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    10 months ago

    Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, have criticized the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for his military record and have sought to make reverence for military service an issue in the election. Vance, who is also a veteran, has criticized Walz for opting to retire after more than 20 years in the National Guard but before his unit was set to be deployed to Iraq. Walz has defended his military service.

    Well they pooched it up at the end there, but it’s interesting that NBC even attempted to contextualize it in the larger sense of their attacks on Walz. That’s unusually bold of them, I began to wonder if they thought theywere smelling blood. Until they tried neutering/both-sidesing it with “Walz has defended his military service[, though]”.