TAMPA, Fla. – Yesterday, Senator Rick Scott published an op-ed in the Daily Caller highlighting his perspective as a veteran on Tim Walz’s dangerous lies surrounding his military service, and why the American people are right to question whether Kamala Harris and Walz can be trusted to lead the country.

See below for excerpts of Sen. Scott’s op-ed and read the full op-ed in the Daily Caller HERE.

Sen. Rick Scott: Walz’s Deceptions Reveal Why We Can’t Trust The Democratic Presidential Ticket 

Daily Caller

September 4, 2024

I learned a lot serving my country. There is a code of honor among those who wear our country’s uniform. You don’t lie. You don’t embellish your service.

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Walz’s outright fabrications about his service tell us he does not share the values we hold as Americans, especially telling the truth and being accountable. If elected, Walz would be next in line to be Commander-in-Chief. His tall tales currently should disqualify him from that.

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In the military, truth matters. Your actions and words carry weight. The brothers and sisters with whom you serve depend on you. We take an oath to our country and the principles of democracy. These ideals mean nothing if you lack the integrity to uphold them. If you cannot be truthful with yourself and others about what you’ve done, how can you uphold our nation’s values?

This is not the first time the Harris/Walz team has desecrated the truth. They’ve made twisting the truth a habit. Kamala Harris lied and covered up Joe Biden’s deterioration. As a result, even today, our Commander-in-Chief is incapable of doing his job, putting the lives of our men and women on active duty in peril. Now, Harris wants to ignore Tim Walz’s deceptive claims about his service.

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Vice-President Harris and her liberal running mate are not telling the truth about Tim Walz’s military service. They are not telling the truth about their radical record.

Yet, recently at their convention, they promised us that if we just gave them four more years, they would put more big government to work to heal the sick, raise the dead and fix every problem America has — most of which they’ve created. Their record of deception is a giant red flag: We can’t trust them to keep their promises in the future if they are not honest about their past.

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