Times and WaPo jump aboard Trump Camp Swift Boating of Walz

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U Post and the TimesThe pieces on Tim Walz’s service record are more egregious and spurious than you might think. The accusations come from two members of his unit who are clearly MAGA partisans and who floated them during his 2022 re-election campaign for governor of Minnesota in coordination with Walz’s Republican opponent. The attacks are not just “like” the Swift Boat attacks from 2004. They are literally the work of the same guy. Chris LaCivita was the strategist who led the Swift Boat attacks in 2004 and cut the commercials. He is now the co-manager of Trump’s campaign. He started this and then handed it to Vance. As David noted, even the Politico labeled it as a “Swift Boat” attack. Politician!

The allegation, such as it is, is that Walz retired from the service shortly before his unit was deployed to Iraq.

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