CNN’s Laura Coates welcomed Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz’s former National Guard superior, Command Sergeant Major Doug Julin, to her Thursday show to try to defend Walz against claims he quit on his unit prior to its Iraq deployment in order to run for Congress. However, Julin refused to play along, leading Coates to object to the word “quit” and wonder if Walz simply offended him personally or the service.
Julin recalled a March 2005 meeting where Walz “came in, we sat and talked, he told me, he says, I have not been nominated, I am going forward with the battalion. I said, ‘Good, let’s go.’ We got the team built, and we’re starting to build the team out there.”
Fast forward to June and, “I walked into the team, the meeting hall, and Tom Behrands was there, and I asked Tom what he was doing there. And that’s when he informed me that he…
