I once had a boss who was full of big ideas. I quickly realized he was full of something else. He was constantly on the verge of landing the next lucrative deal that would save the company and make everyone rich. He delivered empty promises. Lies.

But to this day I’m not sure if he was just a run-of-the-mill boastful braggart or a malignant narcissist who, for selfish reasons, told people what they wanted to hear and bought time with the next lie.

This is how pathological gamblers think.

Tim Walz is a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier,” as deposed Democratic Party President Joe Biden – himself a world-class liar – would say. Walz, the Marxist governor of Minnesota who is in the glaring national spotlight on the Democratic presidential ballot as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, can’t even remember the “soldier” part of his story. His impressive record of public lies has always seemed to be designed to maintain power.

The liar and his lies

Walz has rightly faced heavy criticism from veterans for “misrepresenting” his leadership rank in the National Guard and abandoning his unit that was sent to Iraq during his first run for Congress. His critics say Walz has built his nearly 20-year political career on stolen heroism. He has “slipped up” on several occasions, implying he served in a war zone when he served in Italy and Norway. He left the National Guard when his unit was warned it was going to war in Iraq.

During Walz’s run for Congress in 2006, his campaign told a few tall tales about his drunk driving and speeding charges in Nebraska, insisting that the drunk driving charge was not true. It was a really bad lie that Walz kept alive for years.

That same election year, the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce criticized Walz for declaring on his congressional campaign website that he was the recipient of an award for his work with the business community. As Fox News reported, Barry L. Kennedy, then president of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, sent Walz a scathing letter in 2006 criticizing him for his bullshit.

“We have investigated this matter and can confirm that you have not received an award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce,” the letter states.

Walz has claimed for years that his two children were conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), when in fact the governor and his wife used intrauterine insemination (IUI), a very different form of assisted reproductive technology. As my Federalist colleague Jordan Boyd reported last week, Walz uses the IVF issue as a political buzzword, attacking pro-lifers who raise ethical and moral questions about procreation methods that “serially create or destroy embryos outside the womb.” He ran for governor on the lie that he and his wife used IVF to start a family, and the contributing media covered for him, claiming Walz used a “catch-all term for a wide range of fertility treatments.”

‘The Coach’

For Tim Walz, it’s all political calculation. For the Minnesota governor and far-left vice presidential candidate, truth is fluid in the laboratory of manufactured facts. And his allies in the Democratic Party and the mainstream media have helped him amplify his fabricated stories – from fake military ranks to Al Bundy-style football glory stories.

“In Minnesota, we trust a coach who turned a team that was down 27-0 into a state champion,” Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota told the “joyful” useful idiots gathered at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week.

He was an assistant coach for the Mankato West High School football team, but Walz and his political advisers have certainly exaggerated the former linebackers coach’s role in the losing team’s turnaround.

“He was NEVER a head coach. He never ‘made’ anyone a state champion,” one X user posted on the social networking platform after the Harris-Walz campaign paraded former Mankato football players on the convention stage.

“I’m still really, really confused why they’re still pushing the ‘Coach Walz’ thing from a million years ago when Tim Walz was a volunteer assistant coach…why aren’t they focusing on his governorship…?…No…they just want to focus on Coach Walz…it’s weird,” another person wrote on X.

It’s strange.

Two different Tims

The “Coach” story is part of the biggest lie about Walz, who is entering his biggest political stage: that he’s just a regular guy from the Midwest who wears a flannel shirt. His campaign message and his record are at odds.

He portrays himself as a hunter and defender of the Second Amendment while watering down the rights of gun owners. He is a proud father of two who has turned Minnesota into a sanctuary state for child sex-reassignment surgery and promotes the mutilation of minors among residents of neighboring states that prohibit such cruel procedures. He is a “folksy” Minnesotan and small business promoter who believes that “one man’s socialism is another man’s charity.” He is a defender of freedom who tyrannically quarantined his state’s citizens during the pandemic, threatening them with fines and jail time if they didn’t comply. Some have never recovered.

“We respect our neighbors and their personal choices, and even if we wouldn’t make those choices for ourselves, we have one golden rule: ‘Mind your own damn business!'” Walz said when he was nominated for vice president. During his tenure as governor, the power-hungry Democrat has repeatedly failed to mind his own damn business.

He is not a centrist. A moderate. Someone who builds consensus. Someone who unites.

The real Tim Walz – not the fake everyman sold to American voters – is a radical leftist who is concerned with increasing the power of his party and his own.

He is a liar. Not just someone who talks nonsense, but one of the malicious kind who has no place anywhere near power.

Matt Kittle is senior elections correspondent at The Federalist. Kittle is an award-winning investigative reporter with 30 years of experience in print, broadcast and online journalism. He previously served as executive director of Empower Wisconsin.