Walz to Whitaker on if He Can Be ‘Trusted to Tell the Truth’ After He Lists Misrepresentations: ‘I Think I Can’

WHITAKER: “ — record and about his travels to Asia in the 1980s. In your debate with J.D. Vance, you said ‘I’m a knucklehead at times,’ and I think you were referring to the time that you said that you were in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square unrest when you were not. Is that kind of misrepresentation — isn’t that more than just being a knucklehead?”

WALZ: “I think folks know who I am, and I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling your story, getting a date wrong by a, you know, rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump.”

WHITAKER: “But I think it comes down to the question of whether — whether you can be trusted to tell the truth.”

WALZ: “Yeah, well, I can — I think I can. I will own up to being a knucklehead at times, but the folks closest to me know that I keep my word.”

WHITAKER: “Walz proudly touts his record as governor of Minnesota.”

WALZ: “Thank you.”

WHITAKER: “But it also has opened him up to criticism from his Republican opponents.”