Tim Walz claimed he was about to get doctorate despite leaving program years earlier

Much has been made about Republican George Santos’s many lies about his accomplishments and background, but there’s someone who just might have him beat: vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.

Walz has already been caught lying about his military service, and now it has come out that he claimed in official biographies that he was a student about to get a doctoral degree when he had left the program and the university years earlier. 

According to official records, Walz was enrolled at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota from 2001 to 2004, but he claimed until 2011 that he was on the verge of getting the degree even though he left the university and never completed the program.

“We can confirm that Governor Walz attended Saint Mary’s from 2001-2004 in our doctorate level Ed.D. program,” the school’s communications director, Ashly Bissen, told the Washington Free Beacon. “He did not complete the degree program.”

False claims

At the time of his enrollment, Walz had been a high school teacher for a decade.

He was in the process of getting a master’s degree in “experiential education” from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and St. Mary’s accepted him on condition of completing that degree, which he did in 2002.

When Walz ran for Congress in 2006, he had already been gone from St. Mary’s for two years, but he still claimed in his official biographies until 2011 that he was in the process of getting his doctoral degree.

It’s hardly the first thing Walz has lied about–it’s not even the second–and even the Washington Post seems concerned about it.

Even more false claims

In that very first congressional campaign, he claimed he was “named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce.”

He was forced by the chamber to retract that claim because it was untrue, and he blamed it on a typographical error.

He also claimed during the same campaign that he “earned the title of Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year” in 1989. Turns out he was one of 52 reservists invited to a brunch for recipients of “Citizens Soldiers Awards” but did not earn one of them himself.

He also claimed to have been hand-picked by Harvard University to teach students in China, but the Ivy League school said he was never affiliated with it.

Taken together, these claims make Walz look insecure and fake–a good match for his running mate Kamala Harris.

Let’s hope America doesn’t fall for this charade.

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