We now know why Tim Walz, the VP nominee picked by Democrat Kamala Harris for this year’s election, made an incorrect statement – his detractors call it a lie – about his military service.
There have been several of those such statements, such as his claim to be in retirement as a “command sergeant major,” about which he repeatedly boasted even though it was a title for which he never was fully qualified.
This dispute is about his claim to have carried weapons of war “in...