John Lucas goes into considerable detail about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s rambling evasions during the vice-presidential debate about where he was at the time of the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 (“Tim, Don’t Try to Pass Off a Lie by Saying You ‘Misspoke,’ Bravo Blue Substack, October 2, 2024). Lucas discusses:
● What actually happened at Tiananmen Square. Lucas notes that the protests there were “one part of a larger protest movement that the Chinese Communists brutally repressed.” In the Square itself, hundreds or thousands of protesters for freedom and democracy were killed, many more injured.
“The message from the Party bosses was clear: You don’t protest against the Communist government.”
● Walz’s procommunist teachings when he was a teacher. In 1991, he was contemporaneously reported as telling students that communism “means that everyone is the same and everyone shares. The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing.”
Lucas: “ ‘Everyone is the same’ and everyone gets the same things. This repressive communist system sounds suspiciously like the Harris-Walz call for ‘equity,’ i.e., equal outcomes for everyone without regard to merit or hard work, not equal opportunity. That is the system that both Walz and Harris embrace.”
● “Walz’s efforts to link himself to Tiananmen Square continued long after his 1994 wedding…. [I]n a radio interview in June 2019, Walz lied about being in Hong Kong when ‘Tiananmen Square happened.’ Note the passive voice—It just ‘happened,’ you see…. Why Walz felt compelled to lie about that is unclear, but it appears that he wanted to embellish his pro-democracy credentials.”
At length, Lucas quotes the governor’s deflective, meandering, dishonest non-answer during the debate to moderator Margaret Brennan’s question about the “discrepancy” between where he was in fact during the massacre (the U.S.) and where he repeatedly over the years has said he was (Hong Kong).
Walz grew up in a small, rural Nebraska town of 400. Did you know that? That’s the first thing he says in his bloviating nonresponse to the question about the lie.
Moderator Brennan had to follow up: “Governor, just to follow up on that, the question was, can you explain the discrepancy?”
Walz’s supplementary nonresponse: “No. All I said on this was, is, I got there that summer and misspoke on this, so I will just, that’s what I’ve said. So, I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protest, went in, and from that, I learned a lot of what needed to be in governance.”
Having pointed out that “Brennan set up her question by asking whether Walz’s word could be trusted,” which “also would tell us something about his ‘leadership qualities,’ ” Lucas concludes: “The Latin phrase familiar to all lawyers, ‘falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus’ (false in one thing, false in everything) comes to mind…. Judges routinely instruct juries that they may follow the common law legal principle it embodies: ‘A witness who falsely testifies about one matter is not credible to testify about any matter.’ Voters may apply the same principle.”
Also see:
StopTheChinazis.org: “Tim Walz Made 15-ish, Not 30-ish Trips to China”
StopTheChinazis.org: “Comer’s House Oversight Committee Subpoenas DHS for CCP–Walz Documents”
StopTheChinazis.org: “Tim Walz, the Communist Anticommunist”
