To be clear, this was not about mixing up dates. If I tell you I was at the World Trade Center on 9/11 but it turns out I was just in New York three months later, that would be an inexcusable lie. The event is the point in a situation like this, not the date. A person doesn't accidentally say they were in Hong Kong for the Tiananmen Square protests when they weren't. Walz has long lied about his background for personal gain, and this is just another example of that.

Past that, this idea that he was taking trips to China to teach students about democracy is absurd. That would be the last place one would take students if they wanted to learn about the topic. Whatever affinity Walz had for China, learning about democracy had nothing to do with it.

This is what Walz does. He lies about things and then tries to pretend to be a lovable goofball who just made an honest mistake. He does not "talk like everybody else." He talks like a pathological liar because he is one. The surest sign of it is how nervous he gets. Listen to how fast he's speaking and how much he stumbles over his talking points. He knows he's not telling the truth.