EXCLUSIVE: Four Veterans Speak Out About Tim Walz's "Stolen Valor" and Truth About Retiring Before Iraq Deployment | Ep. 876

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by four veterans who served in the National Guard with Gov. Tim Walz and in his unit that deployed to Iraq, Tom Behrends, Paul Herr, Tom Schilling, and Rodney Tow, to talk about all the controversies surrounding the Democratic VP pick and his military service, why it matters when Walz retired just before his National Guard unit deployed to Iraq, why he had to know he was going to deploy before he retired, the relevance of his rank and his leadership role to how he abandoned his troops, what Walz told them at the time, his decision to run for Congress and whether that service counts, and why it matters Tim Walz has called himself a "retired command sergeant major" when he isn't one, the training that goes into retiring as a command sergeant major, the truth about Walz's public comments, the accusations that there's a political motive behind the veterans speaking out now, why Walz's motivations to portray himself as more decorated than he is are actually political, how Walz denigrated the National Guard with his "19-year-old cooks" comment, the truth about the National Guard and how incompetent Walz really is, how Walz' unit lost a 19-year-old in Iraq when Walz retired and left his men behind, what it means for Walz to potentially be one heartbeat away from the presidency, fear vs. bravery and Walz's wrong decision, why the veterans say Walz is a "coward" and "deserter," whether it's relevant that Donald Trump never served in the military, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Serious XM channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, I'm Megan Kelly. A special episode for you today on Stolen Valor.
0:19.1	That term has been thrown around quite a bit when it comes to Governor Tim Walls, the running mate of
0:23.6	Kamla Harris in this race in connection with his National Guard service.
0:27.6	Many men who served with Governor Walls when he was in the National Guard and
0:32.2	who served under him, have come forward to
0:34.2	accuse him of that sin, stealing valor from the men he served with by inflating his military rank and by abandoning his men when they were
0:46.4	deployed to Iraq. He was supposed to go and he chose not to. He's also said that
0:51.6	he used a weapon in war, which he hasn't. He was never deployed to war.
0:57.5	He was deployed to Italy for a short time in 2003. But when his unit got the notice that they were being deployed to Iraq,
1:05.4	Tim Wall's retired.
1:07.8	And that has led to a lot of folks saying he abandoned his unit, he cut and ran, and he left the guys he trained to go fight on their own without the guy who trained them
1:17.4	Tim Wall's been battling this for a long long time. He's been accused by many men of leaving the unit and inflating his rank falsely for the
1:26.2	better part of 20 years now since he left his unit back in 2005. And it's been brought to his attention. It's been brought to his attention it's been brought to the
1:34.9	attention of his campaign office both when he was a congressman when he was a
1:38.4	governor when he was announced as VP he never does anything about it.
1:44.0	He never really speaks out about it.
1:46.2	Just surrogates come out to defend him.
1:48.8	So what do these guys think?
1:51.6	Well, we've gotten four of them together for the first time
1:54.8	to tell us directly what they think
1:57.0	and speak to the actual experience they had
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