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Walz calls himself a ‘knucklehead’ for past inaccuracies
Gov. Tim Walz said he “made a mistake” about where he was during the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989.
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“Look, I’ll be the first to tell you that I poured my heart into my community. I’ve tried to do my best, but I haven’t been perfect. And I’m a knucklehead at times. But it was always about that. I will talk a lot. I’m going to get caught up in the rhetoric, but being there, the impact it made, the difference it made in my life, I learned a lot about China. I hear the criticism about this.” “Governor, to follow up on that, the question was, can you explain the discrepancy?” “All I said about it was: I came there that summer and was wrong about it. So I’ll just – that’s what I said. So I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protests – I went in. And from that I learned a lot about what is needed in the field of governance.’
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