JD Vance says Tim Walz lied about military service: 'I went to Iraq but he...'

Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance accused Tim Walz of misleading the country about his veteran status and said he did not actually serve in the army and dropped out when he was asked to go to Iraq. The comment came as Walz made fun of JD Vance's Yale degree followed by his bestseller book attacking the elites.

"I came from a family where nobody in my family had ever gone to law school. I grew up in a poor family. The fact that Tim Walz wants to turn it into a bad thing, that I actually worked myself through college, through law school and made something myself – to me, that's the American dream. And if Tim Walz wants to insult it, I think that's frankly pretty bizarre," Vance said.



"As a marine who served his country in uniform when the United States Marine Corps, when the United States of America asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it. I did what they asked me to do it, and I did it honorably," he said.

"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, a fact that he's been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the people that he served with," Vance said accusing Tim.

"I think it's shameful to prepare your unit to go to Iraq, to make a promise that you're going to follow through, and then to drop out right before you actually have to go," Vance said.

Did Tim Walz never serve in combat?
As Tim Walz's name was announced, his past credentials as a teacher, as a football coach, service in the military were widely shared. But then came the accusation that Tim Walz "abandoned his National Guard battalion ahead of its 2005 deployment to Iraq". But it was claimed that Walz retired from his unit before it received any notice for deployment and his retirement was not to avoid deployment.