Walz was in US, not Asia, during Tiananmen protests, Minnesota radio reports

Tim Walz, the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate, was not in Hong Kong or Asia during the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown as he has said, Minnesota public radio reported this week, citing a photograph and a newspaper report from that time. Walz, who frequently traveled to China as a teacher in the 1990s, leading trips of U.S. high school students, had said while a member of Congress that he was nearby during the demonstrations in Tiananmen, which started in April of 1989 with protests and ended in June with a bloody government crackdown that was estimated to have killed hundreds or more.Read More