Alana Goodman at the Washington Free Beacon showed three national news outlets easily “repeated without scrutiny” Gov. Tim Walz claiming he was in Hong Kong when the Tiananmen Square protests broke out in Beijing. Minnesota Public Radio discovered Walz was not in China at that time.
The Walz campaign “was unable to produce documentation to back up Walz’s statement that he was there during the uprising.”
Deep its online story, MPR explained that contemporaneous news reports showed Walz touring a National Guard storeroom in Alliance, Nebraska, in May 1989. 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.
One local Nebraska news article from August 11, 1989, that said Walz would “leave Sunday en route to China” after he had almost…
