Washington Free Beacon Editor Corrects PBS Claim 'There's No Evidence' Walz Padded Military Resume

Posted • August 10, 2024: Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Eliana Johnson was forced to correct PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz on Friday after the latter claimed “there’s no evidence” Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz has embellished his military resume. Johnson correctly pointed out that, on the contrary, “there’s no question” he has “padded and inflated his resume.” Nawaz began by doing the same dishonest trick that MSNBC’s Ali Velshi did, by playing a clip of Walz’s GOP counterpart, JD Vance, accusing him of abandoning his unit prior to an Iraq deployment, but omitting the part where Vance also called out Walz for promoting gun control by comparing certain weapons he wants to ban to weapons he carried “in war,” despite never having been to war.

After the clip, a disappointed Nawaz turned to Johnson, who was again filling in for New York Times columnist David Brooks, “Eliana, this is so reminiscent of that swift-boating attack on John Kerry back in 2004. We know the same man is behind it. He's running the Trump campaign now, Chris LaCivita. Why run with these attacks when there's no evidence for what they're saying right now?” (…)

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