“When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him.”
What Washington Post found
Walz was aware the unit might be deployed to Iraq but he retired to run for Congress months before a formal deployment order was issued.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
JD Vance (GOP vice-presidential nominee) made this claim around 7 August 2024. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 August 2024, 6 days later. Its rating was “Lacks context”.
JD 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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