by Mark Lucas
Governor Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s pick for vice president, abandoned the soldiers he was supposed to lead in the Minnesota National Guard, after he learned they were deploying to Iraq. He conveniently retired while they went and fought.
This would not be the only time Walz abandoned his fellow servicemembers.
Time and again, Walz put politics ahead of service. Our veterans have paid the price for his dereliction of duty. During the Trump Administration, Walz was the top Democrat on the House committee responsible for veterans’ health care.
The VA health system was struggling to right the ship after years of scandal. Veterans who desperately needed care had suffered long wait times, poor-quality care, and neglect. Some even committed suicide because they couldn’t get the help their nation had promised.
The VA crisis was personal for me, as a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and member of the Army’s 34th Infantry Division—the very same unit as Walz. I had friends from Afghanistan who committed suicide after returning home. I devoted myself to reforming the broken system that had failed my friends.
As an advocate on the front lines of this fight, I can tell you there was no greater champion for reform than President Donald Trump. Shamefully, there was no worse obstacle than Tim Walz.
When President Trump came into office, he created a 10-point plan for VA reform. Trump’s approach was common sense: VA bureaucrats needed to be held accountable when they failed, and veterans deserved more and better choices about where to receive health care.
An important piece of President Trump’s reform agenda was the VA MISSION Act. Before this bill passed, veterans had to drive up to 40 miles and wait up to a month to receive treatment at a VA facility—even if there was a clinic around the corner that could offer the same treatment the same day. The VA MISSION Act opened up the system, allowing veterans to get medical care in their local community if the VA couldn’t easily provide that care.
The bill passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support, 347-70. It later sailed through the Senate, 95-5, and was signed by President Trump. But Tim Walz and other liberal Democrats didn’t want to give the president a win—even if it meant giving veterans the finger. Walz was in the partisan, left-wing minority that voted ‘no,’ along with Nancy Pelosi.
Opposing the VA MISSION Act was cynical politics at its worst. When Walz had a chance to help veterans, he decided to score political points instead.
That’s the truth about Tim Walz’s decades-long career in politics. When he faced a choice between what was right or what would advance his career, he ran from what was right and chose his career every single time.
So when Walz’s Guard unit was eyed for a deployment to Iraq, he talked about his “responsibility” to serve—but then he ran from that responsibility. Walz’s own chaplain called that decision what it is: cowardly. I know plenty of veterans who share that view.
Later, when it was helpful to his political career, Walz claimed that he fought in war. A Democrat spokesman recently admitted that Walz “misspoke.” That’s campaign weasel-speak for: he lied.
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Either Eric Holder screwed Kamala over and botched the vetting of Walz or the left truly doesn’t care about how veterans and active duty military view stolen valor. Yeah, there is a group of “veterans” (are they, really?) the denounces Trump, but their main focus is that lie about Trump saying war dead were “losers”, as if anyone but someone with a leftist mentality could even think that way.
The VA is a visage of what government health care would look like. That’s why Democrats try to ignore it; they don’t want anyone focusing on what lies in store for citizens in their socialist utopia. Trump actually addressed the problems and implemented real solutions that were not restricted to government control. When it came time to support veterans, Walz ditched them like he did before and took his orders from Pelosi.
Well, Democrats seem to like both of them quite a bit, so this line of argument will only appeal to MAGAs, who weren’t going to vote for them anyway.
You do what you are told. You loved Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden until you were told to love someone else. Despite the racism, the anti-Semitism, the support for violence, the socialism, the support for open borders, you support who you are told to support, like a good little lemming nothing.