Among his many other lies about his military service, Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz – Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate – also fabricated a story about re-enlisting in the National Guard right after September 11, 2001.
Walz and the Harris campaign have repeatedly claimed that Walz re-enlisted instead of retiring after 20 years when terrorists piloted planes into the World Trade Center on 9/11. In reality, Walz wasn’t up for retirement until the next year, and so his re-enlistment was not about the immediate attack on the U.S., the Federalist reported.
Walz initially enlisted in April 1981, which would have put his 20-year retirement in April 2001, months before the attacks. But Walz had had an inactive period of seven-and-a-half months that would have deferred his retirement by the same amount of time – putting his 20-year retirement in November 2001, a…
