“When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, do you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him.”
What PolitiFact found
After 24 years of service, Walz retired in May 2005 to run for Congress. He submitted retirement paperwork months before. In March 2005, his unit was notified of possible deployment. The official order came in July 2005.
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In short
J.D. Vance (Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio senator) made this claim around 7 August 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 August 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
J.D. Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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