“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.”
JD Vance
Republican vice presidential candidate. Michigan campaign event. Claim dated 7 Aug 2024.
FactCheck.org rated thisNot the Whole Story
What FactCheck.org found
Walz retired to focus on a run for Congress two months before his unit got official word of impending deployment, though the possibility had been rumored for months.
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In short
JD Vance (Republican vice presidential candidate) made this claim around 7 August 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 August 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “Not the Whole Story”.
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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