* CNN correspondent Tom Foreman delivered a fact-check Wednesday against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after he claimed to have carried weapons “in war.

There is no evidence that at any time Governor Walz was in a position of being shot at, and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was.

* “stolen valor” – Veterans who served in the Army National Guard battalion with Walz accused him of abandoning them upon learning of their upcoming deployment to Iraq in 2005, according to a 2018 letter posted to Facebook.

* Gov. Tim Walz pushed to turn Minnesota into an abortion “safe haven” just one day after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

* Tim Walz’s first executive order as Minnesota governor was establishing a diversity, inclusion and equity council. Walz designated himself as chair of the “One Minnesota Council on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity” in 2019.

* Walz signed into law state legislation in March 2023 allowing illegals to obtain driver’s licenses, opening the door for an estimated 81,000 aliens in Minnesota.

* Walz signed into law legislation that gives state-funded healthcare and free college tuition to illegals while governor.

* Tim Walz signed a bill making Minnesota a “Trans Refugee State. No age limits for minors who could receive “gender affirming care.

* Lack of oversight from Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota’s administration contributed to the theft of $250 million from a federal food aid program, according to an audit published by the Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) for the state of Minnesota in June.

* Mugshot of Tim Walz Resurfaces After Arrest for Driving 96 mph in a 55 Zone – Campaign Claimed He Was “Not Drunk” and Blamed Incident on Walz’s ‘Deafness’ – TheGatewayPundit.com

* Kamala Harris and Husband Doug Emhoff donated several thousand dollars to a Washington, DC, nonprofit that openly called for fewer police and advocated for sanctuary city legislation.

* Walz attends a church that preaches beliefs related to gender, race and sexuality that many Christian denominations strongly oppose.

Materials published by Pilgrim Lutheran Church instruct parishioners not to refer to God using male pronouns, push congregants to support reparation funds, encourage them to celebrate Ramadan and include a modified gender-neutral version of the Lord’s Prayer, among other liberal practices. Pilgrim Lutheran Church is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), a mainline protestant denomination that has been criticized by some conservative Christians for ordaining transgender and lesbian bishops as well as for its embrace of LGBT ideology.

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