Democrat vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz is the “master of shading the truth,” including about his military service, Rep. Jack Bergman said on Newsmax on Thursday. 

“If you’ve all seen the movie ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and you know the old saying, where at the end it says pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?” the Michigan Republican, a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general, said on “Wake Up America.” “Well, Walz is the man behind the curtain, and he’s been blustering his way through the political world for a very long time.”

Walz has come under fire from critics who say he embellished his military record with the Minnesota National Guard, which disputed his gubernatorial biography complaints that he retired as a command sergeant major. Further, Walz retired from his unit shortly before it was to be deployed overseas. 

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