60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker grilled Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on whether he could “be trusted to tell the truth” following his history of “misrepresentation.”
During a special Monday episode of 60 Minutes, which included interviews with Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris, Whitaker noted that Walz had “been criticized for embellishing or telling outright falsehoods about his military record and about his travels to Asia in the 1980s.”
Interviewing Walz, Whitaker said, “In your debate with JD Vance, you said, ‘I’m a knucklehead at times,’ and I think you were referring to the time that you said that you were in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square unrest when you were not.”
“Yeah,” replied Walz.
Whitaker then questioned, “Is that kind of misrepresentation? Isn’t that more than just being a knucklehead?”
“I think folks know who I am, and I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong by– rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee argued.