WaPo’s lukewarm fact-check on Walz’s ‘weapons of war’ claim: ‘Language was sloppy and false’

In a lightweight fact-check published Friday, The Washington Post’s far-left fact-checker Glenn Kessler examined Democrat vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz’s claim that he carried “weapons of war … in war.” Walz, the current governor of Minnesota, made the claim in 2018 while arguing for gun control. “We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at,” he said at the time during what appeared to be a campaign speech. In Kessler’s fact-check, he carried a lot, a lot,...