A Little Fact Check

This is the quote right-wingers are using now in their echo chamber to pretend Walz was doing stolen valor

In the actual video, there is literally two minutes of audio at the part where I put the arrow where Walz makes it clear that he went to Bagram years later as a congressman pic.twitter.com/srAlh7FEjo

— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) August 12, 2024

Here’s the video:

Walz does not say in your quote below that he went to Bagram as a soldier.

Walz went to Afghanistan and Iraq as a member of congress specifically to study the process of how wounded soldiers were treated and as part of that trip witnessed a military ramp ceremony.

The… https://t.co/deMNl1lDZo pic.twitter.com/1QtEyKhFRm

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 12, 2024