Tim Walz '60 Minutes' Interview Is a Train Wreck, As He Gets Nailed for Lying on the Show

The "60 Minutes" interviews with both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz finally came out in full Monday evening, and by all rights, it should end their campaign they were both so awful.

Kamala's responses showed she was ignorant and unfit. She couldn't answer why she'd flipped on all her policies. Her answer on the border was gaslighting deflection. Even her answer about what gun she owned was ridiculous and raised questions about her own hypocrisy.

Walz was asked about what he might disagree with Kamala Harris on. He replied, "Well, she probably disagreed with — she(?) said — 'Tim, you know, you need to be a little more careful on how you say things,' whatever it might be."

When VP Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, they barely knew each other. Walz shares details about how they’ve been working together. https://t.co/NEsuVMHYJW pic.twitter.com/cfzkg9QRvr
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 8, 2024

Actually, she probably agreed with that and probably ripped Walz for it.

Whitaker then notes Walz's problem in the voice-over, saying Walz has been criticized for "embellishing or telling outright falsehoods about his military record and about his travels to Asia in the 1980s."

"Is that kind of misrepresentation [about things like the China issue] — isn't that more than about just being a 'knucklehead?'" Whitaker asked.

60 minutes is ending the Kamala - Walz campaign tonight..

They pressed Walz on his China lies and he resorts to nonsense about being a knucklehead again.pic.twitter.com/pHNjg3UX3V
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) October 8, 2024

Walz tried to put it off as "expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong, rather than a pathological liar." Then he tries to deflect to former President Donald Trump. When you can't seem to stop lying, maybe stick to your own problem? He can't get away from all this by acting like it's just about "expressing emotion."

Whitaker is right — it's about whether he can "be trusted to tell the truth." Walz said, "I think I can."

But at this point, what's the evidence of that? And we don't have to and shouldn't hire a "knucklehead" who keeps having these issues.

On top of that, while he says he can be trusted to tell the truth, in the very same interview, he said something that people are calling out as a lie.

Whitaker asked about Trump calling Walz "radical left" and him maybe being "out of step" with the rest of the country.

Tim Walz claimed on "60 Minutes" that the paid family and medical leave program he signed was "promoted by the business community." The MN Chamber of Commerce says Walz "received thousands of letters from businesses in every corner of the state, urging him to reconsider the… pic.twitter.com/sA62ohIByh
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) October 8, 2024

Walz said that they had a "paid family and medical leave policy that was promoted by the business community."

In fact, that wasn't true, as KSTP's senior political reporter Tom Hauser explained, noting that the two most influential business organizations opposed it when it passed in 2023 and now.

MN Gov. Tim Walz just said on “60 Minutes” the state’s new paid family and medical leave program was “promoted by the business community.” This went unchallenged. It’s also untrue. The state’s two most influential business organizations opposed it as it passed in 2023 and now. pic.twitter.com/bawHwbxGuj
— Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) October 8, 2024

The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce called Walz out to for his lie, saying he'd received thousands of letters urging him to reconsider it.

Just the facts: @GovTimWalz received thousands of letters from businesses in every corner of the state, urging him to reconsider the one-size-fits-all mandate. #mnleg https://t.co/PBUnOoTM2m https://t.co/rmJV9SPt1r pic.twitter.com/p7WPYqcBna
— Minnesota Chamber of Commerce (@MN_Chamber) October 8, 2024

Here are excerpts from real Minnesota business leaders urging @GovTimWalz and #mnleg leaders to find a solution that doesn't punish employers or significantly raise taxes on employers and employees. pic.twitter.com/WtSVSULFw0
— Minnesota Chamber of Commerce (@MN_Chamber) October 8, 2024

He even had thousands of letters from businesses objecting, so he would have to know that what he said on "60 Minutes" was just untrue.

This isn't just lying about himself now; it's lying about very substantive objections from thousands of people in his state. He's not only pretending they don't exist, he's recasting it as support. That's disgraceful. It's also about bad policies that harm businesses.

If anything is disqualifying, this should be.