The brother of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) revealed that Vice President Kamala Harris’s working mate is “not the kind of character you need making choices about your future.”
In a Fb submit from March 2023, Jeff Walz, one of many Minnesota governor’s siblings, responded to feedback from individuals telling him to speak to his brother and to “assist MAGA.”
“We’ve simply change into a third-world banana republic,” Jeff Walz wrote in his submit on the time.
One of many commenters on the submit informed Jeff Walz to “have a chat” along with his brother.
“Haven’t spoke to him in 8 years,” Jeff Walz claimed in a remark. “I’m against all his ideology. My household wasn’t given any discover [that] he was chosen and denied safety the times after.”
In one other remark, an individual informed him to “Assist MAGA” and “Get on stage with President Trump and endorse him.”
“Assist save this nation,” the particular person added.
“I’ve thought arduous about doing one thing like that,” Jeff Walz responded. “I’m torn between that and simply holding my household out of it. The tales I might inform. Not the kind of character you need making choices about your future.”
Walz, who was named Harris’s working mate initially of August, has confronted criticism and accusations of stolen valor after he beforehand listed in his official biography that he retired at a rank increased than the one he had really retired at.
As Breitbart Information reported, Walz retired from the Minnesota Military Nationwide Guard on the rank of sergeant, or an E-8, although his biography had beforehand implied he had retired as a command sergeant main, or an E-9:
Walz served within the Minnesota Military Nationwide Guard and retired on the rank of grasp sergeant, or an E-8. Nonetheless, on his official web site bio, he lists the next rank that he served at for a brief interval that in the end was rescinded, as he didn’t full all the necessities to serve at that rank. Nonetheless, his bio implies that he retired on the rank of command sergeant main, or an E-9.
The reference to Walz being a “retired command sergeant main” was later faraway from Walz’s biography by the Harris marketing campaign, and it was up to date to notice that Walz had as soon as reached the rank of command sergeant main.
Walz has additionally confronted criticism after he claimed in a 2018 video posted by the Harris-Walz marketing campaign that he had carried weapons in battle:
I spent 25 years within the Military and I hunt. I’ve been voting for frequent sense laws that protects the Second Modification, however we will do background checks. We will analysis the impacts of gun violence. We will be sure that these weapons of battle, that I carried in battle, are solely carried in battle.
Gov. @Tim_Walz: I spent 25 years within the Military and I hunt. I’ve been voting for frequent sense laws that protects the Second Modification, however we will do background checks. We will analysis the impacts of gun violence. We will be sure that these weapons of battle, that I carried in battle,… pic.twitter.com/3IVaXi2RP2
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 6, 2024
Walz has additionally confronted criticism when it was revealed he broke a pledge to deploy to Iraq along with his U.S. Military Nationwide Guard Unit.
An archived press launch from then-congressional candidate Walz’s marketing campaign revealed he was conscious the “Nationwide Guard Public Affairs Workplace” had introduced there could be a “potential mobilization of roughly 2,000 troops from the Minnesota Nationwide Guard.”
Walz went on to retire from the army whereas his unit deployed to Iraq.
Retired Command Sergeant Main Thomas Behrends, who changed Walz after he retired from the Minnesota Nationwide Guard, described Walz as a “traitor” and “army imposter.”
Walz’s former battalion commander has additionally criticized the Minnesota governor, stating that he didn’t “efficiently full any project” on the rank of Command Sergeant Main or “earn the rank.”
The Minnesota governor is described as being one among 4 siblings. His siblings are Sandy Dietrich, Jeff Walz, and Craig Walz, in accordance to Right now.
Dietrich reportedly lives in Nebraska, whereas Jeff Walz is reported as dwelling in Florida, in response to the outlet.
Craig Walz, a former highschool instructor, reportedly died in June 2016 whereas tenting at Duncan Lake, in accordance to KARE 11 Information.
