims about the military service of his vice presidential opponent, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). #CNN #news

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[Rdogman]

The bottom line doesn't matter if you're left or right. If you're in the military, that doesn't give you a right to embellish or fabricate
Now they're saying it's okay to embellish and fabricate, and because you were in the military, nobody should say anything about it. You don't get a free pass on that one. Nobody does

[OmniMale]

Funny how people who never had the gumption to serve wanna tell vets what to think about stolen valor.

[smitty]

Serve his county ? He was a journalist, never was in combat, never fired a shot. Vance is full of shit

[lynnesteele]

Get a load of this guy all proud of being a correspondent for 6 months. He didn't go, he was sent on orders. In four years of "service" which got him free education, all we know about is 6 months as a correspondent. Walz was ordered to Italy with his battalion in support of the war in Afghanistan. He was ordered, he went. That's how it goes. Weird and uncharacteristic of a soldier to smear another.

[brandyb]

Vance has never claimed to have been in combat. If you never were on a battlefield, you shouldn't tell people you were. That is stolen valor. No matter how hard these people try to dance around it legitimize what he tells people. Words matter, but its ok for Harris and Walz to say nasty things about the other team but god forbid they get dirt thrown back in their direction. And the whole reason these people are even talking about it is because if you go online you can see most people agree with Vance. So here the msm is, doing their job as state propaganda for democrats. It infuriates me how skewed our media is. They can't figure out why nobody trusts them anymore even though we tell them its because they are propagandists for democrats. Its awful. This is the stuff Russia does.

[ArchCraftGaming]

lol they tried to act like Vance only did service for a short time of six months in a combat zone and tried to use his words against him. CNN do you not know deployments are 6-12 months? Do you not know every soldier who comes home says they are lucky they avoided the worst of it. Walz was deployed to Italy which was nowhere near active combat and you can say it’s because he was running for election but I think all Americans know he was afraid. Which is perfectly reasonable but what’s not reasonable is trying to pretend you were in war so you get veterans.

[unitydaw]

_IF Vance really deployed to IRAQ even IF he stayed in an office...he was still in harms way. _*_BOTH_*_ served the country. Hopefully no one is claiming something they did not earn._ 👈

[markmyra-cnrd]

Jv, , , stop complaining about that
stolen velour couch.

[toneyingram]

Did nothing have the JD he might have got a paper cut

[abi]

Please God, let there be a vice presidential debate 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[markjeffo]

Claiming you went to war when you didnt is stolen valor.

[alejandroalividaurri]

As a military man, why does Walz need to install tampon dispensary machines in the Boys restroom???

[keishajpmes]

Throwing BS to the wall to see what sticks nothing

[lewiscoolguy]

Vance's weapon of war was a laptop.

[jmstlouis]

He had never made Command Sergeant Major as he claims.

[richardscott]

Vance wrote press releases in an office, he was never in the field...

[micoanzing]

And also the clip of Tim Walz started before he said the sentence about weapons in war and stopped immediately afterwards. It is always suspicious if you have so tight video cutting! Show at least a minute of it, or you can assume it is completely out of context. (like the quote about the 25 feet ladder business if the wall is build 20 feet high.)

[clintongray]

Vance was a secretary in the army never seen combat most blood he seen was a paper cut SMH 🤦🏾‍♂️

[robertsmentkowski]

⁠Stolen Valor fact: Walz retired as a master sergeant, an E-8. He says he retired as a command sergeant major, an E-9. He lied about his retirement rank often including while in Congress in 2009.

[carltoncabey]

You better call him Sergeant Major and watch your mouth