In what was something of an exceptionally awkward and mind-numbingly facile segment on ABC News, even for the network and its guest, Minnesota Governor and 2024 Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz argued that the reason he has made false claims about his past is that he wears his “emotions on [his] sleeve” and is passionate.
That came when the governor appeared on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” on Friday, October 11 and spoke with host Michael Strahan about his past untrue comments about his time in China. As background, Walz has said that he was in Hong Kong for the Tiananmen Square massacre, which is untrue; he was in the country months later, a fact about which he was pressed during the vice presidential debate.
Strahan, pressing Walz on the matter, noted that Walz had lied about when he was in China and, as an explanation, said only that he is a “knucklehead,” which is not the answer that Americans are looking for, as the details were quite off and Americans much know if they can trust him to tell the truth.