Joe Biden is notorious for making up fictions about his backstory. His Hall of Shame of fake life stories includes claiming that his wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver, that he nearly lost his home in a house fire, and that his son Beau died in Iraq. Now, in the short time that Tim Walz has been the presumptive Democratic Party vice presidential nominee, various aspects of his backstory have been exposed as fiction as well.
Of course, you're likely already familiar with Walz's stolen valor — falsely claiming that he achieved a rank he never earned, that he was deployed to Iraq, and that he served in a war zone. His lies eventually forced the Harris-Walz campaign to admit that Walz had lied about his military record. Wait, I'm sorry, they only admitted that he "misspoke."
Then he was called out for lying about his drunk driving arrest. In some bizarre attempt to be midwestern folksy, he claimed that he doesn't like spicy food and said that black pepper was "the top of the spice level in Minnesota." I don't know why he lied about that, but he did. Literally, nothing is too trivial for him to lie about.
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He's been caught in yet another lie. In an attempt to score political points, Walz claimed that he and his wife needed IVF treatments to conceive their two children as part of a political attack on Republicans, whom he claims, without evidence, want to ban IVF.
In campaign speeches since joining the Democratic ticket as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Walz has often characterized the issue of access to IVF treatment as “personal” to him and his family while sharing the story of his and his wife’s journey to conceiving their two children.
“This one’s personal for me about IVF and reproductive care,” Walz told supporters at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, earlier this month. “When we wanted to have children, we went through years of fertility treatment.”
And in an MSNBC interview in July, he continued attacking Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance for his opposition to a bill that would have guaranteed access to IVF nationwide, while appearing to link the treatment to the birth of his two children
“Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children,” he said.
At Tim Walz’s very first rally with Kamala after being announced as her running mate he repeated the IVF lie.
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None of it is true. And believe it or not, his wife, Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz, is the one who clarified to CNN that she did not undergo IVF treatments.
"In a statement to CNN, Gwen Walz said that they tried intrauterine insemination, a process she described as 'an incredibly personal and difficult experience,'” CNN reported.
“Like so many who have experienced these challenges, we kept it largely to ourselves at the time – not even sharing the details with our wonderful and close family. The only person who knew in detail what we were going through was our next-door neighbor,” Mrs. Walz said in the statement. “She was a nurse and helped me with the shots I needed as part of the IUI process. I’d rush home from school and she would give me the shots to ensure we stayed on track,” she continued.
Tim Walz’s lie about his and his wife’s fertility struggles isn’t just misleading; it’s downright disgraceful, and in some ways, it’s worse than his stolen valor claims. He shamelessly exploited a deeply personal issue that millions of people grapple with, pretending to share in their pain to manipulate their emotions and win votes.
"So let me get this straight," Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X/Twitter. "[Tim Walz] has lied about going to war, lied about his military rank, lied about not knowing his unit was deploying to Iraq, lied about his DUI arrest and now has also been caught lying about his wife undergoing IVF treatment? Who vetted this guy?"
Whoever vetted him didn't do a good job and ought to be fired. Nothing this guy says about himself can be trusted.
