Walz's top officer talks to VP about 'backdoor process' hopeful used to 'waive' before deployment

Outrage over the alleged “stolen value” was not quelled by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) who spoke to the “backdoor process” he used to “waive” before the deployment.

In addition to the governor's radical positions on gender ideology, DEI and all things Marxist, joining Vice President Kamala Harris as a running mate opened the Democratic Party ticket to a lingering conflict between how Walz presents himself and its actual history. While fact-checks had led to a statement claiming the politician had “spoken” about serving “at war”, the question of how he avoided deployment was addressed by former Command Sgt. Minnesota National Guard. Major Doug Julin.

During an interview with CNN's Laura Coates highlighted by Donald Trump Jr., who claimed Walz “went back on his word and abandoned his men,” Julin broke down the timeline and how it unfolded the retirement

“We were informed that we would be on notice to go to Iraq within the next year,” Julin explained after being notified in the fall of 2004, “you start preparing your team, you start putting your team together and we put the process in play”.

BOMBSHELL: Tim Walz's superior officer in the National Guard tells CNN that Walz knew he was going to be deployed to Iraq six months before he decided to retire. He also says Walz promised to deploy and went back on his word and abandoned his men.pic.twitter.com/6Vpw9KQ0Vl

—Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 10, 2024

“Around February 2005, my boss, my commanding officer … and the command team, we scheduled a meeting at Camp Ripley Minnesota, for a meeting, bringing everybody together so that all the battalion sergeants majors, commanders of battalion and his staff to see us and begin the formation of teams … at that meeting was Governor Tim Walz, or Sgt. Major Tim Walz at the time,” he continued as he explained that after the meeting Walz asked to speak with him and detail the intentions to run for Congress, which were formally presented on February 10, 2005.

A subsequent meeting at Camp Ripley in March or April included Walz telling Julin that he was “moving on with the battalion,” only to withdraw in May 2005.

The following month, Julin was informed that Walz had “resigned”.

“The issue that came out of that was, first of all, how he left Tim Walz without talking to me because I was his next level of leadership,” Julin explained during his CNN interview. “The other problem… was that the individual who approved it was two levels higher than myself in the enlisted corps and I should have had Tim Walz come back to me… and discuss why I was moving forward or not moving forward now that he told me. I was moving forward.”

Although Coates tried to emphasize that Walz was eligible for retirement after serving four more years than the required 20, the sergeant major made it clear that the issue was how Walz had done it and how he went back on his word.

“Tim Walz knew the processes and procedures,” Julin said, “he went around me and beyond me … he basically went in there to get someone to back him up … it was just a backdoor process “.

The interview came as the governor also had to answer for his claims about the deployment made in 2018 and the extension of his first days in congresshow he attacked Second Amendment rights. “We can make sure that the weapons of war that he brought to war are the only place those weapons are found.”

That statement brought a campaign spokesman to comment in part, “In arguing why weapons of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms, the governor misspoke. He has handled weapons of war and firmly believes that only military personnel trained to carry these deadly weapons they should have access to it, unlike Donald Trump and JD Vance who prioritize the gun lobby over our children.”

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A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he's not researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel the

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