Nolte: Tim Walz Lied About Being in Hong Kong During Tiananmen Square Massacre

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Nolte: Tim Walz Lied About Being in Hong Kong During Tiananmen Square Massacre

John Nolte 1 Oct 2024

During a 2014 congressional hearing, then-Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN) bragged about being in Hong Kong at the time of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.

There’s just one problem…

He wasn’t.

He was in Nebraska at the time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe88iboKiRg&t=46s&ab_channel=WashingtonFreeBeacon

Here he is boasting (once again) about something that is not true:

    As a young man I was just going to teach high school in Foshan in Guangdong, and was in Hong Kong in May of ’89. And as the events were unfolding, several of us went in. And I still remember the train station in Hong Kong. There was a large number of, especially European, I think, very angry that we would still go after what had happened, but it was my belief at that time that the diplomacy was going to happen on many levels. Certainly people to people, and the opportunity to be in a Chinese high school at that critical time seemed to me to be really important. And it was a very interesting summer to say the least.

Except…

“Contemporaneous news reports show Walz touring a National Guard storeroom in Alliance, Nebraska, in May 1989,” reports the Washington Free Beacon. “They indicate that Walz did not leave the United States until August of that year, at least two months after the student protests ended with the Tiananmen Square massacre.”

more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/01/nolte-tim-walz-lied-about-being-hong-kong-during-tiananmen-square-massacre/

[mountaineer]

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1840903890310426735

Story at the Free Beacon (I think I posted this on another thread).

[mountaineer]

More than once he's made this claim. Audio:

We've found even more instances of Tim Walz falsely claiming to have been in China during Tiananmen Square - including as recently as a 2019 radio interview. "I was in Hong Kong on June 4, 1989, when, of course, Tiananmen Square happened."

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1841202610763686144

[mountaineer]

Et tu, CNN?

Walz’s claim that he was in Hong Kong during Tiananmen Square protests undercut by unearthed newspaper reports
By Aaron Pellish, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN
Updated 3:14 PM EDT, Tue October 1, 2024

CNN — Newly unearthed reports contradict previous claims made by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about his travel to China, including a claim that the Democratic vice presidential nominee was in Hong Kong for a teaching position in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests that ended in hundreds of protesters killed by the Chinese government.

The discrepancy over Walz’s relationship to China comes ahead of Tuesday’s vice presidential debate in New York, where Republican allies of Ohio Sen. JD Vance have signaled that the GOP vice presidential nominee may use Walz’s history in China to attack his rival. Walz regularly organized and chaperoned trips to China during his time as a teacher prior to entering politics.

Walz previously said he visited Hong Kong in “May of ’89,” weeks before the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. During a 2014 hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China honoring the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, Walz, then a Minnesota congressman, appeared to recall specific details of his trip to the region at that time.  ...

 Walz further claimed in a June 2019 radio interview that he was in Hong Kong on June 4, 1989 – the day of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

“I was in Hong Kong on June 4, 1989, when, of course, Tiananmen Square happened. And I was in China after that. It was very strange ‘cause, of course, all outside transmissions were, were blocked – Voice of America – and, of course, there was no, no phones or email or anything. So I was kind of out of touch. It took me a month to know the Berlin Wall had fallen when I was living there,” he said.  ...