Vice presidential hopeful, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, again called himself a ‘knucklehead’ as he was quizzed by 60 Minutes about untruthful statements he’s made in the past.
Walz first used the folksy put-down on last week’s debate stage when he was asked about a claim he made about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Minnesota Public Radio News and APM Reports first reported that Walz didn’t travel to the regions until months later.
‘I think folks know who I am. And I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong … rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump,’ Walz told 60 Minutes’ Bill Whitaker.
Whitaker had pressed whether that kind of ‘misrepresntation’ was more than being a ‘knucklehead.’
He then asked the Democratic vice presidential hopeful if Walz could be ‘trusted with the truth.’
‘Yeah. Well – I can – I think I can,’ the Minnesota governor replied. ‘I will own up to being a knucklehead at times, but the folks closest to me know that I keep my word.’