Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz of Minnesota made a false claim about being in Hong Kong during the tense events preceding the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, according to multiple news sources.
Republicans have raised concerns about a potential vice president's record of inaccurate statements, of which these remarks are a part, as The Independent reported.
When confronted about misleading people during Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, Walz finally admitted that he "misspoke."
But Walz admitted that he can "get caught up in rhetoric" and admitted that he hasn't always been flawless, even though he has tried his best. On sometimes, I act like a complete moron.
He continued by saying that Trump, should have accompanied the group on one of their visits to China. According to Walz, if he did, the Republican contender would have known better than to praise Xi Jinping's response to the 2020 pandemic.
Despite evidence to the contrary, CNN published a radio interview from 2019 in which Walz claimed to have been in Hong Kong on the day of the slaughter on Tuesday.
The event, which took place on June 4, 1989, is remembered as one of the most bloody onslaughts against a people by their own government.
The killings followed a seven-week pro-democracy student rally in Beijing, prompting the Chinese military to open fire, killing at least 500 people.
Publicly available stories contradict a statement made by Walz, who was then a member of the U.S. House, during a hearing that commemorated the 25th anniversary of the massacre in 2014, according to Minnesota Public Radio's Monday report.
Despite Walz's claims to the contrary, it seems he was in Nebraska in May 1989, not the then-British province of Hong Kong.
It appears from public documents that he departed for China and Hong Kong in August of that year.
In a 2009 congressional transcript regarding Tiananmen Square, which was discovered by the Associated Press, Walz appeared to imply that he was in Hong Kong on the day of the killing.
There have been conflicting accounts of the vice presidential candidate's 1995 drunk driving incident and false information regarding his rank in the National Guard.
Additionally, he has made claims that misrepresented the type of infertility therapy that his family received. Additionally, Walz and his campaign have offered conflicting accounts of his drunk driving arrest in 1995.
